Ridgeview Man Sentenced For Assaulting Ex-wife, Tribal Officer

PIERRE, (KCCR) — A Dewey County man has been sentenced on federal charges connecting to the assault of two people. U-S Attorney Alison Ramsdell says 37 year Arthur Butcher of Ridgeview was given a seven-and-a-half year sentence on two counts of Assault With a Dangerous Weapon and Assaulting, Resisting and Impeding a Federal Officer. Butcher was indicted by a federal grand jury in July of 2023 and pleaded guilty in May. Ramsdell says Butcher assaulted his ex-wife and a Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Law Enforcement Services Officer in May of 2023. The officer was called to an assault report and arrived to find Butcher on top of his ex-wife with a knife. The officer told Butcher to get off the woman and he responded by kicking a Taser device from the officer’s hand. Butcher then charged the officer, knife in hand. Butcher stabbed the officer in the chest in an area protected by body armor while pushing the officer down on a couch. The officer fired three shots at Butcher who was struck and dropped the knife. Before the officer arrived Butcher’s assault on the woman included dragging the victim around by her hair, threatening her life and bruising her face, body, neck and forehead.