PEARL RIVER, Miss.–A woman who admits she stabbed a fellow member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians on tribal land, is due to be sentenced May 20.
Amery Ketcher, 30, of Pearl River, pleaded guilty to assault last week, said U.S. Attorney Baxter Kruger of the Southern District of Mississippi and Gabriel Billie, Director of Choctaw Public Safety for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.
She was indicted in March of 2025 by a federal grand jury.
Ketcher faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison.
