ABERDEEN - United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced today that U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann has sentenced a Little Eagle, South Dakota, man convicted of Sexual Contact without Permission. The sentencing took place on September 22, 2026. Vincent Anthony Makes Him First, age 47, was sentenced to two years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a $100 special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund.
Makes Him First was indicted by a federal grand jury in August 2025. He pleaded guilty on June 22, 2026.
On October 8, 2024, Makes Him First invited a woman to drink alcohol with him behind a grocery store in McLaughlin, South Dakota, within the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation. After consuming alcohol to excess, they decamped to a nearby garage, where the woman lost consciousness and Makes Him First groped her buttocks without her consent.
This matter was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office because the Major Crimes Act, a federal statute, mandates that certain violent crimes alleged to have occurred in Indian Country be prosecuted in Federal Court as opposed to State Court.
This case was investigated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Assistant U.S. Attorney Carl Thunem prosecuted the case.
Makes Him First was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service to serve his federal sentence.