Staff Reports
ALBUQUERQUE — After a four-day trial and approximately three hours of deliberation, a federal jury convicted Keanu Lee of sexually abusing two minor victims and kidnapping and seriously injuring one of them Sept. 4.
According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, between June 2024 and February 2025, Lee, 34, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, kidnapped a minor sexually abused her, and assaulted her, causing serious bodily injury.
The evidence further established that on two occasions between 2012 and 2014, Lee sexually abused a second minor victim.
For these actions, jurors found Lee guilty of three counts of aggravated sexual abuse, one count of sexual abuse, kidnapping, and assault resulting in serious bodily injury. At sentencing, Lee faces a mandatory minimum of 30 years and up to life in prison.
The Farmington Resident Agency of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Albuquerque Field Office investigated this case with assistance from the Navajo Nation Police Department and Navajo Department of Criminal Investigations.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Meg Tomlinson and Patrick E. Cordova are prosecuting the case as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods, the Department of Justice’s nationwide initiative that brings federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement, prosecutors, and other public safety partners together to coordinate efforts to combat violent crime and make communities safe.
Coordinated by U.S. Attorneys’ offices in each of the 94 federal districts, PSN is tailored to particular communities to strategically address specific violent crime and public safety challenges.
