Man gets 3 years for speeding away from officers

A Box Elder man received a three year sentence to the Department of Corrections for leading Rocky Boy police and Montana Highway patrolmen on a high speed chase that reached over 120 mph.

Kanen Velasquez, born in 1996, was sentenced to three years for felony criminal endangerment under a plea agreement that dropped two misdemeanor charges.

District Court Judge Daniel Boucher said the reasons for this sentence are that Velasquez “recognizes he needs treatment, he is currently in a situation where he is not likely to get treatment on his own so it will be provided by the state, and it considers...