Sisseton man charged with rioting during DAPL protest turns himself in

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A Sisseton man who authorities say is linked through DNA evidence to a riot during the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) protest three years ago has turned himself in to sheriff’s officials in North Dakota.

Prosecutors in Morton County filed charges against 23 year-old Lawrence Malcolm Jr. last month after state investigators were informed by the State Crime Lab that DNA from a cigarette butt found at the scene of a 2016 protest was a match for Malcolm.

 

Malcolm is charged with felony criminal mischief and engaging in a riot. An affidavit says more than 100 demonstrators, many with their faces covered, halted construction and vandalized equipment on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

 

Malcolm’s attorney, Bruce Nestor, says the DNA evidence doesn’t prove his client participated in the protest.