Iron Rope gets prison time for sex offender violations

A 50-year-old Eagle Butte man has been sentenced to more than two years in prison after he was convicted of failure to register as a sex offender on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation.

Rydell Iron Rope was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Roberto A. Lange to serve two years and six months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release and ordered to pay a $100 special assessment to…