‘I had no intention to do any of this’: Senator’s son sentenced for killing cop during high-speed chase he blamed on meth and bath salts

Background: Deputies lead Ian Cramer, center, out of a courtroom at the Mercer County Courthouse in Stanton, N.D., on Monday, Dec. 30, 2024, after his sentencing (AP Photo/Jack Dura). Inset: Deputy Paul Martin (Mercer County Sheriff’s Department).

Background: Deputies lead Ian Cramer, center, out of a courtroom at the Mercer County Courthouse in Stanton, N.D., on Monday, Dec. 30, 2024, after his sentencing (AP Photo/Jack Dura). Inset: Deputy Paul Martin (Mercer County Sheriff’s Department).

The adult son of North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer is heading to prison for causing the death of a sheriff’s deputy during a multicounty car chase that started with him fleeing from a hospital in a Chevrolet Tahoe — hitting speeds of 100 mph — and ended with him crashing head-on into the slain cop’s squad car.

“I had no intention to do any of this,” Ian Cramer, 43, told Deputy Paul Martin’s family in court on Monday after being sentenced to serve 28 years in prison, although he’s likely to avoid serving most of that time due to the terms of a plea deal Cramer took and prison policy, according to State District Judge Bobbi Weiler.

“The (state) Department of Corrections has their own policy on how much time you’re going to serve,” Weiler said in court, according to The Associated Press. “These are not mandatory minimums, which means that you’re probably going to serve a small portion of that 28 years and be out on parole, so that’ll … give you an opportunity to have a second chance that Deputy Martin does not have, nor does his family have.”

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