A national Boy Scouts executive pleaded guilty to entering a sacred site at Canyon de Chelly National Monument in violation of federal law.

William Steele, 58, is an associate director for the Cub Scout Division of the Boy Scouts of America. He admitted to entering the Yuca Cave, a site sacred to the Hopi Tribe and the Navajo Nation, without a guide.

Steele was sentenced to a year's probation and was barred from entering all national parks in Arizona. He was find $1,500.

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