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Wildlife

Human remains that were apparently scavenged by a bear, or bears, were discovered Sunday near Grand Mesa in western Colorado, officials there reported.

However, investigators haven’t found evidence that the unidentified person was killed in a bear attack before the bear(s) and “other wildlife” began eating the remains, 

Mesa County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a report of human remains at the Wild Rose Picnic Area of Land End Road, according to reports.

The Mesa County Coroner’s Office is trying to determine the cause of death and expected to release the person’s identity, although it’s not known when that will be, News 11 reported.

As of Friday, Colorado Parks and Wildlife wasn’t planning any further action, agency spokesman Luke Perkins told Cowboy State Daily.

The incident isn’t being treated as a possible bear-attack fatality, he said.

When asked if there was concern over whether eating from the body could cause a bear or bears to become acclimated to human flesh, Perkins said CPW doesn’t think there’s any “threat to human safety.”

Retired federal ecologist Chuck Neal of Cody said given the lack of information available it’s difficult to determine what that might mean in terms of bear behavior after eating the body.

"However, if it is true that a bear didn’t kill the person before eating from the body, the risk of that bear trying to eat more people is extremely low,” he said.

Bears are “opportunistic omnivores,” and happening upon a dead human body would be just another easy meal from the bear’s perspective, Neal said.

“If it was a one-off thing that doesn’t make that particular bear any more dangerous to human beings,” he said. “I would not think that just one taste would make that bear extremely dangerous.”

Moreover, if the body was in a state of decay, it would smell and taste much different than a live human, he added.

“It would just be another lump of rotten flesh,” Neal said.

There are other examples of wild carnivores eating bodies but not wanting to go after live humans, he said.

For example, when pioneers were pushing westward many died along the trail and were buried in shallow graves. That provided a morbid buffet for wolves.

“It became routine for wolves to dig up and eat human bodies, but they didn’t then start trying to prey on live humans,” he said.

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Grizzlies might evoke the most fear among humans, with reports of terrifying attacks. But male black bears can actually be the most dangerous in the Lower 48, Neal said.

Nearly all grizzly attacks are territorial, defensive or because a person surprised a bear at close range. Bears deliberately hunting humans is extremely rare, but male black bears are the most likely to do it, Neal said.

“A male black bear is the most predacious bear toward humans in the Lower 48. Polar bears are the most predacious of any species, but we don’t have to deal with them here,” he said.

A male black bear has to be “the biggest, strongest male out there” to win mating opportunities with females, Neal explained. And so, a big male black bear wanting to pack on the pounds might, in rare instances, see people as possible prey.

“They might see a human as a high-quality lump of protein. Sort of like a hot dog,” he said.

Male grizzlies, likewise, want to eat big to get big, Neal said. However, given their superior size and strength, they can take down large animals and don’t need to bother with humans.

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<title>Investigators Say Colorado Bear That Ate Human Remains Shouldn’t Crave People | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Investigators don’t think a bear or bears that ate parts of a human body found Sunday near Grand Mesa in western Colorado will develop a taste for people. They likely didn’t hunt the person, but instead scavenged someone already dead.

Investigators Say Colorado Bear That Ate Human Remains Shouldn’t Crave People

Public Lands

People keep using a steep, scenic hillside above Sinks Cayon near Lander as a climbing challenge for off-road vehicles, leaving tire ruts that have lasted more than two decades, a retired Forest Service ranger says.

Overzealous off-roaders have illegally gone ripping up Fossil Hill so many times, retired forester Karl Brauneis wonders if the marred hillside will ever heal.

“I just don’t think that site is going to recover. And that fact that people keep driving up it means it’s going to remain an eyesore,” Brauneis told Cowboy State Daily.

In 2005, he wrote the last ticket of his career with the Forest Service after watching a young man on a dirt bike illegally buzzing up the hillside.

“I waited until he came back down, and then wrote him a ticket,” Brauneis said. “That kid who went up there, who I ticketed, was not the first one to go up there.” 

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He still visits the site frequently, and took a recent photograph of an illegal two-track.

That's despite a barricade at the bottom of the hill and a sign stating the area is closed to motorized travel.

“For some folks the barricade and closure sign simply means, ‘Let’s go around and drive on up. It's so much fun to tear up rehabilitation sites,’" Brauneis said.

He added that the recurring off-road violations on Fossil Hill encapsulate the “chronic problem” of unauthorized off-road vehicle use on public lands.

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Brauneis noted that during his career Forest Service rangers and Wyoming Game and Fish wardens would go out together on “red shirt-green shirt patrols,” referencing the red shirts worn by wardens and the rangers’ green.

During one such patrol with a warden, Brauneis said they were discussing how many people are honest citizens compared to those who might try to bend or break the rules.

They came up with what he calls the “50-40-10 rule.”

Meaning, “50% of the people are law-abiding and will faithfully follow laws and regulations even when nobody’s watching," he said.

Then, there are the 40% who are “going to try get away with it, if they think they can get away with it,” he added.

The last 10% “will kill you if they think they can get away with it,” Brauneis said. “Fortunately, most of those are in prison. The bad news is, some of them might be getting out tomorrow.” 

To his estimation, the people running vehicles up Fossil Hill probably fall into the “40%” category – and don’t have truly bad intent.

“They are probably younger people who are just after the thrill,” he said.

 And in some cases, unauthorized off-roading could result from confusion over the rules on federal land, Brauneis added.

On Bureau of Land Management (BLM) tracts, the regulations for motorized use tend to be more permissive, he said. So, people accustomed to recreating there might not realize rules are stricter on Forest Service land.

As to why off-road violations might have gotten more common, Brauneis noted the availability and capability of vehicles has increased.

“I think everything escalates, gets bigger with the increased technology in vehicles,” he said. "But also, there’s the sheer number of people to consider.” 

The outdoors has become more crowded, and more people means greater odds of a relative few breaking the rules, he said.

Places that once were sparsely visited, such as the southern end of the Wind River Range, are drawing crowds, Brauneis said.

“It’s outwash from the big cities. It’s their land, and they want to recreate on it. And there’s no problem with that, but there’s just a huge amount of people out there,” he said.

He also noted that the Forest Service tried moving toward educating the public rather than having an immediate presence of rangers with ticketing authority on the ground.

Brauneis said the latter is more effective. The more rangers are on patrol, the better.

“Not in an antagonistic way, in a service way. But with the ability to take care of problems, if the need arises,” he said.

Brauneis said he’s not against roads or motorized use in general. He favors established Forest Service roads because they aid public travel and make fire mitigation and timber harvest more efficient.

And because the national forests are “America’s playground,” there should be areas where motorized users can enjoy themselves, he added.

Taylor Jones is a Sweetwater County commissioner and off-road enthusiast who advocates for motorized access.

He said he hates to see people breaking rules and tearing up places where vehicles aren’t supposed to go.

“Every group has that 10% who don’t play by the rules and give everybody else a bad name,” he said.

And those who abuse the land ruin things for all off-roaders, Jones said.

“What it can do – and we have seen it, so we know it’s true – is it can cause the motorized recreation community to lose access to public land. And, in some cases, also private land,” he said. “The motorized community has lost a tremendous amount of access to public land, and loses more on an annual basis.” 

Irresponsible people tearing up fragile landscapes are a big driver of that, he said.

However, by Jones’ estimation, there’s been a decline in illegal off-road use because motorized users know what’s at stake if they continue to let rule-breaking go unchecked.

“There’s a big push in the off-road clubs to raise awareness and be better stewards of the land,” he said. "There’s an awareness of the loss of access, and an understanding that breaking the rules causes it.” 

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<title>Sinks Canyon Public Land Damaged By Illegal Off-Roaders 'May Never Recover' | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Off-roading tire ruts have marred Fossil Hill at Sinks Canyon near Lander for more than two decades, and a retired ranger says such illegal drivers tearing up public lands are a growing problem. “I just don’t think that site is going to recover," he said.

Sinks Canyon Public Land Damaged By Illegal Off-Roaders 'May Never Recover'

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Greg Johnson

Crime & Courts

Courts

 in two court cases has waived her right to jury trials, instead choosing to have a judge decide her fate.

She’ll also have to do that facing the full force of evidence investigators found on her cellphone and two laptops after a judge denied her attempt to throw it out on technicalities in the law.

April Marie Morganroth, known in Wyoming as a news reporter by the name of Marie Hamilton, filed her motions to waive her jury trial this week.

Her attempt to quash the electronic evidence that allegedly ties her to forging exhibits presented to the Wyoming Industrial Siting Council and lying to the board in an environmental case dealing with wind farms in her first case was denied Wednesday.

The evidence also relates to allegedly forged documents related to the purchase of property she claimed was bought with money from a U.S. Department of Agriculture loan, according to court documents.

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Hamilton argued that all three search warrants — one each for her cellphone and laptops — were invalid because they were approved by a judge in another jurisdiction and for “technical irregularities.”

“Ms. Morganroth asserts that all three warrants are ‘invalid’ because they were signed by Judge Clark C. Allen, a Circuit Court Judge for the Eighth Judicial District and captioned in the Circuit Court of Converse County, as opposed to Platte County,” wrote Platte County District Court Judge Edward Buchanan in his Wednesday denial.

He also dismissed her claim that investigators exceeded the scope of the warrants and accessed more information from her devices than they were legally allowed to.

They did this by copying “bit-for-bit” her hard drives to then doing deep-dive searches of them, according to her motion to quash.

“Nowhere on any warrant does it state that an entire hard drive can be seized and copied,” it says.

Buchanan wrote that “courts have routinely upheld the seizure or copying of hard drives and other storage devices in order to effectuate a proper search for the categories of documents or files listed in a warrant.”

He continued to cite legal precedent that “a computer search may be as extensive as reasonably required to locate the items described in the warrant.

“There is no evidence before this Court to suggest that law enforcement improperly seized property or searched items beyond the scope of the warrant,” Buchanan concluded. “There are no grounds to exclude the evidence obtained during the searches.”

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 in early March on suspicion of submitting forged documents and lying about her credentials during state permitting hearings in which she opposed a controversial wind farm project, according to an affidavit of probable cause filed in that case.

Hamilton was the publisher of the short-lived Wyoming Sentinel, a startup publication that has been inactive since late last year that covered Platte, Goshen and Laramie counties. She also has worked as a freelance writer for Wyoming outlets. 

The case against her alleges Hamilton submitted forged documents meant to sway public officials, including letters purporting to be from a doctor and teacher.

Investigators also said Hamilton lied about her credentials and that she was a property owner near the project, the affidavit says.

The doctor and teacher later denied writing the documents Hamilton claimed were from them, the affidavit says.

Hamilton also claimed to own a property on JJ Road in Chugwater, making her a concerned landowner potentially impacted by the wind project, the affidavit says. However, the land actually belongs to somebody else.

The charges for her first case tally as three counts of possession of forged writings, three of forgery, and four counts of perjury.

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About a month after hit with her first 10 forgery- and perjury-related charges, Hamilton was in court again, 

Those charges relate to an attempted home purchase, according to court documents, and include five counts each of possession of forged writings and forgery.

When Converse County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Benjamin Peech investigated Hamilton’s claim that she bought property with a federal loan, he uncovered more irregularities, he wrote in an affidavit.

The property is registered under Platte County’s mapping system to another couple with a different surname, Peech wrote. 

His investigation found that the other couple were willing to sell the property, and Hamilton told them that she and her husband wanted to buy and it and were prequalified for a USDA loan through Neighbor’s Bank.

Because the property didn’t meet loan standards, Hamilton told the couple she had been approved for a USDA grant to work on issues and bring the property up to standards, the affidavit states.

Hamilton and her husband made a deal with the homeowners in July 2025 to lease the property and use “sweat equity” to bring it up to the standards required for the loan, the affidavit states.

Documents provided to the couple and their Realtor included initial letters with USDA letterhead showing pre-approval from the “USDA Rural Development and Neighbor’s Bank” for a $365,000 loan dated June 10, 2025.

A letter provided by Hamilton to the property owners also showed USDA grant approvals for $35,000 dated Nov. 6, 2025, the affidavit says.

When Hamilton started to become late on rent payments earlier this year and had not provided work logs to the couple, they “began to be concerned and press Hamilton about her progress with improvements on the property,” the affidavit states.

Hamilton provided another letter dated Jan. 28, 2026, stating it represented USDA “Rural Development — Rural Communities Home Buyer Program Notice of Nearing Completion and Continued Work,” the affidavit states.

Page one of the letter states that the work was nearly “80%” complete, Peech wrote.

Other paperwork allegedly submitted to the property owners by Hamilton included invoices from “Cowgirl Demolition and Excavation LLC” showing she had paid $3,075 for repairs on the property’s home and “Pete’s Builders Roofing and Restoration” showing an invoice of $7,890 that was “paid in full.”

However, when contacted by Peech, the USDA and two contractors all said that they never sent any of those letters.

Hamilton is next set to see a courtroom on Oct. 8 for a conference ahead of a trial scheduled for Nov. 2-5.

She posted a $5,000 cash bond in her first case and remains free on a $20,000 signature-only bond in the second.

If convicted and given the maximum penalties and concurrent sentences, she could get up to 140 years in prison, 65 years in the first case and 75 for the second.

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<title>Judge Denies Reporter's Request To Throw Out Evidence On Laptop & Cellphones | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A Platte County judge has denied a former reporter's request to throw out all evidence on her laptop and two cell phones. The woman is facing 20 forgery and perjury-related charges in two court case. She also waived her right to jury trials.

Judge Denies Reporter's Request To Throw Out Evidence On Laptop & Cellphones

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Andrew Rossi

Wyoming Life

Four-year-old Charlee Lacey wants more “hero patches,” and her mother is on a mission to collect as many as she can from around the world. 

Charlee has been through more in four years than many people endure in a lifetime. That’s why she’s so eager to add the patches of law-enforcement officers, firefighters and first responders to her growing collection.

“Charlee recognizes first responders,” her mother, Stephaney, told Cowboy State Daily. “She will point to them and say, ‘They saved mine and my mommy’s life.’ She’s asked for more ‘hero patches,’ and she would love to continue adding to her collection.”

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Charlee’s short life has been an inspiring story of survival. According to Stephaney, her daughter was the result of “eight years of struggle” to start a family with her husband, Brian.

“I went into labor with Charlee at just 24 weeks,” she said. “We were life-flighted to the University of Utah Hospital.”

The doctors “guaranteed” Stephaney and Brian that their baby would be born alive, but “nothing beyond that.” Their hearts were shattered.

“We were expected to say goodbye to our little girl before we got to say hello,” Stephaney said.

The doctors managed to stop Lacey’s labor. Charlee was born at 39 weeks and 3 days, but her struggle was far from over.

“She was incredibly sick as a baby,” Stephaney said. “She would scream from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., and vomited pretty much every time she ate. She spent her first Christmas at Primary Children’s Hospital because she would stop breathing to the point where she would turn blue.”

An ear, nose and throat specialist soon diagnosed Charlee with laryngomalacia, or extra skin on her larynx, which was collapsing on itself and slowly suffocating her. That explained her serious breathing issues.

The cause of Charlee’s sickness was the formula she had been given. That was a hard blow for Stephaney, as she hadn’t been able to breastfeed her infant.

“I suffered from severe Postpartum Depression, and the medication that I was prescribed was not safe for breastfeeding,” she said. “Being able to give my baby the love and care she deserved was a struggle.”

When Charlee was 2, her grandfather, Anthony Wackler, passed away from renal failure. Lacey said her daughter and father were “two peas in a pod” until his sudden death.

In June 2025, Stephaney had an ischemic stroke while driving, resulting in a car accident. Charlee was in the vehicle with her, but neither mother nor daughter was seriously injured.

In September 2025, Stephaney needed emergency surgery after doctors discovered that gallstones were causing some of her organs to shut down. Charlee was right by her side as she recovered.

“The ICU in Colorado had to bend the rules to allow Charlee in there to prevent me from leaving,” Stephaney said. “My little girl and I have always been inseparable.”

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In September 2025, the Laceys learned they were expecting another baby. Stephaney said Charlee was “over the moon” about becoming a big sister.

Two months later, Frankie Lynn Lacey died in utero. The Laceys brought their daughter home “in an urn that fit in our palm.”

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“She told us she was mean to the baby and the baby ran away,” Lacey said. “It destroyed me when another little boy at the library asked her if her mom was pregnant, and she told him, ‘No, my mom’s baby ran away.’

Stephaney and Brian constantly reassure Charlee that she did nothing wrong, hoping to soothe her grief as they grapple with their own.

“As much as I wanted to blame myself, how could I convince my innocent little girl that she did nothing wrong if I couldn’t even tell myself that I did nothing wrong? Sometimes these things happen, and nobody knows why,” Stephaney said.

Despite all she’s been through, Stephaney says her daughter “has the brightest outlook on life” and “everyone she hasn’t met is a friend.”

That’s where patches have helped stitch together the emotional threads of tragedy and loss.

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Charlee’s patch-collecting journey started with a visit to the Rock Springs Police Department in June 2024. Chief Bill Erspaumer gave Charlee and her 15-year-old cousin, Mario Tuck, patches as they were leaving.

“They have cherished those patches and memories since that day,” Stephaney said. “Something as simple as a patch brought so much joy to my little girl.”

When Deputy Casey Watkins with the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office learned how much Charlee loved her patch from the Rock Springs Police Department, he personally delivered one of his patches to her.

Charlee knows what she wants, as any discerning collector should. She specifically asks for patches from first responders, recognizing how they’ve saved her and her family’s lives in the past.

“First-responder patches are her favorites because she sees them as superheroes,” she said. “She points to them as says how they took us on an airplane, so she wasn’t born too early (and) they helped when mommy was sick.”

The scope of Charlee’s collection suddenly expanded when she received two new patches from Mike Conners and Caleb Proctor with the Clinton Police Department in Maine.

When Stephaney started sharing Charlee’s patch-collecting journey on social media, more patches arrived.

Steven Michael with the Wyoming Highway Patrol showed up to give Charlee one of his patches, along with a few he picked up from the New York Police Department and New York Highway Patrol.

Earlier this week, Charlee received a letter from “Matt,” who sent her an assortment of unique patches from North Dakota, Alaska and Hawaii.

“One of the Hawaii Life Flight patches is very special, and not many people have (it),” Matt wrote. “(One patch) is in remembrance of three of our fallen heroes. Please take good care of them, and best wishes and luck to you.”

Stephaney continues to spread the word, hoping to find more patches for Charlee. She affectionately calls them “Charlee’s patch buddies.”

“We're looking for patches from all over the world,” she said. “We've had quite a few replies, and some people have sent photos of patches they’re going to send her. The hunt keeps getting more exciting.”

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Stephaney knows Charlee is trying to comprehend everything that’s happened in her short life. She’s not old enough to fully grasp it, but she recognizes the people who’ve helped her when she needed it.

“We are a close family with nothing but love to give and appreciation for the men and women who put their lives on the line to protect ours,” she said. “Some people collect knives and coffee cups, but my little girl took an interest in first-responder patches.”

More than anything, Stephaney feels her daughter’s growing patch collection has helped her overcome the pain and grief that she still feels but can't understand. It’s given her something to enjoy amid a life of struggle and survival.

“We hope to bless our Charlee girl in the future with a sibling,” Stephaney said. “If it doesn’t happen, at least we have our Charlee in our arms, and our Frankie watching over all of us.”

Anyone with patches they’d like to contribute to Charlee’s collection can deliver them to this address:

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“Everything Charlee receives will be loved and taken care of,” Stephaney said. “I promise.”

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<title>Rock Springs Girl Saved By First Responders Collecting "Hero Patches" To Honor Them | Cowboy State Daily</title>

4-year-old Charlee Lacey knows she and her mother owe their lives to first responders, so the Rock Springs girl is on a mission to honor them by collecting "hero patches” from around the world. "She sees them as superheroes,” her mother said.

Rock Springs Girl Saved By First Responders Collecting "Hero Patches" To Honor Them

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Clair McFarland

A Mexican national sentenced Tuesday to 180 days in jail for charging toward a Teton County Sheriff’s deputy with his box truck is trying to remain in the United States, his defense attorney said in court.

Ramon Gabriel Chavez Cruz, 46, pleaded no contest Tuesday in Teton County District Court Judge Melissa Owens’ court, to one count of aggravated assault.

He was arrested the night of June 4, 2024, after waging what court documents describe as repeated attempts to ram his truck into vehicles in the Snake River Canyon on U.S. Highway 89, between Alpine and Jackson.

The case affidavit by then-Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper Mike Merritt compiles statements by drivers and their families. Those witnesses said they maneuvered in reverse and swerved into barrow ditches to escape Chavez Cruz’s head-on chases.

“The individual in the vehicle that attempted to collide with us deliberately crossed the centerline at a high rate of speed, targeted our vehicle, and attempted to kill my family,” the affidavit relates from the account of Roy Walters, who said he’d been in the back seat of a family vehicle while his son Eamonn drove, and Roy’s wife, Kate, sat in the front passenger seat. “By the grace of God and my son’s quick reactions the collision was barely avoided.”

The prosecutor, Teton County Deputy Attorney Claire Fuller, emphasized at Chavez Cruz’s sentencing hearing that only one of Chavez Cruz’s many, alleged head-on charges happened in Teton County.

The rest happened in Lincoln County, where County Attorney Spencer Allred is waiting to prosecute Chavez Cruz “to the full extent of the law,” Allred told Cowboy State Daily on Thursday.

Chavez Cruz struck a plea agreement with the Teton County Attorney’s Office, under which he pleaded no contest to one count of aggravated assault. That’s a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and $10,000 in fines. Fuller agreed to drop three  misdemeanors, including DUI.

And Owens, who accepted the agreement, sentenced Chavez Cruz to a split sentence: 180 days in jail followed by three years’ probation – with the threat of a two-and-a-half to four-and-a-half-year prison sentence remaining if he fails probation.

The 222 days Chavez Cruz has already spent in jail awaiting Tuesday’s hearing eclipsed his sentence and he’s to be released from Teton County. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office expects to take him into custody soon, a jail deputy confirmed to Cowboy State Daily Thursday.

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Chavez Cruz faces potentially much harsher consequences in Lincoln County, where Allred has filed eight counts of aggravated assault against him – one for each person he allegedly charged with his truck. Allred also filed a ninth count, misdemeanor reckless driving, which is punishable by up to six months in jail and $750 in fines.  

It’s unclear what role, if any, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plays in this case. The agency declined to discuss Chavez Cruz’s immigration status, writing in a Friday email, “ICE cannot provide any information on this individual.”

A Mexican national who faces eight felonies is attempting to stay in the country after he allegedly chased down and tried to ram travelers off the road in Snake River Canyon. He "deliberately crossed the centerline and targeted our vehicle," one victim said.

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