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Crime & Courts

Courts

It was the hard kick to the groin of a Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper that could get a 47-year-old Laramie man up to 10 years in prison after a high-speed chase through two counties in a pickup towing a camper.

The alleged assault on Trooper Brandon Todd came after Nicholas J. Blocker ditched his truck and camper in Curt Gowdy State Park following Todd flattening the truck's tires with Stop Sticks just after 11 p.m. July 2.

Blocker ditched the disabled Chevy truck and camper and tried to hide in the underbrush of the park at night, Todd recounts in an affidavit of probable cause he filed in Laramie County Circuit Court on Tuesday ahead of a Friday court hearing for Blocker.

Todd flushed Blocker out, tackled him and, with the help of another trooper, handcuffed the uncooperative man’s hands behind his back, the affidavit says.

That’s when the Blocker’s trouble exploded from a laundry list of misdemeanor charges into suspected felony assault on a peace officer.

“While standing near blocker after he was on his feet, Blocker then proceeded to square up to me, and using his right leg and foot, kick me as hard as he could in the groin,” Trooper Todd wrote in his affidavit.

That caused him to experience “severe and intense pain in my groin area that was causing me to be nauseous and making it hard to walk on my own power,” he wrote.

Todd continued to assist in apprehending Blocker, but then was transported to Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, where he was treated and released in the early morning hours of July 3, according to the affidavit.

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Blocker is scheduled for a Friday appearance in Albany County Circuit Court to face at least three criminal charges and 12 other traffic citations related to the chase and arrest.

That chase began in Albany County, and Todd wrote that he picked it up at about 10:51 p.m. when dispatchers alerted other agencies about the truck and camper trying to elude law enforcement driving eastbound on I-80.

“While monitoring the radio, I heard that the suspect vehicle had taken exit 335 (Buford Road) and had begun traveling eastbound on Buford Road,” the affidavit says.

Blocker continued driving east until he crossed into Laramie County, while Todd set up Stop Sticks at the juncture of Buford and Crystal Lake roads.

At about 11:08 p.m., Blocker’s truck ran over the disabling device, but he continued driving anyway, the affidavit says.

“The pursuit continued eastbound on Crystal Lake Road, where the suspect vehicle then made a left-hand turn and continued westbound on Wyoming 210 (Happy Jack Road),” Todd’s affidavit continues.

Blocker then turned into Curt Gowdy State Park, where he ditched the truck and camper and took off on foot “through a drainage and into the thick timberline,” the affidavit says.

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Trooper Todd followed the man through the timberline and “found Blocker hiding in thick vegetation, attempting to hide from law enforcement,” the affidavit says.

Blocker continued to resist law enforcement, ignoring commands to come out of his hiding spot, then trying to run on foot again, Todd wrote.

“I intercepted Blocker at the edge of the thick vegetation and the edge of the beach,” the affidavit says. “When I made contact with Blocker, he had his right hand behind his back as if attempting to reach for a concealed weapon.”

He didn’t have a weapon, and instead “made a quick and sudden movement with his right hand and arm, and pointed his fist at me,” Todd wrote.

That’s when Todd and another trooper took Blocker to the ground, handcuffed him, and stood him up — then Blocker kicked Todd in the groin.

The man failed to get away, however, and was instead put into a wrap restraint and handed over to the Albany County Sheriff’s Office, the affidavit says.

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Court documents don’t detail what started the chase with law enforcement in Albany County.

However, in addition to a long list of alleged crimes and violations related to the chase, he also faces a domestic battery charge from earlier that evening.

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• Interference with a peace officer causing injury, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison, a fine of not more than $10,000, or both.

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[{"type":"text","text":"• Two counts of reckless driving."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"• Speeding six-plus mph over the 75 mph speed limit on I-80."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"• Failure to travel in a single lane."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"• Two stop sign violations."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"• Failure to comply with a red traffic signal."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"• Following too closely."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"• Fleeing or attempting to elude."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"• Not signaling before making a turn."}]

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<title>Laramie Man Allegedly Kicks Trooper In Groin At End Of Truck Towing Camper Chase | Cowboy State Daily</title>

It was an alleged kick to the groin of a Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper that could get a Laramie man up to 10 years in prison after running from the law in a pickup towing a camper. The “intense pain was causing me to be nauseous,” the trooper said.

Laramie Man Allegedly Kicks Trooper In Groin At End Of Truck Towing Camper Chase

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Dale Killingbeck

A Natrona County judge Wednesday denied a former Wyoming state senator’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit against him by U.S. House candidate and Casper businessman Reid Rasner.

Judge Kerri Johnson told defendant Austin Jennings that under the Wyoming Rules of Civil Procedure the legal rule cited in his motion to dismiss was a “drastic remedy”, and that under Wyoming civil law rules the court is required to look at the facts supplied by the plaintiff as “true.”

Johnson noted that the allegations from Jennings that Rasner committed “serious sexual misconduct” would fall under the law for defamation. She said that given Rasner’s political and business standings, if facts presented in the case were taken as true it would mean he has lost business and political support for his House race.

Arguments that Rasner has suffered emotional distress and that there was a conspiracy against him by Jennings and former State Sen. Anthony Bouchard as outlined in Rasner’s suit also had to be considered “true” under civil procedure, Johnson ruled.

“The court would deny Mr. Jennings’ motion to dismiss,” she said. 

Johnson directed Jennings to have an answer to Rasner’s complaint filed by July 31.

Before Johnson’s ruling, Jennings told the court that his motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6) was made because there was “not sufficient facts” provided in the suit by Rasner that prove he posted statements on social medial against Rasner, was part of a conspiracy or defamed Rasner. The rule Jennings cited lets court dismiss cases where the claims don't line up with the laws the plaintiff has invoked. 

Jennings' written argument was that Rasner’s suit “to survive dismissal … must contain sufficient factual matter to state a claim that is plausible on the face.

“Mere speculation, conclusory statements, and unsupported allegations are insufficient to establish a plausible claim for relief.”

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In his motion to dismiss, Jennings wrote that statements he made as part of an affidavit in the lawsuit Rasner has against Bourchard are “protected by the judicial-proceeding privilege.”

“I request dismissal,” Jennings told the court Wednesday.

Rasner attorney John C. Matthews told the court his client had provided specific statements in his filing that fit defamation. He cited a paragraph where Jennings is alleged to have used a pseudonymous social media profile on Nov. 16, 2025.

“They allege the defendant has engaged in sexual acts with children,” Matthews said. 

He argued that statements made by Jennings before his affidavit in the Bourchard lawsuit were not protected.

Matthews told the court allegations of Rasner’s actions while at Casper College are not substantiated by any college records or reports to the Casper Police Department.

“It’s harmed his business,” Matthews said. “It’s hurt him in the polls.”

Rasner’s lawsuit states that Jennings’ statements against him in concert “with other parties, including Anthony Bouchard” cost him $1 million in damages.

According to Rasner’s complaint, Jennings since 2010 has continued to make “knowingly false and highly salacious allegations” against him and that Jennings made statements using false names or directed others to make statements using false names.

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Rasner’s suit charges Jennings started a “whisper campaign” against him as he ran for the U.S. Senate seat against Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso and that the effort “continues to this day.”

The Jennings affidavit cited in Rasner’s suit states that in 2010 Jennings told Bouchard that while Rasner worked at Casper College he had been involved in a sexual misconduct incident in the college’s drama department.

Rasner alleges that Jennings stated a complaint had been filed with the college and the college never followed up on it.

“Defendant Jennings knew the statements were untrue each time he made an allegation against Mr. Rasner,” Rasner’s complaint states.

Rasner’s filing states a subpoena to Casper College for the complaint filed by Jennings produced no documents. His complaint asks for damages, plus punitive and exemplary damages.

Jennings, Matthews and others representing Rasner all appeared via video for the hearing. Rasner did not join the hearing.

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<title>Judge Rules Reid Rasner Can Keep Suing Former Lawmaker For Defamation | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A Casper-based judge on Wednesday declined to dismiss U.S. House candidate Reid Rasner's defamation suit against former state legislator Austin "Kit" Jennings.  The judge said allegations Jennings accused Rasner of “serious sexual misconduct” fit defamation law.

Judge Rules Reid Rasner Can Keep Suing Former Lawmaker For Defamation

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Kolby Fedore

Public Safety

A Jackson airport taxi owner had just dropped off passengers in Victor, Idaho, and was heading home over Teton Pass when traffic slowed behind a dump truck hauling asphalt Tuesday. 

Motorcycles slipped around it. A camper pulled to the shoulder near the 8,431-foot summit to let vehicles by. A few pickups followed.

[{"type":"text","text":"Dumitru Cebotari was next. Instead, he hesitated."}]

Moments later, he watched a deadly highway crash unfold just seconds in front of him.

"I feel like I had an angel protecting me," Cebotari told Cowboy State Daily. "One second changed everything."

Just before 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, the Kenworth dump truck lost its brakes while descending WY 22 on the east side of Teton Pass near milepost 6.8, wrote the Wyoming Highway Patrol.

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Two people — 66-year-old Nicholas Besobrasow of Tetonia, Idaho, and 57-year-old David Page of Mammoth Lakes, California — were killed. Four others were injured.

Besobrasow founded Alupka Asset Management in Driggs, Idaho. Page was executive director of the Winter Wildlands Alliance based in Boise, Idaho.

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[{"type":"text","text":"Cebotari said traffic was climbing the steep grade slowly. "}]

"We almost reached the top," he said. "The motorcycles passed him because we were going so slow."

[{"type":"text","text":"A camper then pulled over near the summit."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"\"I thought the dump truck was going to do the same,\" he said. "}]

Instead, it accelerated on the sustained 10% descent.

"I was about to pass him too, but he started rushing down the hill super fast,” Cebotari said.

[{"type":"text","text":"Cebotari immediately sensed something wasn't right."}]

"I saw smoke coming out of his tires, and they started smoking worse and worse and worse,” he said.

[{"type":"text","text":"\"They started smelling so bad,\" he said."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"Oncoming motorists appeared to notice it too."}]

"Everybody who was driving from downhill passing him were looking at him because they realized he was driving way too fast,” Cebotari said.

Cebotari stayed back, leaving roughly five or six seconds between his SUV and the truck, he said.

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[{"type":"text","text":"When he rounded the next curve, the crash had already begun."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"\"I saw the motorcycle on the road.\""}]

[{"type":"text","text":"Ahead of it sat mangled pickup trucks."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"He pulled over and jumped out."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"\"I went to the cars to see if there were any survivors,” he said."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"One pickup had begun smoking."}]

Another man stopped with him, and together they called 911 while checking the damaged vehicles.

[{"type":"text","text":"\"I only saw a lady moving,\" Cebotari said."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"Gasoline covered parts of the roadway, he said."}]

"There were people crashed and smashed inside," Cebotari said quietly. "I couldn't stay there anymore."

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In a preliminary crash summary, the Wyoming Highway Patrol said the dump truck first rear-ended a Triumph motorcycle, causing the rider to lose control and slide across the highway.

The truck then slammed into a Chevrolet Silverado, pushing it head-on into a Ford F-150.

[{"type":"text","text":"The Ford overturned, left the road and struck an electronic message sign."}]

The dump truck continued downhill, struck a guardrail, rolled onto its driver's side and slid across both lanes.

A Chevrolet Equinox swerved almost entirely off the roadway but was sideswiped by the truck as it slid past.

The truck then struck a Subaru Outback, pushing it into a drainage ditch before going airborne over the Subaru and finally coming to rest on its passenger side.

The Highway Patrol said preliminary evidence indicates the truck suffered a brake failure while descending the steep mountain pass.

The truck was owned by Avail Valley Construction-ID, LLC, of Victor, Idaho.

Investigators continue examining the vehicle and other evidence to determine the cause of the crash and whether citations or criminal charges are warranted.

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[{"type":"text","text":"After leaving the scene, Cebotari called his wife."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"\"I told her what happened,\" he said. \"'I'm happy to be alive.'\""}]

[{"type":"text","text":"He couldn't bring himself to drive for the rest of the day."}]

Now, he keeps thinking about how close he came to being directly in front of the dump truck instead of behind it.

[{"type":"text","text":"\"I was supposed to be right in front of the truck,\" he said."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"His wife encouraged him to share what he witnessed."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"\"I was there,\" he said. \"People deserve to know what happened.\""}]

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[{"type":"text","text":"The motorcyclist struck first also survived."}]

Caleb Rodriguez, who said he had ridden from Austin, Texas, to Jackson, wrote 

 that he was less than 10 minutes from finishing the trip when the dump truck hit him from behind.

"I was the first one the dump truck hit on the way down," Rodriguez wrote.

He said he suffered a dislocated shoulder and a broken foot but credited his riding gear with saving his life.

"I don't know how he didn't run me over," Rodriguez wrote. "I'm just lucky to be alive."

[{"type":"text","text":"For Cebotari, the images from Tuesday continue to replay in his mind."}]

He thinks about the families who lost loved ones and about the split-second decision he made not to pass.

"I definitely feel their pain," he said. "I'm really sorry for what happened. I wish it didn't happen that way."

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<title>Eyewitness: Dump Truck Driver In Deadly Crash On Teton Pass "Driving Way Too Fast" | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A Jackson driver who watched Tuesday's deadly Teton Pass crash unfold says he nearly passed the dump truck moments before its brakes failed and crashed into six vehicles, killing two people. "He was driving way too fast,” the eyewitness said.

Eyewitness: Dump Truck Driver In Deadly Crash On Teton Pass "Driving Way Too Fast"

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A North Carolina man is still missing after jumping into the Snake River without a life jacket on Saturday.  Cowboy State Daily’s Kolby Fedore reports that authorities have changed the mission from search and rescue to recovery.

“55- year-old Tory Rather of Charlotte, North Carolina, went missing near Alpine in Wyoming when he jumped into the Snake River on Saturday without a life jacket. Authorities say that he was swept up by the current, and they have been searching for days to try and recover his body. On Tuesday, Lincoln County Sheriff Shane Johnson confirmed that this is now being looked at as a recovery and no longer a rescue. Johnson said, as time goes by, the likelihood of having a positive outcome goes down significantly. He is positive at this point. It is a recovery mission and not a rescue.”

Raether’s family sent Cowboy State Daily photos of the man and his wife taken just hours before the incident. Rafts, jet skis, a jet boat, drones, and search dogs have combed the Snake River below a popular cliff-jumping spot for days, all with one goal: bring Tory home.

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At least 13 portable toilets were blown up in Billings over the July 4th holiday and the company is blaming Wyoming fireworks for the destruction. Cowboy State Daily’s Andrew Rossi reports the owners say the fireworks were likely purchased in Wyoming because Montana's fireworks aren't powerful enough.

“This is going to come straight out of the company's pocket. They're estimating at least $12,000 in damages, and while they have insurance, their deductible is $1,000 and if their deductible is $1,000 and each portable toilet is treated as a separate incident. So, if they tried to file a claim to get the cost for the destroyed toilet, then they would get maybe $100- $150 each after their deductible. So, it's not even worth filing the claim. They don't know who did it. They have no way of identifying them, and there's not a viable path to collect on insurance.”

Co-owner Kris Vogele tells Cowboy State Daily that these aren’t the type of fireworks you can “buy at a fireworks stand in Montana. It had to have been a large explosive.” Vogele said he believes the fireworks came from Wyoming or the Crow Indian Reservation near Billings.

Matthew Lynch lost most of his right hand in a fireworks explosion on July 4th. But Cowboy State Daily’s Kolby Fedore reports that the Gillette carpenter isn't giving up on his electric-guitar dreams. 

“Matthew Raymond Lynch says the incident was horrifying. He said when he lit a firecracker that he'd been carrying in his back pocket for years, trying to be adventurous, it blew up almost instantly. He looked down and his hand was the craziest, most mangled thing he says he's ever seen. the damage was so extensive that his friend took off his belt and used it as a tourniquet to save Lynch from losing his life. Lynch is an artist, he's a musician, a potter, and a carpenter by trade. He says the road to recovery will be long, but he's already been talking to doctors and hopeful that he will be able to get a prosthetic, and vows that one day he'll be able to play guitar again.”

The blast severed most of Lynch's right hand, shattered bones throughout his left hand, peppered his face, neck and chest with shrapnel and burns, and sent him by Life Flight to Billings, Montana. In the days since, Lynch has publicly apologized, saying he feels terrible for the people who were injured alongside him.

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The Green River City Council is considering finalizing a $112,000 grant it's been awarded to install license-plate readers in the city. Cowboy State Daily’s Clair McFarland reports that the mayor says the cameras could curb terrorism while former Libertarian lawmaker Marshall Burt says it's all “bullshit.”

“The police chief said, ‘Yeah, we're not looking to nitpick with these. We want to really amplify our response to things like missing and vulnerable persons cases or serious criminal flight cases.’ Marshall Burt, who is the first Libertarian ever that Wyoming ever sent to the legislature, said, ‘This is a slippery slope, because this grant is based on fighting terrorism, but these things can track people's movements and compile data on people's movements and patterns.’”

Green River applied last year for two Wyoming Office of Homeland Security grants and in January was awarded one for $111,956 to buy and install license plate readers for the police department, says the 

. Mayor Pete Rust tells Cowboy State Daily the police department spearheaded the grant application.

I’ll have more news from Cowboy State Daily right after this.

Cowboy State Daily News continues now….

A Casper man says he felt fortunate to rescue a baby pronghorn who got stuck in a cattle guard on Tuesday. Cowboy State Daily’s Andrew Rossi reports that Dylan Heide says by posting the video, he hopes he can reduce the stigma around hunting and hunters. 

“It was a very young fawn, so he just gently lifted and twisted it out of the cattle grate and let it successfully reunited with what he assumed was a few does, and one of which was probably its mother. Dylan goes out a lot during the summer, scouting for pronghorn. He hopes to hunt in the fall, and he'd never seen one with its body stuck in a cattle grate before, but if this fawn was young, he estimated it was probably only a month old, if that, and it's just probably the first time I'd ever seen a cattle guard before.”

Heide shares his stories and perspectives on hunting and fishing in Wyoming on his 

 social media pages. He has a particular outlook on Wyomingites’ relationship with pronghorn and tells Cowboy State Daily, “The majority of us really care about wildlife.”

Allegedly outraged by a dirt bike zipping around his Albany County campsite, a man is accused of pulling two guns and brawling with three other campers over the weekend. Cowboy State Daily’s Greg Johnson reports that investigators say, at one point, Tyler James McGill “stepped back and racked the slide, and pointed.”

“What it boils down to is somebody riding a motorbike past somebody else's campground got that guy mad, and so he went looking for him down this camp. There were three men in the camp, and all four of them brawled. This guy took all three of them on, and at times during the brawl, it kind of the affidavit reads kind of like a movie script. he gets a gun from the waistband of one of the one of the other campers he's fighting, pointed at him, the guy wrestles the gun away from him, so he goes back to his campsite and gets another gun, it's just kind of a wild, wild tale at this Albany County campground over the Fourth of July weekend.”

McGill, born in 1996, could get more than 15 years in prison if convicted of felony aggravated assault and battery and possession of a deadly weapon with unlawful intent.

A Washington, D.C., super-PAC is attacking U.S. Senate candidate Sam Mead for a $27 donation Mead made in 2019 to then-presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Cowboy State Daily’s Clair McFarland reports that Mead is defending the move, saying it was about solving health care policy problems.

“Sam Mead has political credentials and is waging a really staunch Keep Public Land in Public Hands campaign, and this, you know, conservative super PAC found that in 2019 he had donated $27 to Bernie Sanders campaign. The election filings show that, and Meade told me that at the time he saw a lot of harm from Obamacare, the Obama insurance policies that Wyoming pushed back against hard at the time, and he said that he liked a lot of Sanders' ideas on health care, and decided to back that.”

 post by Club For Growth president David McIntosh. The group calls itself the leading free-enterprise advocacy group in the nation and has endorsed Rep. Harriet Hageman.

Cheyenne’s Board of Public Utilities is not commenting further on the city’s data center sewer contamination. Cowboy State Daily’s Kate Meadows reports that residents still don't know where contaminated wastewater was taken, why the public wasn't notified for months, or what safeguards are now in place.

“Residents in Cheyenne have a lot of questions still with the sewer reuse contamination that was announced last week by the Board of Public Utilities. Cowboy State Daily reached out to Mayor Patrick Collins and asked, should the public be worried about this being a public health crisis, and is there a chance that it could happen again. The mayor candidly told us that we should be worried, because there's always a chance that it can happen, and there's always something to worry about when you're dealing with, you know, public utilities and big corporations, that's juxtaposed to the Board of Public Utilities that told us they are not commenting any further on anything until they deliver this press conference in about a week.”

Last Thursday, the board announced that Goat Systems LLC, the corporate entity Meta uses during construction of its nearly 800,000-square-foot data center campus, was in “significant noncompliance” with the city's industrial pretreatment regulations. 

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<title>Cowboy State Daily Video Newscast: Wednesday, July 8, 2026 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Wednesday's headlines include:
* Vandals Explode 13 Portable Toilets
* Man Presumed Drowned In Snake River
* Guitarist Vows To Play Again After Losing Hand

Cowboy State Daily Video Newscast: Wednesday, July 8, 2026

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A Casper man says he felt fortunate to rescue a baby pronghorn who got stuck in a cattle guard on Tuesday. He said by posting the video, he hopes he can reduce the stigma around hunting and hunters. "The majority of us really care about wildlife," he said.

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