A Laramie man accused of giving fentanyl to a fellow jail inmate, causing his death, and forcing another inmate to smuggle a pill in his anus faces life in prison because of harsher federal charging options not available to state prosecutors.
Moshe Bahja Williams’ prosecution was paused for a mental health evaluation but a judge on Thursday said he’s sane enough to stand trial. Williams and his girlfriend both are charged with first-degree murder after Williams’ 2-year-old died of a “gut punch.”
A DEA agent used cell phone tower ping location data to link Kyle Rozell (who called himself ‘K Thuggin 2’) to one of his three fentanyl distribution charges. Rozell faces up to 80 years in federal prison and up to $7 million in fines.
After she told police she went streaking through downtown Cheyenne on Wednesday because the voices in her head told her to “air it out,” Alissa Marie Arellano was arrested on an outstanding warrant and ticketed for public intoxication and indecent exposure.
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George Kevin Dickerson has evoked an insanity plea for allegedly stabbing and beating his in-laws until his stepfather-in-law died and his mother-in-law nearly died.
Tirso Munguia, 19, has until March 30 to strike a plea deal for the alleged accidental shooting and killing of a 16-year-old girl, as does Cody Nicholson, 18, who faces an accessory charge for reportedly hiding the murder weapon.
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Mark Dean Switzer, 71, is in a Cheyenne jail awaiting extradition for allegedly murdering a friend in 2017, who was facing up to 10 years in prison for possessing child pornography and had told others that he refused to go to prison.
Eduardo Juarez was arrested in the early morning hours Saturday after reportedly flashing a 9 mm handgun at the Wyoming Downs in Gillette and challenging multiple men to fight him outside.
After someone found a body in the North Platte River on Sunday afternoon, firefighters arrived and pulled a man’s body from the river, officials said. An ID is pending notification of next of kin.
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By pleading guilty to a roadside execution of his two traveling companions, Luke Thomas Young will avoid facing the death penalty in an agreement with Natrona County prosecutors.
Former Rock Springs Mayor Tim Kaumo will let a judge decide whether he tried to use his position as mayor to beat out competing bidders on a multimillion-dollar construction project in 2020. The trial will begin on April 25.
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A Cheyenne woman, who was facing up to 100 years in prison, for allegedly embezzling $255,000 from the Cheyenne Little Theater established a plea agreement Thursday in federal court and is scheduled to enter the plea this month.
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Only two weeks after being trained and certified to detect fentanyl, one of the Wyoming Highway Patrol’s K9s brought down a convicted felon outside of Evanston who was allegedly trafficking fentanyl and meth into the state.
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A video showing a motorcyclist plowing into the back of a car that stopped suddenly for a three-legged dog in the road has sparked a storm of debate as to who’s to blame. But a 20-year Wyoming cop says it’s not a close call.
Myron Martize Woods of Cheyenne filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the city of Cheyenne, the police department and three officers claiming the officers shoved his pregnant wife aside and attacked him in his home without a warrant.
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Authorities are not ready to release the name of a man who died in the Natrona County Detention Center on Wednesday shortly after Banner Wyoming Medical Center cleared him to enter the jail.
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A Gillette woman won an argument with her boyfriend last week by dropping him off at the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office, where authorities promptly arrested him on three outstanding warrants.
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The romance novelist who led cops on a highspeed chase through a national park in Wyoming failed to appear at arraignment last week. Two warrants have been issued for Faleena Hopkins.
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Nearly a year has passed since a masked and hooded arsonist lugged a red fuel tank into Wellspring Health Access and lit the aspiring abortion and gender-change treatment clinic on fire, so the Casper Police Department has increased its reward offer from $5,000 to $15,000.
Anthony Long pleaded guilty on Thursday in Fremont County District Court and admitted to two counts of child abuse which resulted in his twin daughters’ legs being broken. He faces up to 20 years in prison.
Winter isn’t messing around this year, and neither is the Gillette Police Department. They aren’t cheap but “Track N Go” snow tracks have proven to be a godsend for, as snow continues to pile up, particularly in neighborhoods where streets aren’t plowed.
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Restaurant staffers found two men dead Saturday in a parked car in Lander that had been running all day. The restaurant owner said it appeared the car’s exhaust had been leaking into the vehicle.
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The Wyoming House of Representatives is considering a bill imposing a homicide charge on drug dealers whose customers die of fentanyl, heroin or methamphetamine overdose.
California state lawmakers are trying to outlaw police K-9s from being used because criminals could get bit. Wyoming and national law enforcement authorities are calling it ridiculous.
After 23-year-old Hunter Rezac reportedly turned himself in to Cheyenne police for recording a female coworker’s visit to the bathroom, the Larame County District Attorney’s Office charged him with voyeurism, a felony punishable by up to two years in prison if convicted.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday killed a bill that aimed to let fewer sex offenders get erased from the sex offender registry, because the bill’s language was confusing.
While debating a proposed law that would let banks intervene if they suspect elderly or disabled customers are being scammed, House Speaker Rep. Albert Sommers was tearful in relating the story of a vulnerable Wyomingite who was forced to live in dog poop while family members spent that person’s money on drugs.
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A district court judge says Floyd DeWayne Grady, serving a life sentence for the murder and attempted rape of a female prison nurse doesn’t get to reopen his case just because he’s “wishing for a do-over.”
Anthony Long, 27, has signed a plea agreement in which he promises to plead guilty to two counts of child abuse against his 3-week-old daughters. He faces up to 10 years in prison for each count.
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Daniel Scott James, 35, pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter and two felony drug charges Wednesday in the death of his toddler, and wept when told he’s not allowed to see his other children, ages 4 and 5.
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14 years after being groomed and sex trafficked by a man from another state, a 31-year-old Wyoming woman told Cowboy State Daily that living in a small town doesn’t insulate potential victims from the dangers of the Internet.
It was just like the movie “Risky Business” (but without Guido, the killer pimp or any prostitutes). A 17-year-old boy who drove his dad’s orange Porsche through Gillette at 100 miles per hour now faces eluding and exhibition of speed citations. No word on if he was grounded.
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Longtime prosecutor in Fremont County Ember Oakley said there is a big increase in organized retail theft at Riverton’s Walmart and offenders have admitted that a few days in jail is a small price to pay for all the shoplifting they get away with.
After arguing that police had no right to seize his journals and a state district court judge had no right to consider rape charges that didn’t stick, a convicted wife beater has lost his appeal to the Wyoming Supreme Court.
The Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper who arrested Arthur Nelson after he caused a multi-vehicle crash that killed five students by driving the wrong way on Interstate 80 said he failed extensive field tests for driving impaired.
State Sen. Cale Case was the lone no in a 4-1 committee vote to advance a bill to the Senate floor expanding the criminal charges available for adults who deal deadly drugs. He says Senate File 181 isn’t specific enough to distinguish offenders who act with malice.
A bill that would allow Wyoming residents convicted of multiple nonviolent felonies to vote once released from their term of incarceration narrowly passed committee on Wednesday by a 5 – 4 margin.
Benjamin David Wilson, 44, faces up to 15 years in prison for molesting a 12-year-old girl. He was acquitted of attempting to sexually assault a second girl.
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A Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper who responded to a multi-vehicle crash that killed five people on Interstate 80 described a scene more suited to a dystopian horror film.
A Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper who responded to the multi-vehicle crash that killed five people on Interstate 80 described a scene on Sunday more suited to a dystopian horror film. Only the wrong-way driver walked away unscathed.
Phil Prime says it’s up to the court system and God to punish the wrong-way driver who caused a chain-reaction crash on Interstate 80 east of Rawlins that killed five people, including two of his daughters – Suzy, 18, and Andrea, 23.
Arthur Nelson, who drove a Dodge Ram 3500 truck the wrong way on Interstate 80 on Sunday evening, remains in the Carbon County jail awaiting formal charges from the county attorney’s office. He’s accused of causing a multi-vehicle crash that killed five young people from Arkansas.
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While watching a pair of thieves get stuck in their driveway while robbing them, a Cheyenne couple isn’t laughing about having the property they bought in October damaged and burglarized “by crackheads” several times a week.
A Romanian man accused of stealing a $7,500 bottle of scotch in his crotch at a liquor store in Jackson appeared in court on Thursday. The prosecution said if the bottle — which was hidden in the man’s crotch — is in salable condition, restitution would not be necessary.
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A Torrington man accused of hitting a woman with his SUV and driving away was transferred to a higher court Wednesday. An eyewitness testified that the man rammed the woman and then swerved twice to try to dislodge her as she was stuck on its fender.
Testimony at Thursday court hearing detail a brutal beating and attack on a cognitively-impaired elderly Casper couple. An 84-year-old woman survived with an “orbital blowout” of her eye socket and her 75-year-old husband died.
Convicted murderer John Hereford is suing Wyoming’s prisons system saying the confiscation of his PlayStation console following the discovery of mature-rated games is a punishment that “does not fit the crime.”
Two Cheyenne teens say the shooting death of a 16-year-old girl on Monday evening was unintentional. The two appeared in the Cheyenne Circuit Court on Thursday to hear the charges against them.
A Greybull man accused of being an overdose victim’s drug dealer was transferred Wednesday to a higher court for felony-level prosecution.
George Kevin Dickerson told Casper police that he thought his ‘brain was broken’ after turning himself in for stabbing an older Casper couple. He’s been charged with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder.
The Cheyenne Police Department on Tuesday morning announced that two suspects are in custody following a fatal shooting on Monday night of a 17-year-old female in Cheyenne.
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During an undercover investigation following the death of Cody man, DCI agents posed as a potential drug buyer and watched as the suspected dealer from Greybull arranged to deliver fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone.
A young woman was shot Monday evening in the parking lot outside of Frontier Mall in Cheyenne. Her condition is unknown. The suspect has been located and is in custody.
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Charged with beating a 5-year-old girl to death and abusing both the girl and her little sister, a Kemmerer babysitter pleaded not guilty to all three charges Monday morning.
Along with her boyfriend, the mother of a 5-year-old girl who was allegedly murdered by a babysitter in November has been arrested on drug charges in Kemmerer.
A police report and subsequent news story that a transient in Riverton was trying to kidnap a child were not true, according to the Fremont County attorney. He said the transient was trying to steal a purse instead.
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Accused of nearly shooting a local couple while hunting, Wyoming GOP national committeewoman and two-time state House candidate Nina Webber pleaded not guilty Friday morning to a charge of reckless endangering.
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Accused of intentionally murdering his two traveling companions on the side of a Casper highway and pointing a gun at a potential witness, Luke Thomas Young pleaded not guilty Friday morning to all charges against him.
A “verbal altercation” in a basement Tuesday afternoon escalated when 20-year-old Solomon Nunez allegedly “pulled a firearm and shot” another man, Cheyenne police report.
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For the fifth time in the past few months, Wyoming has invoked a severe 48-state hunting ban, which strips poachers of their rights to hunt or fish in all but two states.
A drunk 65-year-old man who pointed a loaded gun and threatened to shoot a Campbell County deputy Thursday is lucky he wasn’t shot himself.
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A prosecuting attorney in a Rock Springs courthouse on Tuesday said a 2-year-old boy was found on the floor “cold and stiff” next to his father after ingesting his father’s illegal drugs.
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The FBI and Wyoming law enforcement are warning parents over Christmas break that kids can be persuaded to make pornographic videos by online predators who then blackmail them.
Accused of involuntarily killing his toddler son by having illicit medications accessible in his home, Daniel Scott James, 27, of Rock Springs could face up to 20 years in prison.
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Tim Payne’s truck would have been gone forever but his phone was left inside. Thanks to a tracking app he was able to find his truck and then with a shovel and sledgehammer beat the thief down to get it back. All while the truck was moving.
Three out-of-state men recently sentenced in one of Wyoming’s largest poaching cases ever were likely killing wildlife illegally for “personal fulfillment” rather than profit, according to Wyoming’s chief game warden.
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Although the recent conviction of the poachers in one of Wyoming’s largest poaching cases in history is good news, it may represent only the tip of the iceberg.
The Riverton man accused of fracturing the legs and other bones of his twin infant daughters pleaded not guilty Tuesday to two counts of child abuse.
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Nina Webber, the Wyoming Republican Committeewoman and former House candidate, has been charged with reckless endangerment while hunting. Two people said they were forced to seek cover outside of their home as bullets from Webber, allegedly rained down on them.
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The Goshen County Attorney’s Office has filed a felony charge against the father of a Torrington police officer implicated in a hit-and-run that seriously injured a pedestrian six weeks ago.
A makeshift firearm seized by cops and has become the laughingstock of the Internet was probably more dangerous to its user than anybody else, says a Wyoming gunsmith and former law enforcement officer.
A Romanian man accused of smuggling an $8,000 bottle of scotch in his crotch from a Jackson liquor store was arrested after a pregnant police officer found him soliciting on streets.
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Anthony Long, a Riverton man accused of abusing his 3-week-old twin girls, admitted to injuring the infants in jailhouse phone calls. Long admitted that what he did was “f***ing evil.”
Accused of embezzling about $255,500 from the Cheyenne Little Theatre, Carrisa Dunn-Pollard, of Cheyenne, was charged federally last week with five counts of wire fraud.
A Kemmerer woman has been charged with first-degree murder and two counts of child abuse, after a 5-year-old girl in her care was found at the brink of death, with a broken back and other broken bones, burned, cut, bruised, and with brain bleeds. The girl died in the hospital.
After 24-day-old twin girls were found to have broken bones, bruising and one was reportedly “head-butted,” 27-year-old father Anthony Michael Long of Riverton was arrested. Court documents say the twins’ mother “constantly” reminded him to be more gentle with the babies.
A 64-year-old woman was attacked by a pit bull on while taking a walk on a bike path in Riverton. The woman suffered injuries to her forehead, nose, and upper lip.
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A 34-year-old Cody man and repeat registered sex offender got 170 degree water dumped on him when he drove through the drive thru for at least the fifth time while exposing himself at a local coffee hut.
A Riverton man appeared in the Powell Circuit Court on Tuesday for allegedly smashing another man’s head open with a sharpened bear-claw meat shredder. He faces 10 years in prison.
The 14-year-old Casper girl whose disappearance prompted a multi-state Amber Alert after she left town with a 36-year-old man Wednesday was found late Friday in Arizona.
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K2 Radio in Casper is investigating a breach of its mobile app on Wednesday morning which resulted in a series of pro-Hitler and other anti-semitic messages which were sent out to its readers.
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Defendants in Campbell County’s courts are about six times more likely to go to a Wyoming prison than those in Teton County.
Desperate-sounding posts about a missing teen named “Tyler” is likely a scam designed to prey upon people’s good natures and desire to help, says the founder of Missing People of Wyoming.
A bank robber was successful in stealing $2,000 from a bank in Gillette. But his getaway was hampered when he stopped to buy gas immediately after the theft. Shortly thereafter, he was arrested.
Police on Tuesday arrested a combative 33-year-old mother in Riverton who threatened to shoot officers with a crossbow, and rushed her three unclothed children, her geckos, dog, cat and 30 snakes to safe places.
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A Wyoming ranch for troubled teens – Trinity Teen Solutions – which was accused of employing cruel punishments and subjecting residents to forced labor, has won a significant court ruling, and also has abruptly closed its doors.
One man is dead and a law enforcement official was shot following a shootout Monday evening at a residence in the Saddle Ridge area of Cheyenne.
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Three Wyoming residents were charged Friday in connection with the murder of a 31-year-old woman whom police found beaten and stabbed under a burning tire in a trailer house in Riverton.
A Utah man who organized illegal motorcycle races causing damage to sensitive and historic land in the Mormon Row area of Grand Teton National Park received probation and a fine for the incident.
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A female inmate in Riverton is facing 23 years in jail after allegedly smuggling fentanyl in her rectum and then sharing the pills with others in her jail pod.
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