Wyoming news briefs for June 6

Man who tried to run over probation officer sentenced

GILLETTE — A Gillette man was sentenced to jail on costs associated to attempting to run over his probation officer final 12 months, together with a number of drug costs.

Kenneth Myles Powers, 56, was sentenced Might 12 to 9 to 18 years in jail on costs of probation revocation, two counts of possession with intent to ship and felony interference with a peace officer, in accordance with court docket paperwork.

Each Powers and his roommate, Kenneth Heagy, had been arrested in September after police had been tipped off to the potential for drug distribution from the house they lived collectively in on Laramie Road.

Two ideas had been made to the Crime Stoppers line indicating that Powers and Heagy had massive quantities of medicine and weapons of their residence. 

Powers’ parole officer had gotten the same tip and she or he referred to as Powers in for a gathering relating to these claims. Though Powers initially denied the allegations, he ultimately admitted that there was a gun or weapons in a secure in Heagy’s room, in accordance with the affidavit.

When the parole officer advised Powers the police deliberate to go looking his automobile and residential, he stood up and advised her that he wanted to make use of the restroom. He refused to take a seat down after being advised to a number of occasions.

“Powers walked out of the workplace and out of doors. He then started operating in direction of his automobile, nonetheless refusing probation’s orders,” in accordance with the affidavit.

He received in his automobile and drove rapidly in direction of the parole officer, who was within the parking zone and continued to inform him to cease. She was in a position to soar out of the way in which in time.

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Landslide close to Dayton not security concern, WyDOT says

SHERIDAN — A spot being monitored for a possible landslide on U.S. Freeway 14 east of Steamboat Level doesn’t pose security issues for motorists, in accordance with the Wyoming Division of Transportation.

“We’re not involved about security,” WYDOT Senior Public Relations Specialist Laura Dalles mentioned. “It’s one thing we’ve been expecting quite a lot of years. Proper now, (employees) are up there placing in a possible non permanent extra lane, so within the occasion that the shoulder does slide off, we’ve a strategy to divert visitors.”

Upkeep crews have been working in the best of means simply east of Steamboat Level on the freeway above Dayton since Might 26. 

This work is a preventative measure within the occasion the roadway offers strategy to a landslide. WYDOT District 4 upkeep workers and geologists have been watching at mile marker 69.8 for a while.

In keeping with WYDOT geologist James Dahill, landslides are usually not distinctive to the stretch of U.S. 14 and occur in different areas of Wyoming. WYDOT started monitoring the positioning a number of years in the past just under the freeway and knew it will transfer progressively up the terrain towards the freeway.

Dahill mentioned the problem with the Little Tongue River landslide is that US 14 crosses the slide on the waistline, or midpoint, of the slide. This implies there’s simply as a lot slide-prone materials above the street as there’s beneath the roadway. Due to the character of this geological construction, annually’s melting snowpack and yearly erosion ends in the weak shale changing into saturated over time.

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Legislature’s solely Unbiased rep to retire

Saying “it’s time to move the torch” to a contemporary face within the Wyoming Legislature, District 22 State Rep. Jim Roscoe mentioned he is not going to run for re-election when his time period ends initially of 2023.

Roscoe, an unbiased, could have served eight years in whole when his present time period expires, although he took a break between 2013 and his return to the Legislature in 2019.

“I simply received again from a visit to Norway for a month snowboarding with my son and it was a lot enjoyable, I assumed, ‘I can’t spend one other winter in Cheyenne,’ ” Roscoe, 72, mentioned with fun. “However no, I simply really feel like some younger folks, you already know, another folks, it’s time for them to take their flip and there are folks keen to do it. And so I simply thought it was simply time to move the torch.”

Particularly, Roscoe mentioned he’s throwing his assist behind Bob Strobel, a Jackson businessman and techie who began the ”See Jackson Gap” tourism web site, amongst quite a few different enterprise ventures.

Roscoe listed quite a lot of achievements from his time within the Legislature as factors of satisfaction, together with championing the legislation to ban texting and driving.