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RIVERTON — The man accused of gouging out a woman’s eye on Thanksgiving Day at Lander SageWest Health Care has been released from the Wyoming State Hospital, back into the community under the care of his wife. The victim of the attack, Elaine Tillman of Fort Washakie, died on Dec. 9, 2020, 13 days after the incident. The attack sparked a lawsuit in federal court, in which SageWest on Tuesday denied any guilt in the matter. Patrick Lee Rose, who was born in 1967, has, according to a June 25 order by Lander Circuit Court Judge Robert Den... Full story
RIVERTON — Part of Riverton's transient population has been quarantined on the Wind River Indian Reservation due to coronavirus concerns. "Our contact tracing is driving us to test people who have been exposed. Our transient population was definitely targeted over the last couple days," Fremont County Commissioner and Incident Command spokesman Mike Jones told The Ranger. With wide availability and use of coronavirus testing, Fremont County's number of cases had jumped to 98 through Monday, up from 66 on Friday. The count one week earlier w... Full story
RIVERTON — An active shooter engaged for hours in a standoff with police Wednesday was taken into custody after being shot by a Riverton police officer. The man, identified as 56-year-old James Hinman of Riverton, survived the shooting but reportedly was wounded critically. Scanner traffic at 1:02 p.m. Wednesday indicated a hit-and-run suspect in Riverton was upset and had barricaded himself inside his home at 1412 Aspen Drive. The Fremont County Sheriff's Department call log from that incident denoted a person in a blue SUV, later i... Full story
RIVERTON — Wyoming’s recovery from the economic fallout caused by coronavirus will depend on mindset, says State Sen. Cale Case, R-Lander. “It’ll be hard to come back fast, and it’ll be a fairly long process,” said Case, who has a doctorate in economics and has long presided over the state senate’s revenue committee. “The longer you’re closed, the longer it is to get everybody back, and get your business back.” Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon dispatched three orders this month closing public gathering spaces and close-contact businesses until at... Full story
RIVERTON — A husband and wife were charged Friday morning in the death of 38-year-old Trevor Bartlett, who died of a gunshot wound early Thursday. Court documents state the following: On March 26 at about 5:09 a.m., Courtnie Mills, 43, called the Riverton Police Department to report that 38-year-old Trevor Bartlett had shot himself to death at her home on Sunset Drive in Riverton. Mills had said she and her husband, 37-year-old Mario Mills, found Bartlett dead in their garage that morning when they woke to let their dogs out. Mario Mills s... Full story
RIVERTON — Resistance from the county’s top prosecutor and, possibly, law enforcement entities to the public inquest into the Sept. 21 shooting death of Anderson Antelope by a Riverton Police Department officer stems in part from the vulnerability of eyewitnesses, Fremont County Attorney Patrick LeBrun said Thursday. Fremont County Coroner Mark Stratmoen announced Thursday that he is suspending the public inquest into the fatality. An American Indian man who witnessed the struggle and the shooting culminating in Antelope’s death in front of Wa... Full story
RIVERTON — A United States Supreme Court ruling that an 1868 tribal treaty still grants Crow Indian tribal members the right to hunt and fish on "unoccupied lands" without state enforcement in the country may have done the same for Eastern Shoshone and Shoshone-Bannock tribal members as well. The 1868 Treaty with the Crow Tribe was upheld by the high court in "Herrera v. Wyoming" – a poaching case that started in Sheridan County in 2014 and ended in the Supreme Court in May, with the verdict that hunting rights in the 150-year-old document did... Full story
RIVERTON — Forgiveness is the key theme of a Sept. 28 letter the brother of the late Anderson Antelope Sr. sent to the editor of The Ranger. Antelope, 58, was fatally shot in an officer-involved incident Sept. 21 at Walmart in Riverton. The Riverton Police Department officer involved was not injured. The incident is being investigated by the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation, which has not furnished comment. Fremont County Attorney Patrick LeBrun wrote an official press release on the fatality which stated that an RPD officer was a... Full story
RIVERTON —A Riverton man could spend the rest of his life behind bars for producing child pornography featuring a toddler. Justin David Brown, 27, was sentenced Sept. 20 to 60 years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of production of child pornography. "Brown admitted to sexually abusing a young toddler, producing images and videos of the abuse, and distributing those to others with an interest in the sexual exploitation of children," a press release from the United States Attorney's Office states. Brown was taken into custody a... Full story
By Clair McFarland Riverton Ranger Via Wyoming New Exchange RIVERTON — The Wyoming Democratic Party has announced will seek further action on 2018 voting incidents that the Fremont County Attorney’s Office determined to be legal. State chairman Joe Barbuto said Tuesday that “the investigation by Fremont County Attorney Patrick J. LeBrun is not the end of the issue.” He also said “The Wyoming Democratic Party will work to ensure that voting issues experienced by Fremont County residents – particularly tribal voters – in 2018 do not repeat th... Full story