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The Ranger Via Wyoming News Exchange RIVERTON — Responding to a new push for medicinal marijuana legalization on the Wind River Indian Reservation, United States Attorney Mark Klaassen was non-confrontational. “The United States Attorney’s Office recognizes and respects the sovereignty of Native American Indian Tribes in their self-governance,” read a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s office in Cheyenne. “(We) will continue to work with them to uphold the rule of law on tribal lands.” When states or localized government systems legalize mariju...
RIVERTON — Citing citizens’ legal rights to defend their own lives and the lives of others from “immediate peril,” the Fremont County Attorney’s office will not prosecute the Riverton Police Department officer who was involved in the storefront, Sept. 21 shooting of Anderson Antelope, in Riverton. The RPD officer still has not been identified publicly. Fremont County Attorney Patrick LeBrun announced the decision Friday, culminating a two-month investigation into the incident by the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation. Titled “Determin...
Fremont County Coroner Mark Stratmoen claims Fremont County Attorney Patrick LeBrun is attempting to sabotage the proposed coroner’s inquest into the officer-involved shooting that led to the death of Anderson Antelope. LeBrun wrote a letter to the editor of The Ranger on Oct. 17 which raised several legal concerns regarding the intent and method of the public inquest. Antelope, 58, was shot by a Riverton Police Department officer Sept. 21 in front of Walmart in Riverton. Witnesses and authorities have reported that the officer, responding t...
Fremont County Attorney Patrick LeBrun has several legal concerns about the public inquest planned in the matter of a fatal, officer-involved shooting that took place Sept. 21 in Riverton. Anderson Antelope, 58, died in the incident. The Riverton Police Department officer involved was uninjured, though officials said Antelope stabbed him in the chest with a 6-inch knife. The officer’s body armor prevented the blade from penetrating, officials said; when Antelope continued the knife attack, he was shot. The officer had been called to the area in...
