CASPER, Wyo. — The following are selected arraignments, judgments and sentences rendered recently in the Seventh Judicial District of Wyoming in Natrona County.
This is not a comprehensive log and may be updated with filings provided by the Clerk of District Court. Filings from the clerk do no include sentence recommendation
The court is not bound at sentencing by negotiated dispositions and plea agreements between the state and defense counsel. ‘Binding’ plea agreements’ mean the defendant may withdraw a guilty plea if the court opts for stronger sentence than recommended. ‘Non-binding’ plea agreements mean the defendant mean the defendant cannot withdraw their plea.
Arraignment — Not Guilty Plea:
- Melvin Loveless, 40 – Delivery of a counterfeit controlled substance
- Joshua Crook – Aggravated assault and battery with weapon, possession of weapon with unlawful intent, reckless endangering, fleeing or eluding: misdemeanor level
- In custody; bond continued
- Andrew Keller – Conspiracy to deliver methamphetamine, conspiracy to deliver fentanyl, possession of meth with intent to deliver
Change of Plea:
- James Clinton Anderson – Possession of methamphetamine: felony weight
- Guilty plea
- Agreement: four to five years prison suspended, three years supervised probation
- Karley Anna Wayts – Possession of cocaine: felony weight
- Guilty Plea
- Agreement: two to three years prison suspended, two years supervised probation
- John Eric Baugher – Indecent liberties with a minor x2, sexual abuse of a minor in the fourth degree
- Pleaded no contest
- Recommendation: three- to six-year cap on prison term
- Rae Lee Cobert, 19 – Conspiracy to commit aggravated assault and battery
- No contest plea
- Cold plea
- Joshua Paul Haworth – Possession of a controlled substance: meth, felony weight
- Assistant District Attorney Kevin Taheri notes: 11 grams seized in case
- Guy Fahrnow – Sexual abuse of a minor in the third degree x2
- Alford plea to Count IV
- Agreement: State will cap sentencing argument at 5–10 years
Sentences:
- Jarrett Gage Vargas – Aggravated child abuse
- 10–15 years prison
- Nicholas D. Wiese – Failure to register as a sex offender
- 12–18 months jail
- Brenda Lee Sutton – Possession of methamphetamine: felony weight
- Three to five years prison suspended, two years supervised probation
- Dillon Andrews, 30 – Possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute
- Four to five years suspended, three years supervised probation
- Michael William Widicke – Possession of a controlled substance: third or subsequent
- Three to five years suspended, three years supervised probation
- Garrett Sorenson – Strangulation of a household member
- Judgement pursuant to first-time offender statutes
- Three years supervised probation
- Ranson Thompson – DUI: third or subsequent
- Three to five years suspended
- Three years supervised probation
- James Lloyd Skinner – Grand theft
- 18–36 months prison
- Eduardo Bonilla-Bravo – Aggravated assault and battery with a deadly weapon x2, felony property destruction
- Four to nine years prison
- $107,746 restitution to the City of Casper
- Paul Farley – Auto burglary
- Two to four years prison, credit for 231 days served
Probation Revocation
- Michael Webster
- 38–54 months imposed
- Credit for 607 days served
