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A Green River man accused of head butting his stepson could face prison time if he is found guilty of child abuse. Michael Wayne Wright, 47, appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Nena James at an arraignment to a felony charge of child abuse. If found guilty, Wright could face a maximum of 10 years in prison and a maximum fine of $10,000. According to court documents, on Sept. 4, 2015, a Green River Police officer responded to a report of possible child abuse. The officer visited with a...
Officers were dispatched to an alarm on Pheasant Drive. Officers checked the property which appeared OK and attempted to contact a responsible party for the property. Officers contacted a resident by phone who had questions about pet adoption. Animal control officers received a call of three dogs at large on East Teton Boulevard, two of the dogs were described as Pit Bulls. Animal control officers contacted a resident in reference to a report of possible animal cruelty on Evans Street. Animal control officers completed a report regarding the...
A grant application approved Tuesday night may help improve traffic safety during emergencies. The grant application approved is part of a regional grant application for the 2015 assistance to firefighters grant program. Fire Chief Jim Wamsley of the Rock Springs Fire Department is acting as coordinator for the regional grant, on behalf of the benefiting fire departments. Regional groups included in the program will be the Green River Fire Department, the Rock Springs Fire Department and the...
The Wyoming All-State Marching Band made its appearance in the 127th Pasadena Rose Parade. The New Year's Day parade had more than 40 floats and about 20 bands, including Wyoming's marching band. Jerrid Washburn, Green River High School band director, said 40 students from GRHS joined high school students from across the state to make up a total of 295 students in the band. Washburn is not new to this marching band. He helped direct the band for five years, which included two Rose Parades, a...
Officers responded to a request for a civil standby at an undisclosed address. At the address, officers contacted an individual who requested medical service and Castle Rock Ambulance Service responded to the address. Officers received a call of a parked vehicle blocking access to the property at 400 Uinta Drive and blocking a trash can. Officers contacted the owner of the vehicle, who moved the vehicle. VIN checks were completed at the Green River Police Department. Officers contacted a resident who reported Christmas decorations were stolen...
Animal control officers met an individual at the animal shelter who was there to pick up their dog. A traffic warning for speeding was issued on Uinta Drive. Animal control officers received a call of a dog at large on Hillcrest Way. The dog was described as a black lab mix without a collar. Animal control officers located two dogs at large on North 7th West Street. The dogs returned to their residence and their owner was given a warning. Officers contacted an individual by telephone who reported they received a call of an attempted IRS scam. T...
Green River started the year with a few new faces joining the city council. A new mayor, Pete Rust, along with new council members Ted Barney and Allan Wilson, set to work on one of the city’s biggest issues at the beginning of the year: finding a new city administrator. After making a change to the criteria utilized by the city’s human resources department, the council decided to focus on candidates already living in Green River. After a series of executive sessions discussing applicants, the...
A woman who used her vehicle as a weapon was placed on probation. Heather L. Ortega, 41, Green River, appeared in the Third District Court at a sentencing hearing to 11 different charges which stemmed from three separate incidents. These charges include seven felonies, which were five aggravated assault and battery charges, two property destruction and defacement charges and four misdemeanor charges, which were possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine), duty to stop vehicle where...
Green River has a new restaurant opening in town. Staci Ann's Cafe opened Monday at 95 East Railroad Avenue. The opening was the soft launch for the restaurant. The official opening day is tentatively set for Monday. The cafe's owner, Staci Martin is no novice to the restaurant business. She has served, managed and operated various restaurants throughout her food-service career, and owned a restaurant before this one as well. Frequenters of the Rolling Green Country Club may know her food from...
Officers responded to a two-vehicle collision. It was reported a vehicle was stopped northbound at the stop sign on North 4th West Street and West Flaming Gorge Way, when it was struck from behind by another vehicle also northbound. Douglas Pate, 54, of Green River was issued a citation for alleged inattentive driving. Animal control officers received a call of a collie at large at 750 W. 5th N. Street. Animal control officers checked the area and were unable to locate the dog. Officers contacted a resident who reported damage to their vehicle...
It was 1987, when a spry Mike Kennedy started his volunteer firefighter training for the Green River Fire Department. After training, he was put on as a full-time volunteer in 1988. His fourth year on the squad, he became lieutenant and was in that position until December of 1999, when he was appointed as assistant fire chief. He transitioned to fire chief in 2008 and has been since, but alas it's time to relent the position. "I will be 70 in February," Kennedy said. "I'm 69 and a whole bunch."...
Home insurance rates might lower for Green River residents after a new rating for the city was issued by the Insurance Service Office. The ISO rates cities on a variety of criteria regarding how well-prepared a city is to deal with a fire, which include fire department response times and how high a city’s fire flows are within its water system. Green River was upgraded from a four rating to a three, which goes into effect March 2016. The ratings ISO gives are based on a 10-point scale with o...
By STEPHANIE THOMPSON People Editor A man who admitted to physically abusing his elderly uncle will serve time in prison. Kevin Andrew McCarrie, 38, of Green River, appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Nena James at a sentencing hearing to aggravated assault and battery and two counts of abuse, neglect, abandonment, intimidation or exploitation of a vulnerable adult. In exchange for McCarrie’s guilty plea to the aggravated assault and battery charge and abuse, neglect, abandonment, i...
Postal inspectors and the Green River Police Department are looking into a series of post office box break-ins at the Green River Post Office. According to Pamela Durkee, a postal inspector with the United States Postal Service in Denver, less than 10 boxes had been broken into. Customers affected by the break-ins were notified Tuesday. Durkee said the break-ins occurred between 9 p.m. Monday and 5:30 a.m. Tuesday morning. The locking mechanisms on the boxes were bent, causing the doors to be...
A homeland security grant to benefit the Green River Police Department was approved by the City Council last night. The grant totals $45,954 and will not require any funds from the city and is fully reimbursable. The grant will be used to fund new secure proximity card-reader doors for city hall and the police department, as well as security cameras for the police department and parks and recreation department. “We sat down and thought, what are our needs,” Lt. Burke Morin said. Morin said the...
Two 16-year-old Green River boys will be charged as adults after they attempted to strangle a woman at the Green River Youth Home so they could run away. Even though they are juveniles, the boy’s are being charged as adults and because of that their names have been released. Hayden A. Riggs and Charles Paiz, both of Green River, were charged with kidnapping, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, aggravated assault and battery, conspiracy to commit aggravated assault and battery, theft, conspiracy t...
Animal control officers received a call that two dogs got out of a garage and were at large on West Teton Boulevard. The dogs were located and returned to their owner. Animal control officers responded to a report of a dog at large at 2200 East Teton Blvd. A traffic warning for speeding was issued on Shoshone Avenue. Animal control officers received a call of a dog at large at 1445 Uinta Drive. Officers located the dog and determined it belonged on the property. Officers were dispatched to a 911 hang-up call from an undisclosed address....
Officers were dispatched to an alarm on Faith Drive. Officers checked the property, everything appeared OK and contacted a responsible party for the property. Officers assisted Castle Rock Ambulance personnel on a medical call. Officers contacted an individual, in reference to a report of a stolen large plastic water tank, on 515 E. Flaming Gorge Way. Officers completed a report regarding the incident, which is under investigation. VIN checks were conducted at the Green River Police Department. Officers contacted an individual who reported...
The Green River school district is targeting e-cigarettes and vaporizers in a series of amendments to school policies. Last night, the district’s board of trustees approved amendments to the school’s athletics handbook and its suspension and expulsion guidelines to include the use of e-cigarettes and vaporizers. A third amendment to the student conduct guidelines was voted down by the board in order for its language to match up with language used in the other two amendments. The amendment will b...
A man walking his dog early Thursday morning prompted a lockout nearly encompassing the entire school district in Green River. According to a release from the Green River Police Department, at about 7 a.m. Dec. 3, an employee at Green River High School reported seeing someone walking through the school's parking lot with what they believed to be a rifle slung over their shoulder. The school resource officer, with staff from the school, reviewed security footage and saw a man walk an airedale...
The new city ordinance concerning disorderly conduct raises a question of Green River’s influx of transients and other disturbances, which the ordinance now can deal with. “It’s not a huge problem, but we have a pretty heavy influx of transients in the summer months,” Green River Police Chief Chris Steffen said. “We deal with that problem every summer.” Steffen says it’s been an issue for quite a long time now in Green River. It hasn’t gotten any worse, but it hasn’t gotten any better either, an...
The first readings of two new ordinances for the City of Green River passed at the city council meeting Tuesday night. The first was a new city ordinance for disorderly conduct. Both the Green River Police Department and the city prosecutor have felt that they lack the ability to enforce disturbances that are not covered under the code of violations. When the GRPD receives calls from business owners and other citizens concerning the removal of transients from a location, the police officers have...
Consideration to approve an increase in the general fund in the administration department for an amendment to the City Administrator’s Contract, in the amount of $20,862 was approved at Tuesday’s city council meeting. At the beginning of the council meeting Councilman Gary Killpack asked for the motion to be moved out of the consent agenda. That was for the public to be aware of the action. He said because some actions were done under the consent agenda concerning the previous city adm...
A man accused of raping a 15-year-old girl more than once, pleaded not guilty to eight felony charges. TJ Luna, 32, Green River, appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Nena James at an arraignment to six counts of first-degree sexual abuse of a minor and two counts of second-degree sexual abuse of a minor. If found guilty of all eight counts, Luna could face a maximum sentence of 340 years of prison and a maximum fine of $80,000 in fines. A jury trial has been scheduled to take place...
Officers received a call, in reference to a deer with a string of Christmas lights caught in its antlers. The deer would not let officers get close to it and Wyoming Game and Fish Department were notified. Animal control officers contacted an individual by phone who was interested in adopting a pet. Officers met with an individual who reported receiving harassing messages on social media. Officers completed a report regarding the incident which is under investigation. Officers responded to a citizen assist, in regards to a pet locked in a...
