A Colorado man
was sentenced to six months in federal prison Tuesday for assaulting a
Bureau of Land Management officer last summer in San Juan County, near
Silverton.Jeffrey Brondum, 28, of
Clifton, apologized for the incident but made no apology to the federal
ranger who he assaulted. It was a detail Magistrate David L. West noted
before handing down the sentence Tuesday morning in federal court in
Durango. Brondum was immediately taken into custody to begin his
sentence. In addition to serving six months in prison, Brondum will be on
supervised release for one year. As a condition of his release, he must
receive mental-health treatment and substance-abuse treatment. He also
is prohibited from being on BLM, U.S. Forest Service or U.S. National
Park Service lands for one year...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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