Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Man sentenced for striking BLM officer in the face

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

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