Four men charged with a variety of misdemeanors after an Oct. 18, 2020, hunting camp confrontation turned ugly are seeing their cases wind down with plea agreements and dismissed charges.
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SUBLETTE COUNTY – Four men charged with a variety of misdemeanors after an Oct. 18, 2020, hunting camp confrontation turned ugly are seeing their cases wind down with plea agreements and dismissed charges.
They were charged after an angry roadside encounter with Lloyd Hunt, a Big Piney man, and his family, court records show. Their six-person jury trials were set for June 8.
Phillip J. Peterson, Casey Trujillo, Adam J. Angelovic and Jonathan Crooks each pleaded not guilty in Sublette County Circuit Court to their misdemeanor charges during Jan. 19 videoconference hearings.
On May 10, Judge Haws ordered all charges dropped against Jonathan Crooks – four counts of reckless endangering others with a firearm – at the request of Sublette County Attorney Mike Crosson.
Trujillo was the first to reach a plea agreement for the charges of stalking, unlawful contact and false imprisonment. He pleaded guilty to stalking and was sentenced to 365 days in jail, suspended, and one year of unsupervised probation. Judge Curt Haws dismissed the other two counts, records show.
On Wednesday, May 19, Angelovic was sentenced after reaching a plea agreement on the original charges of stalking, battery and criminal entry. He agreed to plead no contest to stalking in exchange for one year of unsupervised probation with a prohibition against drinking alcohol for one year, records show. The other charges were dismissed.
On May 17, Peterson’s pretrial conference was canceled after a plea agreement was filed. He was originally charged with one count of unlawful contact, one of false imprisonment and four of reckless endangering with a firearm.
Peterson agreed to plead guilty on May 27 to one count of unlawful contact and one of reckless endangering with the rest dismissed. Attorneys will be free to argue his sentences, to run at the same time, before Judge Haws that day, records show.
