BIA, DCI, FBI, Deputies Back Down to End Reservation... -
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Published on: 9/27/2005
Last Visited: 9/27/2005
The standoff happened Monday afternoon and Steve Oldman, wanted for alleged distribution of methamphetamine, still hadn't been arrested Tuesday, according to Kurt Dobbs, director of the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation.
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"We just have to decide how we're going to do that," Dobbs said.
He said Oldman was linked to a ring that dealt cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana and prescription drugs until the arrests of 19 people, including a tribal judge, in May.
The standoff began around 3 p.m. Monday, when three U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs agents showed up at the gate to the home.One of the agents was with the Northwest Task Force, one of the DCI's multijurisdictional drug-enforcement teams.
Dobbs said Oldman took a young girl into a bedroom and told the agents there were guns in the room.
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In all, more than 20 people arrived, including about six children, according to Dobbs.
"It was a pretty chaotic scene," he said.
Other law-enforcement authorities arrived, including another BIA agent, six DCI agents, four FBI agents and Fremont County Sheriff's officials who staked out a hill overlooking the home.
Dobbs said authorities never saw Oldman with a gun, but did see him with the girl.
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Dobbs said obstruction and interference charges might be filed against some of the people who were in the crowd.