Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Department

A spokesman for the Sweetwater County Sheriff's Department says there have been numerous reports from across Wyoming about a variety of internet scams which try to take advantage of the Boston Marathon bombing

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The Sweetwater County Sheriff's Department says it has been receiving complaints about an e-mail scam promising phony airline tickets.

Spokesman Dick Blust says the scam begins with an e-mail purporting to be a "Customer Notification" from American Airlines

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The Sweetwater County Sheriff's Department is asking for help from the public in it's investigation into the death of a Utah police officer near Green River last week.

Sheriff's Department spokesman Dick Blust says the body of Micheal Valdes, a West Valley, Utah police officer, was discovered in his vehicle Thursday night in the westbound lane of the Interstate 80 tunnel just west of Green River

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The Sweetwater County Sheriff's office is warning people about a scam cyber crooks have  been employing on Facebook.

According to department spokesman Dick Blust, the prospective victim is contacted by someone claiming to be a person who has been  "friended" who says something has happened to their account and asks the victim to "friend" them again

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Sweetwater County authorities are warning people about a  telephone computer repair scam which has been widely reported recently, according to  Sweetwater County Sheriff's Department spokesman Dick Blust

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A former Rock Springs man on the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office Most Wanted list was recently captured in Evanston, according to the Sweetwater County Sheriff's Department.

 
 Sweetwater County Sheriff Rich Haskell said Daniel Wayne Smart, Jr

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An Idaho truck driver remains in custody at the Sweetwater County Detention Center, charged with multiple felonies after an incident of reported domestic violence near Wamsutter.

 Sweetwater County Sheriff Rich Haskell says deputies responded at about 3:00 AM on December 5 to Love’s Truck Stop just north of Wamsutter, where they found a woman identified as Georjana Price, who had herself locked in a toilet stall, hiding from a man later determined to be Allen Gordon Taber, 56, of Idaho Falls, Idaho

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Sweetwater County authorities are trying to find out what killed an Idaho truck driver whose body was found  on the ground alongside his tractor-trailer rig northwest of Green River Monday morning, according to a joint press release from the Sweetwater County Sheriff's Department and Sweetwater County Coroner Dale Majhanovich

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A spokesman for the Sweetwater County Sheriff's Department says you should be skeptical about deals that seem too good to be true on social media. The Wyoming Business Council's Agribusiness Division is offering display space at a Natural Products trade show in California in March. Click past jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.

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A spokesman for the Sweetwater County Sheriff's Department is warning people about a telephone scam designed to get bank account and credit card information. The chief executive of St. Louis based Arch coal says he expected to see the demand for U.S. coal--and specifically Powder River Basin coal from Wyoming--to continue to increase. Click past jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.

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