The Albany County Sheriff's Office has identified the victim of a homicide whose body was found wrapped in a tarp at Mirror Lake on the Fourth of July as 56-year-old James Bitner of Black Hawk, Colorado.
A 26-year-old Cheyenne man who on April 1, 2024, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of his mother's boyfriend will spend the next several years in prison.
The operation led to 32 arrests in Wyoming and Colorado, 16,385 fentanyl pills, 604 grams of methamphetamine, 64 grams of heroin, four grams of cocaine, and five firearms.