CASPER, Wyo. — Here is a roundup of the some the criminal case hearings recently held in the Seventh Judicial District of Natrona County. All defendants are presumed innocent unless proven or pleading guilty. Information comes from affidavits filed in the Seventh Judicial District and court hearings attended by Oil City News.
Animal Cruelty — A 17-year-old male appeared in circuit court on Tuesday, May 5, to plead not guilty to the intentional destruction of a domesticated animal owned by another person while the animal was on property where the animal is authorized to be present, a six-month misdemeanor. The Casper police report says Officer John Everett investigated the aftermath of a house party that occurred while a man and his wife were out of town for two days in late March.
The damage included a hole in a bedroom wall, a missing turbocharger, a broken front door handle and a set of antlers that had been thrown in the back yard. A pet goldfish was also missing.
The caller’s son said the party had been the idea of a female friend that he’d invited over, and he’d initially refused. He eventually gave in to peer pressure, as long as no more than 10 people came and they all left by 3 a.m, he said.
Around 1 a.m. someone brought three cases of beer and “various unknown individuals kept pouring in and making a mess everywhere while [the son] was picking up after them,” the affidavit said. At some point, the defendant arrived, and the homeowner’s son was warned that he was “dangerous.” The son said he didn’t know how to get him to leave.
Someone provided Officer Everett a video of the fish being eaten. He said he observed the defendant biting the fish’s head off, according Assistant District Attorney Patrick LeBrun at the defendant’s initial appearance.
Bond amended — A Johnson County judge has approved Natrona County Representative Bill Allemand’s request for a break from alcohol and drug testing to travel to Washington DC from May 31 to June 4. The motion states Allemand and a delegation of other Wyoming legislators will present testimony at various hearing over that time frame.
The motion states Allemand was resume testing immediately upon his return. Allemand is set for trial in September to contest a DUI charge from Dec 28, 2025.
Breach of Peace at Planet Fitness — Casper police responded to Planet Fitness for a reported disturbance on Wednesday, May 13, at 9:48 a.m., according to the affidavit. The 33-year-old had man reportedly shouted at the employee, who said he’d informed the patron the his membership was cancelled and that he was trespassed from the property. The week before, there had been an incident involving the patron arriving without shoes, the affidavit said.
The man reportedly said he would wait for law enforcement outside and began yelling at people as they entered. He was arrested for allegedly breaching the peace and trespassing, as well as driving to the facility on a suspended license. In circuit court on Wednesday, Assistant DA Jared Holbrook said the defendant had “several documented accounts of outbursts with officers and citizens.”
“‘Violent outburst’ is relative,” the defendant said while appearing by video from the jail. “I have no ‘violent outbursts.’ If I feel like I’m being screwed, I will express that in my emotions.”
He said he also planned to appeal his membership status to Planet Fitness corporate, but Judge Cynthia Sweet said a no-contact order with the company was part of his $1,500 cash or surety bond. The man disputed her jurisdictional authority to impose such a condition.
DUI — A Casper man’s six-month suspended sentence from a Nov. 8, 2024 DUI conviction was imposed after an arrest for a second-in-10-years DUI last month. The 39-year-old man said he’d had six months clean and done 30 days of treatment. Deputies found him parked in his truck on April 28, 2026, after responding to a call for “a drunk guy on Tower Hill in a red GMC,” the NCSO report said.
On Thursday, the man admitted to the revocation allegation on the 2024 case, which had resulted in two years of probation. Judge Cynthia Sweet said the imposed sentence could be reviewed pending his screening and acceptance to Adult Drug Court.
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