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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Utah Man Gets One Year for Threatening Artifact Informant


Associated Press
      SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah man will finish a year behind bars after admitting he threatened to beat a government informant at the center of a federal prosecution into artifact looting in the Four Corners region.
    Prosecutors say Charles Denton Armstrong was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups in Salt Lake City on a charge of retaliating against a government informant. He has been held since his July 13 arrest and will receive credit for time already served.
    Armstrong was accused of plotting to beat the undercover artifacts dealer with a baseball bat.
    The government operative helped set up the June bust of 26 people in the Four Corners region on charges of collecting or trafficking in plundered American Indian artifacts from federal and tribal lands.

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