Those days of raiding lands and taking goods from Native Americans is over, at least for regular people I mean.
According to a press release from the United States Department of Justice, a man from San Marcos has been sentenced to two years in prison for looting Native American land.
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37-year-old, Jeffrey Alan Vance, refers to himself as an an “infamous illegal excavator of Native American artifacts in Texas.” Vance, along with another man, 33-year-old Dax Wheatley, excavated Native American artifacts from a site known as 41PT109. The site is a former homestead of the Antelope Creek Culture, where Native Americans previously lived in the Texas panhandle between approximately 1200-1500 A.D.
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Texas man sentenced for illegally excavating Native American artifacts
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A San Marcos man has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for illegally excavating a Native American homestead in Amarillo.
The Department of Justice reports that 37-year-old Jeffrey Alan Vance pleaded guilty in February to violating the Archeological Resource Protection Act (ARPA), which strictly prohibits anyone without authorization from removing artifacts from tribal land.
He was sentenced Tuesday, June 29. Plea papers reveal that he admitted to co-conspiring with 33-year-old Dax Wheatley to illegally excavate artifacts from a site called 41PT109. The area was a homestead for the Antelope Creek Culture of Native Americans who lived in the Texas Panhandle between 1200-1500 A.D.
Amarillo man pleads guilty to federal charges of stealing Native American artifacts
VIDEO: Amarillo man pleads guilty to federal charges of stealing Native American artifact By Bailie Myers | March 1, 2021 at 12:09 PM CST - Updated March 1 at 7:22 PM
AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - Two men pleaded guilty to federal charges of stealing Native American artifacts from the Cross Bar Management Area north of Amarillo.
Dax Wheatley, of Amarillo, and Jeffrey Vance, of San Marcos, face up to two years in prison and payment of restitution for their crimes.
Two years ago, a tip led to the investigation that resulted in the men being charged.