arrest, but he was back home, we could see him. eventually, i m released from the halfway house to home confinement, where i can only go from home to work. so i get to walk across the alley every morning and back across the alley at night. and that s it. when pete got out of prison, he was not the person he was when he left. he was very reclusive. he was very withdrawn. he had to re-orient to normal interactions with people. the institute was a little gloomier. we didn t still didn t know how the long-term effects of this would leave us. we just had to keep plugging along and try to cope as well as we could. while i was in prison, sue
this race to discover the earth s past is a very exciting one and people want a piece of it. sue had back a living entity to me after all our work in the field and what we were finding out about her life. and i really missed her when she was gone. so one way that i was able to sort of help that was to go and visit her and to talk with her through the window, looking at the container, so i could see her, see that that container was still there. not moved to some other place in timbuktu or something. and just kind of had some little conversations with her.
that any landowner had ever gotten. we shook hands, and he was pretty excited about seeing it set up in the museum. last phase of getting sue out of the ground, we used basically egyptian techniques to get this large block. i mean, we had one of the blocks weighed probably something close to 10,000 pounds. there was probably about ten ton of material, total, that we had to load up. once we had the skull and pelvic block and the tail vertebrae and everything else, we knew we could haul a lot of the stuff on our bobcat trailer. we had no idea how we were going to be able to get all these other things. well, my brother john had built a tandem-axle trailer earlier that year. with that and the other pickup truck that we had there, we were able to load the fossil
federal agencies, and it was the national guard. the u.s. attorney at the time kevin schieffer, got reporters together in the federal building in rapid city and announced that the seizure was ongoing. the purpose of our action this morning is to preserve the scientific knowledge and integrity of these fossils. then of course the entire press corps hopped in their cars and we drove to hill city. they were supposed to take things related to sue, but they took everything. they went through all of our offices, all of our desks, all of our mail trays, taking mail opened, unopened. somebody called me and said the fbi s got crime scene tape around the institute, and they re taking sue. i hung up the phone, and i went as fast as i could down to the institute. i don t know how many agents they had, 30-some people or whatever. it was just insane. i didn t even think about it. i grabbed the tape and go under it. i just went to the specimen. that was my concern.
hours, i guess you might say. a federal judge in rapid city today sentenced peter larson to two years in prison and a $5,000 fine. larson was found guilty last year of charges connected to his commercial fossil hunting business in hill city. it s the final chapter in the case that began with the discovery of sue, the most complete tyrannosaurus rex