CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) A judge has sentenced a California man to nine months in prison for a drunken rampage in Yellowstone National Park in which he did thousands of dollars in damage to a hotel and struggled with rangers trying to subdue him.
Benjamin J. Bagala of Santa Rosa, California, was sentenced to nine months in jail for assaulting officers in Yellowstone National Park in September of 2021.
The California resident will spend nine months in jail after one drunken night in Yellowstone that ended with broken property and injured Yellowstone Rangers.
The following is a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Wyoming. United States Attorney Bob Murray announced that Benjamin J. Bagala, 27, of Santa Rosa, California pleaded guilty and was sentenced for three counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees and one count of depredation against property […]