Meet the Heritage Thief
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.
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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.
Updated: 11:08 AM CST February 26, 2021
Two Texas men pleaded guilty to illegally excavating about 1,500 artifacts from federal land, according to acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
Jeffrey Vance, 37, of San Marcos, and Dax Wheatley, 32, of Amarillo, pleaded guilty to violating the Archeological Resources Protection Act, a release from Shah s office said.
In March of 2019, the Bureau of Land Management received a tip that an illegal excavation had occurred on a Native American cultural site at the Cross Bar Management Area, just north of Amarillo, Texas, federal officials said in a release Friday.
Local officials determined the illegal excavation happened at a former homestead of the Antelope Creek Culture, at a site known as 41PT109, Shah said. Native Americans lived in the Texas panhandle between approximately 1200 and 1500 A.D.
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