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
really wanted to help get sue back to south dakota. in visiting with pete, i was fascinated with the possibility that we d have this fantastic dinosaur back in the state where she belonged. stan came ready and willing to spend $1.2 million of his own money. i just had hopes we could make it work. there are hopes sue will come back home. stanford adelstein will bid on sue. sue has travelled a rocky road since she was found. right now larson s heart is broken. he s lost his most important find and cannot even see her sold because larson is under house arrest. i m still only on work release. so they ask me to go out there. so they flew he out to new york and i helped them kind of unpack some of the bones. so much was still in jackets. we left those in jackets. we thought that was first of all the right thing to do for scientifically. but also, it looked fascinating.
the jury came back today in the hill city fossil hunter federal criminal trial. the jury said over and over again either not guilty or no unanimous verdict could be reached. of over 150 charges, the jury agreed to convict only 13 times, and five of those convictions are for misdemeanor crimes. so here is how the convictions break down. pete larson, co-owner and founder of the institute, is convicted on two counts of misdemeanor thefts and two felony counts of illegally transporting money in and out of a country. brother neal larson found guilty of one misdemeanor theft. the jury either acquitted neal or couldn t agree on a verdict for the others. bob farrar, a third co-owner of the institute, convicted of