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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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FORT SMITH, Ark. – Two people pleaded guilty in federal court last week to unlawfully excavating and damaging archaeological resources in the Buffalo National River, a national park under the control of the U.S. Department of the Interior. The announcement came from Western District of Arkansas First Assistant U.S. Attorney David Clay Fowlkes.In U.S. District Court hearings held via video teleconference, 64-year-old Michael L. Walters of Heber Springs and 55-year-old Yvonne Jenay Walters formerly of Heber Springs each pleaded guilty to a criminal information charging violation of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. Previously, a federal grand jury indicted both defendants for violation of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, damage to U.S. property and theft of U.S. property. United States Magistrate Judge Mark E. Ford presided over the hearings and accepted the guilty pleas.
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