A California man was sentenced to two years in prison for bringing a woman to work in Wyoming as a prostitute during Cheyenne Frontier Days in , according to federal court records. District Court Judge Scott Skavdahl sentenced Charles Bernard Owens, 36, to the two-year term to be followed by three years of supervised release, according to the sentencing records. Owens will serve the federal prison time consecutively to another prison term for an unidentified crime in San Bernardino County, according to the judgment.
The U. Department of Homeland Security also investigated the case, according to a news release from the Wyoming U. Attorney's Office. Law enforcement identified and contacted a California woman who had been advertising prostitution services in the area, and came from California at Owens' direction. Owens was indicted in July on one count of transportation in interstate commerce for purposes of prostitution or other unlawful activity.
He was ordered detained in August, pleaded not guilty in October, and pleaded guilty in December. The news release did not say why the indictment was handed up from the grand jury a year after the crime. This story has been corrected to reflect that there is no federal requirement that Owens register as a sex offender. Tom Morton Published: March 1, Share on Facebook Share on Twitter.
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