Former cop gets 16-20 years

Jacob Anglesey, once a highly regarded officer with the Green River Police Department, will go to prison.

At the end of a two-day sentencing hearing Thursday, Anglesey was sentenced to spend 16-20 years in prison, with credit for 679 days served, for aggravated homicide in the death of two-year-old Konnor Allen in 2009. The maximum sentence for aggravated homicide is 20 years of imprisonment. Allen died after sustaining severe injuries while in Anglesey’s care, which the Sweetwater County Attorney’s Office said was the result of physical trauma inflicted by Anglesey.

Anglesey was originally arrested in February 2016, which accounts for the 679 days credit for time served.

Anglesey’s charge was initially for first-degree murder, but was reduced as part of a plea agreement. Anglesey plead no contest to aggravated homicide in September, though he recently attempted to withdraw his plea and pursue a jury trial. That motion, which his attorneys claimed was made as a result of new information coming to light from the Wyoming Department of Criminal Investigation. Information, which consisted of an interview conducted between investigators and Allen’s mother, was unintentionally left out of the complete case file provided by DCI. Third Judicial District Court Judge Richard Lavery denied Anglesey’s motion to withdraw his plea. Anglesey, who worked with theGRPD as its K9 handler, was placed on administrative leave following his arrest and was paid until after he entered his no contest plea.

According to Sweetwater County Attorney Daniel Erramouspe, a pre-sentence investigation recommended a lengthy prison sentence.

Anglesey’s sentence finishes nearly two years of judicial hearings after Anglesey’s 2016 arrest.

Anglesey was indicted in Allen’s death by a grand jury in February 2016, and was subsequently charged with first-degree murder. His bond was initially set at $1 million, but was reduced to $500,000.

While Anglesey’s initial trial was set for August 2016, a series of delays pushed the trial into 2017.

Anglesey’s change of plea took place days before his Sept. 11 trial was set to start.