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A transient was arrested Sunday after allegedly stealing a running car and crashing it into a tree, Cheyenne police say.

Cheyenne police are investigating an altercation that occurred in the South High School parking lot Thursday morning.

Federal judges also sentenced six men for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien.

Darren Gonzales of Cheyenne was ordered to pay $78,432 in restitution.

The case started in Natrona County District Court and was later transferred to federal court.

Two defendants were part of a cocaine conspiracy that operated in Wyoming and Colorado.

Being a felon in possession of a firearm is punishable by up to 10 years of imprisonment and a fine up to $275,000.

A Cheyenne man will spend 25 years in prison for methamphetamine conspiracy and carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking crime.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigated both illegal alien cases.

He could have faced up to 20 years imprisonment on the bank robbery count. The firearms count was punishable by not less than seven years to life imprisonment.

Koby Johnson's late wife, Rachael Noel (Sapohoors) Johnson, 36, was a nursing student at Central Wyoming College in Riverton.

He pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery, and one count of using and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.