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Dennis Romboy ('Indian artifacts defendant pleads guilty to reduced charge' Deseret news Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010, see also the updated version) reports that about half way through the court cases resulting from the Four Corners illegal artefacts raids, another collector has today reached for a plea bargain.Brandon Laws, a 40-year old construction worker from Blanding, was originally indicted for allegedly stealing and selling two bone beads, a shell necklace with clay pendant, two drills and other pendants which were excavated or removed from Indian lands. Laws had argued the items came from private land and the transaction was legal. Today he admitted in U.S. District Court that he took a bead from a tribal ruin in San Juan County in 2008. Judge Ted Stewart will sentence him Dec. 20. It turns out that Laws has already served more than five months in jail pending trial, and Stewart ordered his release, pending the sentencing hearing.
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