PRESS RELEASE – A Green River man was sentenced to a prison term in District Court in Green River August 9.

Having pleaded guilty to Sexual Exploitation of Children, Colton Levi Minard, 19, was placed into the custody of the Wyoming Department of Corrections, “and be therein imprisoned and confined for the period of not less than eight (8) years and not more than ten (10) years in said Wyoming Department of Corrections” by District Court Judge Richard Lavery.

Sweetwater County Sheriff Mike Lowell said Detective Matt Wharton was the lead detective in the case, which involved Minard “sexting” – exchanging sexually explicit photographs via cellular telephone – with a 16-year-old girl.