An Oregon man was sentenced Aug. 23, 2018, to 130 days in jail for his drunken behavior, including harassing a bison that had stopped traffic in Yellowstone National Park.

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Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018: The courtroom

BOZEMAN, Mont. — A Pendleton, Oregon, man told a federal magistrate that he and his buddy were on a "last hurrah" tour through national parks before he entered alcohol treatment. He was sentenced Thursday to 130 days in jail for his drunken behavior, including harassing a bison that had stopped traffic in Yellowstone National Park.

Raymond Reinke's crimes drew national attention when at least one Yellowstone visitor caught his interaction with a bison on video.

Reinke pleaded guilty during a federal court appearance in Mammoth, Wyoming, where cases from Yellowstone Park are heard.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Carman sentenced him to 60 days in jail for harassing wildlife, 60 days for interfering with law enforcement and 10 days for disorderly conduct. He was given credit for 21 days served.

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'I'm sorry to the buffalo'

Reinke is banned from Grand Teton, Yellowstone and Glacier national parks for a five-year probationary period during which he is not allowed to drink alcohol.

"I'm sorry to the buffalo. He didn't deserve what I did to him," Reinke said, ABC Fox Montana reported.

U.S. Attorney Leo Pico described Reinke's behavior as the "most egregious" case of animal harassment he'd seen in Yellowstone.

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The judge told Reinke: "You're lucky the bison didn't take care of it, and you're standing in front of me." The images of Reinke acting like a matador and trying to taunt the buffalo into charging were captured by onlookers and quickly were shared widely on Facebook, YouTube and other sites.

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Saturday, July 28: Grand Teton National Park

Reinke left behind a lot of vacation memories in his wild road trip through several national parks, police say.

As SFGate.com put it:

In a string of vacation antics that would make Clark Griswold blush, Yellowstone officials say a man who was arrested after appearing to be intoxicated and argumentative during a traffic stop was stopped again days later and cited, only to go on to taunt a bison, which was recorded in a viral video, and then arrested again.

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The East Oregonian called it a "trifecta:" Reinke managed "to get cited in three national parks during the past week. It was a combination of drawing attention to himself, coordination among the park rangers and a little bit of luck that culminated in his arrest.

It started on Saturday, July 28, at Grand Teton National Park, which is south of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.

Details of the first incident are sketchy but Reinke was cited for drunken and disorderly conduct. After spending the night in the Teton County Jail, he was released on $500 bond that required him to follow the law and avoid alcohol.

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July 31: Yellowstone National Park

Three days later, rangers at Yellowstone National Park, which straddles the Wyoming-Montana border, cited him for not wearing a seat belt as a passenger and noted that he appeared intoxicated, park officials said.

They didn't know of Reinke's bond conditions from the Grand Teton incident at the time.

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Reinke was later cited after another Yellowstone visitor took video of him walking up to a bison in a roadway congested with stopped cars and waving his arms. The animal charges him a couple of times, but Reinke doesn't appear to get hurt.

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Yellowstone officials warn visitors to stay at least 25 yards away from bison, which injure tourists who get too close every year. Check out this video to see why keeping your distance is wise.

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Instead, the Missoulian reported, the man caught on video walked toward the bison, which at that point was ambling down the side of the road. He waved his arms like a matador, and the bison charged at him.

The man ran in a circle while the bison stood in the road. The man waved his arms again, prompting the bison to charge at him again, the Missoulian said. The video cuts away as people are yelling “No! No!” and “Oh my God! Get out of there!”

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Eventually, the bison walked away.

Numerous visitors reported the wildlife harassment, and rangers found Reinke later that evening and issued a citation for a court appearance.

At that point they hadn’t seen the video.

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Aug. 2: Yellowstone National Park

After the video gained attention online and Yellowstone rangers learned of Reinke's charges in Grand Teton, an assistant U.S. attorney asked that his bond be revoked because of the “egregious nature of the wildlife violation."

A warrant was issued for Reinke's arrest.

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Thursday, Aug. 2: Glacier National Park

Reinke had told rangers he planned to travel to Glacier National Park, which is on the northern border of Montana. Rangers there were looking for his vehicle when they got a report about two guests arguing and creating a disturbance at Many Glacier Hotel.

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Many Glacier Hotel, Glacier National Park

Rangers looking for Reinke found him, they say, causing yet another disturbance Thursday evening at the historic Many Glacier Hotel on the east side of Glacier National Park.

Rangers identified one of the guests as Reinke, who was sent back to Yellowstone and appeared in U.S. District Court Friday.

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“This isn’t an everyday occurrence that this teamwork happens, but it does when we have opportunities like this,” Lauren Alley, a spokesperson for Glacier National Park, said, according to the East Oregonian. “Our rangers do take this very seriously.”

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Reinke will receive credit for 21 days served.

Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Dan Wenk praised the work of the rangers.

“We appreciate the collaboration of our fellow rangers in Glacier and Grand Teton national parks on this arrest,” Wenk said. “Harassing wildlife is illegal in any national park.”

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Friday, Aug. 3: Mammoth, Wyoming

Reinke's planned chemical dependency treatment is now court-ordered.

Bison, grizzly bears (the one here was in Glacier) and other dangerous animals frequent national parks in the West.

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Sources: The Associated Press, the Missoulian, the East Oregonian, the Daily Inter Lake, SFGate.com, National Park Service press release.