Tag: Rapid City
Gary Pourier, Abusive Sexual Contact, South Dakota 2024
⏱ 2 min read A 59-year-old Porcupine man has been convicted of five counts of Abusive Sexual Contact after a three-day trial in federal court in Rapid City, South Dakota. Gary Pourier was accused of fondling a 10-year-old girl inside a convenience store near Porcupine in July 2024. The victim reported the incident to her…
Kyle Ranch Hand, Check Forgery, California 2023
⏱ 2 min read A Kyle ranch hand got a taste of the cold, hard justice he dished out to his former employer, snagging a year in the slammer for a brazen check theft scheme. Lyle Dean Misun Tibbits, 33, was sentenced to one year in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release…
Wilber Zetino-Alvarez, Re-Entering US Illegally, South Dakota 2025
⏱ 2 min read A 29-year-old Guatemalan national was back in the United States before he was caught and sentenced for re-entering the country illegally. Wilber Zetino-Alvarez, 29, was found in South Dakota on October 21, 2025, by law enforcement, who discovered he was an alien unlawfully present in the US. Zetino-Alvarez had been deported…
Lindsey Fitzgerald, Methamphetamine Distribution, South Dakota 2026
⏱ 2 min read Lindsey Fitzgerald, a 37-year-old woman from Box Elder, South Dakota, was the mastermind behind a massive methamphetamine trafficking operation in Rapid City. Between October 2021 and November 2024, Fitzgerald and her crew traveled to other states to buy multi-pound quantities of the deadly drug, which they then distributed in Rapid City.…
Ezra Bald Eagle, Methamphetamine Trafficking, South Dakota 2025
⏱ 2 min read A Rapid City man’s multi-state fentanyl and methamphetamine ring came crashing down in May 2025 when cops seized over 3,300 counterfeit pills and 96 grams of fentanyl powder in a traffic stop. Ezra Bald Eagle, 27, cultivated a network in the Rapid City area to peddle the deadly substances between December…
Shauntel Shangreaux, Fentanyl and Methamphetamine Trafficking, South Dakota 2023
⏱ 2 min read A Pine Ridge woman is going down for 19 years after running a major fentanyl and methamphetamine operation in Rapid City and the Pine Ridge Reservation. Shauntel Shangreaux, 32, was sentenced on April 6, 2026, for her role in distributing multiple ounces of fentanyl and multiple pounds of methamphetamine throughout Rapid…
