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1. When I was younger fellow, I had a customer walk acheck at Wauweap Resort on the Navaho reservation on ...

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Thu Jul 3, 2025, 09:33 AM

Jul 3

... on Lake Powell. Because it was Friday night on Memorial weekend, and that the closest town was about 140 miles away, and that he wasn't in Page, he was still on Wauweap. So the next morning I found a ranger and walked the beach. Found hi in 15 minutes. Because he defrauded an innkeeper on Federal lands, it was a felony, so he couldn't be arraigned in Page, so he got transported to Flagstaff. Because it was Memorial weekend, he didn't get arraigned until Tuesday and bailed out. By the time he got back to Wauweap, his jeep had been stripped down to the pan and left upside down in the parking lot after stripping out the undercarriage.

Most expensive steak dinner he ever ate.

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Saginaw man convicted of assault, imprisonment of Tribal member [View all] multigraincracker Jul 3 OP

When I was younger fellow, I had a customer walk acheck at Wauweap Resort on the Navaho reservation on ... marble falls Jul 3 #1

Yep, even traffic and misdemeanors, if issued by Tribal Police, require you to go to Trial Court with a Tribal judge. multigraincracker Jul 3 #2