Joel Elliott

Elliott unsuccessfully tried to escape from the Natrona County jail three days before his sentencing. That added another year of prison to the original 37 years.

A man who was sentenced to 37 years imprisonment last month for trying to torch the Sheridan County Attorney's office in 2014 has been indicted again, this time for trying to escape the jail three days before his sentencing, according to court records.

The inmate who tried to escape from the Natrona County Detention Center during the snow storm early Tuesday morning was identified as Joel Elliott before his sentencing hearing in federal court on Friday.

A man who tried to burn down the Sheridan County Attorney's office in June 2014 will spend 37 years in federal prison.

A jury found Joel Elliott guilty on all four counts related to the arson of the Sheridan County Attorney's office last year.

Joel Elliott was desperate last year, a prosecutor told a jury in federal court in Casper on Thursday. Elliott was desperate last year when he was looking at pleading guilty to a felony forgery count the next day in Sheridan County Court and desperate when he lied to a grand jury, Assistant U.S. Attorn...

A Sheridan man who wanted to "'buy time'" last June with the county attorney's office by torching it a day before a court hearing could face at least 47 years in federal prison.