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Marina Dunbar

Wyoming man who injured wolf, taped its mouth shut and then killed it receives probation

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Cody Roberts on 5 March 2026 in Pinedale, Wyoming. Photograph: Kathryn Ziesig/AP

A grisly encounter in which a Wyoming hunter ran over a gray wolf, took pictures of the creature at a bar and then killed it has ended with the hunter avoiding prison but facing probation, fines – and widespread outrage.

A state judge in Pinedale, Wyoming, handed down an 18-month probation sentence to Cody Roberts, 44, about two years after he hit the wolf with a snowmobile, restrained the wounded animal by taping its mouth shut, brought it into a rural bar and ultimately killed it.

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