Casper man gets probation after moonlit boat ramp incident
Darrion Jones pleaded guilty to public indecency after telling police the river current put him in the mood.
By Simon Bennett ·
Darrion Marco Jones appeared before a Natrona County judge in March seeking probation for a burglary charge. The judge accepted a jointly recommended sentence of probation, allowing Jones to avoid prison time.
The decision came after a series of incidents began in August 2024. Casper Police Officer John Everett reported that Jones was suspected in a series of vehicle break-ins around the city. Everett noted that most of the reports traced back to one suspect.
Police found Jones at a boat ramp just north of the First Street crossing over the North Platte River around 10:30 p.m. According to a police affidavit, Jones was pleasuring himself in the moonlight. Jones told Officer Gary Hartman that the running water just got him in the mood and he wanted some alone time. The encounter resulted in a public indecency charge.
Jones pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to 30 days of probation. Prosecutors did not move to revoke his felony probation. A month later, a police officer alleged staff at Black Tooth Brewing caught Jones doing meth in their bathroom at closing.
An employee told responding Officer Ryan Worley that Jones was in the far stall and shaking before he dropped a small baggie with a white powder inside of it. The powder later tested presumptive positive for meth. That led to 30 days in jail and a formal motion from the state to revoke Jones’s felony probation.
A judge ultimately granted the motion in late October. Seven months after giving Jones a chance to avoid prison, Judge Katherine Wilking gave him another opportunity. She revoked his original probation but suspended a new three to seven year prison sentence, allowing him to remain out of custody if he completes three years of probation.
In effect, Jones avoided prison once again. The new probation term will keep him under supervision for seven months longer than his original sentence would have required. Jones was also seen on security video entering his wife’s vehicles and stealing beer from their porch. Those vehicles and businesses were all named in the charging information.
