A Georgetown, LA, has been sentenced for the unauthorized removal of archaeological resources and illegal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Roy Everett Jordan Jr., 57, received 24 months in federal prison for the archeological crime, and another 6 months in prison for the firearm possession, for a total of 30 months in prison. After release from prison, Jordan will be on supervised release for 2 years.
Jordan was convicted by a federal jury in March of these offenses. Evidence at the trial revealed that U.S. Forest Service agents learned in 2022 that there had been unauthorized digging at four Native American archaeological sites in the Kisatchie National Forest in the Grant Parish, Louisiana. The digging had been done in places where arrowheads and other human-altered stones were known to be present.
Through their investigation, agents obtained photo evidence of Jordan being in the area where the digging was taking place.
Just a few hours after photo evidence was taken of him conducting unauthorized digging, Jordan made a post on social media about a find that he had made that day in that location and the piece of pottery he found.
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