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1. Wife accused of serving as accessory in Cody sexual abuse case, Powell Tribune (Wyoming), November 28, 2025.
2. Cody man gets 30 years for sexually abusing teen, Powell Tribune, August 6, 2026.
3. Judge tosses perjury charge against Cody woman, Powell Tribune, January 15, 2026.
4. Amanda Dawn Parks, Recently Booked, November 24, 2025.
5. Amanda Dawn Parks, Recently Booked, March 26, 2026.

• 1. Wife accused of serving as accessory in Cody sexual abuse case

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  Couple facing allegations of perjury

  After a Cody man was arrested on charges of sexually abusing a minor, authorities say his wife attempted to help him by destroying or hiding potential evidence. The woman is now facing her own, lesser charges.

  James “Jimmy” Parks, 49, was taken into custody last month on three felony counts that allege he sexually abused a teenager over the past two years. He formally denied those charges on Wednesday, pleading not guilty during an appearance in Park County District Court.

  However, the proceedings became more complicated this week, as prosecutors filed new charges against both Jimmy Parks and his wife, 37-year-old Amanda D. Parks.

  Among other contentions, the Park County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office alleges that Amanda Parks erased all of the data on her husband’s cellphone and conspired to hide or destroy surveillance camera footage in the days after his arrest. She faces three misdemeanor counts that allege she served as or conspired to serve as an “accessory after the fact” to Jimmy Parks’ alleged crimes.

  The county attorney’s office is also pursuing felony counts of perjury against both Parkses, alleging the couple gave false testimony to a judge last month when applying for court-appointed attorneys.

  Arguing bond

  Jimmy Parks has remained in custody since his arrest last month and his bail now stands at a combined total of $210,000 cash. A defense attorney argued in District Court on Wednesday that Jimmy Parks’ bail is “excessive” but, at least for the time being, Judge Bill Simpson declined to lower it.

  Meanwhile, after being arrested on Monday, Amanda Parks was released on a $15,000 surety bond on Tuesday afternoon.

  Prosecutors had asked Park County Circuit Court Judge Joey Darrah to set Amanda Parks’ bail at $30,000 cash only, but Darrah cited the potential impact on the couple’s children — who were recently taken into foster care — in setting a lower figure.

  At the Tuesday hearing, Amanda Parks described herself as the only one able to take care of the couple’s affairs and children while her husband is jailed.

  “We’ve had to sell our business. We’ve had to sell everything,” she said, adding, “even though we’re supposedly [presumed to be] innocent, our lives are being destroyed in all of this.”

  For her part, Deputy Park County Prosecuting Attorney Marina Tucker argued that the allegations were “very serious” and that there’s “strong evidence” Amanda Parks conspired with her husband after his arrest.

  “The state finds Ms. Park’s actions to be particularly troubling and heinous, given that there is no reason to destroy evidence if Ms. Parks did not believe that there was a basis for the allegations against Mr. Parks,” Tucker argued in part.

  At Wednesday’s hearing in district court, the prosecutor further contended that authorities have “substantial evidence” against Jimmy Parks, including the recovery of semen from a location where abuse allegedly occurred.

  Tucker did not offer any details, and “without the context of witness testimony, etc., that in and of itself, … we would not consider substantial evidence,” countered Sam Krone, one of Jimmy Parks’ defense attorneys.

  Follow-up investigation

  Jimmy Parks’ original Oct. 17 arrest was based almost exclusively on the account that the alleged victim provided to law enforcement. According to charging documents, the teen told the Park County Sheriff’s Office that Jimmy Parks had shown him pornography and engaged with him in masturbation and oral sex.

  As part of their follow-up investigation, the sheriff’s office and Cody Police Department obtained search warrants for Jimmy Parks’ vehicle, business and home, but they initially could not find Parks’ cellphone.

  During an Oct. 23 search of the Parks’ residence, a sheriff’s deputy tried calling Jimmy Parks’ cell number and Amanda reportedly answered. She allegedly said she had just picked the phone up from Jimmy Parks’ office and turned the device over to police, charging documents say.

  However, when Cody Police Det. Tyler Eubanks later examined the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, he says he found the phone had been manually “wiped” of its data while the officers were searching the Parks’ home.

  “This reset occurred after Amanda Parks had been informed the cell phone was to be seized through a lawful warrant and before she provided it to law enforcement,” Eubanks wrote in an affidavit, adding that it appeared she restarted the device and set up a new passcode.

  Authorities were also interested in surveillance camera footage from PC Cowboys — the Parks’ since-sold business — but did not find it in their search, charging documents say.

  A PC Cowboys employee reportedly told police that the footage may have been saved on a solid-state hard drive that Jimmy Parks had told him to remove and give to Amanda.

  Eubanks later listened to an Oct. 21 jail call between Amanda and Jimmy Parks in which Jimmy reportedly asked his wife if she’d stopped by PC Cowboys and seen the employee.

  When Amanda said she had, Jimmy Parks reportedly said, “that thing can probably just get, umm, like, I know [another person] likes to break things into little tiny pieces, OK?”

  “Yup,” Amanda allegedly replied.

  Det. Eubanks interpreted that to mean the couple conspired to destroy the solid-state drive — though he acknowledged its whereabouts and actual contents “are unknown.”

  Future proceedings

  Additionally, Jimmy Parks is facing two counts of perjury and Amanda Parks one for statements they reportedly made to Judge Simpson last month.

  One of Jimmy Parks’ charges alleges that he falsely told the court that he didn’t have a cellphone while the others allege the couple didn’t disclose all of their assets to Simpson when they requested court-appointed attorneys in a separate, confidential proceeding.

  The couple has reportedly retained private counsel for their criminal cases.

  In requesting a reduced bond for Jimmy Parks on Wednesday, Krone said it was important to note that his client “has no previous criminal history, has no failures to appear [in court] ... has longstanding ties to the community, owns property in the community, is an active member of his church in the community, business owner in the community.”

  While acknowledging the allegations are “very serious,” Krone noted that his client is presumed to be innocent and said any concerns could be mitigated with bond conditions.

  Simpson declined the defense’s request to lower bail to $100,000 cash or surety, but said he’d be willing to reconsider bond at a future hearing.

  A trial for Jimmy Parks will be scheduled in district court within the next six months on the sex crime charges, while both Parks are set for preliminary hearings in circuit court next week on the new perjury and accessory charges.

• 2. Cody man gets 30 years for sexually abusing teen

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  A Cody man has been ordered to serve 30 to 40 years in prison for sexually abusing a teen in 2024 and 2025.

  Following two days of deliberations in April, a 12-member jury voted unanimously to convict Jimmy Parks of all three felony abuse charges he faced. However, at his July 17 sentencing, Parks continued to assert his innocence.

  While saying he respected the verdict, “I do continue to believe that I’m innocent of these charges and I cannot honestly admit to conduct that I do not believe occurred,” Parks said. He requested probation.

  Deputy Park County Prosecuting Attorney Marina Tucker countered by asking for 50 to 60 years of incarceration.

  “Realistically, Mr. Parks committed and has been convicted of some of the worst crimes that a person can commit,” Tucker told the court, adding that the damage Park caused to the teen will “likely last a lifetime.”

  District Judge Bobbi Overfield ultimately landed on the 30- to 40-year term, saying the sentence was consistent with similar cases.

  On Tuesday, Parks pleaded no contest to a separate felony count of perjury — related to false testimony about his assets he gave at a fall court appearance — and accepted an overlapping three- to five-year prison term for that offense.

  Meanwhile, Parks’ soon-to-be ex-wife, Amanda Parks, will soon begin serving six months of jail time for interfering with last fall’s investigation into her husband’s conduct. She’s also set to be tried on a felony perjury charge of her own later this month.

  Report triggers investigation

  The case began in mid-October, when a teenager told a counselor that Parks had shown him pornography, touched the teen’s genitals and had the teen touch Parks’ genitals on multiple occasions. The counselor contacted Cody police, and after the teen shared his account with law enforcement, Parks was quickly arrested.

  The teen has mental limitations and much of the trial centered around his credibility, with the defense pointing out other stories the teen had exaggerated or made up.

  His testimony at trial differed in multiple ways from his initial report to law enforcement, but he remained consistent in saying that Parks had sexually abused him multiple times.

  Searching the office

  Some of the abuse reportedly occurred in Jimmy Parks’ office at his since-shuttered IT business, PC Cowboys.

  The teen mentioned specific porn sites that Parks had shown him, and Cody police found that Parks’ computer had accessed three of those sites over 9,600 times; Parks said the teen must have visited those sites on his own.

  As a part of their searches, investigators found a small amount of semen on the floor mat beneath Parks’ office chair and lab testing indicated that the material came from Parks. The sample contained the DNA of a second individual, but the state crime laboratory was unable to determine the identity of that genetic material.

  When asked to explain the semen, Parks testified that he sometimes had sex with his wife at the office and didn’t know who else’s DNA was in the sample.

  Wiped and destroyed devices

  Investigators also learned that Amanda Parks had wiped all the data from Jimmy Parks’ cellphone after his arrest and — following coded instructions he provided to her from jail — either concealed or destroyed a hard drive suspected to contain PC Cowboys’ surveillance footage; authorities want to review the footage to see if it corroborated the teen’s account of the timeline of abuse.

  Jimmy Parks admitted at trial that he’d directed Amanda to destroy the hard drive, but said that’s because it contained customers’ data that he didn’t want police to have. As for the cellphone, Parks said he had no idea why Amanda had wiped it.

  Amanda testified at a July hearing that she factory wiped the phone after finding evidence that Parks “was having an extramarital affair, or having extramarital affairs, without my knowledge, and I was nervous about what would happen to my relationship with my husband at the time.”

  When Cody police came looking for the phone days later, Amanda said she reset it for a second time.

  “I regret it,” she said amid tears. “If I could go back, I wouldn’t have done it.”

  At a July 10 hearing, Park County Circuit Court Judge Joey Darrah ordered Amanda Parks to serve 180 days in jail for two misdemeanor counts of accessory after the fact and another of conspiracy to commit accessory after the fact.

  Not seeing any evidence

  At Jimmy Parks’ July 17 sentencing, the defense and prosecution painted very different pictures of the defendant.

  Dr. Adam Peters — a family friend, children’s physician and leader at Parks’ church — recalled Parks helping with service projects in the community and described him as someone who’s always been “really nice.”

  “I don’t know what happened behind closed doors or whatever. I can’t say anything there. I have no witness there,” Peters told the court, “but what I can say is that when I was with Jimmy, I did not see violent tendencies. I saw a guy who was a friend — and he has been a friend.”

  He also made a point of rebutting any suggestion that their church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, would attempt to cover up any abuse. Peters said the church has strict policies that require any abuse to be reported to authorities and that, regardless of his continued assertion of innocence, Parks would never be allowed to work with youth at the church again.

  Peters added that, “I would never try to cover up [for] someone who was a sex offender against a child. Period.”

  Peters also referenced the views of Amanda Parks, who has since filed for divorce from Jimmy.

  “Amanda’s not real happy with Jimmy, but Amanda still thinks he’s innocent,” Peters told the district court. “That’s really important.”

  At a July 1 hearing in circuit court, Amanda Parks testified that she hasn’t “had any proof or evidence of anything happening” between the teen and Jimmy Parks and that the victim “has told many untrue stories.”

  However, she also said she’s “gone back and forth.”

  “I have been conflicted and unsure,” she said, “and I don’t know, because I don’t know.”

  Prior abuse alleged

  In support of its call for prison time, the state called one of Jimmy Parks’ previous wives as a witness.

  The Cheyenne woman — who was married to Parks from 2003 to 2009 — testified that her relationship with Parks involved fear, psychological trauma, intimidation, deceit, and physical and emotional abuse. She said Parks struck her in the face, threw her against the wall, insulted her and made her feel “that I was imagining situations.”

  The woman’s now-adult son also testified, saying he and his siblings were physically abused by Parks and taken into protective custody.

  “I wanted the court to see today that this person has been this way for so long and continues to be this way,” the woman said, adding, “It’s not a one-time thing and he’s not going to ever change.”

  Though the woman reported the abuse to law enforcement, nothing came of her allegations. At one point she indicated that was because “I could not monetarily afford to keep pushing things forward,” but after Parks’ defense attorney Sam Krone sharply questioned that account — noting you don’t need money to have a criminal case prosecuted — the woman said it was hard to remember the details.

  In his statement to the court, Parks disputed his ex’s accusations and said she had made similar allegations against her previous husband.

  Krone described the testimony from Parks’ prior family members as unreliable and objected to the court even hearing it.

  When Judge Overfield later imposed the prison sentence, she indicated that she wasn’t factoring in the woman’s testimony about Parks, saying they were not there “to sentence him for what may or may not have happened 16 years ago.”

  A request for probation

  In his remarks, Jimmy Parks was critical of law enforcement and effectively asserted that authorities had it in for him.

  “When my name got brought up [last fall] and an arrest warrant was issued for me, it was pretty much, the Park County Attorney’s Office was out for blood,” Parks said.

  He said he’s not the “monster” the prosecution made him out to be and described himself as a good family man and a productive member of society.

  “I understand that the accomplishments that I’ve made in my life don’t change this conviction, but I would hope that the court would consider the entirety of my life rather than just this, the worst allegation possibly ever that could be made against a person,” Parks said.

  Krone noted that his client had no prior criminal convictions outside of speeding tickets and had been deemed to be at a low or minimal risk of reoffending.

  “I think that the court can comfortably place him on probation,” Krone said.

  He said five years of supervision would provide safety to the community and give Parks an opportunity to rehabilitate himself.

  Krone also argued that his client “has been punished quite a bit already,” noting the loss of his business, reputation and family.

  Seeking accountability

  Prosecutor Tucker, however, called for decades of prison time.

  “It is the state’s position that he has no criminal history because he has not been held accountable until this case,” she said.

  Tucker also noted that the probation and parole agent who composed a presentence report expressed “great concern” about the trauma Parks had caused and noted the lack of accountability for his actions.

  In response to Parks’ criticism of his ex-wife, law enforcement and herself, Tucker said the common theme is “that there’s always someone else to blame for this situation.”

  “Jimmy Parks repeatedly sexually abused a vulnerable minor child …,” Tucker said. “He has refused to take accountability for his actions, continuing to blame everybody except himself.”

  She encouraged Overfield to hold Parks accountable and the judge soon imposed the three to four decades of prison time.

• 3. Judge tosses perjury charge against Cody woman

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  A judge has thrown out a perjury charge that prosecutors filed against a Cody woman, ruling that the state didn’t have enough evidence to back up the allegation.

  The Park County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office asserted that 37-year-old Amanda Parks failed to disclose her ownership of a Florida townhouse when she requested a court-appointed attorney back in October. However, based on the information that police have gathered to date, Park County Circuit Court Judge Joey Darrah said it’s unclear if Parks actually owns the property in question.

  While the state presented “a really good case” at a Jan. 8 preliminary hearing, “there’s a piece missing that I don’t find,” Darrah said.

  Although the felony count of perjury has been dismissed, Parks continues to face three misdemeanor charges, which arguably contain more serious allegations. The two counts of accessory after the fact and another of conspiracy to commit accessory after the fact allege Parks attempted to hinder a sex crime investigation into her husband, 49-year-old Jimmy Parks.

  Cody police arrested Jimmy Parks in October on allegations that he sexually abused a minor over a more than year-long period. In the wake of that arrest, authorities allege that Amanda Parks aided her husband by erasing all the data from his cellphone and hiding or destroying surveillance footage from their Cody business, where some of the sexual abuse is alleged to have occurred.

  Amanda Parks has not yet had the opportunity to formally respond to the accessory allegations, as the Jan. 8 hearing dealt only with the felony count.

  Probing different LLCs

  The perjury charge stemmed from statements made during a confidential juvenile court hearing involving both Amanda and Jimmy Parks. During the Oct. 20 proceeding, presiding District Judge Bill Simpson posed a series of questions about the Parkses financial situation to determine if they qualified for court-appointed attorneys.

  According to Cody Police Det. Tyler Eubanks’ recounting of the hearing, Amanda Parks testified that her home was her only significant asset; she reportedly indicated that she owned the property through a company called Oliver and Company LLC. Amanda Parks also represented to the court that she had no income, according to the detective’s summary, and Simpson concluded she was entitled to a public defender in that proceeding. (She is being represented by private counsel, William Appleton, in the criminal case.)

  However, Eubanks later came to suspect that the Parkses owned other assets that they didn’t disclose — including a roughly $230,000 townhouse in Osceola County, Florida, held by AAWLC LLC.

  The detective’s suspicion was based in part on a conversation that Jimmy Parks had with one of his family members on a recorded call from the Park County Detention Center. On that call, Jimmy Parks indicated that he intended to sell the Florida townhouse, but his grandfather “tried to dissuade him from that,” Eubanks said, “stating that [with] him [Jimmy] being incarcerated, Amanda would need an income, which that property provides.”

  Additionally, Eubanks reviewed another call in which Amanda discussed the Florida property with Jimmy and asked if they’d paid the mortgage. Combined with corporate documents showing that Amanda Parks was the CEO and registered agent for AAWLC, the detective concluded she owned the property and had failed to disclose it to the court.

  However, Judge Darrah noted that Amanda Parks’ status as AAWLC’s agent and CEO does not necessarily mean she was a “member,” or owner, of the LLC, the judge noted.

  “The thing I didn't hear was percentages of ownership, how much income she had ever derived from it, if she owned anything in that company,” Darrah said.

  He gave an example from his own experience, recalling how the building that housed his former law office in Powell belonged to a company he owned apart from his wife.

  “Unfortunately, I guess, for the state in this circumstance, I understand the law as it pertains to LLCs,” Darrah said.

  Debating need

  The judge also suggested that if the property in Florida is owned by the LLC, then only the couple’s interest in the LLC would have needed to be disclosed to the court and its value could hinge on how much debt was on the property.

  Deputy Park County Prosecuting Attorney Marina Tucker — who argued the state had enough evidence for the perjury charge to advance to district court — offered in response that “there are a lot of people who need public defenders who don't have vacation homes in Florida.”

  “And the ability to set up an LLC to have a vacation home in Florida so that you can qualify for a public defender is, frankly, a flaw in the system, if that is the nature of the system,” Tucker said.

  Darrah said the issue is “a big deal” to him, given the limited resources of the state public defender’s office, and said he was glad the state takes the issue seriously. He also noted prosecutors could refile the perjury charge if they uncover more evidence.

  “I think if there is an ownership interest, it’s going to come out and the detective will find it,” Darrah said.

  During his testimony, Eubanks said he had concerns the Parkses were attempting to hide assets, saying he listened to conversations in which the couple discussed the possibility of selling vehicles owned by one of their LLCs and of paying off personally owned vehicles and placing them under the ownership of the LLC.

  “Paying off a personally owned vehicle and putting it into the LLC that they didn’t disclose to the court was a red flag to me,” Eubanks said.

  In the charging affidavit, Eubanks also said he heard calls indicating the Parkses also owned cattle they hadn’t disclosed, but that allegation wasn’t presented at the preliminary hearing.

  In defending Amanda Parks at last week’s hearing, Appleton not only cited the shortcomings of the state’s case, but also suggested there had been “a great deal of confusion” during the October hearing in juvenile court. Appleton said his client had indicated she was unsure about some of the couple’s assets, and had to rely on Jimmy Parks’ responses. For example, Jimmy Parks reportedly clarified that Amanda Parks’ mother is also a member of the LLC that owns the couple’s Cody home.

  Other charges still pending

  Jimmy Parks is himself facing two felony counts of perjury related to statements he allegedly made at that October hearing. One count similarly alleges that he failed to disclose an ownership interest in the Florida townhouse and in a couple vehicles. The other perjury count asserts that Jimmy Parks gave false testimony when he told the court that, “I don’t have a cellphone number.”

  Jimmy Parks was jailed at the time he made the statement and didn’t have access to a cellphone, but Eubanks said the defendant had one at the time of his arrest days earlier; it’s that phone that Amanda Parks is alleged to have later wiped, while police and sheriff’s deputies were in the process of searching the couple’s home.

  Jimmy Parks waived his right to a preliminary hearing on the perjury charges last month and formally denied them at a Tuesday arraignment in Park County District Court; District Judge Bobbi Overfield of Thermopolis is presiding over the case because the state plans to call Simpson as a witness.

  Parks has also pleaded not guilty to three felony counts related to the sexual abuse allegations, including charges of first- and second-degree sexual abuse of a minor. That case remains in front of Simpson, with a trial tentatively set for April.

  As of Tuesday, no trial date had been set for Amanda Parks on her pending misdemeanor charges in circuit court. She is free on a $15,000 surety bond while Jimmy Parks remains in custody, with his bail set at a combined total of $210,000 cash.

• 4. Amanda Dawn Parks

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  Amanda Dawn Parks

  Amanda Dawn Parks was booked in Park County, Wyoming on November 24, 2025.
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  Name: Amanda Dawn Parks
  Booking ID: 25-1163
  Booking Date: November 24, 2025 3:34 PM
  Age at Booking: 37
  Gender: F
  Race: White
  Height: 5' 5"
  Weight: 220
  Hair: Brown
  Eyes: Hazel
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  Amanda Dawn Parks

  Amanda Dawn Parks was booked in Park County, Wyoming on March 26, 2026.
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  Name: Amanda Dawn Parks
  Booking ID: 26-258
  Booking Date: March 26, 2026 10:07 AM
  Age at Booking: 38
  Gender: F
  Race: White
  Height: 5' 5"
  Weight: 280
  Hair: Brown
  Eyes: Hazel
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  Charge Code: WARRANT
  Charge Description: WARRANT SERVICE