Glynn Freeman Collins

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1. Glynn Freeman Collins, Recently Booked, January 22, 2026.
2. Lovell man gets 3-6 years in sexual assault case, Basin Repulican Rustler, January 29, 2026.

• 1. Glynn Freeman Collins

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  Glynn Freeman Collins

  This booking record shows an individual recently booked in Big Horn County, Wyoming for the charge(s) listed below.
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  Name: Glynn Freeman Collins
  Booking ID: 19265
  Booking Date: January 22, 2026 3:41 PM
  Age: 82
  Gender: M
  Race: White
  Height: 5' 8"
  Weight: 205
  Hair: Bald
  Eyes: Brown
  Arresting Agency: BHCSO

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• 2. Lovell man gets 3-6 years in sexual assault case

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  Nathan Oster

  An 82-year-old Lovell man was sentenced last week to three to six years in prison for sexually molesting his two stepdaughters in the early 2000s.

  Glynn Freeman Collins had previously entered Alford pleas to two felonies— the more serious alleging sexual assault in the second degree, the other sexual assault in the third degree.

  An Alford plea is a legal maneuver that allows a defendant to maintain their innocence while acknowledging that the prosecution has enough evidence for a conviction. In the eyes of the court, it’s treated the same as a guilty plea.

  At his sentencing Thursday, Jan. 22 in the Fifth Judicial District Court of Big Horn County, Collins opted not to speak during allocution, leaving it to his attorney, public defender Sarah Miles, and three of his children to argue for leniency on his behalf.

  Allegations

  The allegations against Collins are detailed in an Aug. 24, 2024, affidavit. In it, Jeff Angell of the Big Horn County Sheriff’s Office stated that he was tipped off about the potential abuse in October 2023. One of the victims, identified in redacted court documents as KF, said she was 4 when her mother married Collins in 2000 and that the abuse started soon after. Because her mother worked, she was often left home alone with Collins.

  According to the document, the abuse escalated over time and typically occurred while they were watching TV in the basement. It stopped when the victim stopped going there and started avoiding Collins.

  The victim told authorities that she disclosed what happened to a counselor but waited to involve authorities until she noticed Collins “getting excited” watching the young sons of her sister, identified by the initials AC in court documents, running around naked during family functions.

  AC later told authorities that she, too, had been molested by Collins. She said she was 7 or 8 years of age at the time, recalling specific instances while riding around with him in a pickup and on a couch in their home.

  Testimony

  Judge Bobbi Overfield presided over the sentencing hearing, with Miles representing the defendant and Marcia Bean the state in her role as Big Horn County attorney.

  Miles presented 35 letters to the court in support of her client, describing 33 as “letters of reference” and two as “character reference letters.”

  She called three witnesses, all of them children of Collins and his first wife who suffered from multiple sclerosis and died prior to him marrying the victims’ mother in 2000.

  Matthew Collins, Kristy Jacobson and Rachel Corina Fitch all stated that they felt loved growing up and learned the value of hard work and the importance of faith from their father.

  Jacobson described how Collins had spent his life abiding by the law, felt bad about how all his children, both natural and step, had been affected by his case and wanted them to avoid conflict with each other.

  Neither victim appeared at the sentencing, but AC provided an impact statement that was provided to the court. Bean read one on behalf of KF.

  In it, she described enduring extreme distress, not only from the actions of Collins more than 20 years ago but also in the time since the investigation was launched.

  KF said Collins made it worse by never admitting his guilt and that his children have continued to maintain that she and her sister made everything up. It got so bad, KF said, that she and her husband eventually relocated.

  In closing statements, Miles cited the most often used words in the letters presented to the court — kindness, service, sacrifice, strength being foremost among them.

  During negotiations leading to the Alford plea, prosecutors agreed to cap their sentencing recommendations at 10-15 years to be served in the Wyoming State Penitentiary.

  Citing a presentence investigation and Collins’ lack of any kind of criminal record, Myles urged the court to consider forgoing jail time in exchange for a lengthier term of supervised probation, potentially up to 10 years.

  Bean urged the judge to go along with the 10- to 15-year sentence.

  She presented video clips from when authorities originally questioned Collins. In one, after being asked if there was any truth to the allegations made by KF, Collins says, “That’s what I really can’t say. That will incriminate me. I can’t tell you.”

  Bean reminded the court of the toll that Collins’ actions have had on the two victims.

  “He knows what he did,” she said. “This is not a good and honorable man. This is a man who has been living with a horrible secret of what he did to two young children who live with it to this day.”

  Citing both mitigating and aggravating circumstances, Overfield chose a position in between, sentencing Collins to three to six years in prison on both counts. They are to run concurrently.

  In exchange for the Alford please, prosecutors agreed to dismiss two felony charges of incest and two felony charges of child abuse.

  All the charges fell within the timeline of Jan. 1, 2000 and Dec. 31, 2021.