“Public Enemy No. 1 for rural Utah
sheriffs just happens to be a fellow peace officer: Dan Love, the Bureau
of Land Management’s special agent in charge.
Elected law enforcement officers from Nephi to
Blanding call him an arrogant and dishonest bully who has little regard
for local authority and dodges accountability, derailing a collaborative
approach to police work on the state’s federal lands.
Love reportedly just laughed when Garfield
County Sheriff James “Danny” Perkins relayed ranchers’ complaints about
federal officers removing plastic feed tubs from the range and
threatening the ranchers with litter citations.
He drew early controversy during an undercover
probe of artifacts trafficking in Blanding in 2009. More recently, Love
led the BLM’s aborted roundup of Cliven Bundy’s cattle following an
armed standoff with anti-government protesters at the Utah-Nevada
border.”http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/58394443-78/blm-love-utah-law.html.csp
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