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Show f . , H Scuffle in bar leads to shakeup i in Jackson police department "lateral vascular neck restraint." However, the Guide editorial said a civil suit is pending on the charge, and it alleged one local legal expert predicted the town doesn't have a chance in the case. Jackson Hole News 'Earth First' members arrested in Yellowstone Jackson Hole Members of the Earth First! movement were arrested at Yellowstone Yellow-stone Park's Grant Village while protesting the village's development in critical grizzly habitat. The nine protestors assailed the development there of 300 hotel units, a restaurant and a reservation center, in addition to the Fishing Bridge complex, which includes 661 campsites. The protestors were charged with distributing pamphlets without a permit and one was charged with resisting arrest. Three Earth Firsters wore bear suits. Judge orders county to parley with deputies Mammoth lakes A Mono County Superior Court ordered the county to return to the negotiating table to work out a new contract with the Mono County Deputy Sheriff's Association. The deputies want a pay raise to compensate for taking on added duties after the California Highway Patrol left Mammoth July 1 . The county had left the table, declaring an impasse. In his order, Judge David E. Otis ruled the deputies must perform traffic control duties during negotiations. negotia-tions. He cited the fact sheriffs in Inyo County got an agreement that gives them more than $190 a month more than Mono deputies. JactonMeGmtie Police chief should go says editor of 'Guide' Jackson Hole With controversy continuing over Jackson's police department, the Jackson Hole Guide said in an editorial Police Chief Dick Hays should resign or be fired by the town council. Editor Ray Stephens wrote "... Hays lost control of the department... his men are running him." Arguments still are raging over a March 6 incident in which a defendant was arrested at a local bar for breach of peace, interfering with an officer and battery. The man, Thomas Jones, later was cleared of two of the charges and pleaded nolo contendere (an uncontested guilty plea) to the battery charge. The incident has had repercussions repercus-sions for Officer Joel Bard, who allegedly helped provoke the incident, inci-dent, and Officer Randy Childers,. who allegedly used excessive force to arrest Jones. Two witnesses at the bar made those charges, and were scheduled to take lie detector tests. But Childers resigned June 21 the Guide cited reports that he did so rather than take a lie detector test. Chief Hays denied that. Officer Bard returned to duty after a one-month suspension. The Guide quoted two police sergeants as saying Bard occasionally drank to excess, a few times before he went on duty. In a letter to the Jackson Hole News, a citizen alleged Bard acted abusively only two days after returning to duty. The letter said Bard and a troop of officers barged into a July 4 party, threatening the participants. Bard supposedly said at one point, "Anyone who does not leave immediately is going to jail." In response, Chief Hays said the police received two separate complaints com-plaints about noise caused at the party. In another police-related story in the Guide, the U.S. Justice Department ruled there was no basis to prosecute two Jackson officers and a Teton County deputy on charges they choked a suspect into unconsciousness uncon-sciousness in a Teton County jail cell last summer. Suspect Lance King, arrested on fraud and auto burglary charges, said he was choked before he could talk to legal counsel so the officers could photograph tattoos on his arms. Chief Hays said the officers were using a standard technique called |