Herald Staff Report

A Cortez woman who was caught almost four years ago in the San Juan National Forest disturbing an archaeological site is in trouble again.

Tammy Woosley, 43, is facing five months to 11 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to multiple probation violations. Sentencing is scheduled at 9 a.m. May 26 in U.S. District Court in Durango.

Woosley pleaded guilty Thursday to failing to report to authorities as ordered by the court, failure to submit monthly reports to authorities and failure to participate in drug treatment on several occasions.

Woosley was serving two years of probation for digging up nearly 1,000-year-old bones of an ancestral Puebloan who lived on the site sometime between the year 950 and the year 1075.

She, along with another man, Danny Rose, were caught digging in sagebrush on the federally protected Reservoir Ruins archaeological site near McPhee Reservoir on Oct. 1, 2000.

Rose was ordered to serve 90 days in federal prison; Woosley was given probation. They pleaded guilty to violating the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. The pair was ordered to pay $2,500 to repair the damage they caused.