MOBRIDGE, S.D. -- A Mobridge man has been sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000 and serve a year of probation after admitting to taking Native American artifacts from public lands along the Missouri River in far north-central South Dakota.
Carl Overbey, 40, was also ordered by U.S. Magistrate Judge William Gerdes last week to turn over the illegally taken artifacts.
Acting South Dakota U.S. Attorney Randy Seiler said Overbey was charged with excavation of archaeological resources. Seiler said the Walworth County sheriff last fall seized a collection of artifacts from Overby that he said he collected from the Revheim Recreation Area south of Mobridge and the Point of View area north of Mobridge, both along the river. Also in the collection were two illegal eagle bone whistles.
