Felony intimidation is not Rep. Gary Brown’s only conviction. He pleaded guilty to harassment in 2013.

Wyoming Rep. Gary Brown pleaded guilty to a harassment charge and received a 14-day jail sentence in 2013, Colorado court records show, almost two decades after he served a prison sentence for felony intimidation of a different ex-girlfriend. 

In the 2013 case, authorities suspected Brown of calling his ex-girlfriend dozens of times, a police report from the time shows. Police said they collected voicemails that Brown left for his ex-girlfriend, which WyoFile later reviewed. On them, a man they identified as Brown can be heard saying, among other things, “I’m praying that you die soon” and “I promise you I’m going after your daughter.”

Brown, who represents Cheyenne’s House District 41, did not respond to questions emailed to him Sunday or voicemails and text messages from WyoFile on Monday.  

In July, WyoFile first reported that Brown had his right to vote and hold public office restored in 2023 in Wyoming following a 1991 felony conviction in a case involving an ex-girlfriend in Larimer County, Colorado. The judge in that case sentenced Brown to four years and six months in prison.

Through public records requests, WyoFile has since obtained additional court filings, police reports and prison records that indicate Brown also has multiple misdemeanor harassment convictions.

Most recently, Brown pleaded guilty in 2013 to a harassment charge after he was accused of calling and texting an ex-girlfriend repeatedly after she ended the relationship. Over the course of two days in February 2013, Brown allegedly called her 40 times, according to a police report. Brown also left her several messages when she did not answer his calls, detailing his intention to hold up her phone line and fill her voicemail so that no one else could call or leave a message, the police report states. 

In the messages, Brown refers to his former girlfriend as Jerry. Because WyoFile was unable to locate the victim for comment, her full name will not appear in this story.

Fort Collins Police collected six voicemails as evidence in the case, and wrote in their report that they were all made by Brown to the victim. WyoFile obtained copies of those recordings through a public records request. 

“Now I’m praying that you die soon in the way you really deserve to,” a man that police identified as Brown can be heard saying in one of them. 

“And you know, I hope with everything in me, Jerry, that you get the hell you deserve when you go to hell,” the man says. “Because obviously there’s no way you’re a Christian.” 

According to Colorado law, a person commits harassment if, with intent to harass, annoy or alarm another person, they make repeated communications at inconvenient hours that invade the privacy of another person and interfere in the use and enjoyment of another’s home or private residence or other private property. Colorado law also provides a domestic violence enhancer which may be applied when a crime is used as a method of coercion, control, punishment, intimidation, or revenge directed against a person with whom the defendant is or has been involved in an intimate relationship.

After pleading guilty on June 3, 2013, to harassment, Brown was sentenced to 14 days in jail, 18 months supervised probation and 36 hours of community service along with fines, fees and court costs, according to a case docket obtained by WyoFile through a records request.

Brown was also ordered to complete a domestic violence evaluation — the docket shows a domestic violence sentence enhancer applied to his case — and to comply with recommended treatment. In a later document where Brown’s probation officer sought to have his supervised probation changed to unsupervised, the officer indicated he’d completed an “anger management/domestic violence class” on Nov. 5, 2013.

Cheyenne voters elected Brown to the Legislature in 2024. In his first term, Brown served on the House Revenue Committee and the House Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee. In 2025 and 2026, he sponsored unsuccessful legislation that would have required local governments to reimburse defendants for costs incurred fighting criminal charges that resulted from the lawful use of self-defense. 

Brown is not a listed member of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, though he does regularly vote alongside the caucus and co-sponsors legislation with its members. He’s now running for a second term and faces opponents in both the primary and general elections. 

‘Everlasting, burning, blistering hellfire for eternity’

The victim contacted the Fort Collins Police Department on Feb. 28, 2013, according to a report filed by Officer Allen Benbow. 

She told the officer that she had broken up with Brown four days prior after dating him for two years, and that Brown had repeatedly called and texted her since she ended the relationship, according to the report. 

“[The victim] said that she had to block all incoming calls and text messages from Brown on her private cell phone, but she’s not able to block numbers on her work number,” Benbow wrote. 

Police reported Jerry showed the officer a series of texts, including one from Brown in which he allegedly wrote, “This isn’t over,” and one from Jerry telling Brown not to contact her, or her family or friends, according to a copy of the document. 

“I don’t need to contact you or them to do what I need to do,” police say Brown wrote in a text, according to the report. He also allegedly sent a message asking Jerry to return several personal items to him within two weeks. 

Jerry showed the officer her call history, according to the report, which alleged that Brown called her 22 times on Feb. 25, 2013. Twenty of those calls “took place between the hours of 0834 and 1211 hours,” the report states. Three days later, Brown allegedly called Jerry 18 times, according to the report, with 16 of those calls taking place between 4:55 a.m. and 6:29 a.m.

The officer listened to six voicemails he said Brown had left Jerry since their relationship ended, according to the police report, and logged an audio recording of the messages as evidence in the case. 

“You need to call me. Need to call me as soon as possible,” a man police identified as Brown said in the first voicemail. “Come on, pick up your phone, Jerry. You need to go ahead and call me as soon as you can. I’m going to keep calling until I fill up your mailbox and your bosses won’t be able to talk to you. I don’t care. If that’s the way you’re going to do that, you’re not going to answer my phone calls, I’ll just fill up your whole mailbox. I can do that. I know how to go about doing that. All I gotta do is keep talking.”

“I just don’t get it,” the man police identified as Brown said in the second message. “I don’t see why you’re doing this, and right now, I got your phone tied up where nobody else can call you. I guess that’d be fine. I’ll just keep anybody from your company from calling you on this phone. That’s what I can do.”

In the third voicemail, police reported that Brown told Jerry he will go after her daughter. 

“OK, Jerry, now you’ve apparently blocked my phone from calling your phone again, so that means that you’re gonna play this stupid game with me,” a man police identified as Brown said. “Well, this is what I’m gonna do. You want to play this game? I’m going after your daughter. I promise you I’m going after your daughter. I’m gonna get her.”

In a fourth voicemail, a man police identified as Brown makes an apparent reference to an apocalyptic interpretation of the Bible that has proliferated in recent decades and includes seven years of suffering that will precede Armageddon. 

“You will be spending seven years through this tribulation period,” he said. “And then you are also going to end up spending eternity in everlasting, burning, blistering hellfire for eternity, Jerry,” 

In a fifth voicemail, a man police identified as Brown talks about the couple’s animals and shared finances. In the final voicemail included in the case, he makes another reference to Jerry dying. 

“The best thing you could do is die quickly for everybody in the world,” he said. 

The victim told police she was concerned for the safety of her daughter and herself, the report states.

When Officer Benbow called Brown on March 1, 2013, Brown allegedly told him “he didn’t remember threatening to get [the victim’s] daughter,” or calling her on the morning of Feb. 28, according to the report. 

The report states Brown agreed to turn himself in to police but failed to do so. A judge signed an arrest warrant on March 7, 2013, though it’s not clear when Brown was taken into custody. As the case proceeded, Brown filed a successful motion for permission to leave the state of Colorado, stating in court documents that he was living in Cheyenne at the time and attending Laramie County Community College. 

Felony conviction

Brown had been in trouble with the law before. Court documents show that in late 1991 he was charged with two felony intimidation counts stemming from alleged harassment of an ex-girlfriend, Patricia Aine, and a friend of hers, Bonnie Scott, in Larimer County, Colorado, where Brown lived at the time. 

Scott told police that an unknown caller, whom she suspected was Brown, had repeatedly called her house and would not hang up, leaving Scott unable to use her phone. When she confronted the caller, “calling him Gary,” a police report states, he “did come on the line and specifically said to her ‘you are going to get it too.’”

Scott told police that she knew Brown through Aine, who had recently broken up with him. In her own report to the police, Aine described several instances of Brown allegedly making threats to her at a local country music venue. Aine told police that on the evening of Oct. 11, 1991, at the Sundance Steak House, Brown made several remarks to her and at one point allegedly “walked past her and had turned towards her and formed a gun with his hand and pointed it at her.” 

A week later, Aine called the sheriff’s office after she arrived home and smelled a gas leak. 

“Our investigation revealed that her residence had been entered through a partially secured sliding patio door and someone had cut the gas line to the furnace,” a police report states. “It was further found that a lighted cigarette had been placed inside a book of matches and left on the victim’s floor, as well as the placing of plugged in curling irons left on the victim’s clothing.” 

Prosecutors initially brought only harassment charges against Brown. Three months into the case, however, Brown was charged with one felony count of criminal attempt to commit first-degree arson and one felony count of second-degree burglary of a dwelling. In 1992, three of the four charges were dropped, according to court filings, when Brown agreed to plead guilty to one felony count of intimidating a witness and victim in relation to Aine. Brown was sentenced to four years and six months in prison. He also received a 129-day pre-sentence credit, according to court records. 

Brown’s Department of Corrections admission form, dated April 3, 1992, indicates that he had three misdemeanor harassment convictions from 1986, 1987 and 1989 on his record at that point. The document does not indicate the county or state where those convictions took place. However, Larimer County court files indicate Brown was charged and convicted of harassment in 1989 for allegedly following his ex-wife to and from her workplace and making obscene gestures toward her. One police report from the case alleges that Brown gestured “as if he had a pistol by extending his index finger and his thumb and then indicating that he was shooting her.” 

About nine months after his sentencing for the 1992 felony conviction, Brown asked a court for an early release from prison.

“At the time of sentencing, Defendant was not committed to change his mental attitudes,” a December 1992 motion for reconsideration states. “Because of his initial therapy in the Department of Corrections, he has gained insight into the source of his problems in interpersonal relationships. He is now committed to change and continue mental health treatment. The mental health treatment can best be pursued in a community setting”

The court denied Brown’s request on Jan. 19, 1993. Colorado Department of Corrections records indicate that Brown was released on April 23, 1995.