Starvin Larry

“Dan Love, BLM’s special agent in charge for Utah and Nevada, is the target of numerous complaints by rural Utah sheriffs who blame his unwillingness to respect local authorities for a rupture in their relations with BLM law enforcement. State officials have asked BLM to replace Love, pictured here in 2009 while leading a federal raid on the Blanding home of James and Jeanne Redd. Love supervised the undercover operation into illegal artifact trafficking which the Redd family alleges led to James Redd’s suicide. BLM special agent Dan Love was among the federal agents and archaelogists to search and remove artifacts from the Redd house in Blanding on Tuesday. He is at the front gate that leads to the Redd house.”

“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