‘I wasn’t pointing my gun at anyone’

Bunkerville trial defendant says he wasn’t threatening

Scott Drexler tucked the butt of his AR-15 into his shoulder and slipped the barrel through a crack in a wall along a northbound Interstate 15 bridge in Bunkerville.

Under the southbound lanes, less than a couple of hundred yards away, Bureau of Land Management agents stood behind white trucks on the other side of a cattle fence. Dozens of people moved toward the agents in the midst of the 2014 standoff.

And on Monday, the day before attorneys were scheduled to give closing arguments in the retrial of four men facing federal charges for their roles in the encounter with the agents, Drexler told jurors that he saw others pointing weapons. He initially said he kept his gun hidden behind the barrier and denied that he could even see the BLM authorities.

“I had no intent to assault, to intimidate,” he testified, responding to questions from his attorney, Todd

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District reorganization, planning on how to spend the money will be decidedattheschoollevel.

Garside, which has about 1,200 kids, is getting a boost to the tune of more than $450,000. And while Principal Scarlett Perryman and her school organizational team are still finalizing how to spend the money to best help the students, teacher Kimberly Ivanick already has a few ideas.

“I’m immediately thinking we’re going to be able to expand our after-school tutoring” by hiring more tutors, she said.

She also wants to get technology into the students’ hands, since that’s one way to quicken the process of learning English. Ivanick teaches nine classes for English learners, whose abilities to speak the language vary considerably. They work individually on computers set up in the classroom and in small group settings with Ivanick.

Garside is one of many schools across the state benefiting from the new $36 million allocations this year. Clark County schools received more than $34 million of the total funding. Although the allocation was solidified at the end of the legislative session in the spring, schools are just now seeing how much they will receive and figuring out how best to spend it.

The spending will be tracked in a separate part of each school’s budget, and an analysis will be performed to test whether the money made a difference in student achievement.

Contact Meghin Delaney at 702-383-0281 or mdelaney@ reviewjournal.com. Follow @ Meghindelaney on Twitter.