Randall Bailey

Following a three-day trial and three-plus hours of deliberations, a jury concluded that a Cody man stalked his ex-wife and burglarized her vehicle in 2024.

On Thursday, jurors convicted 66-year-old Randall Bailey on felony counts of stalking and burglary plus a misdemeanor count of interference with a peace officer.

At the time of the crimes, a judge had barred Bailey from going near his ex-wife’s home or possessing any firearms. However, in November 2024, court records say he was caught on a surveillance camera pulling up to his ex’s home and rummaging through her vehicle.

When Cody police arrested him the following day, they found a stun gun in his jacket and a loaded revolver in his trunk; he was also reportedly uncooperative, which led to the interference charge.

Police subsequently searched Bailey’s home in rural Cody and found an extensive collection of firearms, a pair of unregistered suppressors and two pipe bombs. That discovery caught the interest of federal prosecutors, and in January, Bailey received a 51-month federal prison sentence for felony counts of possession of a firearm by a person subject to a court order and possession of an unregistered firearm. 

After those proceedings wrapped up in U.S. District Court in Casper, Bailey was shuttled back to Cody to face the still-pending state-level charges, culminating in last week’s trial in Park County District Court.

A jury was selected Monday, March 16, the trial began Tuesday and deliberations began Thursday morning. The 12-member jury came back with guilty verdicts on all counts early Thursday afternoon.

Bailey — who has contended that he is the victim of false and exaggerated information, flawed investigations and bias — did not testify or call any witnesses.

Sentencing will likely be held within the next couple of months.

The maximum possible penalty for the offenses is 21 years in prison, but it’s unclear what sentence the Park County Attorney’s Office will request or what sentence presiding District Judge John Perry might impose.

Under a prior arrangement with prosecutors, any incarceration he receives in the Park County case will overlap with the four-year, three-month sentence he received in federal court in January.

Bailey had agreed to plead guilty to the federal crimes, but is currently appealing his convictions and the sentence he received in the federal case.

His defense attorney, Sam Krone of Cody, wrote in a February filing that Bailey will likely challenge “the validity of the sentence or guilty plea and whether he had effective assistance of counsel.” Bailey had been represented by a different attorney earlier in the federal case.