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OK, here are the first five paragraphs from the first link...

Guess what? The District Court ruled in favor of the sheriffs. In fact, they stated, Wyoming is a sovereign state and the duly elected sheriff of a county is the highest law enforcement official within a county and has law enforcement powers exceeding that of any other state or federal official.” Go back and re-read this quote.
The court confirms and asserts that “the duly elected sheriff of a county is the highest law enforcement official within a county and has law enforcement powers EXCEEDING that of any other state OR federal official.” And you thought the 10th Amendment was dead and buried — not in Wyoming, not yet.
Bighorn County Sheriff Dave Mattis spoke at a press conference following a recent U.S. District Court decision
(Case No. 2:96-cv-099-J (2006)) and announced that all federal officials are forbidden to enter his county without his prior approval ……
“If a sheriff doesn’t want the Feds in his county he has the constitutional right and power to keep them out, or ask them to leave, or retain them in custody.”

What those rulings arose from was attempts by the feds to get the state officials to enforce federal laws and that is what makes it pertinent to states legalizing marijuana while federal law still makes it illegal. Nothing prevents the DEA, the FBI, etc. from enforcing federal law in all states.

Sheriff Mattis can make any statement and interpretation he wants to but no federal leo needs his permission to operate within any county. And NO court has said they do.

These garbage blogs keep repeating Sheriff Mattis’ words as though it was law or the opinion of some federal court and another blog repeats what the first said as a source.

Sheriff Mattis sounds like he doing a little chest beating with his interpretations.