Thanks to a statewide Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) plan, a network of bike paths across Sanpete County is one step closer to becoming a reality. The UDOT 2023-2050 Unified Transportation Plan focuses most of its entries for Sanpete County on improving the conditions for cyclists. One of the main […]
One of the largest drug busts in Sanpete County in recent history has taken drugs with a street value of $280K off the street. Eight agencies, including local law enforcement, joined together to carry out the sting operation in Mt. Pleasant on Wednesday, January 24. Three individuals were arrested and […]
A man who has consistently engaged in altercations with others while in prison was sentenced on three 2nd degree felony charges of aggravated assault on Wednesday. Mark Anthony Ott was housed in both the prison in Draper and the Central Utah Correctional Facility when the assaults took place. All of […]
A Utah State inmate pleaded guilty in Sixth District Court in Manti on Wednesday to manslaughter in the death of a fellow inmate at the Central Utah Correctional Facility. Cleo Cheney, 43, was incarcerated at the Gunnison prison with 62-year old Ted Davey. Cheney had been in prison since 2018 […]
A man who is facing a sexual abuse of a child charge had his jury trial canceled on Wednesday. Robert Roe of Castro, California is facing the 1st degree felony in 6th District Court due to an incident in 2017 related to his association with the Knights of the Crystal […]
–UPDATE– Both US Highway 6 and 191 have reopened as of Monday afternoon. Two Utah highways were closed on Sunday due to mudslides. Both lanes of US Highway 6 are closed from Soldier Summit to Helper due to the washout of a culvert. UDOT said there is no estimate of […]
Lori Vallow-Daybell was sentenced Monday to three life without parole sentences for the deaths of her two children, Tylee and JJ, as well as her husband Chad Daybell’s first wife, Tammy. Judge Steven Boyce stated at the sentencing that while some will question why life sentences should run consecutively, he […]
A Moroni woman pleaded guilty on Wednesday to two felony charges related to the death of her 2-year old daughter. Anyi Nicol Canales Cruz was arrested on December 30, a day after law enforcement received a call of an unresponsive child. An autopsy showed multiple bruises, lacerations and broken ribs […]
The man accused of kidnapping and raping a Snow College student in December 2021 appeared before Judge Marvin Bagley on Wednesday, June 7 as his attorney asked to vacate his trial date in August. Brent Brown has been in jail since he was arrested on the charges, and according to […]
A North Sanpete County man was sentenced to prison on Wednesday for two counts of first-degree aggravated sex abuse of a child. Daniel John Stutz appeared before Judge Marvin Bagley, who handed down the sentence after hearing impassioned statements from Stutz’s ex-wife, as well as several of his children who […]
