(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah Governor Spencer Cox delivered his 2026 State of the State address at the Capitol last night, outlining key priorities for the coming year. Cox highlighted efforts to implement the 582 bills passed during the 2025 legislative session and set goals including improving early childhood […]
(Undated) — The Drug Enforcement Agency reports that more than 378-thousand fentanyl pills were seized in Utah during October’s Operation Fentanyl Free America. The month-long operation targeted the Rocky Mountain region, which also includes Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming, and resulted in over one million pills seized across the region. In […]
(Washington, DC) — The largest fentanyl seizure in US history involves Utah. The Department of Justice announced yesterday officers seized over eleven kilos of fentanyl, including three-million pills labeled as oxycodone that were laced with fentanyl. Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed that Sinaloa cartel members, operating illegally in the U.S., […]
(Cedar City, UT) — Two Cedar City residents have been sentenced to federal prison for distributing fentanyl that led to a woman’s overdose death last April. John Parry was sentenced to 15 years, and Kimberly Hare was sentenced to 12 years. Both have been ordered to pay restitution for funeral […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A report from the Utah Department of Health and Human Services reveals a staggering one-thousand-160-percent increase in fentanyl-related deaths in the state between 2014 and 2023. The Salt Lake City Police Department highlighted the growing prevalence of fentanyl in the community, noting its increasing presence […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — As America’s opioid crisis spiraled into a fentanyl epidemic, prosecutors say one young Utah man made himself a drug kingpin by creating counterfeit prescription painkillers laced with the deadly drug and mailing them to homes across the United States. Former Eagle Scout Aaron Shamo, 29, […]
