(Delta, UT) — A man in Delta is behind bars for allegedly stabbing his parents to death. The Millard County Sheriff’s Office calls the crime scene “highly violent and aggressive.” Rett Smith Riding was arrested on Saturday for two counts of murder and two counts of kidnapping. Sixty-nine-year-old Patricia Smith […]
(Sanpete County, UT) — Sanpete County authorities say a man accused of kidnapping a 12-year-old girl is facing new charges. Twenty-year-old Aiden Larsen was allegedly driving a truck with the child inside last week, but sped off when deputies approached him. The vehicle was eventually stopped and Larsen taken into […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah lawmakers will take another run at a proposed law to crack down on ritualistic sexual abuse. The legislature’s Interim Judiciary Committee heard testimony about the plans yesterday. State Rep. Ken Ivory tried to move the proposal earlier this year, but failed to get much […]
(Emery County, UT) – An Emery County man is facing felony charges for trying to kidnap a child from a middle school track meet. Quinton Drollinger was charged with child kidnapping yesterday. The incident happened last Friday when Drollinger allegedly grabbed a girl at a middle school track meet and […]
(Cedar City, UT) — An Ohio woman suspected of kidnapping a child is now in jail. Shari Dolores Gould was arrested by Utah Highway Patrol on Sunday after an alert from Ohio police. Gould was allegedly found with drugs and six children in the car aged 13-years-old or younger. It […]
(Minot, ND) — A Utah man is facing extradition after being arrested in North Dakota on a charge of child kidnapping. The Piute County Sheriff’s Office says Heber Jeffs will appear before a judge in North Dakota today. A warrant for Jeffs’ arrest was issued after he disappeared from Piute […]
A man has been arrested in Sevier County after kidnapping an individual and running from police. On Sept. 30, Sevier County Deputies were dispatched to a family fight in Redmond. Trenton Seely had taken Linda Richens away in his truck after threatening to stab her. Richens was able to contact […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal appeals court has dealt a setback to a Utah death row inmate who saw his conviction overturned in connection with a string of violence at a remote cabin. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that even if Von Lester Taylor did […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — An armed school employee in Utah held off an attempted kidnapping suspect at gunpoint until officers arrived, police said. It started when the man approached an 11-year-old girl at a school playground in Ogden and grabbed her. Police say he tried to pull her away until […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Four more people have been charged with being involved in the kidnapping and death of a Utah woman a week after her body was found. Authorities say 25-year-old Nicole Solorio-Romero was kidnapped outside of a house in Kearns on Feb. 6 and taken to an […]
