(St. George, UT) — A Brigham Young University football player is facing a first-degree felony rape charge in Washington County. Prosecutors say 21-year-old Parker Kingston was charged Tuesday following an investigation that began last February when a 20-year-old woman reported a sexual assault in St. George. Detectives gathered digital and […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A University of Utah tennis player has been charged with six first-degree felonies, including two counts of rape. Twenty-one-year-old Berk Bugarik faces charges related to a sexual assault reported to have occurred last November. Bugarik joined the team in 2022 and was ranked as high […]
A teacher at Delta Middle School has been charged with allegedly sexually abusing one of her former students. According to KUTV, “Malori Nielson, age 28, was charged Monday with rape, a first-degree felony; and distribution of pornography by an adult, a third-degree felony.” The alleged victim was a student of […]
(Cedar City, UT) — A Cedar City man is facing charges, accused of raping a teenage girl. Luis Lopez was arrested and taken to Iron County Jail last week after allegedly having sexual contact with the 14-year-old inside his motorhome at a retail store parking lot. The girl told investigators […]
A Richfield man, Brent Riddle age 48, was arrested Oct. 23 on a volume of charges. The case was reported originally to Richfield City Police who quickly found many of the offenses occurred outside of city limits. The case then became a joint investigation with the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office. […]
(Cedar City, UT) — A man is awaiting sentencing after being convicted of sexual assault at a southern Utah farm. Miguel Gomez was found guilty by a jury in Cedar City last week on charges that include rape and sexual assault for the incident that happened nearly three years ago. […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — An accused rapist who fled Salt Lake City to Canada is in custody. Former University of Utah diver Benjamyn Smith allegedly raped a woman in her dorm room earlier this year and was suspended from the university. Investigators learned that the 19-year-old fled and returned […]
(Provo, UT) — There’s a connection between dating apps and those who use them for hunting for victims. That’s according to a new study from Brigham Young University. The study looked at sexual assault victims’ medical exam charts between the years 2017 and 2020 and found that 14-percent of rapes […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah Supreme Court is considering the appeal of a former Utah State University football player convicted of rape and sexual assault. Lawyers for Torrey Green claimed yesterday that he did not receive a fair trial in 2019 because six different cases were combined into […]
HOMER, Alaska (AP) — A Utah man has been accused of raping, torturing and murdering a vulnerable adult when he lived in Alaska. The Homer News reports 32-year-old Kirby F. Calderwood was arrested Monday by police in Ogden, Utah. He’s been charged in Alaska with first- and second-degree murder, kidnapping […]
