SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah man once at the center of a multimillion-dollar opioid ring is set to be sentenced on Thursday. Aaron Shamo was convicted of shipping fake prescription drugs all over the country from his home in suburban Salt Lake City during the nation’s opioid epidemic. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities in Utah have seized 20 Burmese pythons from a home in Salt Lake County that police say were being kept without a exotic or dangerous animal permit. KUTV-TV reported that a probable cause affidavit said a 64-year-old man sold a baby Burmese python to […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man is facing an assault charge after police said he punched a restaurant customer who asked him to wait outside because he was not wearing a mask. Jonathan Crocker was charged with the misdemeanor after police responded to a report last month of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A tech worker pleaded guilty to strangling a Utah college student whose disappearance over a year ago sparked a search that ended with the discovery of her charred remains in his backyard. The pleas entered Wednesday by Ayoola Ajayi came more than a year after […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man with a lengthy criminal history has pleaded guilty to pointing a bow and arrow at a group protesting against racial injustice in Salt Lake City in May. Brandon McCormick made the pleas Monday to charges of possession of a dangerous weapon by […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The police chief says Salt Lake City’s K9 apprehension program will remain suspended indefinitely after an internal audit done after a Black man was bitten found 27 dog bite incidents since 2018. The audit results were announced Friday, weeks after body camera footage was released […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Body camera footage released Monday from a police shooting that seriously injured a 13-year-old autistic boy in Utah shows that officers shot the boy after his mother asked for help getting him to a hospital and officers agreed to talk to him. The footage shows […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Salt Lake City Council says it’s considering an ordinance that would limit its police department’s access to decommissioned military equipment. A provision in the 1997 National Defense Authorization Act makes it easy for police departments nationwide to ask for surplus military equipment from the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities said a Utah man armed with a bow and arrow, rifle and knife was killed during a shootout with police officers near a suburban high school. Lt. Dave Edwards of the Bountiful Police Department says a 27-year-old man asked police to shoot him near […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah teenager who was the only girl on her school’s football team says she often faced discriminatory treatment by her coach and teammates. Sixteen-year-old Laura Goetz says she felt excluded and degraded during the two years she played football at West Jordan High School. […]
