A long-haul trucker suspected of breaking into homes and sexually assaulting women has been arrested in connection to several decades-old cases in Utah and Wyoming. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Clearfield Police Chief Kelly Bennett said Thursday that 69-year-old Mark Douglas Burns has been charged in two rape cases in […]
WEST JORDAN, Utah (AP) — A filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival and produced a movie whose lead actress won an Oscar in the mid-1980s has been sentenced on a sexual abuse charge for the second time in as many weeks. Under the terms of a plea agreement, the […]
A Richfield man is facing child sexual abuse charges and is now in jail. According to Richfield City Police Chief Trent Lloyd, 29-year-old Timothy Snow is charged with rape of a child, unlawful sexual activity with a minor, forcible sodomy and sexual exploitation of a minor. Lloyd says the victim […]
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — Police say a Utah man has died after a 17-year-old boy attacked him when his younger sister claimed the man sexually assaulted her on a bus last month. Logan police announced Tuesday that detectives reviewed video footage from the Cache Valley Transit District bus, finding that […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal judge will allow a former Disney Channel actor to order groceries online while he’s awaiting trial on charges alleging he tried to have sex with a 13-year-old boy, but she rebuffed requests to further ease restrictions on his home detention. A lawyer for […]
DRAPER, Utah (AP) — A former high school English teacher incarcerated in Utah for sexually abusing three students is seeking parole. The Deseret News reports 39-year-old Brianne Altice on Tuesday went before the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole, saying she believes she now has the confidence needed to never make the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A University of Utah student leader wants the school to improve its communication with its student body, particularly regarding investigations into two recent sexual assaults. KUTV reports Student Senate Chair Kaitlin McLean says she doesn’t think every student feels safe right now following a sexual assault on […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival has been charged with sexual abuse of a young girl. Online court records show 71-year-old Sterling Van Wagenen was charged on April 4 on accusation that he inappropriately touched a girl on two occasions between 2013-2015. […]
BRIGHAM CITY, Utah (AP) — A former Utah State University football player convicted of sexually assaulting six women has been sentenced to 26 years to life in prison. Most of the sentences imposed Wednesday by District Judge Brian Cannell for Torrey Green will run consecutively, with some to run concurrently. […]
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — Police in a Salt Lake City suburb say a 70-year-old man has been arrested on charges accusing him of sexual abusing at least seven children in the 1980s and 1990s. A West Valley Police Department statement says David Allen Williams was arrested Wednesday on […]
