LEHI, Utah (AP) — Utah authorities say a 21-year-old man is accused of anonymously calling a Lehi business to leave a voicemail with a threat against an event involving children. Police on Wednesday arrested Colton Cox of Draper on suspicion of making a threat of terrorism. Online court records don’t […]
DENVER (AP) — Only hours before women marched through many U.S. cities in January, Christopher Cleary set off a manhunt when he posted a Facebook message threatening to kill “as many girls as I see” in retaliation for years of romantic rejection. Cleary, 27, called himself a virgin who never […]
OREM, Utah (AP) — An Orem man is accused of making online threats to shoot YouTube employees, going so far as to drive to their Northern California headquarters with a gun. David Swanson was released from jail Sunday after posting $100,000 bail. The 35-year-old is facing a felony charge of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A teenager who authorities accused of trying to blow up a homemade backpack bomb at a southern Utah high school after watching Islamic State propaganda been sentenced to four years of probation. The Spectrum newspaper in St. George reports that that the 17-year-old boy was […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty to a felony terroristic threat charge after authorities said he threating to target women in a mass shooting because he couldn’t get a girlfriend. Utah prosecutor Chad Grunander tells the Deseret News that 27-year-old Christopher W. Cleary of Denver was in court […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — FBI Director Christopher Wray says homegrown violent extremists now are the government’s primary concern in combating terrorism. Wray was in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, speaking to hundreds of law enforcement officers at Utah’s National Security and Anti-Terrorism Conference. He says homegrown violent extremists are […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — A 56-year-old Utah man is facing a terrorism-related charge after he allegedly threatened to blow up a county government building in Provo. The Daily Herald reports Miguel Gedo made his initial court appearance in Fourth District Court Wednesday on a charge of second-degree felony threat of terrorism. Deputy […]
