SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a Salt Lake City man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for a telemarketing scam. The Deseret News reported Tuesday that a federal judge also ordered 43-year-old Chad Gettel to pay more than $558,000 restitution. Gettel’s sentence will run concurrent with […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man accused of helping run a multimillion-dollar opioid drug ring based out of a suburban Salt Lake City basement is talking with prosecutors about a possible plea deal. Lawyers for Drew Wilson Crandall said in court documents Monday they’re working with prosecutors to “resolve […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A Utah teenager accused of trying to blow up a homemade backpack bomb at school after looking at Islamic State propaganda online will stand trial as an adult on two felony counts, a judge decided Thursday. Authorities have said 16-year-old Martin R. Farnsworth wanted to […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An Arizona man has pleaded guilty to killing a staffer at a southern Utah youth-rehabilitation facility. The Salt Lake Tribune reports 18-year-old Clay Brewer of Snowflake, Arizona admitted Thursday that he beat 61-year-old Jimmy Woolsey to death with a piece of metal in 2016. Brewer was 17 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man charged with accidentally starting a wildfire near Brian Head has asked a judge to move his case outside Iron County. The Deseret News reports Robert Ray Lyman’s attorney, Andrew Deiss, wrote in a motion filed last week that the blaze affected so many people […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former U.S. intelligence officer has pleaded not guilty to charges he tried to sell secrets to China. Ron Rockwell Hansen entered his plea in a federal court in his home state of Utah on Friday. Judge Paul Warner has ordered him held without bail […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A Utah judge is considering whether a teenager accused of trying to blow up a homemade backpack bomb at a high school after looking at Islamic State propaganda should stand trial as an adult. Defense attorneys argued Monday the 16-year-old has been bullied and suffers […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah data indicates that more than half of all search warrants approved by state judges in the last year received less than three minutes of their consideration. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that amount of time concerns civil liberties advocates and defense attorneys, who say judges may […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — A Utah man received two concurrent sentences in prison — 25 years to life and 15 years to life — for sexually abusing a 4-year-old girl. The Daily Herald reports Royce Schaefer, of American Fork, was sentenced Wednesday for sodomy on a child and aggravated sexual abuse of […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a Utah couple accused of taunting their malnourished 3-year-old daughter with food before she died. The state filed the notice Tuesday in the case of 25-year-old Miller Costello and 23-year-old Brenda Emile. The Ogden couple is accused of recording […]
