SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An FBI report about a shooting inside a Utah federal courthouse found a lack of communication and a procedural change contributed to the death of a prisoner, a news report said. Siale Angilau, 25, was killed by a U.S. marshal when he lunged toward a […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man who prosecutors call the second-in-command of a multimillion-dollar online opioid drug ring says it started with selling Adderall to pay for student loans. Drew Crandall testified Thursday that he packaged and mailed drugs as he and his roommate, alleged ringleader Aaron Shamo, […]
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — A Utah man has pleaded guilty to killing and sexually assaulting his 5-year-old niece. Alex Whipple entered his guilty pleas to murder, kidnapping and rape Tuesday during a hearing in Logan, Utah. As part of the agreement, charges of obstruction of justice and desecration of a […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A tech worker accused of killing a Utah college student was charged Tuesday with 19 unrelated counts of sexual exploitation of a minor after investigators said they discovered child pornography on his computer. Ayoola Ajayi had images of children as young as 4, prosecutors said […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A former attorney for a Utah death-row inmate has testified that lawyers for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had asked him to call fewer church members to testify in his client’s 2015 trial. The Standard-Examiner reports attorney Michael Bouwhuis told an Ogden court Tuesday that […]
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — A Logan teenager who fatally shoved a homeless man who he wrongly suspected of groping his sister will serve 30 days in juvenile detention. The Herald Journal reports authorities have said the 17-year-old pushed Fife on April 23, after his sister said the man had touched her inappropriately […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — A Utah man who pleaded guilty to the strangulation death of his wife has been sentenced to serve up to 45 years in prison. KUTV reported Monday that 37-year-old Curtis Nichols was sentenced Monday for killing Robin Nichols in the couple’s home in August 2017. Nichols […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A Utah death-row inmate is heading back to court to determine if he had ineffective legal counsel and if The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meddled in his 2015 trial. The Standard-Examiner reports 61-year-old Douglas Lovell will be back in an Ogden courtroom starting Monday over […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Supreme Court has rejected arguments that defense attorneys were ineffectual for a man convicted of sexually abusing two women. The Salt Lake Tribune reported Wednesday that the court has upheld the convictions of Keith Robert Vallejo, a former bishop for the Church of Jesus Christ […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors have filed criminal charges against a former small-town fire chief accused of failing to act on a sexual assault complaint against his son. The Desert News reports that 62-year-old Scott Corry was charged Wednesday with obstructing justice and official misconduct. Corry was fire chief […]
