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Dea Millerberg

Millerberg files for divorce, faces new charge

OGDEN -- Dea Millerberg has filed for divorce from Eric Millerberg, charged with homicide in the death of the couple's baby sitter.

Stewart

Gag order sought in Stewart case

OGDEN -- Prosecutors have requested a gag order be issued in the case of Matthew David Stewart, who faces the death penalty over a Jan. 4 shootout with police.

Prosecutors protest MacKay's freedom

SALT LAKE CITY -- Federal prosecutors have filed their objections to Dewey MacKay's bid before the 10th Circuit of Appeals in Denver to stay out of prison while he appeals his drug-dealing conviction.

Prison terms beckon for man convicted of raping girl

OGDEN -- A former Ogden man has been sentenced to consecutive 15 years-to-life terms in Utah State Prison for extended sexual abuse of a young girl.

16-year-old Joshua Kyler Hoggan

Judge closes Hoggan hearing

OGDEN — A preliminary hearing was set Wednesday in 2nd District Juvenile Court for May 10-11 in the case of 16-year-old Joshua Kyler Hoggan, charged in what authorities say was a plot to detonate a bomb at Roy High School.

 

Trece lawyer seeking Supreme hearing

OGDEN -- A Trece gang member is taking Ogden's gang injunction to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Isaac Rader is challenging his prosecution under, and the constitutionality of, the injunction against members of the Trece gang.

Enacted in September 2010, the injunction bans Trece members from associating together in public, being in the vicinity of drugs, alcohol or firearms and sets an 11 p.m.

U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.

U.S. Supreme Court asked to hear Trece injunction

 

 

 

 

OGDEN — A convicted Trece gang member has filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court, challenging his prosecution and the constitutionality of Ogden’s Trece gang injunction.

16-year-old Joshua Hoggan

Preliminary hearing set in Roy bomb plot case

OGDEN -- A preliminary hearing is set for May 10-11 in juvenile court in the case of 16-year-old Joshua Hoggan, charged in what authorities say was a plot to detonate a bomb at Roy High School.

Leah Hogsten/Pool photo 
Matthew David Stewart, 37, appears Tuesday before Judge Noel Hyde in 2nd District Court in Ogden. Prosecutors have charged Stewart with one count of capital murder, seven counts of attempted aggravated murder, and marijuana cultivation after a deadly Jan. 4 shootout at his Ogden home.

Stewart's lawyer fights to stay on case as judge appoints two replacement defenders

OGDEN -- A judge appointed two public defenders for accused police-shooter Matthew David Stewart on Tuesday while prosecutors asked his paid attorney to withdraw from the case.

Flores

Suspect charged with child abuse

OGDEN -- A 37-year-old Ogden man has been charged with attempted aggravated murder and child abuse after doctors said a 9-month-old boy suffered multiple skull fractures, both new and healing.

Matthew David Stewart, 37, appeared in Utah's 2nd District Court in Ogden before Judge Noel Hyde Tuesday, February 7, 2012. Stewart has been charged with aggravated murder for the death of Ogden police Officer Jared Francom, who was a member of the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force. He also has been charged with eight other felony counts. Weber County Attorney Dee Smith has filed notice that he intends to seek the death penalty. (Leah Hogsten/Pool Photo)

Dispute erupts over who will represent Stewart

 

OGDEN — A judge appointed two public defenders to represent accused police-shooter Matthew David Stewart Tuesday as prosecutors asked his paid attorney to withdraw from the case.

But Randy Richards declined to step down as the contention between him and prosecutors became clear in the hearing before 2nd District Judge Noel Hyde.

Matthew David Stewart

Defense attorney seeks funds for Stewart investigator

OGDEN -- The defense is asking Weber County to pay $10,000 for an investigator for Matthew David Stewart.

FILE PHOTO-- Officers with the Ogden Police Department tape off the parking lot of the  Western Colony Inn following a 16 hour standoff with Jason Valdez who had taken Veronica Jensen hostage and the two had to be forcefully removed  Saturday, June 18, 2011 on 24th Street in Ogden, Utah.
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Solving crimes isn't as easy as it is on TV

OGDEN -- Believe it or not, some of that stuff on TV is made up. Law enforcement types wish reality would intrude on TV as much as TV intrudes on reality.

The raised expectations from the forensic miracles on such shows as "CSI" and "NCIS," even "Law & Order," just add an extra headache to the real-life job.

Jay Henry, director of the Utah State Crime Lab, aka Utah Bureau of Forensic Services, said he can't even watch.

"I don't watch the shows. They only have two cases an episode, and the whole staff is working on just those two. So what's that? Fifty cases a year? We do 4,000 cases a year."

Millerberg

Millerberg hears charges in court in baby sitter's death

OGDEN -- Eric Millerberg appeared in court Friday for the first time on charges against him in the drug overdose death of his baby sitter, Alexis Rasmussen.

Joshua Kyler Hoggan

Hoggan ordered to remain in juvenile facility

OGDEN — For the second time, a judge has declined a request to release from jail the 16-year-old suspect in a Roy High School bombing plot.

But 2nd District Juvenile Judge Janice Frost on Friday did grant a request for furloughs with Joshua Kyler Hoggan’s parents so the teen can continue mental health counseling.

After Friday’s brief hearing, officials declined to comment on the exact status of Hoggan’s medications or treatment.

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