Crime

OGDEN — An arrest warrant for Stephen Phillip Ellenwood, accused of the 1993 homicide of a 92-year-old Ogden woman, had been sealed to protect another victim and witnesses, according to court documents

Weber County Attorney Dee Smith explained why the warrant was kept under wraps in an affidavit unsealed Friday.

“Stephen Ellenwood is currently not in custody and does not know that his DNA profile matched the DNA taken from the deceased’s home and another victim,” Smith wrote in the affidavit that was sealed along with the arrest warrant on April 26.

“He also does not know that his fingerprints match those taken from the deceased home. Releasing this information prior to service of the arrest warrant would provide an advantage ... to learn what the police now know and to abscond or evade apprehension. It may also endanger the other victim and other witness.”

Also, if the arrest warrant hadn’t been sealed, the case likely would have been reported by the media, which may have alerted Ellenwood, Smith said.

HARRISVILLE — A Harrisville business owner has been arrested by police for allegedly selling spice— an illegal form of synthetic marijuana.

PARIS  -- Thieves ripped a safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with around $1 million worth of jewelry, in a brazen late-night burglary just hours after the screening of a film about break-ins at the homes of Hollywood celebrities, French officials said Friday.

BOISE, Idaho — An Uzbekistan national living in Boise has been arrested on federal charges from Idaho and Utah that he gave support, cash and other resources to help a recognized terrorist group in his home country plan a terrorist attack there.

Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, is expected to make his first appearance in U.S. District Court Friday morning, one day after federal agents arrested him during a raid of his small apartment.

Kurbanov was charged after an extensive investigation into his activities late last year and this year.

FARMINGTON — Farmington police officers attended the sentencing hearing of the man who was involved in a shootout with them in January.

FARMINGTON — Prosecutors called Michael Selleneit “a dangerous man” who would probably shoot another person if he does not get treatment for his mental illness.