FBI

BRIGHAM CITY — The FBI has taken an interest in former Box Elder County Sheriff’s Deputy Scott Womack’s illicit contact alleged with motorists and how the sheriff’s office reacted to complaints about Womack.

Womack, 36, faces charges against six victims in four courts. The charges include three counts of attempted custodial sexual misconduct and single counts of lewdness and unlawful detention. He was fired a year ago during investigation of the incidents, which are alleged to have occurred in 2010.

Details have emerged chiefly through a federal lawsuit filed against Womack by two women accusing him of coercing them into disrobing to allow him to check for tattoos during traffic stops.

OGDEN -- The defendant in the second of two late-1990s Ogden-area rape cases solved with DNA matches is up for sentencing as the State Crime Lab continues to churn through DNA databases.

Sergio Hernandez, 43, is to be sentenced April 19 in 2nd District Court for a Jan. 23, 1997, early morning rape that occurred behind Mount Ogden Middle School.

He was charged in September after DNA recovered from the crime scene and preserved was matched by the state crime lab with DNA recorded in a national database. Hernandez, formerly of Ogden, was held at the time in the Arkansas State Prison for a similar attack on a woman in that state in 2009.

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OGDEN — Investigators found anti-government information and child pornography when they searched a computer belonging to the man accused of killing an Ogden police officer and wounding five others, according to a search warrant affidavit filed in 2nd District Court.

Detective Brian Eynon said in the seven-page affidavit that during a Feb. 22 search of Matthew David Stewart’s home at 3268 Jackson Ave., he found a computer and observed “multiple images consistent with child pornography.”

It appears the information may be relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation being conducted by Ogden police into child pornography, Eynon wrote.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Almost five years ago, Bob Levinson, a retired FBI agent from Coral Springs, Fla., vanished on a resort island near the southern coast of Iran.

OGDEN — The 16-year-old boy accused in a plot to blow up Roy High School has been released to his parents.

Police arrested Roy High students Joshua Kyler Hoggan and Dallin Morgan, 18, on Jan. 25 after two students went to authorities with concerns about text messages from Hoggan detailing plans to set off a bomb at a school assembly.

“After a hearing on Mr. Hoggan’s detention status, the court finds that it is appropriate to release him to the custody of his parents,” Utah courts spokeswoman Nancy Volmer said after a Friday hearing before 2nd District Juvenile Judge Janice Frost that was closed to the press and public.

ROY -- The Weber County Sheriff's Office has issued an arrest warrant for a Roy man suspected of possessing several thousand images and at least 100 videos of child pornography.

Adrian Mathias Perea, 40, is wanted on 25 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, said Weber County Sheriff's Detective Trevor Petersen.

Perea remained at large early Tuesday night.

Criminal background checks, required before guns can be purchased, rose to a record 16.4 million last year -- up by more than 2 million over 2010.