Federal Court

SALT LAKE CITY — The courtroom intrigue continues as Weber County’s Wayne Ogden claims he was working undercover when he concocted the fraud case he is now charged with in federal court.

He was running his own private sting on behalf of the Drug Enforcement Administration, according to Ogden’s defense team, a claim it presented during opening arguments of Ogden’s three-week fraud trial.

And he not only worked with the DEA, but the FBI, federal housing regulators and state securities investigators as well, the team says.

SALT LAKE CITY — Ogden constitutionalist Harvey Goff has pleaded guilty in a plea bargain to federal charges stemming from traffic stops in Ogden almost two years ago.

Goff, 55, was indicted in May 2011 for a scheme that amounted to fraud after he filed more than $53 trillion worth of liens against public officials, including two Ogden judges, involved in prosecuting the 2010 speeding citations.

One of the minor traffic cases turned into a felony charge of impersonating a public official when Goff claimed to have immunity as some kind of diplomatic agent of the U.S.

That case is still pending in Ogden before 2nd District Judge Michael Lyon, delayed by Goff’s multiple pro se filings in the case.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Former Layton city director of economics Seth J. Butterfield, 78, was sentenced Wednesday in federal court to three years of probation for embezzling public funds.

SALT LAKE CITY — Raymond Wilson Jr. and his father, the owner and president of Bugman Pest and Lawn Inc., have entered pleas concerning the unlawful use of Fumitoxin, a registered pesticide.

SALT LAKE CITY — Former Box Elder County Sheriff’s Deputy Scott R. Womack pleaded not guilty Wednesday to eight misdemeanor federal counts of depriving women of their rights.

The charges, announced earlier in the day by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, stem from incidents in which Womack is alleged to have had illicit contact with female motorists he stopped.

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SALT LAKE CITY — Former Box Elder County Sheriff’s Deputy Scott R. Womack was charged by federal prosecutors Wednesday with eight misdemeanor counts of deprivation of rights for alleged actions that occurred while he was on duty in 2010.

 SALT LAKE CITY — Thomas Andrew Carr, 50, of Ogden, was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison this morning after pleading guilty to production of child pornography.