Gangs

SALT LAKE CITY — The Ogden Trece injunction has brought a decrease in gang-related crime activity, Ogden police detectives said.

But they are also seeing another Ogden gang spread its recruitment tactics to elementary and junior high school students in the Syracuse and Layton areas, the officers from the Ogden Metro Gang Unit said.

OGDEN — For the fourth time, a judge has declined to suspend the Ogden Trece injunction.

A first for Utah, the two-year-old injunction bans members of Ogden Trece, the city’s oldest street gang, from associating with one another in public or even being in the vicinity of guns, drugs or alcohol in public. It also sets an 11 p.m. curfew for Trece’s estimated 300-plus members.

In motions filed last month, David Reymann, cooperating attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah, asked 2nd District Judge Ernie Jones to suspend the injunction while the Utah Supreme Court reviews it.

FARMINGTON — A 19-year-old Clearfield man will spend almost a year in Davis County Jail for the role he played in two shootings this year.

Roberto Gonzalez pleaded guilty to two counts of riot, third-degree felonies, in June. The charges stem from two shootings in Clearfield — one on Jan. 6, and the other on March 17.

Gonzalez was arrested Aug. 27 in 2nd District Court and booked in Davis County Jail after he failed to keep his appointment with Adult Probation and Parole to complete a presentence report.

OGDEN — Another suspected gang member is formally requesting the chance to prove he’s not and get out from under the Ogden Trece injunction.

OGDEN — The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah is appealing an order banning members of the Ogden Trece gang from associating with one another in public.

OGDEN — The Ogden Trece injunction either preserves the American way of life or eats away at its foundations, lawyers said as the trial of the experimental crime-fighting tool closed Thursday.

“There is no First Amendment protection provided for groups whose sole purpose is criminal activity,” Weber County Attorney Dee Smith said in closing arguments.

An approach in common use in California but not in other states, the injunction is the first attempted in Utah. It bans Ogden Trece gang members from associating with each other in public, being in the vicinity of guns, drugs and alcohol, and from being out past 11 p.m.

FARMINGTON — A plea bargain may be forthcoming for an 18-year-old who police say shot another man in January.