South Ogden Police Department

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SOUTH OGDEN -- The South Ogden Department of Public Safety has presented its Citizen’s Police and Fire Academy.

The program offers a first-hand look into how police officers and firefighters perform their duties and the various ways they serve the community. The purpose of this academy is to promote citizen awareness and education into the role of the department of public safety and enhance communication between citizens and public safety employees.

Val Shupe

South Ogden’s Val Shupe retires

SOUTH OGDEN — After 39 years in law enforcement, South Ogden Director of Public Safety Val Shupe is retiring.

This is a non-SWAT entry or raid armor vest that is worn over a uniform and used by an Ogden Police Department detective or officer.  (KERA WILLIAMS/Standard-Examiner)

Policies on wearing body armor vary across Top of Utah

OGDEN — Ogden patrol officers were not required to wear protective body armor vests when they responded to a fierce Jan. 4 gun battle that left one lawman dead and five others wounded.

At the time of the shootout, police department policy only required officers to purchase vests through a federal grant reimbursement program but did not state anything about wearing them, said Ogden Police Chief Mike Ashment.

The policy was changed in January after the shooting to require all uniform, crime reduction, community policing and traffic officers to wear body armor, Ashment said.

(Courtesy photo) Police stand around accused police shooter Matthew David Stewart laying on the street after carrying him out of his house in the frame grab from a Riverdale Police car dashboard camera.

Video shows police removing Stewart from crime scene

OGDEN — Policemen dragging wounded shooting suspect Matthew Stewart into the street is among the stark images on dash-cam video released Tuesday of a fatal Jan. 4 drug raid.

The Standard-Examiner obtained videos from the Riverdale and South Ogden police departments through a public records request.

In addition, the newspaper received seven Ogden police dash-cam videos Monday that record the chaotic scene following a raid by the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force at Stewart’s home at 3268 Jackson Ave.

Sex offender awareness class today in South Ogden

SOUTH OGDEN -- The South Ogden Police Department will have an informational session about sex offenders at 7 p.m. today in the community room of its building at 3950 S. Adams Ave.

The department wants to increase public awareness of sex offenders in the community and let the public know what the police are doing to monitor offenders. The class is free and open to the public.

Police offer class about sex offenders

SOUTH OGDEN -- The South Ogden Police Department is holding an informational session about sex offenders on March 1.

South Ogden relishes 'Night Out' with emergency personnel

SOUTH OGDEN -- Children sat along the curb Tuesday in front of a large hook and ladder fire truck and an old car and watched with mouths open as firefighters flattened the car's tires, broke its windows and used all tools necessary to drag a pretend person out of a car to demonstrate how firefighters work to save lives.

The demonstration was a small part of South Ogden's participation in the nation's 28th annual National Night Out. Communities nationwide participated in the event with other local entities across Utah.

Marci Edwards, director of department affairs for the South Ogden Police Department, said it was South Ogden's third year participating. Edwards said the department has always tried to hold safety evenings, but it made sense to participate in the national night and to get as many community partners as possible to participate.

Former police officer pleads guilty to child sex abuse

OGDEN -- A former South Ogden police officer has pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and forcible sodomy.

Andrew Welling, 41, of Farr West, has been held in Weber County Jail in lieu of $200,000 bail since his March 1 arrest on 10 first-degree felony charges.

(NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner) Ray “Rusty” Underwood waits for pedestrians at approximately 650 E. 5300 South in South Ogden on Tuesday. Officials have asked the crossing guard to tone down his behavior so he doesn’t distract and endanger drivers.

Officials: S. Ogden crossing guard needs to reduce distractions

SOUTH OGDEN -- Ray "Rusty" Underwood brightened the school year for thousands of drivers, waving to cars as they whizzed by on U.S. 89 in South Ogden each morning.

But his gestures stopped a couple of weeks ago, leaving his motoring friends wondering why.

Underwood has been keeping his hands in his pockets lately because he said he was told by his supervisor to stop waving.

(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner) Police and crime scene investigators look over the scene of a shooting in South Ogden on Friday. Police say they shot the man, who allegedly robbed a Key Bank in South Ogden, after he led police on a chase through Davis and Weber counties, forced his way into a home in South Ogden and was fought off by the homeowner.

Robbery suspect shot after terrorizing S. Ogden neighborhood

SOUTH OGDEN -- A 45-year-old man who robbed a bank Friday and led police on a chase was finally shot outside a South Ogden home and arrested, police say.

Official: Man killed in shooting acted suspiciously, fired gun stolen day before

SOUTH OGDEN -- A man shot and killed by a South Ogden patrolman Thursday morning had burglarized a home minutes earlier and shot at the officer with a gun stolen in a burglary the day before, Weber County Attorney Dee Smith said Friday.

S. Ogden police renew Angel Tree

SOUTH OGDEN — The South Ogden Department of Public Safety is renewing its Angel Tree program.

Gang member charged with attempted homicide on Highway 89

SOUTH OGDEN -- A 28-year-old Treces gang member is in custody facing charges of trying to kill a woman while she was driving on the highway.

A 60-year-old woman was driving west on U.S. Highway 89 with her 40-year-old daughter-in-law at 7:15 a.m. Saturday. The suspect pulled up alongside them in a dark sports-utility vehicle near 1050 East, shouted something and fired three shots at their car. He then drove off.

One bullet grazed the driver's chin, breaking only the skin, police said. She was treated at the hospital and released.

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