Weber County Jail

OGDEN — The Weber County Sheriff’s Office has proposed raising the amount jail inmates pay for medical treatment and prescriptions while incarcerated.

OGDEN — Deputies say a 22-year-old Weber County inmate was found dead over the weekend in what appears to be the second suicide at the jail in a month.

OGDEN — Second District Judge Noel S. Hyde on Tuesday ordered a May 31 hearing to consider a request from Matthew David Stewart to fire his public defenders.

Stewart has told the court he wants to use attorneys he selects to defend him against aggravated murder charges in the Jan. 4 shootout with police that resulted in the death of one officer.

The May 31 hearing will be to question Stewart in more detail about his decision to hire private attorneys and to explore whether Stewart is indigent and qualifies for public defenders.

OGDEN -- The Ogden Police Department released a new dash-cam video Monday of a deadly Jan. 4 shootout that provides a closer look at patrol officers scrambling to retrieve bulletproof vests from their vehicles while gunfire rings out around them.

The Standard-Examiner obtained the latest two hour and 20 minute video through a state public records request.

Last week the newspaper received seven dash-cam videos that show the tense and chaotic scene after a raid by the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force at the home of Matthew David Stewart at 3268 Jackson Ave.

ROY -- An altercation at a party Friday night became a fight between two people versus 20.

OGDEN — Charged with obstruction of justice after a body was found buried in her yard, Sarah Munn is considering hiring one of the state’s best-known defense attorneys.

A status conference Tuesday in Ogden’s 2nd District Court for Munn, 31, was continued to Feb. 28. Her public defender, Martin Gravis, said Tuesday she is considering hiring prominent Salt Lake City lawyer Ron Yengich.

Yengich is already representing Munn on a Davis County charge of harboring an escapee. She was charged last September after telling police she had not seen Daniel Rivera, the father of her three children, since he walked away from a work crew while in the Weber County Jail in August. Police later learned Munn had been with Rivera on Aug. 23, 2011.

ROY — A man found buried Thursday in the backyard of a Roy home was stabbed to death, police say.

Roy Police Chief Greg Whinham on Tuesday identified the man as Victor Flores, a 25-year-old California resident who had moved to Utah and was reported missing by his family last May.

A homicide investigation has been launched as a result of the discovery of Flores’ body, Whinham said.