OGDEN — While a defense attorney was able to get gang enhancements deleted from charges against three people accused in a Christmas Day 2020 fatal shooting, one of the defendants now faces potential harsher punishment as a habitual violent offender. A deputy Weber County attorney, Branden ...
OGDEN — By pleading guilty to charges stemming from a stabbing murder in a Riverdale homeless camp, David Keith Wade has a chance to avoid a sentence of life in prison without parole. Wade, a 50-year-old homeless man, recently pleaded guilty to aggravated murder and attempted aggravated ...
OGDEN — A Roy man pleaded guilty Wednesday to trying to kidnap and rape a 10-year-old girl whom he followed after seeing her at a convenience store. Richard Rodney Palmer, 44, admitted in 2nd District Court to charges of attempted child kidnapping and attempted rape of a child, both ...
OGDEN — Cedric Broadnax has pleaded guilty but mentally ill to first-degree felony attempted murder for firing several shots into a car full of people in downtown Ogden, critically injuring one man. Broadnax, 38, was arrested Sept. 13, 2020. Police claim he had accosted a woman on 25th ...
OGDEN — Brian Jenson has been sentenced to prison on a reduced charge of manslaughter for his role in the shooting death of a man in North Ogden two years ago. Second District Judge Cristina Ortega on Dec. 29 ordered Jenson, 30, of Brigham City, to serve one to 15 years in the Utah State ...
OGDEN — A four-day jury trial has been scheduled to begin July 22 for a 49-year-old Roy man accused of killing a neighbor and dumping his body in an Ogden parking lot. Judge Jennifer Valencia scheduled the trial in a Jan. 5 hearing for Daniel Lee Johnson, who is charged with first-degree ...
OGDEN — A man originally charged with attempted murder for an Ogden workplace stabbing has been sentenced to suspended prison sentences and probation after pleading guilty to a pair of felonies. Charging documents against Kay Karnes, 23, said the incident involved a domestic dispute that ...
FARR WEST — A Plain City couple has sued state and local officials, alleging their son was twice held in a Wahlquist Junior High School storage closet after showing up to classes while under a COVID-19 quarantine order in 2020. Benjamin and DeAnn Heaton and their attorney, J. Morgan Philpot, ...
OGDEN — A judge has sentenced Keshaun Puente to 16 years to life in prison for fatally shooting a man in an Ogden parking lot and ordered that the term be served consecutively to a previous rape conviction. In the 24-year-old’s sentencing hearing Jan. 4, 2nd District Judge Jennifer ...
FARMINGTON — A man who stabbed a woman and pushed her to her death on Interstate 15 is now suspected of threatening a man with a knife shortly before the murder, according to new charging documents. The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office on Jan. 5 filed a third-degree felony ...
