Jenson gets 7-year drug dealing sentence while waiting for murder trial
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Brian Christopher JensonBrian Christopher Jenson, awaiting trial in a North Ogden murder, has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for dealing methamphetamine.
Jenson, 30, of Brigham City, was one of nearly two dozen white supremacist gang members indicted last year by federal prosecutors in Salt Lake City for alleged drug and gun dealing.
Jenson and Ryan Joseph Dash, also a white supremacist, are charged with murder in the Feb. 8, 2020, shooting death of Dalton Wood, 29. Charging documents alleged Wood had a prior conflict with Dash. Wood’s body was found with shotgun and handgun wounds.
The federal charge against Jenson said he distributed 109 grams of methamphetamine on Jan. 1, 2020. He pleaded guilty in March this year, and on Oct. 12, Judge Jill Parrish ordered that he spend 84 months in prison. The judge also recommended the Bureau of Prisons not house Jenson where other white supremacist gang members are held.
Parrish further ruled that Jenson must undergo intensive drug addiction therapy and receive mental health counseling.
Meanwhile, he is held without bail at the Weber County Jail, pending trial on charges of first-degree felony murder, second-degree felony obstruction of justice and a third-degree felony count of use of a firearm by a restricted person.
Two other local cases remain pending against Jenson. In a case related to the Wood murder, Jenson is charged with theft for allegedly stealing a safe from an elderly care center four days before the slaying.
Police said the safe contained three firearms, two of which allegedly were used in Wood’s killing. Investigators said Jenson and co-conspirators allegedly threw the safe off a bridge in Brigham City after retrieving the guns.
Jenson also is charged with third-degree felony damaging jails. Charging documents allege that on June 3 this year he damaged two phones, a visitation monitor, a dustpan and broom, a shower curtain and parts of the ceiling while inciting a riot in the Weber County Jail. Jenson allegedly encouraged two other inmates to break the fire sprinklers in their cells to flood the dayroom. It took jail deputies eight hours to quell the riot.


