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Clinton man pleads guilty in Ogden pedestrian’s shooting death

OGDEN — A 20-year-old Clinton man has pleaded guilty to reduced charges for his role in the robbery and shooting death of a pedestrian in Ogden last summer. Erik Orozco Sanches admitted in a plea bargain that he shot 59-year-old Clinton Burrows, who fought back as he was being robbed. Orozco ...

Woman agrees to plea bargain in Bountiful knife attacks

FARMINGTON — A Bountiful woman has pleaded guilty to felony charges stemming from a confrontation at a Bountiful trailhead that left four people with knife wounds, two of them injured seriously. Police arrested Mia Ruth Hansen, 20, four days after a July 30 confrontation at the parking lot ...

Layton man pleads guilty to trying to kill ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend

FARMINGTON — After agreeing to as plea bargain, a Layton man faces sentencing next month for pistol-whipping, shooting and seriously injuring his ex-girlfriend’s new date. Aaron Gaitan surprised the victims as they were sitting in a pickup truck in front of the woman’s house on Oct. 5, ...

Search for Romani dialect interpreter stalls in Ogden child murder case

OGDEN — Finding an interpreter of the Romani dialect spoken by murder suspect Brenda Emile has hit an apparent dead end, but a judge reminded the Ogden woman Monday that the onus is on her to demonstrate that she was threatened to plead guilty to killing her daughter. Emile, 28, pleaded ...

Titanic Crips Society gang members lose fight against Ogden wiretaps

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Court of Appeals has upheld the convictions of four members of the Titanic Crips Society gang in Weber County who claimed that Ogden police wiretaps used to gather evidence against them were illegal. In three opinions issued Thursday, the court ruled that the Ogden ...

Judge won’t release mentally ill man in Utah ‘replicant’ killing

FARMINGTON — A Davis County judge has decided that it is too risky for the Utah State Hospital to conditionally release a man who in 2006 fatally shot and slashed his mother after an “alien intelligence” told him she was a “replicant” who had to die. During a September hearing for ...