OGDEN — An Ogden man pleaded guilty on Thursday to reduced charges arising from an assault spree that included the shooting of a Plain City man. The Weber County Sheriff’s Office arrested Colton Shepard on Feb. 10, 2021. Probable cause statements said Shepard allegedly strangled a woman, ...
SOUTH OGDEN — A South Ogden police officer said he shot a driver at the end of a low-speed chase because he thought the man was “trying to kill” a fellow officer who was throwing down tire-popping strips to stop the car. Officer Christopher Freestone’s account of his actions when ...
OGDEN — A former Weber County Jail medical director has successfully defended himself against a civil suit that accuses various personnel of fault in the death of an inmate who was on suicide watch. Matthew Hall died in a local hospital after jumping head first to the floor in his jail cell ...
SALT LAKE CITY — A federal judge on Thursday ordered the release pending trial of a Woods Cross man undergoing mental health treatment after being charged with torturing and killing guinea pigs and posting videos of the acts online. U.S. Magistrate Daphne Oberg granted a defense attorney’s ...
FARMINGTON — A Woods Cross man charged with torturing and killing guinea pigs and posting videos of the acts online is undergoing a court-ordered mental competency exam. Judge Rita Cornish has scheduled a June 23 hearing to review mental health experts’ evaluations of Samuel J. Webster’s ...
SALT LAKE CITY — A former Ogden dentist has been sentenced to five years in federal prison stemming from an investigation into extensive tax evasion. Derald Wilford Geddes appeared Friday before U.S. District Judge Tena Campbell, who also ordered him to pay more than $1.8 million in ...
OGDEN — A judge on Tuesday sentenced a 26-year-old man to 15 years to life in prison for the fatal shooting of a man he ambushed outside of a convenience store. Everardo Guadarrama-Garcia shot Mauricio Alejandro Hernandez in the head, neck, chest and lower abdomen with a .45-caliber handgun ...
CLEARFIELD — Two men have been charged in the investigation stemming from the hit-and-run death of a pedestrian in Clearfield last year. Robert Gormley, 67, of Ogden, died at a Layton hospital shortly after the June 9 crash, and the Clearfield Police Department appealed for the public’s ...
OGDEN — Attorneys for an Ogden man facing a death penalty trial are having him evaluated for intellectual disability, raising the possibility that the capital punishment option could be eliminated. Miller Costello, 30, and his wife, Brenda Emile, are charged with first-degree felony ...
FARMINGTON — The mother of a 13-year-old girl told a judge on Tuesday that she and her daughter both face ongoing anguish resulting from a Layton man having enticed the girl on social media and sexually abused her at his apartment. “We have to deal with the PTSD, the anxiety, not being ...
