OGDEN — A fingerprint on a broken window led Ogden police to a suspect who allegedly shot a man in his home two months ago. Police said in an arrest affidavit that a man living in the 300 block of Eighth Street and his girlfriend heard someone kicking or hitting the back door on Jan. 6. As ...
OGDEN — The triggerman in a drug robbery that killed a teenager and left his brother critically injured was sentenced Tuesday to 26 years to life in prison. Daniel Viegas-Gonzalez, 31, of Farmington, apologized to the surviving victim and his family members, even carrying on a conversation ...
OGDEN — Caleb Skipps was making $1,300 every three days by selling marijuana “dabs” and had a motive to protect his profits, a prosecutor said Monday at Skipps’ sentencing for shooting two men, one fatally. “He picked drugs over people’s lives,” said Branden Miles of the Weber ...
OGDEN — A defense attorney on Thursday advanced a self-defense argument for a woman who is accused of shooting a man during an alleged burglary. The man has a long record of mostly misdemeanor convictions for assaulting women, attorney Randall Richards said, arguing the man’s credibility ...
OGDEN — Weber County officials have invoked a 122-year-old Utah Supreme Court decision in their defense against allegations that COVID-19 protocols violated the constitutional rights of a junior high student who was told to stay home due to his exposure to the coronavirus. In 1900, the ...
OGDEN — The Weber County Jail’s former contract medical director has disclaimed any responsibility for the death of an inmate on suicide watch, saying in court papers this week that other contract or county-employed personnel were in charge of that final phase of the man’s ...
OGDEN — Weber County is the first in the state to have a full-time indigent defender program, a development that the new director says means better advocacy for poor arrestees, who are constitutionally guaranteed adequate representation. Salt Lake and Utah counties have well-established ...
OGDEN — A man who was shot 11 times in a confrontation with police three years ago has pleaded guilty to a charge of assault on a police officer arising from the incident, which was described by two Black Lives Matter groups as a use of excessive force. Jamal Samuel Bell, 30, of Ogden, who ...
The Utah Supreme Court has overturned an Ogden judge’s ruling that said Weber County is not liable for injuries suffered by a Layton firefighter in a SWAT explosives exercise. In a Feb. 17 opinion, the state’s high court said 2nd District Judge Reuben Renstrom erred when he found that a ...
FARMINGTON — Ethan Hunsaker has been committed to the Utah State Hospital for mental health treatment prior to him serving 15 years to life in prison for the first-date murder of Ashlyn Black. Second District Judge David Connors on Tuesday found that Hunsaker “poses an immediate physical ...
