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 ...
FARMINGTON — A 75-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday to three suspended prison terms and must serve four years of probation for what the judge described as the "terrible, heinous" beating and sexual assault of an assisted living center resident. Prosecutor Matthew Hansen of the Davis County ...
In their efforts to free four Ogden police officers of potential civil liability in the shooting death of a man holding a pocketknife, attorneys for Ogden City are citing a recent federal court decision on a West Valley City police use-of-force incident. Attorneys filed papers Friday in U.S. ...
A woman who impersonated a Kaysville police officer’s wife to post racist comments after George Floyd’s death has agreed to provisions that could allow her to avoid a criminal conviction. Sambulique Swallow, 31, of North Las Vegas, Nevada, agreed in court documents filed Feb. 15 to undergo ...
Attorneys for death row prisoner Douglas Lovell have told the Utah Supreme Court that his defense “was woefully underfunded at all stages and in all respects.” Lovell, 64, was convicted in 2015 and sentenced to death for the 1985 murder of Joyce Yost. The South Ogden woman’s body was ...
Prosecutors have asked the Utah Court of Appeals to overturn a Farmington judge's suppression of evidence against a former gymnastics coach accused of sexually abusing two teenage students. The court has agreed to consider the matter, which involves charges against Kelly C. Brown, 33, of North ...
OGDEN — Ogden City has asked a federal judge to throw out a property owner's suit that alleges Mayor Mike Caldwell's demolition order on a run-down Grant Avenue dwelling was unconstitutional. Attorneys representing the city filed papers Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City ...
OGDEN — An eight-member jury on Friday found Cory Fitzwater guilty of murder in the 2018 shooting death of a homeless man who was ambushed while sleeping in his wooded camp. Jurors deliberated for several hours Wednesday afternoon and evening and for two hours more on Friday morning before ...
OGDEN — An Ogden man has received a suspended prison sentence and will serve a year in jail for a shooting that seriously injured his cousin's former boyfriend. Originally charged with first-degree charges of aggravated assault and aggravated burglary, Dario Muniz, 33, pleaded guilty in ...
OGDEN — A jury began deliberations Wednesday afternoon in the murder trial of Cory Fitzwater, accused of shooting a homeless man as he lay sleeping in a wooded camp over three years ago. In closing arguments, prosecutors described Fitzwater, a 6-foot-2, 38-year-old Afghanistan combat ...
