A new state law targets the perpetrators of fraud schemes with harsher penalties and introduces a prosecutorial tool to recover more stolen funds. According to an Ogden Police Department detective, House Bill 229 is especially important to aid elderly victims who are financially exploited and ...
FARMINGTON — A new mental health evaluation says there's a "substantial probability" that murder defendant Sun Cha Warhola's competence to stand trial can be restored. But until then, Warhola will remain under treatment at the Utah State Hospital, attorneys said Monday in 2nd District ...
FARMINGTON — A Layton woman testified Monday about the last moments of her teenage son, who was shot to death in what police described as a marijuana sale gone bad. Michael Jameel Hines, 31, is on trial in the March 12, 2020, death of Kannon Beesley, 18. Charging documents allege that Hines ...
FARMINGTON — A former Salt Lake City police officer has been sentenced to prison on 13 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor after a defense attorney unsuccessfully challenged the sufficiency of evidence used in the jury trial last month. Second District Judge Michael DiReda on Wednesday ...
SALT LAKE CITY — The owner of four defunct Ogden-area health care businesses is headed to federal prison after being sentenced for failing to pay more than $568,000 in business and employee withholding taxes over a four-year period. U.S. District Judge Jill Parrish on Thursday sentenced ...
OGDEN — Judge Camille Neider on Friday sentenced Army veteran Cory Fitzwater to consecutive prison terms for the 2018 fatal shooting of a man in a homeless camp, saying he took advantage of a "band of lost boys” in planning the ambush killing and trying to cover up his role. “Your ...
