FARMINGTON — The judge and the prosecutor gave no credit to Aaron Gaitan for his request for leniency after he said he “never intended to murder anybody” during his surprise attack against his ex-girlfriend and her new date. Gaitan, 37, of Layton, suddenly appeared at the driver’s door ...
OGDEN — A great-granddaughter of the storied Becker brewery founder has gone to federal court to stop a modern craft brewer from using branding that evokes the history of the old business, which shut down in the 1960s. John Stephan Becker and his sons Gustav and Albert founded the brewery in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
SALT LAKE CITY – The 2nd District Judicial Nominating Commission has selected nominees for a vacancy to be created by the retirement of Judge David Connors next March. The nominees are Cara Baldwin, general counsel, R-Zero Systems Inc.; Catherine Conklin, commissioner, 2nd District Court; ...
OGDEN — The case of a man who alleged that Weber County Jail deputies used excessive force against him after a DUI arrest has reached the doorstep of the U.S. Supreme Court. The attorney for Hyrum James Geddes filed a petition with the high court in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 30 asking ...
