A 62-year-old Layton man is headed to federal prison for a massive Ponzi scheme based on phantom silver riches that fooled 568 investors out of $153 million. Gaylen Dean Rust, owner of Rust Rare Coin, based in Salt Lake City, was sentenced Wednesday to 19 years behind bars on charges of wire ...
OGDEN — A Roy man who tried to abduct and rape a 10-year-old girl has been sentenced to prison for at least 15 years. Second District Judge Cristina Ortega on Tuesday ordered Richard Rodney Palmer, 44, to spend 15 years to life in prison on a charge of attempted child kidnapping and three ...
FARMINGTON — Police arrested a man Monday night after he allegedly fought with and ran over his brother-in-law and then crashed into a fire truck, a building and another car while trying to elude officers. Sorano Otup, 23, was booked into the Davis County Jail on suspicion of 13 charges, ...
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 ...
