FARMINGTON — Roy Police Officer Ryan A. Estes will appeal his conviction on a child sexual abuse charge, his attorney said Friday. Rich Gallegos, who represented the 39-year-old Estes in his two-day trial that ended Monday, said by email that the verdict will be challenged. In a bench trial, ...
FARMINGTON — Roy Police Officer Ryan A. Estes has been found guilty of sexually abusing a girl in Clinton in 2015 and still faces four similar charges in Weber County. At the conclusion of a two-day 2nd District Court bench trial in Farmington on Monday, Judge Michael DiReda found Estes, 39, ...
BRIGHAM CITY — Defense attorneys again are questioning whether Jonathan Mendoza Llana is mentally competent to face charges in the rifle slaying of a driver on Interstate 84 three years ago. Llana, 48, has been at the Utah State Hospital in Provo most of the time since his arrest the day ...
SALT LAKE CITY — A federal judge has rejected a Sunset man's request that he be granted early release from probation on his conviction for being in the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. Michael Lee Hardin, a former Salt Lake City police officer, pleaded guilty to class B ...
OGDEN — A woman charged in the death of her 3-year-old daughter says she pleaded guilty because the lives of her other children were threatened. Attorneys representing Brenda Emile, 27, of Ogden, filed a motion in 2nd District Court on Monday asking that she be allowed to withdraw her guilty ...
OGDEN — A man has been sentenced to 240 days in jail for assault in a dispute over his son’s refusal to go on a church mission. Second District Judge Cristina Ortega on Friday imposed two state prison sentences of up to five years each against Scott Keith Warner, 51, suspended the ...
SALT LAKE CITY — A 52-year-old Layton man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for recruiting children to supply sexually explicit images for his use in the production and distribution of child pornography. Charging documents alleged that Danial Richard Larsen distributed on ...
SALT LAKE CITY — A Kaysville man has pleaded guilty to a federal charge that alleged he supplied the handgun a teenager used to kill Ogden grocer Satnam Singh last year. In a plea bargain made public on Tuesday in U.S. District Court, Taydon Law, 22, pleaded guilty to being a felon in ...
OGDEN — An Ogden man has been sentenced to suspended prison terms and three years of probation after he set fire to his house, shot it up and fought with police. Adam Partridge, 43, had pleaded guilty to reduced charges before 2nd District Judge Joseph Bean sentenced him on ...
OGDEN — An Ogden woman intends to withdraw her guilty plea in the torture and starvation death of her 3-year-old daughter five years ago. Brenda Emile was in 2nd District Court on Monday morning for what had been scheduled to be the start of a five-day sentencing hearing when her lead ...
