A Utah man was charged Friday with the death of his corrections officer daughter, who was found dead during a welfare check at the home she shared with her father in Tooele last month. Hector Martinez-Ayala, 54, was previously named a person of interest in the death of 25-year-old Marbella Martinez, who was sworn in …
A Utah man has been arrested after he reportedly confessed to raping and sodomizing a toddler in 2021. Steven Johnson, 25, has been charged with two counts of rape of a child and one count of sodomy of a child, a probable cause affidavit says, according to KSL. Investigators first looked at the case in …
A 20-year-old man, angry because he couldn’t book a same-day flight from Salt Lake City to Denver Friday morning, carjacked two vehicles, tried to carjack several more, and crashed into multiple vehicles as he left the airport and drove down Interstate 80. Salt Lake City Police said that Joseph Thomas Green headed to the passenger …
A Utah driver reportedly admitted intentionally hitting a man on a parked motorcycle with his car last weekend because he thought the motorcyclist was going to carrying out a “hit” on him. Kenneth Eugene Cordova has been charged with felony attempted murder in the incident, and police said he is a “multi-state offender” with a …
A Utah man was shot with a pellet gun and his wife stabbed early Thursday morning during a home invasion in which one of the perpetrators pointed his gun at a toddler and threatened to shoot him, the Deseret News reports. Colton Skeet Wilkin-McBride, 27, and Monique Nichole Quintana Briceno, 33, were arrested and charged …
Authorities in Utah arrested a man on suspicion of beating his girlfriend’s dog with a hammer earlier this year. According to Fox News, 50-year-old Millcreek resident Stanley Jocelyn allegedly reacted to the dog, named Temper, snatching food off of his plate as he ate in the living room of his home in August. KUTV cited …
Authorities in Utah claim a 70-year-old woman is facing allegations of trying to hire a hit man while facing charges of hiring men to carry out two previous murder plots. As KSL reported, Linda Tracy Gillman was charged last year for her attempt to convince an employee and tenant to kill her ex-husband, Duane Gillman. …
