An Idaho man is facing criminal charges for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl during a camping trip in August. In December, Juan Salazar, 35, was arrested and charged with felony lewd conduct with a minor under 16. The victim told deputies and a forensic interviewer that the sexual assault occurred while she was four-wheeler riding …
A parolee in Utah allegedly raped a 7-year-old girl late last month, days after he reportedly walked away from a supervised substance abuse program and failed to notify authorities. Joshua Perez, 23, is accused of sexually assaulting the victim on January 30. KSL reported that the victim was “hysterical and crying” when she told her …
Colin Jeffery “CJ” Haynie has been charged with four counts of aggravated murder, one count of attempted aggravated murder, and five counts of discharge of a firearm in the shooting deaths of his mother and three siblings and the wounding of his father, KSL reported on Wednesday. Prosecutors revealed disturbing details of the January 17 …
A Utah community was left “devastated” on Saturday after a teen boy was accused of killing three children and an adult, all members of his family, and wounding another, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. Police took the suspect into custody Friday night at a Tooele County hospital, Grantsville Police Cpl Rhonda Fields said. He was …
A Utah woman is being accused of trying to buy an illegal biological agent to harm her sick roommate — and it wasn’t the first time she’d tried. Janie Ridd, 50, is her roommate’s caretaker and the beneficiary of her life insurance policy, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. Additionally, the roommate’s will stipulates that Ridd …
A Utah man whose body was discovered in a freezer last month possibly left behind a notarized letter that absolved his recently-deceased wife of blame in his death. Tooele City Police Seargent Jeremy Hansen told The Salt Lake Tribune that the letter, believed to have been penned by Paul Edward Mathers and dated December 2, 2008, …
A woman accused of taking her 3-week-old daughter from the baby’s maternal grandmother on Wednesday afternoon — sparking an AMBER Alert in Utah —reportedly does not have legal custody of her child. KOVR reported that Taylor Webb, 25, drove from Modesto, California, to Clinton, Utah, to take her newborn daughter, Audrey Westfall, from her mother, …
A principal and teacher at a Utah elementary school were placed on paid administrative leave after a student reportedly wore a Nazi costume in a Halloween parade Photos and video posted online and obtained by KSTU show the unidentified student—dressed in a brown shirt, tan slacks, and red armband ornamented with a black swastika—at Creekside …
A Utah man remains jailed without bail days after he allegedly sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl while giving her a tattoo at his home. KUTV reported that a woman contacted authorities after her granddaughter told her that Michael Easley, 24, sexually assaulted one of her friends. The victim reportedly told her friends that Easley had …
A Utah woman was arrested over the weekend, accused of identifying herself as her daughter during a traffic stop. Gephardt Daily reported that Heather Elaine Garcia, 38, had open warrants when Davis County police pulled her over in Sunset on Saturday. Reportedly driving a BMW without a license plate, Garcia allegedly told an officer that …
A Utah death row inmate who killed his sister-and-law and her child is reportedly months away from being executed by a firing squad after a federal court rejected his latest appeal on Monday. After breaking into their sister-in-law and her husband’s home, Ron Lafferty and his brother, Dan Lafferty, reportedly beat and strangled Brenda Lafferty, …
The family of a late woman recently sued a Utah hospital, alleging she died last year after operating doctors left an open tube from her heart—resulting in her blood draining into a garbage can. Citing the lawsuit, The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Donnamay Brockbank, 63, underwent heart surgery in July 2018 at St. Mark’s …
