A founding member of Adventures With Purpose, a search and recovery dive team that found missing teen Kiely Rodni earlier this year, has been accused of raping a child in Utah. KOIN reported that Utah filed charges against 47-year-old Jared Leisek on November 3 for incidents that allegedly took place in 1992 in Sanpete County. …
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 neurosurgeon was arrested last week for allegedly groping an unconscious patient during a surgery last October. Bryson Swain Smith, 65, has been charged with two misdemeanor counts of sexual battery, according to KSTU. Court documents say a person assisting with the October 11, 2021, surgery reported Smith. According to the documents. Smith, who …
The Box Elder Sheriff’s Office and the FBI have named a neighbor of teen farmer Dylan Rounds as a suspect in the 19-year-old’s disappearance. James Brenner, 59, was arrested last month on an unrelated federal firearms charge and is being held in the Weber County Jail, as CrimeOnline previously reported. According to court documents filed …
The family of a 19-year-old Utah farmer missing since the end of May has asked the public to let law enforcement do its job and stay out of the way. The Elko County Sheriff’s Office in Nevada posted the statement on behalf of the family of Dylan Rounds late Wednesday night: “As a family, we …
Federal prosecutors have filed charges against a neighbor of a 19-year-old Utah farmer who has been missing for a month. Dylan Rounds was last heard from at about 7 a.m. on May 28, when he told his grandmother by phone that he was “putting the grain truck in a shelter.” His family reported him missing …
A Utah teen is not expected to survive after her former boyfriend shot her in the head and then killed himself in an apparent murder-suicide, KSL-TV reports. The victim, 17-year-old Lily Conroy, has been on life support since she was found “mortally wounded” Wednesday afternoon, according to the television station. Both Conroy and the alleged …
A Maine 18-year-old vacationing with his family at the Jersey Shore died Tuesday when a large hole he and his 17-year-old sister were digging with frisbees collapsed on them. Emergency crews responded to the scene at Toms River just after 4 p.m., WNBC reported. The girl was rescued, but Levi Caverley was trapped under the …
A Utah sheriff’s office has identified and named a suspect in double murder of Kylen Schulte and Crystal Turner at their campsite near Moab last year. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Schulte and Turner — also known as Crystal Beck — were last seen at a bar in Moab on August 13, 2021. A family member …
A Utah school psychologist resigned from her job this week after she was charged with sharing confidential information about a then-10-year-old student with her husband, who has since been charged with raping the girl. Phillip Brandon Stokes was arrested last August and faces 16 felony counts, including rape of a child and aggravated sexual abuse, …
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 called out sick from his job in Nephi this week but left a detailed note on his desk describing a plan to kill more than a dozen co-workers, the weapons he would use, and how to jam telephone lines so no one could call for help. Kevin Michael Jerman’s boss found the …
