The suspect in the disappearance of a teenage Utah farmer has now been charged with his murder. Dyland Rounds, 19, was last heard from at about 7 a.m. on May 28, 2022, when he told his grandmother by phone that he was “putting the grain truck in a shelter.” His family reported him missing two …
A Utah man has been arrested and charged with aggravated kidnapping and rape after a missing teenage girl from Arizona was found in his basement. Jordan Sorensen, 26, was arrested last week on a probation violation pending an investigation, KNXV reports. New charging document filed in the case this week say Sorenson made contact with …
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 Utah newspaper published a glowing obituary of a man who murdered his family before killing himself earlier this month. Michael Haight “made it a point to spend quality time with each and every one of his children,” the obituary in The Spectrum read. Haight, 42, killed his wife, five children, and mother-in-law on January …
A Utah husband shot to death his wife, her mother, and the couple’s five children this week before taking his own life. The bodies were found in the Enoch home on Wednesday, when police were sent to conduct a welfare check, as CrimeOnline previously reported. The city identified the dead as Michael Orwin Haight, 42; …
Eight people, including five children, were found dead from gunshot wounds inside a home in southeastern Utah on Wednesday. Enoch City police said they were sent to the address for a welfare check and found the bodies. Investigators also said they don’t “believe there is a threat to the public or that there are any …
A transient Utah man has been charged with multiple counts after he allegedly attacked a bus driver and tried to gouge out his eye. The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office said that Cameron Michael Ward, 25, also attacked a South Salt Lake police officer who was called to investigate and tried to take his …
An elderly Utah couple was found dead in their garage on Wednesday and their grandson arrested for murder after the man’s mother told police she believed he was responsible. Jeremy Belt, 26, was charged with two counts of aggravated murder and one count of assault, along with other charges, KSTU reported. Clearfield police said that …
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 …
