Archive for Utah

Mother potty trains nude twins in the middle of restaurant

Thursday, September 6th, 2012

Patrons at the Thanksgiving Point Deli in Lehi, Utah, witnessed a very unusual scene during the lunch rush on Tuesday – a mother potty training her twin daughters right at their table in the middle of the restaurant. The two girls had their clothing pulled completely down and were perched naked on portable toddler toilets ... read more »

Missing 6-year-old girl found dead in canal

Wednesday, June 27th, 2012

Sierra Newbold, a 6-year-old West Jordan, Utah girl who went missing Tuesday morning was found dead that same day in a canal near her home. She had been sexually assaulted. Chief of Police Doug Diamond said, ”our highest priority now is to identify, arrest, and successfully prosecute the person or persons responsible for this crime. I ... read more »

6 arrested for the kidnapping and horrific torture of their roommate at gunpoint

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Unified Police in Utah say they have arrested a group of 6 roommates for kidnapping another roommate and subjecting him to horrific torture, including using a Dremel drill on him, for many hours. Thomas Chapman, 41, had moved into the home at 2931 S. 8950 West near Salt Lake City just ten days ago, upon the agreement that he would remodel ... read more »

Military-style booby traps found on Utah trail

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

Social media has changed the way we view the world, and for Benjamin Steven Rutkowski, 19, of Orem, Utah and Kai Matthew Christensen, 21, of Provo, Utah, it also landed them behind bars in the county jail. The two young men were arrested after bragging on Facebook about placing booby traps on a popular Utah ... read more »

Teen dies after being shot in head with mini cannon

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

Police say a teenager in Tremonton, Utah, was killed after he accidentally shot himself in the head with a miniature cannon. Robbie Ostberg, 14, was playing with a cannon designed to shoot .50 caliber pellets on Monday morning when it went off and a projectile hit him in the face, causing fatal head injuries. Cameron ... read more »

Utah tweens hailed as heroes: Saved woman whose pants were on fire

Friday, January 20th, 2012

A woman who’s leg caught on fire in a Walmart parking lot in South Jordan, Utah has four young boys to thank for potentially saving her life. The four boys, ages 12 and 13, spotted the woman in distress, who appeared to be on fire, and acted to smother the flames. The boys, Chase Johnson, ... read more »

Kids from Sister Wives TV show struggle to adjust

Friday, October 28th, 2011

When Kody Brown, the patriarch of the family on the tv show “Sister Wives,” added one more wife to the family (bringing the total up to four), he apparently also added some unexpected tension between the kids (of which there are now 17). A preview of the next episode shows tensions mounting in the house as Kody’s biological children appear ... read more »

Utah students pepper sprayed during football game celebration

Monday, October 24th, 2011

Police in Roosevelt, Utah, used pepper spray and clubs to disperse a group of students performing a celebratory dance after a high school football game. A group of approximately two dozen men and boys were reportedly blocking the exit from the field, while they performed a “haka” dance for the Union High School players, to ... read more »

Utah toddler dials 911 — over 200 times

Monday, September 26th, 2011

Police in Salt Lake City, Utah, spent ten days and untold man hours trying to track down the person that had called 911 emergency service over 200 times. After narrowing down the cell phone grid that the calls were originating from, police officers went door-to-door until they finally found out it was a toddler that ... read more »

Father-in-law of Susan Powell arrested for child porn

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Police say the father-in-law of the missing mother of two Susan Powell has been arrested after the discovery of hundreds of child pornography images. Steven Powell, 61, was charged Thursday evening with multiple counts of voyeurism along with one count of possessing depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Powell is expected to appear ... read more »

Susan Powell: Missing mom’s remains may have been found (update)

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

A Utah mother of two small children has been shrouded in mystery ever since she went missing in December 2009 and was never found. While her husband’s alibi didn’t make sense, police have yet to find enough concrete evidence to recognize him as a suspect. Susan Cox Powell, 28, and her husband Josh Powell have ... read more »

Polygamist Warren Jeffs sentenced to life plus 20 years in prison

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

After a brief deliberation of less than an hour, a Texas jury has sentenced convicted polygamist Warren Jeffs to 119 years in prison for the sexual assault of two children. The sentence was handed out Tuesday morning, with the jury giving Jeffs 99 years in prison for one count of aggravated sexual assault of a ... read more »

Utah 10-year-old stabs mother over chores

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

Two years ago, when we read about a 12-year-old boy who shot his mother over chores, we figured that would be a once-in-a-lifetime incident. Apparently not. Police in West Valley City, Utah, say that a 10-year-old boy got into a heated argument over him getting his chores completed, and when the mother turned his back ... read more »

Utah children beaten, starved

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Three children in Eagle Mountain, Utah have been taken into custody because police say they were abused and malnourished. It could be the worst case of child abuse in Utah County. Utah County sheriff’s deputies responded to a call Tuesday of a nude child in front of a home in Eagle Mountain at 1394 East ... read more »

Man charged with dropping toddler into half pipe

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Well if you want to be as good as Tony Hawk, you have to start young. A 38-year-old man allegedly damaged a police car after he was arrested over the weekend for dropping his 2-year-old boy into a half pipe at a Salt Lake City skate park. Salt Lake City police arrested the man after ... read more »