U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Utah
Recent News About U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Utah
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Dominic Jared Arias Aceves, a 23-year-old resident of Arizona, and Cristo Alexander Urias Salazar, a 32-year-old citizen of Mexico, have been sentenced in federal court for trafficking about 40,000 fentanyl pills from Arizona to Utah.
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A U.S. Navy sailor stationed in Augusta, Georgia, has been indicted on multiple federal charges related to child sex crimes following an alleged months-long manipulation of a minor through social media.
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Ryan Gary Patch, a 28-year-old resident of Dayton, Ohio, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison and will serve a lifetime of supervised release after pleading guilty to transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.
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A federal grand jury has issued a superseding indictment against Alex Doran Craig, 32, of Tooele County, Utah.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah has announced its participation in National Night Out events across various cities in Utah.
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A federal jury in Salt Lake City has found a Texas man guilty of sexually assaulting a female passenger on a flight from Chicago to Salt Lake City.
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A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City has indicted Victor Manuel Sanchez-Chacon, a 31-year-old undocumented Mexican national living in Taylorsville, Utah.
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A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City has indicted Leroy Casper Poowegup Reed, a 42-year-old man from Whiterocks, Utah, on charges of first-degree murder.
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Armando Reyes-Ascension, a 43-year-old Mexican national living illegally in the United States, has been sentenced to 58 months in prison.
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Wilber Castellanos Hernandez, a 33-year-old undocumented Mexican citizen, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to carjacking a U.S. Postal Service truck and threatening the postal employee involved.
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Caile Noble, a 67-year-old resident of Taylorsville, Utah, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his involvement in distributing methamphetamine and money laundering.
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A man from St. George, Utah, Jaycee Stewart, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes related to child sexual abuse materials. U.S. District Court Judge Ann Marie McIff Allen delivered the sentence following Stewart's guilty plea on...
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A federal grand jury has indicted Hiram Bokadrik, a 29-year-old from Salt Lake County, Utah, on multiple firearm charges.
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Andrew Armani Deionte Rowe, a 29-year-old resident of Salt Lake City, Utah, received a sentence of 57 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for robbing several 7-Eleven stores in the Salt Lake Valley during 2023. U.S....
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A Utah businessman, Marcelo Federico Torre, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for fraudulently obtaining $628,307 through a COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan.
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A federal grand jury has indicted Chevel Cottonwood, a 34-year-old man from San Juan County, on charges of second-degree murder following an alleged shooting incident in San Juan County, Utah.
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A federal grand jury has indicted a Utah man on drug charges following the alleged seizure of over 4,800 grams of cocaine.
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Payden Davis, a twice-convicted sex offender from Santa Clara, Utah, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release.
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A Mexican national has pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including drug possession with intent to distribute, in the District of Utah.
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Austin Matthew Otto, a 25-year-old resident of Orem, Utah, has been sentenced to eight years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release.