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Police at Patriots tight end’s home for 2nd day

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:27:11 MDT

Police at Patriots tight end’s home for 2nd day

The Associated Press

Updated Jun 19, 2013 10:27AM MDT

North Attleborough, Mass. • State police returned to the home of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez on Wednesday, two days after a body was found about a mile away. Two troopers knocked on the door of Hernandez’s sprawling house in an upscale subdivision Wednesday morning, but no one answered. The night before, police spent hours there as another group of officers searched an industrial park where the body was found Monday. No more details about the body have been released. Spor...

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32-year-old man killed in Logan crash

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:24:28 MDT

32-year-old man killed in Logan crash

By Janelle Stecklein The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 18, 2013 09:24PM MDT

A 32-year-old Logan man died Monday night after his vehicle vaulted off a Logan street and down a hill. Logan police said they responded about 11 p.m. to the area of 1300 East and 1400 North after witnesses said they saw a vehicle travelling too fast westbound on 1500 North near 1450 East. Witnesses said Jacob Bradley Sorenson failed to navigate the curve, and his vehicle vaulted off the side of the roadway and down the hill, police said. Officers said the vehicle rolled multiple times and Sore...

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Three California men arrested on federal Utah warrants

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:31:02 MDT

Three California men arrested on federal Utah warrants

By Michael McFall The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 17, 2013 05:31PM MDT

Three defendants indicted in Utah in 2011 as part of an investigation into a large suspected marijuana distribution ring have been arrested in California and more than 1,400 plants confiscated. The three men are among 10 residents of California and Utah residents who were indicted in U.S. District Court of Utah for conspiring, combining, confederating or agreeing to distribute marijuana in Utah and elsewhere from about June 2008 to September 2011. Nine of them, including the three just-arreste...

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SWAT standoff ensues in West Jordan as abuse suspect refuses to surrender

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:00:57 MDT

SWAT standoff ensues in West Jordan as abuse suspect refuses to surrender

By Janelle Stecklein The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 17, 2013 04:00PM MDT

A West Jordan SWAT team surrounded the home of a sexual abuse suspect, only to discover hours later that he had escaped. West Jordan police Sgt. Dan Roberts said officers tried about 8 a.m. to serve a first-degree felony arrest warrant near 1980 W. 7420 South. The warrant accused the man of sexual abuse of a child. One of the officers said he saw a man, who looked like the suspect, go back into his house. No one would answer the door or the phone, and officers discovered by 2 p.m. that no one wa...

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Pair who left 250 victims in crime spree sent to prison

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:00:15 MDT

Pair who left 250 victims in crime spree sent to prison

By Brooke Adams The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 7, 2013 04:00PM MDT

A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a woman who engaged in a crime spree and then staged a daring escape from police custody to nearly three years in prison. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby told Shauntae L. Stratton, 24, that she had racked up an astonishing criminal history in her short life and hopes the 34 months she’ll spend in a federal prison will prove a turning point. Federal prosecutors agreed to drop four counts against Stratton in exchange for her guilty plea to one count of...

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Keep the case open

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:49:03 MDT

Keep the case open

Updated Jun 6, 2013 05:49PM MDT

The case of Matthew David Stewart must not be allowed to die with him. The 39-year-old Stewart, facing charges of capital murder after a botched police raid on his Ogden home in January 2012, hanged himself in the Weber County Jail last month. He was reportedly despondent over the direction his case was taking in court, specifically a judge’s rejection of his attorney’s argument that the warrant carried by the heavily armed squad of police that burst into his home was based on false information...

Want to be a Salt Lake City bike cop? Practice makes perfect

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:25:54 MDT

Want to be a Salt Lake City bike cop? Practice makes perfect

Updated Jun 6, 2013 11:25AM MDT

Bicycle Operations School is now in session. On Wednesday, the Salt Lake City Police Department hosted a training exercise for officers interested in patrolling the city on bicycles. The session was designed to prepare police not only for the “rigor” of urban patrol but for riding mountainous terrain in the city’s foothills. Officers rode their bicycles through an obstacle course, practiced chasing a running suspect and maneuvering with a fellow officer to trap a fleeing suspect. Ten candidat...

Questions linger for Matthew Stewart defense team about deadly raid

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:33:13 MDT

Questions linger for Matthew Stewart defense team about deadly raid

By Jessica Miller The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 5, 2013 12:33PM MDT

Awakened by the sound of splintering wood and shattering glass, Matthew David Stewart assumed, he said all along, that his Ogden home was being invaded by bad guys and grabbed his gun. Meanwhile, members of the Weber Morgan Narcotics Strike Force filed inside the night of Jan. 4, 2012, expecting to find an unoccupied home with marijuana growing in the basement. Based on prior attempts to contact Stewart, police speculated no one was actually living at the untidy Jackson Avenue residence, accordi...