A 19-year-old Clearfield man was sentenced to one to 15 years in prison Wednesday for taking part in the beating of a 17-year-old abducted in West Point in Davis County earlier this year. Joseph N. Godfrey pleaded guilty Wednesday in 5th District Court in Cedar City to aggravated assault, a second-degree felony, before Judge G. Michael Westfall. A first-degree felony aggravated kidnapping charge was dropped as part of a plea agreement. The victim was kidnapped on April 19 and driven to the Three Peaks Area north of Cedar City, where he was severely beaten on April 20. Police say the beating was connected to a drug debt. Two others, Tiffany Nelson and Gary Hart, have already received the same sentence from Westfall. A preliminary hearing for a fourth suspect, Shaun Douglas, is scheduled for Nov. 9.

Light plane lands on Great Salt Lake sand bar

A small, single-engine airplane landed Thursday morning on a sand bar in the Great Salt Lake. Wade Mathews, a spokesman for Tooele County Emergency Management, said the 69-year-old pilot reported he experienced engine trouble and had to make an emergency landing. His improvised landing strip was a sand bar in the Great Salt Lake, northwest of Lake Point. Mathews said it's believed the pilot and his passenger were traveling from Salt Lake City to Wendover. The Federal Aviation Administration was on the scene Thursday to investigate.

Worker crushed to death by truck trailers

A 41-year-old man died Thursday in Salt Lake City when he was pinned between the semi trailers he was connecting. Kekumi Feleota worked for Roadway Express trucking and was connecting a double trailer combination at 1234 S. 3200 West, police said. Police said he was between the two trailers when the tractor and first trailer rolled backward, pinning him between the two trailers. A co-worker found Feleota and reported the accident about 2:30 a.m. Firefighters pronounced him dead at the scene.

Robbery turns out to be no joke

A Salt Lake City woman said she was tied up by a robber she thought was her grandson playing a gag. The incident was reported at 8:54 a.m. Wednesday in a residence in the 200 East block of Penny Parade Drive. The woman told police someone came from behind and covered her eyes with his hand. She thought it was her grandson playing a trick on her, then a man told her she was being robbed and not to resist and she wouldn't be hurt. The woman reported the robber tied her up with the sash from her bathrobe and stole a television and two cell phones. The woman mentioned her husband was in the backyard and the robber fled. Heis described as Hispanic, 5 feet 7 inches tall wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and other dark clothes.

Panel OKs Huntsman choice for parole board

Defense attorney Keith Hamilton - Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.'s nominee to fill a parole board vacancy - was approved unanimously Thursday during a legislative confirmation hearing. The full Senate will vote on Hamilton on Wednesday. Huntsman selected Hamilton to fill the vacancy on the five-member panel left by Michael Sibbett, outgoing parole board chairman. The governor has yet to say who among the newly constituted board will serve as chairman. Hamilton previously served on the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole from 1997 to 2003.

Woman killed on I-70 was from Colorado

The Utah Highway Patrol has identified the woman killed in an automobile accident Wednesday near Richfield as 25-year-old Perla Guerrero. Guerrero was living in Colorado and was moving to California. She was westbound on Interstate 70 about 1:30 a.m. in a 1999 Nissan Pathfinder when she fell asleep, according to the UHP. The SUV went off the road and rolled, ejecting Guerrero.

Chemical spill sends two people to hospital

Three people were taken to the hospital Thursday when organic peroxide spilled at a business near Kimball Junction. Firefighters were called to the spill at Edgemont Cleaners, 1612 Ute Blvd., about 6:30 p.m., said Tricia Hurd, community services officer with the Park City Fire District. The chemical, which can be explosive in the form of a gas, was spilled accidentally. Three people exposed to the chemical were decontaminated and taken to University Hospital in Salt Lake City. The dry cleaning business and three others in the strip mall were evacuated. Firefighters were able to clean the spill.