A 19-year-old Logan man pleaded guilty in 1st District Court to taking “indecent liberties” with an 11-year-old girl and to taking sexually explicit photos in her presence and sharing them on an image-sharing website where they were viewed as far away as Australia.
A Salt Lake City defense attorney has been appointed to represent a Logan man accused of killing a baby girl in December, just days before her first birthday.
A North Logan man is scheduled for sentencing in early October after he pleaded guilty this week to enticing a minor, sexual battery and a felony DUI.
Driver accused of shoplifting, hitting Al’s employee with car, and leading chase at speeds over 100 mph
A Farr West man was ordered to serve 60 days in the Cache County Jail for attempting to solicit sexual activity from a minor and then providing a fake document in an attempt to prove his innocence.
A 21-year-old man pleaded guilty Tuesday to sexually assaulting his sister’s child and stabbing her in the back, causing her death while her family slept.
SALT LAKE CITY — Local businessman Lonnie Nyman was sent to prison Monday morning after he tried and failed to convince a 3rd District Court judge that he takes full responsibility for enticing a minor into sexual activity and later writing bad checks in an attempt to get out of jail.
A woman who was previously employed inside the Cache County Jail was booked into the Cache County Jail on Friday on suspicion of engaging in sexual activity with an inmate.
A former Smithfield man pleaded guilty this week in a Utah County courtroom to inflicting severe injuries upon a 3-year-old child, and then — in a panic — shooting the child’s mother as she slept after realizing the child had died of his injuries.
The Utah Board of Juvenile Justice and Utah Juvenile Defender Attorneys are sponsoring a juvenile record expungement clinic at the 1st District Courthouse in Logan on Friday, Aug. 23, from 4-6 p.m.
A Logan teen who fatally shoved an elderly man to the ground in April because he believed his sister had been sexually assaulted by him was recently ordered to serve 30 days in juvenile detention.
Psychology faculty accused of failing to help bullied student
Juan Caleb Schallenberger of Illinois, 21, has been charged in 1st District Court with four counts of sexual abuse of a child, a second-degree felony, and voyeurism, a class A misdemeanor. Schallenberger is accused of inappropriately touching a minor under the age of 13 while she was sleepin…
Police in Logan say they are investigating a report made by a Smithfield woman who said she was stabbed multiple times Tuesday night by an assailant who has not yet been identified.
Providence officials say a city employee facing criminal allegations of child abuse is innocent until proven guilty and will continue to head the city’s recreation department.
A 30-year-old Logan man has been arrested and charged with aggravated murder in the death of a baby girl who was five days away from her first birthday.
A 25-year-old man is spending 60 days in the Cache County Jail for inappropriately touching two small children over their clothing during a camping trip last fall.
A 52-year-old Logan man charged in connection with two Weber County bank robberies reportedly told authorities he learned how to rob a bank while serving time in a federal prison.
• Crisoforo Najera of Salt Lake City, 28, pleaded guilty to attempted unlawful sexual activity with a minor, a class A misdemeanor, and lewdness, a class B misdemeanor. According to records filed in 1st District Court, Utah Highway Patrol troopers patrolling in Sardine Canyon stopped to chec…
More than 500 members of the Utah State Bar gathered in Park City last week where two Cache Valley attorneys were sworn into leadership positions within the organization.
A Logan man appeared in 1st District Court this week where he pleaded guilty to removing a baby girl's diaper and touching her while watching child pornography.
A Hyrum man who was reportedly under the influence of drugs last year when he allegedly illegally entered a home in Wellsville and met the business end of the owner’s gun has been through drug treatment and was scheduled to enter a plea in 1st District Court Tuesday morning but asked for a j…
A Pocatello man was bound over for trial Tuesday after a woman struggled through her testimony of childhood sexual abuse in a preliminary hearing in 1st District Court.
Logan Police received multiple tips that led to the arrest of a Logan man who allegedly viewed more than 300 explicit images of babies, toddlers and prepubescent children.
An Ogden man who came racing into Cache Valley in a stolen vehicle two weeks ago pleaded guilty in 1st District Court on Monday to theft by receiving stolen property and felony evading, both third-degree felony offenses.
If celebratory fireworks in July are a Utah tradition, so are hot, dry summers that feel more like a blazing furnace stuck in the on position. As a result, fire officials are saying it is time to put some safety restrictions in place.
An elderly man who was facing as much as 40 years to life in the Utah State Prison for the alleged sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14 has been found incompetent to stand trial.
A 20-year-old North Logan man allegedly used Snapchat to lure a 13-year-old girl to his apartment where he forced her inside and raped her, police said in a probable cause statement.
A 48-year-old man with a fiery past was arrested Tuesday night after a structure fire in Richmond caused significant damage to his grandmother’s home.
A 27-year-old Logan charged in connection with the alleged sexual abuse of an 18-month old child remains in the Cache County Jail, where he is being held following his arrest.
A Logan man convicted of sexually abusing a child in 2015 is now facing trial in a second allegation that surfaced two years ago.
A 28-year-old man arrested near the Logan Golf and Country Club after a high-speed chase with police in April has asked for a jury trial.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A tech worker and former USU student was charged Wednesday with murder and kidnapping in the death of a Utah college student whose body was found in a wooded area of Logan Canyon with her arms bound behind her.
A 19-year-old man from Cove pleaded guilty Monday to engaging in unlawful sexual activity with a minor, a third-degree felony.
A Logan man accused of beating a woman for several hours until her face was unrecognizable has been bound over to face charges filed in connection with that incident.
An Ogden man who allegedly fled from Box Elder County in a stolen vehicle was apprehended in Logan early Sunday evening, booked into the Cache County Jail and has been charged in 1st District Court with theft by receiving stolen property, mail theft, reckless driving and more.
A 41-year old Logan man is going back to prison after he was found guilty — twice — of sexually abusing three young women during their childhood.
Erick Durrant of Cove, 19, has been charged in 1st District Court with sodomy on a child, a first-degree felony, and enticing a minor by internet or text, a second-degree felony. Prosecutors offered a negotiated settlement in Durrant’s case this week, and he asked for additional time to cons…
Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown held a press conference Friday morning where he said he was “relieved and grief stricken” to announce that the body of 23-year-old MacKenzie Lueck was recovered in Logan Canyon on Wednesday.
Two of three men charged in connection with a 2017 assault that left a Utah State University student with significant injuries were recently found guilty and are awaiting sentencing, while the third will be tried later this month.
Two Cache Valley men have been appointed to serve as judge in three justice courts following the retirement of Judge Dave Marx, who retired May 1.
LOGAN, Utah — When former Utah State University linebacker Torrey Green was sent to prison in March, he had been convicted of sexually assaulting six women, while a seventh alleged victim awaited an independent trial.
The man arrested in connection with the death of MacKenzie Lueck in Salt Lake City last week was once banned from Utah State University over his emigration status, officials said Tuesday.
A former Logan man who is serving 10 years to life in the Utah State Prison on a 2006 conviction of rape of a child returned to a 1st District courtroom, where he now faces new allegations against him.
LOGAN, Utah — A 34-year-old Cedar City man who pleaded guilty to starting his mother’s Nibley house on fire is facing a minimum of five years and up to life in prison.
• Raymond A. Castaneda of Smithfield, 21, has been charged in 1st District Court with aggravated assault, a third-degree felony; aggravated kidnapping, a first-degree felony; and forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony. Castaneda has retained a private attorney and is scheduled to appe…
Suspect formerly lived in Cache Valley, attended USU
A 39-year-old woman appeared in 1st District Court Wednesday morning and gave testimony in a child sex abuse case, sharing memories she said have haunted her since her childhood.
A Logan man who pleaded guilty in 1st District Court to sexually abusing multiple children over the last 20 years was sentenced Tuesday to a minimum of 10 years in the Utah State Prison.
A 1st District Court judge heard evidence Monday in a case presented against five people accused of harassing a family who became stranded in Blacksmith Fork Canyon last year and causing them to fear for their safety.
A Tremonton man has been sentenced to spend 15 years to life in prison for the 2018 shooting death of a friend in the first murder case in the city in more than 50 years.
LOGAN, Utah — An August court date was set for a 21-year-old man accused of the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of a child.
Local funeral home director Lonnie Nyman appeared in a Salt Lake City courtroom Monday where he pleaded guilty, with a great deal of hesitation, to charges of soliciting sex from an underage male and later committing fraud in order to post bail.
Generally speaking, police reports are cold, procedural documents, filled with details and observations. But sometimes, if you look closely, a story emerges in a way that redefines an event.
A September sentencing date in United States District Court has been set for local businessman Justin Hamilton, who made an appearance Thursday and pleaded guilty to one felony count of “obstruction of proceedings before departments and agencies.”
