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ST. GEORGE, Utah – A federal jury in St. George returned a guilty verdict against a Chicago man after law enforcement found him in possession of cocaine and a firearm during a traffic stop. 

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – A Weber County man was sentenced to 180 months’ imprisonment, five years of supervised release, and ordered by the court to pay $9,983 in restitution to the victim’s family after he distributed fentanyl to another person who was later found dead as a result of fentanyl intoxication. 

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – A Utah woman is in federal custody in Salt Lake City after she was extradited on June 12, 2026, to the United States from Croatia after being charged in a federal indictment with international parental kidnapping and passport fraud. 

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah –The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah is proud to announce Deputy Jeremy Taubman of the Tooele County Sheriff’s Office as the inaugural Hometown Hero Award recipient in our district. 

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – A known Utah gang member and felon was sentenced to 46 months’ imprisonment today, concurrent to any time imposed by the state of Utah for parole violations and/or new offenses, after he illegally possessed a firearm and ammunition, which he is restricted from possessing as a felon. 

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – The final defendant from Texas involved in the robbery of an ATM that belonged to a credit union in Salt Lake County, Utah, was sentenced today to five years’ imprisonment, and three years of supervised release. 

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – U.S. Attorney Melissa Holyoak for the District of Utah is proud to announce her office’s efforts to combat elder fraud with the launch of the Fraud Prevention Initiative for Older Americans. As part of the initiative, U.S. Attorney Holyoak is visiting senior and community centers across the state of Utah to discuss elder fraud trends, tactics, and ways to avoid falling victim to these dangerous and sometimes sophisticated scams. 

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – An indictment was unsealed, and two former Utah state court clerks have been arrested after they allegedly helped an illegal alien evade U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrest. The clerks also allegedly obstructed immigration proceedings and the lawful enforcement of United States immigration laws by helping at least one of three other illegal aliens escape out a backdoor of the Logan City Municipal Justice Court so that ICE could not arrest or deport them. 

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned an indictment charging a Utah County man with international parental kidnapping after he fled to Mexico with his two small children without the mother’s knowledge or court approval.  

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned an indictment charging a previously removed illegal alien from Mexico with drug and immigration crimes after law enforcement seized drugs from a residence in Salt Lake County.

ST. GEORGE, Utah – A child sex predator from Colorado was sentenced today in Southern Utah to 150 months’ imprisonment and a lifetime of supervised release after he travelled from Colorado to Utah to have sex with who he thought was a 13-year-old girl, when in fact he was communicating with an undercover law enforcement officer. 

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – Michael Austin Ford, 60, of West Valley City, was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment for setting a school bus on fire in 2023.