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Salt Lake City, Utah – A Taylorsville man was arrested in Salt Lake County and indicted on criminal charges related to his alleged possession with the intent to distribute illicit drugs, specifically fentanyl.

Salt Lake City, Utah – A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City, Utah returned an indictment on January 11, 2023 charging a Utah plastic surgeon, his medical corporation, and three co-defendants, including his neighbor, with conspiracy to defraud the United States by issuing fake CDC COVID-19 vaccination record cards to fraudulent vaccine card seekers.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – A Woods Cross, Utah man was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to coercion and enticement of a minor and attempted sexual exploitation via production of child pornography.

WASHINGTON – A Utah professional tax preparer was sentenced yesterday to 37 months in prison for tax evasion, conspiring to defraud the United States and obstructing the IRS’s efforts to collect his tax debt, which exceeded $1.1 million.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – U.S. Attorney Trina A. Higgins announced today that the District of Utah collected $10,690,252.06 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2022.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – Multiple people were indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Utah for their participation in a fraudulent online scheme through which they obtained more than $100 million of credit and debit card processing from financial institutions and payment processors.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – A foreign national was sentenced to three years in a U.S. federal prison after pleading guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft in a gas skimming scheme that took place in Utah and Idaho.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – Leallen Blackhair, 45, of Fort Duchesne, Utah, pleaded guilty Monday Dec. 5, 2022 to nine counts of Extortion Under Color of Official Right as set forth in the indictment. 

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – A 41-year-old Syracuse, Utah man has been arrested and charged in a federal criminal complaint for carrying and using a straight edge razor blade during a flight Monday, November 21, 2022.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – Today, an investiture ceremony was held for the Honorable Trina A. Higgins, the United States Attorney for the District of Utah. Held at the United States Courthouse in downtown Salt Lake City, Chief Judge Robert J. Shelby administered the formal ceremonial oath of office.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – At the request of the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah, members of the media are invited to attend the ceremonial oath of office for the Honorable Trina A. Higgins, the first woman in Utah to be presidentially appointed to serve as United States Attorney.

SALT LAKE CITY – Teresa Red Bird, 52, and her daughter, Ocianna Red Bird, 23, both of Montezuma Creek, and enrolled members of the Navajo Nation living within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation, were sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to felony child abuse within Indian Country. Teresa Red Bird was sentenced to 10 months in federal prison followed by 36 months of supervised release. Ocianna Red Bird was sentenced to six months in federal prison followed by 24 months of supervised release.