The Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office said Friday that a Unified police officer was justified in shooting a man who had taken another officer's gun and fired it towards the first officer.
June 1, 2021 The grand jury issued a 27-defendant, 34-count indictment on Wednesday, charging twenty-seven individuals associated with the Nortenos gang for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, fentanyl, and heroin across the Wasatch Front. Previously, it returned five other indictments relating to this investigation and operation. The charges follow joint Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force operations conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Metro Narcotics Task Force (DEA), the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division (IRS), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Unified Police Department’s Metro Gang Unit (MGU), and the United States Marshals Service.
Utah gang members were charged with multiple counts of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, fentanyl, and heroin across the Wasatch Front, according to a June 1st statement from acting United States Attorney for Utah Andrea Martinez.
Orlando Tobar claims a more culpable defendant in the case of a Kearns woman who was kidnapped and killed faces a lesser charge than he does and it isn t fair.
Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall lauds reforms, but says work is far from done. Meanwhile, she s grappling with morale issues amid police department.