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A Snyderville Basin man has been charged with multiple felonies for two separate incidents in which prosecutors allege he sexually assaulted a client during a professional massage.
In one of the alleged incidents, Merga Jeffrey Kennard, 34, is accused of raping a woman who visited an establishment for a massage on April 17. According to charging documents, he penetrated her without her consent after she disrobed and lay on a massage table.
The other alleged incident occurred on March 31 and, according to prosecutors, involved Kennard touching a woman’s genitals without her consent during a massage at the establishment and making several comments about her breasts.
According to the Summit County Attorney’s Office, the following cases were heard on Monday, April 19, in 3rd District Court at the Summit County Justice Center.
Seth Michael Gnader, 37, of Pearland, Texas, pleaded guilty to assault, a class A misdemeanor, and assault, a class B misdemeanor. The court placed the defendant on court probation for 24 months, gave the defendant credit for five days served in jail and ordered the defendant to complete standard terms and conditions. The court also imposed a suspended 359-day jail sentence for the class A misdemeanor and a suspended 175-day jail sentence for the class B misdemeanor. Those sentences would run concurrently.
According to the Summit County Attorney’s Office, the following cases were heard on Monday, April 5, and Tuesday, April 6, in 3rd District Court at the Summit County Justice Center.
Edgar Noel Aguilar, 21, of Salt Lake City, pleaded guilty to purchase, transfer, possession or use of a firearm by a restricted person, a class A misdemeanor, and possession of a controlled substance, a class B misdemeanor. The court placed the defendant on court probation for 12 months and ordered the defendant to complete standard terms and conditions. The court also imposed suspended jail sentences for each charge: 364 days for purchase, transfer, possession or use of a firearm by a restricted person; and 180 days for possession of a controlled substance. Those sentences would run concurrently.
The Summit County Sheriff s report
A Silver Creek construction company was defrauded out of nearly $30,000 after it was believed a supplier’s email was hacked, according to a report from the Summit County Sheriff’s Office.
The contractor reported that a supplier emailed them instructions for how to wire payment for supplies totalling $28,240. The contractor wired the funds in early February, but the supplier said it never received the money.
Deputies indicated that the email was sent from an address that wasn’t affiliated with the supplier.
Deputies indicated they would follow up.According to the Sheriff’s Office, law enforcement responded to several other calls between Monday, March 8, and Sunday, March 14, including several incidents of intoxication and a man who hid a marijuana pipe in a patrol vehicle.
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Summit County Manager Tom Fisher, who is also a brigadier general in the Utah National Guard, paused during one of the more unusual meetings he’d convened in his time in the top post of the county’s government.
It was March 14, 2020.
Looking around the conference room, Fisher saw top officials from Summit County and Park City, elected officials and department heads in the same room working on the same problem.
In an interview nearly a year later recalling the early days of the pandemic that has changed so many aspects of daily life, Fisher drew on his military experience to describe his thinking at that moment.