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By Jackson Wilde & The Herald Journal • May 24, 2021 Inmates in a select group at the Cache County Jail are spending their free time crafting beanies to be donated to charitable services in the area. Lt. Roy Hall, the jail commander for the Cache County Sheriff’s Office, said the beanies are currently being donated to the Little Lambs Foundation for Kids, and others will soon go to CAPSA. Currently, about half a dozen inmates are involved in the project, producing an average of two beanies a day.   According to Hall, the project was implemented last month by an enterpri...

A Perry man accused of driving to Cache Valley and taking significant steps toward committing a murder of several individuals will continue to wait for his day in court. Charles Warren Leff, 65, was charged in 1st District Court with five counts of first-degree attempted aggravated murder, four counts of third-degree transportation of a firearm by a restricted person and additional misdemeanors. He also faces felony and misdemeanor counts of witness tampering and violation of a protective order in a separate but related case. Leff was set to appear for a two-day jury trial in June. But during...

A Providence middle school teacher charged after allegedly assaulting students made his initial appearance in 1st District Court on Monday. Scott D. Meeker, 50, was charged last month with second-degree child abuse and four counts of class-B assault. Meeker was set to appear before the court again on June 1, allowing prosecutors and defense counsel to prepare for a preliminary hearing in the matter. × Advertisement During the appearance, Judge Angela Fonnesbeck also granted a motion to amend Meeker’s pretrial release conditions. The order allows Meeker to attend family and religious fun...

A 21-year-old pleaded guilty to amended sexual assault charges during his appearance 1st District Court on Monday. Payden Hunter Hendershot, 21, pleaded to two counts of second-degree forcible sodomy — amended from first-degree felonies — and one class-B furnishing alcoholic product to a minor. As a part of a plea agreement, two first-degree counts of object rape and a third-degree count of distribution of a controlled substance were dismissed. Hendershot is set to appear for sentencing on June 21. × Advertisement Cache County prosecutor Griffin Hazard told the court Hendershot eng...

A man accused of strangling a woman unconscious at a local hotel made his initial appearance on charges in 1st District Court on Friday. Kyle R. Lowden, 34, has been charged with second-degree aggravated assault, third-degree possession of a controlled substance and an additional misdemeanor for incidents alleged to have happened on Wednesday. According to a probable cause affidavit, Lowden “put his hands on (the alleged victim’s) neck on multiple occasions” applying varying degrees of pressure during an argument at the hotel. At one point, police wrote Lowden strangled the wom...