OGDEN — Caleb Skipps was making $1,300 every three days by selling marijuana “dabs” and had a motive to protect his profits, a prosecutor said Monday at Skipps’ sentencing for shooting two men, one fatally. “He picked drugs over people’s lives,” said Branden Miles of the Weber ...
OGDEN — A defense attorney on Thursday advanced a self-defense argument for a woman who is accused of shooting a man during an alleged burglary. The man has a long record of mostly misdemeanor convictions for assaulting women, attorney Randall Richards said, arguing the man’s credibility ...
OGDEN — Weber County officials have invoked a 122-year-old Utah Supreme Court decision in their defense against allegations that COVID-19 protocols violated the constitutional rights of a junior high student who was told to stay home due to his exposure to the coronavirus. In 1900, the ...
OGDEN — The Weber County Jail’s former contract medical director has disclaimed any responsibility for the death of an inmate on suicide watch, saying in court papers this week that other contract or county-employed personnel were in charge of that final phase of the man’s ...
OGDEN — Weber County is the first in the state to have a full-time indigent defender program, a development that the new director says means better advocacy for poor arrestees, who are constitutionally guaranteed adequate representation. Salt Lake and Utah counties have well-established ...
OGDEN — A man who was shot 11 times in a confrontation with police three years ago has pleaded guilty to a charge of assault on a police officer arising from the incident, which was described by two Black Lives Matter groups as a use of excessive force. Jamal Samuel Bell, 30, of Ogden, who ...
