Salt Lake City, Utah criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with carrying and using a straight edge razor blade during a flight.

On November 21, 2022, Merrill Darrell Fackrell, age 41, from Syracuse, Utah, departed on JetBlue Flight #871 from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York en route to Salt Lake City International Airport in Utah. Fackrell was seated in a win... More...    $0 (11-23-2022 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on civil rights wrongful death theories under 42 U.Sc. 1983 claiming that her daughter died as a result of deliberate indifference on the part of employees of Davis County Utah.

Heather Ashton Miller, age 28, fell from her top bunk at the jail and ruptured her spleen, but received no medical care.
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St. George, Utah criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with distribution of meth.

Stanley Beckstrom traveled to California to obtain methamphetamine. On July 21, 2021, Beckstrom delivered methamphetamine to a local restaurant in downtown St. George. The methamphetamine was tested in a drug lab. It was 100% pure and weighed one pound.

The Washington County Drug Task F... More...    $0 (10-26-2022 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a prisoner civil rights violation wrongful death theory.

Cynthia Stella, individually and on behalf of The Estate of Heather Miller, deceased, sued Davis County Utah on a 1983 prisoner civil rights theory claiming that Heather Miller died as a direct result of deliberate indifference.


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Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with filing a false tax return, tax evasion and engaging in a corrupt endeavor.

Derald Wilford Geddes, of Ogden, was a dentist who owned and operated Mount Ogden Dental PC. From approximately 1998 through 2014, Geddes took numerous steps to evade approximately $1.8 million in back federal income taxes that he owed.... More...    $0 (03-22-2022 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession of heroine with intent to distribute.

Jimmy Astudillo, age 32, of Salt Lake City, was for possession of heroin with intent to distribute, related to his role in the distribution of narcotics that caused the fatal overdose of a Park City woman in 2018.

Astudillo previously entered his guilty... More...    $0 (11-10-2021 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with civil disorder.

Christopher Isidro Rojas, 29, of Salt Lake City, was charged with one felony count of civil disorder, charged in a felony information, for his role in the burning of a Salt Lake City Police Department patrol car during the civil unrest which occurred in Salt Lake City on May 30, 2020.

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Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant accused of failing to properly inventory, track and maintain control over controlled substances.

Dr. Joe Roundy, a licensed veterinarian and the owner of the Tooele Veterinary Clinic in Tooele, Utah, was ordered to pay the United States $78,455 and restrict his prescribing of opioids and other controlled substances for vio... More...    $0 (08-19-2021 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, as herself, and as heir to the Estate of Curtis Eugene Gray, who sued Defendants on wrongful death, auto negligence and respondeat superior theories claiming to have suffered more than $4 million in damages and/or injuries.... More...    $0 (06-09-2021 - UT)

Conrad Truman sued state prosecutor Craig Johnson and various Orem City
police officers for violating his civil rights by fabricating evidence that was used
against him in a murder prosecution. Mr. Truman was prosecuted twice for the
murder of his wife. According to Mr. Truman’s complaint, the prosecution
knowingly falsified measurements of the murder scene to rule out the possib... More...    $0 (06-04-2021 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - Manslaughter charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Deland Cornpeach, 20, of the Shoshone-Bannock Indian Tribe, who was charged with one count of voluntary manslaughter and one count of assault on a federal officer.

Cornpeach admitted to stabbing the victim, E.P., an enrolled member of the Ute Indian Tribe, to death with a knife on the Uintah and Oura... More...    $0 (02-11-2021 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah drug trafficking criminal lawyer represented defendant.

Aaron Michael Shamo, the CEO of a nationwide dark net was charged with running a drug trafficking organization that distributed more than a half million counterfeit pills throughout the country.

A federal jury found Shamo guilty of organizing and directing a drug trafficking organization that imported f... More...    $0 (10-30-2020 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - The United States of America charged Andrew T. Whitehouse, age 25, with distribution of heroin.

According to the complaint, on Oct. 7, 2018, officers from the Tooele City Police Department responded to a residence on a call for a male who was unconscious and not breathing. The father of the victim believed he had overdosed on drugs. Officers and emergency technicians... More...    $0 (06-19-2020 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - The United States of America charged Dustin Erhardt with wire fraud.

Dustin Erhardt, age 33, of Beaverton, Ore., was charged with five counts of wire fraud in connection with what the indictment alleges was a scheme to use his position and access as a contractor to defraud a Provo company.

According to the indictment, Erhardt began working as a contractor for... More...    $0 (02-10-2020 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - The United States of America charged Elet Neilson with stealing pain medications from patients.

Elet Neilson, age 53, of Layton, a former emergency room nurse who admitted to tampering with controlled substances intended for patients and diverting the drugs for her own use, will serve 60 months in federal prison.

As a result of the tampering and diversion, ... More...    $0 (01-30-2020 - UT)

This is a qui tam action alleging violations of the False Claims Act (“FCA”), 31
U.S.C. §§ 3729–33, involving fraudulent reimbursements under the Medicare Act, 42
U.S.C. §§ 1395–1395ccc. Plaintiff Gerald Polukoff, M.D., is a doctor who worked with
Defendant Sherman Sorensen, M.D. After observing some of Dr. Sorensen’s medical
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practices, Dr. Polukoff brought this FCA action, o... More...    $0 (07-10-2018 - UT)

Justice Department Settles Immigration-Related Discrimination Claim Against Setpoint Systems Inc.

The Justice Department today announced that it reached a settlement with Setpoint Systems Inc., an Ogden, Utah, engineering company. The settlement resolves the Department’s investigation into whether the company engaged in hiring discrimination against non-U.S. citizens protected under the I... More...    $0 (06-19-2018 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - The Estate of Edgar Riecke, Katie Riecke, Jeff Riecke and Sarah Early, individually and as heirs of Edgar Rieche, deecased sued the Boy Scouts of America, Trapper Trails Council Boy Scouts of America, Logan Mackay, David Michelson, Scott Michelson, Antonia Michelson, Marc Anderson, Matt David, Brad Ewell, Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day... More...    $1 (05-10-2018 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - Utah PSN Partners Target Those Who “Lie-And-Try” To Purchase A Firearm; Two Federal Firearms Licensees Also Charged

Utah Project Safe Neighborhoods partners have a message for those who “lie-and-try” in attempting to purchase a firearm from federal firearms licensees in Utah: If you lie on paperwork you are required to complete to purchase a firearm, you may end up f... More...    $0 (05-10-2018 - UT)

Plaintiffs Adrian and Angela Lee1 asked the bankruptcy court to declare that
the automatic stay in Adam and Jennifer Peeples’ bankruptcy case applies to a
separate lawsuit Adrian Lee filed in state court against defendant Scott McCardle.
The Lees also asserted that the automatic stay prevented McCardle from collecting
attorney’s fees levied against Adrian Lee in that state-court la... More...    $0 (01-30-2018 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - North Ogden Woman Pleads Guilty To Mail Fraud, Tax Evasion; Admits She Embezzled $843,673 From Her Employer

Hailey Keele, age 35, of North Ogden, pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and one count of tax evasion in federal court Wednesday afternoon in connection with a $843,673 embezzlement scheme at the business where she worked.

In court documents fi... More...    $0 (12-18-2017 - UT)

The State tried Mr. Martin on four counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a first-degree felony, for sexually abusing his sisters-in-law A.L. and N.L. while occupying “a position of special trust in relation to” them. UTAH CODE § 76-5-404.1(4)(h). ¶ 7 At trial, A.L. testified that Mr. Martin had touched her vagina on four different occasions while he was supervising her; N.L. testified tha... More...    $0 (11-26-2017 - UT)