Utah Grand Larceny Law

<H2> United States of America v. Bryce Lucas Stimka

Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with producing child pornography, receiving child pornography, and enticement to engage in illegal sexual activity. In July 2024, Stimka (who was twenty-three years old) began an online relationship via Snapchat with a fourteen-year-old girl in Utah. Over roughly the next nine months, Stimka and the gi... More...

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United States of America v. Alexander Jon Ogilvie

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal receipt of a firearm by a person under indictment, in violation of 18 U.S.C. Â§ 922(n). After the October 2022 shooting, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Ogilvie, charging him with illegal receipt of a firearm by a person under indictment, in violation of 18 U.S.C. Â§ 922(n).... More...

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<h1> United States of America v. Alfredo Tovar-Ruiz </h1></h1>

<h2><center> Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Drug Crimes in Utah </font/color="red"></center><center> Mexican National Indicted for Drug Crimes in Utah</h2></center></center></> </font/color="red"></center><center> <center><h2> A Mexican national,... More...

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State of Utah v. Jairo Cesar Vazquez Garzon, aka "Rafael The Grand Warlock"

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with three counts of second-degree felony forcible sexual abuse and one county of First-degree felony object rape. Jairo Cesar Vasquez Garzon, 57, known as "Rafael The Grand Warlock," has been charged with three counts of second-degree felony forcible sexual abuse and one count of first-degree felony object ra... More...

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<h1> United States of America v. Aaron Kern </h1></h1>

<h2><center> St. George, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Sex Trafficking </font/color="red"></center><center> Southern Utah Man Facing Sex Trafficking Charges </h2></center> </h2></center> A man accused of forcing a victim to engage in commercial sex acts and forcing the victi... More...

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<h1> United States of America v. Robert Buckley Hardy </h1>

<h2><center> Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant indicted with Bank Robbery </font/color="red"></center><center> Utah Man Accused of Bank Robbery in Custody</h2></center> </h2></center> A Utah man was indicted by a federal grand jury in Salt Lake City after he allegedly robbed t... More...

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<h1> United States of America v. Alphonzo Robert Bell; David Alejandro Jimenez-Angel </h1>

<h2><center> Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant indicted with distributing methamphetamine </font/color="red"></center><center> A Mexican National and a Utah Man are in Custody Facing Drug Crimes </h2></center> </h2></center> A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned an ... More...

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State of Utah v. Wayland Derk Savage </cent>

Caldwell, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with grand theft, resisting and obstructing, and being a persistent violator, At trial, the State called the victim of the stolen car, Officer Burgoyne, and Detective Scott as witnesses. The victim testified that during the early morning hours, he drove to work, parked his car, and left his car unlocked with the ke... More...

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United States of America v. Taylor Nelson Pinder

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of meth and felony possession of a hand gun. About midnight on April 30, 2021, Deputy Colton Brimhall of the Wasatch County (Utah) Sheriff's Office observed a speeding car and pulled it over. A man (later identified as Mr. Pinder) was driving the car, and a woman (later identified as Sier... More...

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<h1> United States of America v. Aaron A. Wagner </h1>

<h2><center> Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Defrauding Investors and Lenders </center><center> Utah Businessmen Indicted for Defrauding Investors and Lenders Millions of Dollars</h2></center> </h2></center> A federal grand jury in Salt Lake... More...

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<h1> United States of America v. Calvin Brantley; Lashawn Charleswell; Keaira Woods; Tiras Jack; Harold Oliver; Jevaunte Reese </h1>

<h2><center> Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Allegedly Robbing an ATM of $200,000 </center><center> Six People Indicted After Allegedly Robbing an ATM of $200,000</h2></center> </h2></center> A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned an... More...

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<h1> United States of America v. Michael Austin Ford </h1>

<h2><center> Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Igniting a Bus Full of Children .</h2></center> <h3><center>Former School Bus Driver Accused of Igniting a Bus Full of Children is Indicted and Detained </h3></center> Michael Austin Ford, 58, of West Valley City, Utah,... More...

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United States of America v. Lev Aslan Dermen, aka Levon Termendzhyan, Jacob Kingston, Isaiah Kingston, Rachel Kingston, and Sally Kingston

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants charged with conspiracy to defraud the Government. From 2010 to 2018, Lev Aslan Dermen, age 56, conspired with Jacob and Isaiah Kingston, their mother, Rachel Kingston, Jacob Kingston's wife, Sally Kingston, and others, to fraudulently claim more than $1 billion in refundable renewable fuel tax credits. The IRS ultimatel... More...

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United States of America v. David Oguoguo Okeke

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with money laundering ring that aided and abetted the defrauding of more than a hundred victims, primarily widows. <table> <h1> <center> <img width="300" src="http://www.morelawtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Salt_Lake_Fed.jpg" alt="Federal Courthouse - Salt Lake City, Utah"</a> Federal... More...

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United States of America v. Stanley Beckstrom

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...

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United States of America v. Randy Lansing

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal law lawyer represented defendant charged with second degree murder. Randy Lansing, 38, of Aneth, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation Indian Tribe, was charged by a federal grand jury in the District of Utah with second degree murder within Indian Country for unlawfully killing a member of the Navajo Nation on April 23, 2022, while on Tribal lands. <br... More...

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United States of America v. Hubert Ivan Ugarte and Lisa Bradshaw Rowberry

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants who were charged with unlawfully obtaining a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan for Frisbu Trucking, Incorporated, where they were both employed. Rowberry was sentenced to prison for a term of 12 months and a day last week in federal court. Her co-defendant, Hubert Ivan Ugarte, was sentenced to a term of 36 months i... More...

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United States of America v. Alexandru Cosmin Licsor

<center> <img width="400" src="https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/ephox_images/slcCourthouse-small_1396389159194.jpg"> </center> Salt Lake City, UT - The United States of America charged Alexandru Cosmin Licsor with using a device to use to illegally take money from ATMs. A Romanian citizen pleaded guilty to bank fraud, admitting he and his co-conspirators devised an ATM skim... More...

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United States of America v. Frank Gene Powell

St. George, UT - The United States of America charged Frank Gene Powell with elder fraud. <center> <img width="400" src="http://www.morelawtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/St._George_UT_Fed.png"> </center> Frank Gene Powell, age 51, of Hurricane, Utah, the lead defendant in a significant federal elder fraud case targeting an 80-year-old widow in Washington, Utah, will se... More...

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United States of America v. Lev Aslan Dermen

Salt Lake City, UT - The United States of America charged Lev Aslan Dermen with conspiracy to wrongfully claim renewable fuel tax credits. A federal jury in Salt Lake City convicted California businessman Lev Aslan Dermen, also known as Levon Termendzhyan, of criminal charges Monday afternoon relating to a $1 billion renewable fuel tax credit fraud scheme. The convictions were an... More...

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United States of America v. Lev Aslan Dermen, a/k/a Levon Termendzhyan

<center> <img width="400" src="http://www.morelawtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/St._George_UT_Fed.png"> </center> Salt Lake City, UT - The United States of America charged Lev Aslan Dermen, a/k/a Levon Termendzhyan with renewable tax credit fraud. A federal jury in Salt Lake City, Utah, convicted California businessman Lev Aslan Dermen, also known as Levon Termendzhy... More...

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United States of America v. Daron Howell Fordham

<center> <img width="300" src="https://www.gsa.gov/ephox_images/slcCourthouse-blurred-large_1396391063940.jpg"> </center> Salt Lake City, UT - ordham Sentenced To 72 Months In Federal Prison For Mail Fraud Scheme With More Than 1,693 Victims Many Victims of His Fraud Are Elderly and Disabled Daron Howell Fordham, age 50, of Las Vegas, Nevada, who pleaded guilty to six... More...

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United States of America v. Kenric Lee

<center> <img width="300" src="https://www.gsa.gov/ephox_images/slcCourthouse-blurred-large_1396391063940.jpg"> </center> Salt Lake City, UT - Navajo Nation Man Pleads Guilty To Voluntary Manslaughter In Stabbing Death Of Uncle, Faces 110 Months In Federal Prison Kenric Lee, age 41, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Thursday to volu... More...

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United States of America v. Joan Osborn

<center> <img width="300" src="https://www.gsa.gov/ephox_images/slcCourthouse-blurred-large_1396391063940.jpg"> </center> In Sell v. United States, 539 U.S. 166, 169, 180–81 (2003), the Supreme Court outlined a demanding four-part test that, if satisfied, allows the government to forcibly medicate a mentally ill but nonviolent criminal defendant “to render that def... More...

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United States of America v. Steven Dean Hardinger

Salt Lake City, UT - Armed Utah Drug Trafficker Sentenced To 180 Months In Federal Prison A Vernal, Utah, man will spend 180 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking offense. U.S. District Judge Jill N. Parrish sentenced Steven Dean Hardinger, age 3... More...

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United States of America v. William Hammond and Kristine Vanorman

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 ... More...

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Adrian J. Lee; Angela Lynn Noyes Lee v. Scott J. McCardle

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-cour... More...

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United States of America v. Trent Sowsonicut

Salt Lake City, UT - Ute Tribal Member Pleads Guilty to Voluntary Manslaughter on Uintah and Ouray Tribal Lands Trent Sowsonicut, age 28, of Ft. Duchesne, Utah, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter on January 9, 2017 in federal court in Salt Lake City. As a part of the plea agreement, Sowsonicut admitted that he killed L.M., an enrolled member of the Ute Indian Tribe, during a quarr... More...

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STATE OF UTAH v. MICHAEL WADDELL JOHNSON <table> <td>

Michael Johnson was charged and tried for murder. At trial, Mr. Johnson requested an instruction for the lesser offense of homicide by assault. The trial court agreed and stated on the record that it would use the homicide by assault instruction submitted by Mr. Johnson. ¶3 The jury returned a guilty verdict on the murder charge, and Mr. Johnson appealed his conviction to the court of appeals. ... More...

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Michael E. Baker v. Park City Municipal Corporation

¶1 Appellants Michael E. Baker and Kathleen M. Papi-Baker (collectively, the Bakers) sought review in the district court of a decision, issued by the Park City Council (the Council), denying their application for a plat amendment. The Bakers filed a motion for summary judgment, arguing that their proposed amendment complied with municipal zoning regulations and that the Council withheld its permi... More...

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Ryan Harvey v. Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Quray Reservation, et al.

¶1 The oil and gas industry is a major economic force in the Uintah Basin. This industry relies, to some extent, on access to the Uintah and Ouray Reservation of the Ute Indian Tribe. The plaintiffs allege that, through its ability to restrict the industry’s access to tribal lands, the tribe has held hostage the economy of the non-Indian population. ¶2 Ryan Harvey, a plaintiff and part own... More...

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United States of America v. Donald Ray Fritcher

Salt Lake City, UT - Salt Lake City Man Sentenced to 330 Months in Federal Prison for Distribution of Child Pornography Donald Ray Fritcher, age 36, of Salt Lake City, will spend 330 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to distribution of child pornography. U.S. District Judge Dale A. Kimball, who imposed the sentence, also placed Fritcher on supervised release for life when he ... More...

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United States of America v. Jason Thomas Llewelyn

Salt Lake City, UT - Former Carbon County Emergency Services Director Pleads Guilty To Using County Credit Card For Personal Use - Agrees to Pay $64,723.03 in Restitution to Carbon County A former Carbon County Deputy Sheriff admitted during a hearing in federal court July 17, 2017 that he used a county credit card to purchase items for his personal use. Jason Thomas Llewelyn, ... More...

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The Estate of James D. Reed v. Daniel Love

In June 2009, as part of a federal law-enforcement investigation known as “Operation Cerberus,” FBI and Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) agents arrested twenty-three people and searched twelve properties in and near three Utah cities—Blanding, Monticello, and Moab. The operation targeted persons possessing and trafficking in Native American artifacts illegally taken from... More...

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United States of America v. Donald Bowers

Defendant Donald Bowers was previously involved in a civil trade secret misappropriation case that was litigated in the United States District Court for the District of Utah. During the course of that litigation, Bowers willfully and repeatedly violated a permanent injunction issued by the district court presiding over the case, and also refused to purge himself of civil contempt. ... More...

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United States of America v. Dr. Simmon Lee Wilcox

Salt Lake City, UT - r. Wilcox Sentenced to 100 Months in Federal Prison for Distribution of Oxycodone Convictions Dr. Simmon Lee Wilcox, age 60, of Las Vegas, who was found guilty in January of one count of conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and one count of distribution of oxycodone following a trial in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, will serve 100 months in federal prison. ... More...

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United States of America v. Lorenzo Verduzco-Benitez

Salt Lake City, UT - Head of Utah Heroin, Meth Distribution Organization Sentenced to 144 Months in Federal Prison Lorenzo Verduzco-Benitez, age 28, of West Jordan, Utah, head of a drug organization which sold heroin and methamphetamine in Utah, will serve 144 months in federal prison. Verduzco-Benitez, a citizen of Mexico, pleaded guilty in December to one count of conspiracy t... More...

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United States of America v. Dr. Simmon Lee Wilcox

Salt Lake City, UT - Jury Finds St. George Doctor Guilty Of Narcotics Trafficking Offenses After Eight-Day Federal Trial A jury concluded an eight-day trial in U.S. District Court by finding Dr. Simmon Lee Wilcox, age 60, of Las Vegas, guilty of one count of conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and one count of distribution of oxycodone. The jury acquitted Wilcox on three counts of distri... More...

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United States of America v. Jonathan Brett Wood

Salt Lake Ciyt, UT - Salt Lake City Man Pleads Guilty To Possession Of Child Pornography; Agreement Includes Stipulated 156-Month Sentence Jonathan Brett Wood, age 49, of Salt Lake City, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography in U.S. District Court. The plea agreement reached with federal prosecutors includes a stipulated 156-month sentence. The case is a part of ... More...

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United States of America v. Travis Javier Cruz

Salt Lake City, UT - Cruz Sentenced To 198 Months In Federal Prison After Pleading Guilty To Possession Of Methamphetamine - 73.8 Pounds Of Meth Were Intended For Distribution In Utah Travis Javier Cruz, age 38, of the Salt Lake City area, who traveled to California in October 2014 to pick up 73.8 pounds of methamphetamine from a supplier destined for distribution in Salt Lake City, will ... More...

$0 (11-19-2015 - UT)