Crime

Police Chief Jake Sube credits collaboration and community involvement for the city’s 50% reduction in serious crime.

The mayor’s new 50-page public safety plan for Salt Lake City details 27 city actions and 23 recommendations that will need city, state and county collaboration.

Bills focusing on everything from cracking down on the fentanyl trade and organized crime to people who drive their cars without a license will be taken up by the Legislature in 2025.

Police said Wednesday the shooting apparently happened last weekend. A relative who hadn't heard from the family prompted police to find the bodies Tuesday. A surviving 17-year-old boy has a severe head wound.

The FBI says an 18th century British painting stolen by mobsters in 1969 has been returned more than a half-century later to the family that bought the painting during the Great Depression.

According to the FBI’s annual crime reports, Utah’s violent crime rates have declined to pre-pandemic levels. But the rates in Salt Lake City have seen a much smaller drop than the rest of the state.

Police records obtained by The Associated Press shed light on Michael Haight’s violent tendencies and the warning signs that authorities were aware of years before the tragic murder-suicide.

Jennifer Shah, who sobbed Friday as she apologized for her crimes prior to the announcement of the sentence in a New York courtroom, admitted her guilt last July.

Officials in the city of Enoch said 42-year-old Michael Haight, 42 took his own life after killing his wife, mother-in-law and the couple’s five children.

The mounting criticism against the Republican county attorney comes from former prosecutors, law enforcement and GOP delegates.

The latest Utah news for Thursday morning, April 21, 2022

It was found that the University’s housing department delays reporting some campus safety issues to the school’s police department, negatively impacting public safety.