Salt Lake City Crime

Crime, law and justice, and police blotter near Salt Lake City, UT or anywhere in the US.

Recent Crime News

• Salt Lake County DA deems officer's actions lawful

  4 hrs ago | via KRMG-AM Tulsa 

  The Salt Lake County district attorney says a Murray police officer who shot and wounded a man suspected of killing his girlfriend was legally justified.

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  Related Topix: Salt Lake County, UT, Violent Crime

• Louise Andryusky's words resonated with residents of...

  5 hrs ago | via St. Petersburg Times 

  She had made plans to visit the grave of her husband, Bill, at Florida National Cemetery near Bushnell on Sunday, as she did every Memorial Day weekend, said her granddaughter, Jenifer Halkais of Palm Harbor.

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  Related Topix: Hernando County, FL, Bushnell, FL, Spring Hill, FL

• 911 recordings reveal pain and frantic plea for help...

  6 hrs ago | via ABC 4 

  Salt Lake City - ABC 4 News now has the 911 recordings from that deadly Memorial Day shooting at Yuba Lake State Park.

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• Idaho calls 'Five Wives Vodka' offensive to church

  14 hrs ago | via WCAX-TV Burlington 

  The son of Malcolm X's biographer is asking Syracuse University to hand over a letter in which the slain activist writes about his shifting views on race relations.

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  Related Topix: Syracuse University, Sundance Film Festival

• TRAX, vehicle crash delays Salt Lake City commute

  16 hrs ago | via ABC 4 

  Salt Lake City commuters should be ready for slight delays on TRAX trains after a crash involving a train and a car.

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  Related Topix: Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City, UT

• Murray teen pleads guilty in crash that killed cousin

  16 hrs ago | via ABC 4 

  SALT LAKE CITY - A Murray teenager pleaded guilty on Friday to one count of negligent homicide stemming from a fiery crash that killed her cousin in November.

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  Related Topix: Sundance Film Festival, Murray, UT, Salt Lake City, UT

• Utah woman adopted from Indian orphanage THIRTY year...

  19 hrs ago | via Daily Mail 

  Deportation battle: Attorneys are fighting to stop Kairi Shepherd, who was adopted from India as a 3-month-old baby, being deported A 30-year-old woman who has lived in the U.S since she was adopted from an orphanage in India as a baby is facing deportation after a court ruled she is living in the country illegally.

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  Related Topix: Sundance Film Festival, Prison

• Man injured when car strikes TRAX train in Salt Lake...

  19 hrs ago | via Salt Lake Tribune 

  Utah Transit Authority officials said TRAX commuters endured delays Tuesday morning after a car ran a red light and collided with a train in downtown Salt Lake City.

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  Related Topix: Train Disaster, Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City, UT

• Car strikes TRAX train in Salt Lake City, causes delays

  19 hrs ago | via Salt Lake Tribune 

  Utah Transit Authority officials said TRAX commuters should plan for delays Tuesday morning after a train and a car collided in downtown Salt Lake City.

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  Related Topix: Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City, UT

• Rewind: News you may have missed over the holiday we...

  20 hrs ago | via Salt Lake Tribune 

  The Salt Lake Tribune) Ted Naanes drives his "rat rod" down a Salt Lake City street Tuesday May 22, 2012.

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  Related Topix: Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City, UT, Utah, Memorial Day, Life, Holidays, Foreclosures

• Suspect Flees Into pond, Realizes He Can't Swim

  22 hrs ago | via CBS Local 

  A 29-year-old man has been arrested after West Valley City police say he jumped into a pond during a police chase before realizing he couldn't swim.

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  Related Topix: West Valley City, UT, Salt Lake City, UT

• Salt Lake City police and neighbors try to catch a t...

  Yesterday | via ABC 4 

  SALT LAKE CITY - A Salt Lake City neighborhood has had enough with graffiti - especially with whoever continues to spray paint the letters "D I S" all over the area.

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  Related Topix: Salt Lake City, UT

• Zombie Apocalypse Preparedness and Survival Guide

  Yesterday | via Downtown Miami News 

  Miami is ground-zero of the potential zombie apocalypse according to the blogosphere, and while we can't be sure the end days are near, we are willing to entertain the potential impact of zombie activity in the fair City of Miami .

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• Memorial Day vacation turns deadly

  Yesterday | via ABC 4 

  "It's sad to see during Memorial Day Weekend when you're trying to have a good time.

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  Related Topix: Sundance Film Festival, Juab County, UT, Salt Lake City, UT, Clinton, UT

• Woman Adopted As Baby Faces Deportation To India

  Monday | via TheDenverChannel 

  Attorneys are scrambling to find a way to prevent the deportation of a woman who was adopted from an orphanage in India as a 3-month-old baby following a determination by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that she is in the country illegally.

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  Related Topix: Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, US News, Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City, UT, Immigration Reform

• Local happenings from a garden fair to opportunities...

  Monday | via KSL-TV 

  As the summer recreation season begins, Salt Lake City's Department of Public Utilities is promoting respect and safety among visitors to City Creek Canyon.

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  Related Topix: Home Gardening, Home, Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City, UT

• Man avoiding police jumps into lake, forgets he can'...

  Monday | via Salt Lake Tribune 

  A 29-year-old trying to avoid capture after a chase jumped into the Liberty Park pond before he remembered he couldn't swim, police said.

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  Related Topix: West Valley City, UT, Salt Lake City, UT

• Police chase ends with dip in Liberty Park Pond

  Monday | via KSTU 

  Police say a man stole a car and led them on a chase through Salt Lake County early Monday morning.

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  Related Topix: Salt Lake County, UT, Salt Lake City, UT

• Rape charge dismissed against Hillsboro man who had ...

  Saturday May 26 | via OregonLive.com 

  Multnomah County prosecutors have dismissed a rape charge filed last fall against a 27-year-old man who had been arrested after a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her in a portable bathroom at an Old Town bar in October.

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  Related Topix: Hillsboro, OR, Multnomah County, OR

• Mike M. (Bubba) Smith

  Jul 1, 2011 | via Sun Advocate 

  HELPER/HURRICANE - Michael Merin Smith, 1963 - 2012 of Hurricane. Our beloved husband, father, son, brother, uncle, and friend; age 48 passed away May 22, 2012 in Hurricane.

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  Related Topix: Outdoor Recreation