Utah Gossip

So apparently a new program is in place for inmates at the Utah County Jail. Those with misdemeanors will be charged $10 per day, due upon their release. (It doesn’t appear that there is a similar program in place for inmates charged with felonies.) According to the Utah County Jail website, the average length of [...]

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KSL reports that a man from Grantsville is due in court after he appealed a ruling in March that would send him to jail. The crime? Stealing Mayor Byron Anderson’s campaign sign.
Dennis McBride was convicted and sentenced to six months in jail and nine months probation thereafter.
Is it just me or does [...]

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Betty Perry fell over the threshold of her front door as she was trying to escape the clutches of an officer in the process of handcuffing her, causing her cuts on her nose and a potentially bruised arm. While the world mourns her case and the tragedy of arresting a 70 year old woman, I [...]

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So the other day I got an Icee at a Maverik in Orem. The total was $.84 and I didn’t have cash. Feeling bad about making them pay credit card processing charges for an order under a buck, I used my debit card. No biggie.
Then, a few days later I was shocked to discover I [...]

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Or so it seems. A woman was approached by two men while filling up her car at a Salt Lake City gas station this past Sunday. One of the men alleged he had a gun and pushed something hard against the woman’s back before ordering her to fill up the tank of his [...]

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Maybe she was just tired of the cliché of robbing convenience stores, maybe she assumed the word “salon” meant they had more cash than they actually did, maybe she didn’t have the complicated machinery (read: gun) for any other heist. For whatever reason, a woman recently robbed a Murray Tanning Salon with a knife.
I guess [...]

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Apparently a 61-year-old lady sick of constant library shushing fired a gun in the Provo library on Tuesday.
Surprisingly that’s the not the most bizarre part of this story (we don’t like to be quiet either):
The library was not evacuated. Hundreds of people use the 300,000 volume, two-story library on a normal day, Nelson said.
Yes, you [...]

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The Salt Lake Tribune reports a story about some robbers who intended to steal money from a credit union on Canyon Rd in Provo. The attempt was foiled by one of their accomplices who was actually a confidential informant. This isn’t usually much of a story and wouldn’t be even worth mentioning except in light [...]

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