1st District Drug Court: Second chance to get clean and sober
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on 1st District Drug Court: Second chance to get clean and soberBy Tara Alvey LOGAN - Applause isn’t something you’d normally expect to hear in a court of law, but during the 1st District Drug Court session held April 3, applause for defendants and inmates who are striving to remain clean and ...
Trenton youth pleads guilty to December robbery of convenience store
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Trenton youth pleads guilty to December robbery of convenience storeBy Chris Lee LOGAN -- Ahiven Melendez, Trenton, pleaded guilty in 1st District Court to aggravated robbery and failure to stop at the command of law enforcement during his pretrial conference March 20. Melendez is a 17-year-old being tried as an ...
April 16 arraignment set for ER worker accused of sodomy
Friday, March 9th, 2012 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on April 16 arraignment set for ER worker accused of sodomyBy Tmera Bradley LOGAN – Hal Lavaun Weston, 46, Laketown, waived his preliminary hearing in 1st District Court Wednesday morning. Weston is charged with forcible sodomy, a first-degree felony. Shannon Demler, Weston's attorney, told Judge Clint Judkins that they were waiting on ...
Drug Court helps addicts help themselves, one step at a time
Thursday, December 8th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Drug Court helps addicts help themselves, one step at a timeBy Rachel Kenley LOGAN - First District Court Judge Thomas Willmore sat in Courtroom Five Tuesday, but instead of handing out sentences he gave out advice. Willmore checked in with Cache County's Drug Court participants, just as he has done nearly ...
Weber County man pleads guilty to stealing from USU dorm
Thursday, December 8th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Weber County man pleads guilty to stealing from USU dormBy Allee Evensen LOGAN - A Weber County resident accused of stealing from a Utah State University dormitory room pleaded guilty to charges of burglary and theft Dec. 5 in 1st District Court. Mitchell Schoonmaker, 20, a Farr West resident, entered a ...
Plea in abeyance lets woman avoid jail for minor in possession charge
Friday, December 2nd, 2011 Posted in Opinion | 1 Comment »By Lindsay Nemelka and D. Whitney Smith LOGAN — Waiving her right to counsel, a defendant facing a minor in possession charge entered a guilty plea in abeyance Tuesday morning in 1st District Court. Shaulynne Rae Leonard, 19, was sentenced to ...
Logan man pleads guilty to underage drinking, running from police
Saturday, October 29th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Logan man pleads guilty to underage drinking, running from policeBy Kristi Ottley LOGAN--A Logan man pleaded guilty to two separate charges in 1st District Court Tuesday. Trevor Lee Madson, 18, was charged with failing to stop at the command of a law enforcement officer, and unlawful consumption of alcohol ...
Wellsville man pleads guilty to supplying alcohol to a minor
Saturday, October 15th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Wellsville man pleads guilty to supplying alcohol to a minorBy Rouchelle Brockman LOGAN--A Wellsville man pleaded guilty in 1st District Court Thursday to knowingly supplying alcohol to a minor. Lee Kenneth Maughan, 22, pleaded guilty in exchange for his charge being reduced from a class-A misdemeanor to a class-B misdemeanor. He ...
Man sentenced for violating protective order
Friday, April 29th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Man sentenced for violating protective orderBy Kate Rouse LOGAN--Jose Roberto Oyuela pleaded guilty to violating a protective order, a class-B misdemeanor, in 1st District Court Wednesday and was sentenced to 180 days in the Cache County Jail. Oyuela testified he had gone to his children's school to ...
Logan woman pleads guilty to selling marijuana
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Logan woman pleads guilty to selling marijuanaBy Noelle Johansen LOGAN--A 19-year-old Logan woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to selling marijuana to a drug task force informant last October. Jessica Rose Lofland waived her right to a preliminary hearing at her 1st District Court appearance. The charge was lowered to ...
Woman sentenced to 5 years in prison after faking her drug test
Friday, April 22nd, 2011 Posted in Opinion | 1 Comment »By Mariah Noble LOGAN — After altering a urine analysis at the House of Hope Drug Rehabilitation Center and Bear River Health Department, a woman was sentenced to serve five years in the Utah State Prison on Tuesday. Andrea Shaw, 39, who ...
Man draws jail time for impaired driving
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Man draws jail time for impaired drivingBy Jamee Dyches LOGAN -- A young father was sentenced to six days in the Cache County Jail after pleading guilty to impaired driving, a class B misdemeanor, and driving without registration, a class C misdemeanor, during a pretrial conference Tuesday ...
Logan man sentenced for providing alcohol to a minor
Saturday, March 5th, 2011 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Logan man sentenced for providing alcohol to a minorBy Teresa Nield LOGAN -- A Logan man pleaded guilty in 1st District Court Tuesday to two charges of providing alcohol for a minor. Jordan R. Phelps, 21, was sentenced by Judge Thomas Willmore to 180 days in jail, with all ...
Woman will do prison time for theft, burglary
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010 Posted in Opinion | 1 Comment »By Megan Wiseman LOGAN--Miranda Wecker, 21, was sentenced Tuesday morning in 1st District Court for two counts of burglary and one count of theft, all third-degree felonies. The sentences of 0 to 5 years in prison for each crime will run ...
Student gets jail time for writing his own prescriptions
Thursday, November 18th, 2010 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Student gets jail time for writing his own prescriptionsBy Elizabeth Grewe LOGAN—Jordan S. Allred pleaded guilty to drug charges Tuesday afternoon in 1st District Court. Allred, 24, pleaded guilty to four third-degree felony charges of obtaining prescriptions under false pretenses from May 13 and July 8, 2010. Judge Thomas ...
Trenton man charged with raping child
Saturday, November 13th, 2010 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Trenton man charged with raping childBy Max Parker Dahl LOGAN--Trenton resident Ray Byron Herzog, 35, will face felony charges in the rape of a 9-year-old girl Nov. 16 at 9 a.m. at the 1st District Court in Logan. Charges were filed following an arrest made ...
Logan man gets another 6 months added to sentence
Monday, May 3rd, 2010 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Logan man gets another 6 months added to sentenceBy Safiyyah Ballard LOGAN--Clint Clair Gunnell of Logan was sentenced to six months in Cache County Jail by 1st District Court Judge Clint Judkins Monday, for possession or use of a controlled substance. Gunnell, 28, pleaded guilty to the charge and ...
Logan man gets jail time for misdemeanors
Thursday, April 29th, 2010 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Logan man gets jail time for misdemeanorsBy Jen Stevenson LOGAN--Joseph Olive, 27, of Logan, was sentenced to 20 days in the Cache County Jail in 1st District Court April 27. Olive was charged with driving under the influence and driving on a suspended license, both class B ...
Smithfield man sentenced for running from police
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Smithfield man sentenced for running from policeBy Kayla Woodring LOGAN—Judge Thomas Willmore sentenced a Smithfield man to jail time, fines and drug and alcohol rehabilitation Wednesday after telling him he was insufficiently punished for similar offenses as a minor. Cody Moulton, 18, pleaded guilty in 1st District Court ...
Fishing without license brings string of trouble to Logan man
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 Posted in Opinion | Comments Off on Fishing without license brings string of trouble to Logan manBy Paul Lewis Siddoway LOGAN - Juan Montano-Vargas, 27, of Logan appeared before Judge Clint Judkins Monday on charges of giving false personal information to a peace officer and fishing without a license. An officer from the Division of Wildlife Resources arrested ...