A Duchesne County woman who pleaded Guilty to 1st Degree Felony Child Abuse Homicide in 2020, was arrested this week on a new offense of Child Abuse. According to the Affidavit of Probable Cause, 46-year-old Lisa Jo Vanderlinden was arrested on October 18th for the...
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Uintah County Woman Charged After Stabbing Boyfriend With Glass
A Uintah County woman has been charged with felony Aggravated Assault after allegedly stabbing her boyfriend with broken glass last month. According to the Affidavit of Probable Cause, officers located 27-year-old Daidre Isabel Arthur after receiving a report of a...
Uintah County Man Receives Additional Charges For Dealing Drugs
Additional charges were filed this week in 8th District Court against a Uintah County man currently serving a sentence in the Utah State Prison. 39-year-old Jacob Benjamin Clark has been in and out of jail for over 20 years on charges related to drugs, including being...
Republican Party Of Uintah County Against Proposed Property Tax Increase
The Republican Party of Uintah County has announced their opposition to the property tax increase proposal for Uintah County. The announcement shares the following: The Utah Republican Party Platform states, “TAXATION We accept the necessity for limited taxation in...
Change In Location For Uintah County Public Hearing On Proposed Tax Increase
After the initial announcement and response from the public, Uintah County has announced that the public hearing for the proposed tax increase has been moved to the Uintah Conference Center to accommodate more people. The original notice stated that if the proposed...
Uintah County Issues Notice Of Proposed Property Tax Increase
Uintah County has issued a notice of a proposed increase to property taxes. The notice states: If the proposed budget is approved, Uintah County would increase its property tax budgeted revenue by 73.11 percent above last year’s property tax budgeted revenue,...
Local Lawyer Dennis Judd Charged Following Utah Attorney General Investigation
Local lawyer Dennis L. Judd has been formally charged after a 7 month investigation by the Utah Attorney General’s Office. On Wednesday, October 11th, the State of Utah Attorney General charged Judd with 2 counts of Voyeurism by Concealed Electronic Equipment and 1...
Suspect Found Laying On Highway 40; Booked On Sexual Battery Charge
Officers located a man accused of rape in a dangerous location on Sunday. Law enforcement responded to a call of alleged sexual battery in West Roosevelt on October 8th shortly after 9pm and the accused was found laying in the middle of Highway 40. When approached,...
Duchesne County Man Charged With Child Sex Abuse Violates Protective Order
The arraignment is being held today in 8th District Court for a Duchesne County man being held in Duchesne County Jail on multiple charges, including 1st Degree Felony Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child, for alleged events that took place in August. 44-year-old Scott...
‘First Water Bank Of Utah’ Approved For Vernal Area By Utah Water Board
The Utah Board of Water Resources met on October 5th and approved the aptly named ‘First Water Bank of Utah’ to be established in the Vernal area. Ryan Goodrich with Ashley Valley Water & Sewer Improvement District and Keith Despain with Vernal City were present...