An officer with the Utah Highway Patrol—who was injured when a pickup truck struck his parked patrol vehicle on an interstate highway over the weekend—has been released from the hospital and is expected to be okay.
Law enforcement from all over the country came to Utah's Spanish Fork Canyon for the fifth annual Mountain States SWAT Training and Competition in early September.
Police in Salt Lake City arrested a juvenile in possession of a firearm at a Salt Lake City school on Wednesday.
Police were dispatched after a call came in Monday night about a male in a "man thong walking down the middle of the road with a sign around his neck," the court documents state.
Officers with the Centerville (UT) Police Department are mourning the loss of one of their retired K-9s.
A Utah boy eschewed the idea of operating a traditional summertime lemonade stand and instead opened on the sidewalk a stand selling "Ice Cold Beer," according to the sign he held while standing beside a number of coolers.
Officers with the Springville (UT) Police Department got some assistance from an observant nine-year-old girl with a knack for rendering her memories in drawings as they identified a vehicle suspected to be used in several package thefts.
Officers with the Pleasant Grove Police Department recently welcomed a new K-9—Django, a three-year-old German shepherd—to the ranks.
“(I) tried to pull him to the ground and as I grabbed his arm the other one had the 2X2 [4-foot board] in it and that’s when I got struck in the head. It hurt and after we wrestled I could see my face was bleeding,” said Officer Clark.
Officers in Utah were forced to shoot and kill a gunman who reportedly opened fire at several locations in Salt Lake City on Monday.