SALT LAKE CITY — Gangs in Utah seem to be recruiting younger and younger. How worried should residents be? What can Utahns do to prevent it? Law enforcement officials have said a Venezuelan gang ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Kids as young as nine being used to commit heinous gang crimes in Utah. Police and gang-prevention experts say gang leaders are recruiting younger and younger children.

Just before gunfire rang out last month in a heavily guarded federal courtroom, Hema Katoa saw the defendant suddenly rise from his chair and charge the man in the witness box who was testifying ...

The Utah Department of Public Safety, or DPS, arrested two men on Wednesday for allegedly firing their guns at a vehicle in 2009 and killing one of the occupants, according to officials. The DPS State ...

Relatives and neighbors of a family who died in a tragic murder-suicide mourn together at a vigil in West Haven. In Utah, 100 people were killed as a result of homicide during 2024 — the highest ...

Faced with the dilemma of devoting their lives to their religion or firebombing the homes of rivals, Mormon gangbangers decided they could do both. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, youngsters in Salt Lake ...

The Salt Lake City Police Department’s Gang Unit has been named the 2025 Gang Unit of the Year by the Utah Gang Investigators Association for its work over the past year. | Salt Lake City Police ...

As Ron Stallworth tells it, gang members thought Utah police were a joke. “One kid,” Stallworth recalled in an interview with Fox 13 News, “even said, ‘Coming to Utah and dealing with you guys is like ...

A 20-year-old gang member was sentenced to prison for drug and gun crimes he committed in 2023.Gregorio Tabarez-Hernandez, aka "Trigger," age 20, of Sandy, was ...

(The Center Square) – Utah is taking a targeted approach to help President-elect Donald Trump with his deportation efforts after the state has been inundated with illegal border crossers and crime, ...

Salt Lake County, Utah may not be gang free, but it’s not nearly as bad as the FBI initially suggested. The Deseret News reports that the FBI has conceded that it far overestimated the gang problem in ...