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Show A7 Vernal Express Wednesday, September 17, 200q Man enters pleas to reduced counts A Salt Lake City man stopped outside Duchesne in January after a sheriffs deputy said he was driving erratically pleaded guilty last Monday to five of the 26 charges against him. Brian Wayne Shipman, 34, pleaded guilty to one count each of possession of a controlled substance sub-stance inside a correctional facility; facil-ity; possession of a forged writing or device; forging or falsifying a license, special plate or permit; unlawful acquisition, possession or transfer of a financial card; and possession of another's ID. The charges are all felonies. . In exchange for his plea, prosecutors agreed to dismiss the remaining charges against Shipman. On Jan. 24, Duchesne County Sheriffs Deputy Carl Reilley stopped Shipman after he said he saw him swerve out of his lane while driving on U.S. Highway 40. A routine records check revealed that Shipman had an outstanding Board of Pardons warrant and was listed as armed and dangerous. Shipman was taken into custody without incident. During Dur-ing a search of his car, deputies said they located several forged documents and identification belonging to another person. Corrections officers also found methamphetamines concealed on Shipman's body during a search at the Duchesne County Jail, Reilley said. Shipman's case was delayed for several months while Duchesne Duch-esne County prosecutors waited to see if the U.S. Attorney's Office would seek a federal grand jury indictment. Duchesne County Attorney Stephen Foote later decided de-cided not to recommend federal prosecution. A sentencing date has been set for Oct. 20. Shipman remains in jail and is awaiting sentencing on charges in 3rd District Court in Salt Lake City on an unrelated case. Underage driver hits power pole A 14-year-old Ballard boy hit a power pole next to his home on Thursday with his parents' car, Roosevelt police said. Sgt. Jeremy Chapman said the teen got behind the wheel with two toddlers in the car in an effort ef-fort to occupy the children, who were his nephews. The boy was going to pull around the side of his family's home the sergeant said, but mistakenly hit the gas pedal instead of the brake pedal, striking a power pole. The 2:25 p.m. collision caused the power line to fall across the road at 911 North 1500 East. Moon Lake Electric crews were called out to repair the line. Chapman said the teen would not be cited and would not be referred to juvenile court because the incident occurred on private property. No one was injured in the crash. Vernal mom dies in Salina rollover A Vernal mother was killed in a rollover near Salina on Wednesday. But her two. young sons, who were secured in their child seats, survived with only minor injuries. Just before 11:30 p.m., Edith Morrison was in a car traveling on Interstate 70 about 20 miles outside of Salina when she drifted off the side of the road, said Utah Highway Patrol trooper Cameron Roden. The car rolled when she over-corrected. over-corrected. Morrison, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected and killed. Her two sons, ages 1 and 3, were taken to a local hospital as a precaution and re-. re-. leased a short time later to family members in good condition. The cause of the crash is being investigated. Davis faces new charges over alleged jail incidents inci-dents Casey S. Davis - the 18-year-old Vernal man already facing an aggravated robbery charge stemming from a May 30 incident at Wal-Mart - has been hit with new charges after he allegedly assaulted an inmate and two corrections cor-rections deputies at the Uintah County Jail. According one of two probable prob-able cause statements filed in 8th District Court last week, Davis walked up behind another inmate in his cellblock on Sept. 7 and grabbed the man around the waist with one hand while grasping the man's genitals in the other hand. The inmate was able to fight off Davis and summon sum-mon deputies to remove Davis from the housing unit. Prosecutors have charged Davis with sexual battery, a class A misdemeanor, in connection with the alleged assault. Davis is also charged with two third-degree third-degree felony counts of assault by a prisoner for his alleged attack on two corrections deputies prior to the cellblock incident.,, , v.. In the second probable cause statement filed last week, depu-' ties said that on Sept. 6 they removed Davis from his housing hous-ing unit after several inmates complained that he had been "harassing them by constantly touching them and yelling at them." Deputies said they attempted to address the complaints with Davis but noticed that "his personality and demeanor had changed dramatically from what it normally is." "We questioned Davis about his mental state and he told us he that he was trying to decide whether or not to go to prison or leave in a pine box," the probable cause statement said. Deputies said they decided that Davis should be moved to an isolation cell where they could better monitor him, for his own safety. They also contacted a counselor with Northeastern Counseling Center and asked her to meet with Davis. While waiting for the counselor counsel-or to arrive, deputies said Davis began hitting his head on the wall of the isolation cell. Deputies Depu-ties entered the cell to prevent Davis from injuring himself and said he was "thrashing around" on the floor, kicking one deputy several times and attempting to bite another deputy before they could restrain him. Davis is being held in jail on charges of aggravated robbery, assault, disorderly conduct, retail theft, criminal mischief, assault by a prisoner, interfering with an arresting officer, and disorderly conduct. Court records state that Davis walked into Wal-Mart on May 30 and started grabbing merchandise merchan-dise and screamingat customers. He then walked out of the store with the merchandise, without paying for it, and began opening it with a pocket knife. Davis was confronted by Wal-Mart Wal-Mart security and told them he was going back into the store to take more merchandise, witnesses wit-nesses told police. One employee told police he tackled Davis, who allegedly continued to punch and kick the employees and customers custom-ers trying to restrain him. After being booked into the Uint ah County Jail, Davis allegedly alleg-edly kicked a sheriffs deputy and attempted to strike other officers. The deputy used his Taser to subdue Davis and place him in the jail's restraint chair. The cases against Davis related re-lated to the May incident have been put on hold while mental health professionals determine whether he is competent to stand trial. A competency hearing in those cases is scheduled for Sept. 30. Davis was scheduled to make x iiis initialappearance on the new charges against him on Monday,' after press time. He remains in the Uintah County Jail. Utah commission looking at severance tax changes Ashley Regiona MEDICAL CENTER 1 AXX"" vj.. Jtli X CO M M I J N I CATIONS ' Presents the 2008 Mountain America 1 2th Annual CREDIT UNION Uintah Business j VERNAL i&r.Crnr Symposium "Playing in the BIG LEAGUE" Keynote Speakers: Mark Eaton & Kathy Loveless Sponsored By: AM 000 . , 11.. 1 i I I -J ... ! 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Keith Sprecht of the Xevfield Exploration Co., which has 1,600 wells in the Uintah Basin, says the state should carefully consider con-sider the impacts of tinkering with the tax. "I won't lie, Utah has a very favorable tax rate for us," Sprecht Spre-cht told KCPW Radio News on Thursday. "But that's why the majority of my division's investment invest-ment is in Utah, we get a better rate of returns." However, if the state increases its severance tax on oil and gas drilling, Sprecht says his company com-pany could be forced to move to cheaper markets. Producing oil in Utah is already 50 percent more expensive than in other western states, including Montana Mon-tana and North Dakota. Sprecht says it comes down Hatch proposes expanded national service program to a question of 'whether the state values severance tax more than the personal income and sales tax paid by the industry's employees. State tax commissioner Janis Dubno agrees 1 he state's analysis should consider more than just severance tax. "Their investment in the state createsjobs, and personal income and we get sales tax and we get income tax from that," she told KCPW "And I think if we do an analysis, I do think it is only fair to take that tax impact into effect as well." Dubno says the tax commission commis-sion could come up with a cost-adjusted cost-adjusted index to apply to all t he severance taxes across the Wert to determine how Utah ranks. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah wants an additional 175,000 volunteers to provide a year of national service. Hatch introduced a bill Friday Fri-day that calls for expanding the total number of national service participants to 250,000. Hatch says he wants to expand on the AmeriCorps program by focusingon new areas of national need. 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