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Show tr I 9Wi M 2A & Sun Advocate Price, Utah Tuesday May 25, 2004 Heffelflngers sentenced in murder, robbery case Business building in Price dosed following inspection for compliance to fire code The two subjects arrested following an October 2001 highspeed chase incident in the local area have been sentenced to prison in connection with the deaths of two deer hunters in Daggett County. Lewis Francis Heffelfinger was sentenced last Wednesday to life in prison without parole tor robbing and killing two deer hunters. New Mexico The man pleaded guilty to two capital felony counts of aggravated murder and two first degree felony counts of aggravated robbery tor his alleged role in the Oct. 21. 2001 deaths of Brad W. Gross and Kelly J. Caller. Daggett County Attorney Dennis Judd. Utah Chief Deputy Attorney General Kirk Torgensen and Assistant Attorneys General C D. Horton and Polly Samuels prosecuted Lewis Heffelfinger son. and the Michael Heffelfinger. for the crimes. During a criminal proceeding conducted in the capital murder and aggravated robbery case last week. Lewis I let telfiinger admitted that he and Ins son saw the victims sitting in a pickup truck near Flaming Gorge and decided to take the vehicle, indicated the Utah Attorney General's Office. According to the statement of the defendant, the father and son routine fire code inspection last week resulted in the evacuation and closure of a business building in downtown A Price. The Castle Valley Mall, located at 1 West Main in downtown Price, was evacuated and shut down following numerous alleged fire code violations. The building served as a location to three businesses and it two agencies. In addition, several tenants lived in the basement. Fivers one in the building was forced to leave the premises until the alleged violations have been brought back into compliance with the fire code, according to Price officials. The Price mayor and council recently changed the job description of one of the city's building inspectors to include fire marshal responsibilities. Under the new title. Bob Bennett has been systematically inspecting businesses in Price for fire code violations. When Bennett arrived at the Castle Valley Mall last week, the Price city fire marshal reportedly discovered that six apartments in the basement of the building had been rented to tenants. According to Pi ice l ire Chief Kent Boyack. the rental of the apartments created several public safety issues. The alleged fire code violations all occurred in the basement of the building and had to do with issue such as no alarm system, lack of a sprinkler system and problems with the ceiling tiles in the hallway. "People cannot stay here until these have been repaired, stated Boyack during an interview Monday. "There would he no way to get people out of that basement if there was a fire," he said, adding that it would be a real problem for fire lighting officials to respond to this location. The Castle Valley Mall is currently owned by Johnson Land, a company headquartered in Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake company purchased the building about 12 years ago. Unrelated to the alleged fire code violations. Price law enforcement officers recently responded to several citizen complaints regarding alleged criminal activity at the residential area inside the Castle Valley Mall. After arriving at the scene. Price police personnel reportedly discovered a couch blocking the way in the hall leading to the apartments in the building, pointed out Capt. Kevin Drolc during an interview Monday. I he criminal investigation into the complaints culminated in the arrests of several suspects on disorderly conduct, criminal trespass and assault against a law enforcement officer charges, confirmed Diolc. One Price city law enforcement officer currently remains on light duty assignment due to injuries purportedly sustained in connection with the assault incident, indicated the police police captain. Price officials called on the state fire marshal's office to assist in conducting the code compliance inspection at the building. Local olficiulx assisting with the code compliance inspection at the building included Boyack and Chief Aleck Slulaos fiom the Price City Police Department, concluded Drolc. 1 non-prof- Sponsored by: exit-entr- EPA neurological damage in rats and people because thyroid systems w oi k similarly in the species. To date, the LPA has identified 75 perchlorate releases in 22 states, including Arizona. Texas. Nebraska. Iowa. New Yoik. Maryland and Massachusetts as well as California. The Colorado River, the main water source for about 15 million homes across the Southwest, contains perchlorate at roughly seven parts per billion, seven times the level that the LPA's National Center for Lnv Assessment says is safe. "There are substitutes for perchlorate in the dry cleaning process and we will be people w ho use those processes in the county to see if they can switch to some of those alternatives," said Richens during a Monday interview. iron-ment- Another problem involves chemicals used in industry processes for cleaning. "There are some surfactant additives that the LPA is becoming concerned about." stated Richens. In their usable form, they pose no threat, but as they degrade they become toxic. They can affect the microorganisms at the treatment plant and can also affect downstream microbiology as well." The Carbon area may a problem due to the cleanin'! associ 79 Cup Noodles 32 02 & Peanuts similar sentences last month. ated with heavy mine and construction equipment. "Those same substances are also in home cleaning products, but we can't do anything about that." explained Richens. "The F;P. deals with that at the na- tional manufacturing level. However in use by local industry will be ours to address." In an unrelated business matter. PRWID manager Phil Palmer expressed concerns about the depth of district lines in the construction area on U.S. Highway 6 between Price and Wellington. They are rather shallow in the area east of Haves Wash." noted Palmer. "There are a couple of alternatives to fix that. One would be to move the bar ditch out away from the lines or to cover them vv ith more fill. We will be working with the Utah Department of Transportation on this problem." In addition, board member Tom Matthews voiced concern about rising costs PRWID may incur due to climbing gas and diesel prices. "I think we should talk with various departments about watching budgets on this situation." said Matthews. We may have to look at equalizing some budgets to cover the costs." Matthew s also asked the staff to research and bring a list of the water shares ow ned by and or committed to the district to the next meeting of the board for the members review. KRAFT Sauce BBQ Beans 18 oz. 51 00 54.00 Gatorade PLANTERS 16 oz Dry Roasted pleaded guilty and received 15.5 oz. 25 02 Asst robbery counts. The designated incarceration periods are to run consecutively to the prison sentences Lewis Heftelfinger is presently serving for allegedly shooting at law enforcement olficers in Carbon County and fleeing in the stolen truck. in the murThe der case. Michael Heffelfinger, LrJ. Pork 25 Lewis Heffelfinger was sentenced to two concurrent terms of five years to life in prison in connection with the aggravated WESTERN FAMILY 12 Packs 2 addition. In VJ my. Coke Products pistol. The muider suspect's son and reportedly shot and killed Carter After the two deer hunters were dead, the purportedly took items from the victims' pockets and tied the scene in a truck belonging to Gross. As part of the plea bargain agreement. Lewis Heffelfinger was sentenced immediately to two consecutive terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole for the aggravated murder counts. standards affect water: iConinwrtl mm pnyc JAl phometry indicate perchlorate's elfects may cause permanent y murder suspects approached the truck and talked to the victims for a short period of time, then Lewis Hetfelfinger purportedly shot and killed Gross with a 16 oz. 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