Salt Lake Tribune | 2003-06-10 | Page 32

UTAH D2 Wendovers’ Water Spat Heating Up For THE RECORD Public sufet Border towns: The city on the Nevadasidehas sucet sfully transferred a lawsuit filed by its Utahsisterto federal court. At issue are watersales to alarge hotel-casino Rapist gets up to 30 y A 23-year-old man wh« raped a id girl at a West alley City home during a party was sentenced Monday to prisonfor up to 30 years By Mark EppincTon The Salt Lake Tribune lez Orosco pleaded rict Court to nd-degree fe nts of kid apping and forcible sexual abuse n connection with events onSept. 7. 2002. The victim, who arrivedat the cording to charging documents. The friend heard screams from the room but was prevented from helping the victim. Judge Paul Maughan said he would ask the parole board make Orosco serveevery day ofhis sen: tence Killer to undergo mental tests A 29-year-old man who broke into his mother’s Sandyhome three years ago and strangled her witha belt will undergo a 90-day mental health evaluationat the Utah State Prison priorto sentencing, a 3rd District Court judge decided Mon day. Farid Baruquehad pleaded felony man slaughterandfirst-degree felonyag: But Judge Michael Burtonsaid he significantloss,” Christensensaid. Wendover’s attorney in Reno, Nev., could be reached Mondayfor comment. However, West WendoverCity Administrator Chris Melville denies the allegations “Wehavea letter on file asking us to make the change[on water service],” Melville said. “There was anyone to deny li- Elected officials on bothsides of the state boundary declinetodiscusstheparticulars ofthe case, which has been igned to federal Judge Ted Stewart. Until its sales were stopped in December, Wendoverhad supplied the casino with watersince the early 1930s. The two Wendovers have been working to merge into one Nevadacity. Residents in both places sup- ported the merger in a nonbinding election lastfall. Buttheeffortis stalled in Congress,andstate legislators in Utah and Nevada arestill studying the is: [e-mail] Wendover and West Wendoveraresplit by the Utah-Nevadastateline, as shownin this 2001 photo. Polygamist Kingston Leaves Prison Today wants to know whether Corrections officials will house Baruque in the mental healthunit and what kind of treatmentwill beoffered. Sentenc ingis set for Sept. 22. Term ends: He was convicted ofunlawful sexual relations withhis 16-year-old-niece Man acquitted in shooting A Salt LakeCity man who alleg: edly shot and wounded a friend three years ago has been acquitted by jury of second-d felonyat 35, was identified by the victim, MichaelBarnes,as (he person who shot him four times in theface, head and chest with asmall caliber handgun at his homeon Nov. 2, 2000, But Roachtestified he was homeat thetime d District “They open the cell door, he walks out, hi Roachinnocent of the shooting. WILDFIRE WATCH Green on Monday. “No one has juris- year sentence for having outa free man.” sexual rela- diction or authority Utah's most secretive and affluent polygamoussects. He also is the younger David Ortell over him. He walks Kingston Kingston will, Afree man however, remain on Utah’ssex offender during a secret ceremony, was con: victed by a jury of one count each of third-degreefelony incest and unlawful sexual contact with a minor. Todd Utzinger, one of Kingston's Young sentenced Kingston in 1999 to Ratherthan parole him, authorities opted to terminate the 37-year-old man’s sentence meaning he will not be required to check in with parole Kingston committing a new Kingston was an accountant for The Latter Day Church of Christ, one of David Ortell Kingston, who prosecu: tors said took the girl as his 15th wife consecutive 0-to-5-yearprison terms. font 100 m ntence is One ofthe few Utah polygamists to face criminal prosecution in recent years is to bereleased from prison today after serving 4 years ofa potential 10- Former 3rd District Judge David IN UTAL David crime,” he said. “The decision to allow hima clean,fresh start is a wise one.” over, d Board of Pardons andParole administrative coordinator John tions with his 16-year-old niece. Court jury panel deliberated eight hours on Fridaybefore finding “Inall likelihood, you will never see supervisors. By Srepuen Hunt The Salt Lake Trifune Jeff Brian Roach, ACTIVE HLAZL y alleges in the suit. Neither casinoofficials nor Douglas Rands, West city planned on using to repay the bond for the gravated burglaryfor slaying Edith Baruque, 49, on June 28, 2000. The defendant faces up to life in prison. tempted murder. has had to “restructure its bondobligations “and now stands to lose another $1 million as a result, Wen- Barring an appeal, Wendover’s water warwithits home with a female friend, was second-degree reservoir near Leppy Pass. Cash-strapped Wendover sister city on the Nevadaside of the state line will be decided in federal court Attorneys for West Wendover filed a notice of removal with U.S. District Court earlier this month, ef fectively shifting the lawsuit brought against it by Utah's Wendover from Tooele's 3rd District Court to Salt Lake City ‘he fact it was removed suggests [West Wendover] comfortable with the case being heard in fede al court than the one in Tooele County,” said Wendover’s Salt Lake City attorney, Harold Chris: tensen, who says he is weighing an appeal. Wendover sued its Nevada neighbor in April, claiming West Wendover officials cut off the Utah city’s water sales to the Stateline Nugget Hotel and Gambling Hall formerly Stateline/Silversmith Ca sino and put the city in danger of defaulting on a $3.4 million bond used to build a water treatment plant and million-gallon reservoir Wendover leaders allege, among otherthings, that their West Wendovercounterparts threatened to revoke the Stateline’s liquorlicense andrefuseits own: ers a business license if the Nevada casino didnot start tapping West Wendover water forits supply. he suit also alleges the switch in service cost Wendover $90,000 annually in lost revenue, moneythe pushed into a room with Orosco and the door was locked behindher, ac guilty to Tuesday, June 10, 2003 registry for 10 years. former attorneys, said the parole board's decision to not supervise King- ston recognizes that “he has taken full responsibility and is prepared to go on andlive a crime-free life. It shows they evaluated his case and foundheis sincere whenhesays this was anomalous conduct.” Utzingeraddedthat Kingston has no history ofviolence. brother of churchleader Paul Kingston. David Kingston’s victim is the daughter of another brother, John Daniel Kingston, whoin 1999 pleaded no contestto child abuse for severely beating the girl after she attempted to flee her arranged marriage with David Kingston. Thegirltestified at trial she had sex with David Kingston four times. 1999 investigation by The Salt Lake Tribune revealed several instances of membersofthe 1,000-member Kingston clan marryinghalf-sisters,first cousins, jieces and aunts as part of their reliis beliefs. During an August 2002 parole hear- ing, Kingston admitted forthefirst time that he had sex with the girl. He also vowed never again to commit incest or havesex with an underagegirl. Kingston also told a parole hearing officer he would henceforth “encourage [family members] to follow the law.” He added:“I recognize the hurt and sorrow I have caused [the victim] and my Rowenna Erickson, co-founder of Tapestry Against Polygamyand a selfdescribed Kingston family expert, said Monday shebelieves Kingston will feel “a lot of peer pressure” from his family whenhereturns. But Utzingerinsisted: “David is ca- pable of making his own decisions.” While Utah’s constitution bans polygamy, there no criminal statute that refers to it as a crime. Instead, polygamists have been prosecuted for bigamy or unlawful sexual ct. ribed by prison officials as a model prisoner, Kingston avoided disciplinarywrite-ups, tutored inmates who were trying to complete high school and a paid teaching assistant in the ison’s college program. 2nd Cloned Mule, With Utah Science Ties, Is Born’ Project: A Utah State Universityresearcher helped create the Idaho experiment Active acres: 2.668 Acres burned this year: 2.668 1 — LonesomeBeaver Located 20 miles southwest of Hanksville, the fire was started by a lightningstrike near the By Gre Lavine Lonesome Beaver campground. 2- Mile Marker 30 Thofire one mile east of 1-15near St. George is believed to have started from a lightning strike and burned about 40 acresof grass and shrubs. The fire waslargely containedby Monday evening The Salt Lake Tribune 3— Mile Marker 28 The fire started Monday afternoon from lightning 15 miles. south of St. George and had burnedabout 60 acres of pinyon, junipor and sage in Swiss Canyon. Forty firefighters and three air tankers werecalled in by Monday evening to fight the b Sou 2 NationalInteragency Fire Center The Salt Lube Tribune White may haveto wait until August, were born at an undisclosed location in Idaho. “He's fine and he’s running around,” gave birth to what is believed to be the Utah Pioneeris a clone, blood samples andhairfollicles will be sent to the world’s Pioneer University of California, Davis, for confirmation. second cloned mule: Utah Utah State University researcher Ken White, who teamed with University Thefire that started about the sametime as the Mile Marker 30 fire consumed about 10 Kathy Barnard, a spokeswoman for the University of Idaho in Moscow,said when researchers areanticipating the birth of a third clone. While Whitesaidhe is fairly certain At 5 a.m. Monday, a horse in Idaho aores three miles to the west of I-15 and was largaly burned out by Monday night 4— Swiss Fire International Airport on Monday to visit thefoal. “I was actually goingto try to makeit upthere for thebirth.” To see a cloned mule born inperson, the 78-pound Utah Pioneer is smaller than Idaho Gem was atbirth. The mules Barnardsaid of Utah Pioneer. ‘The team created the two mules from genetic material extracted in 1998 froma 45-day-old mule fetus. The donor animal is a sibling of champion racing mule Ifthe results comeback as the team hopes, thebirth will mark an important ‘We've controlled the genetic: of Idaho scientists Gordon Woods and Dirk Vanderwall on the mule cloning project, received the call about the birth afew hourslater. ‘The young male mule hit the ground nearly a month after the arrival of the step in proving the cloning method works. Idaho Gemwasthefirst equine to becloned. Mules, a cross betweenfemale horses and male donkeys, are almostalways sterile. that’s identical, ' White said. But, hown from the s ence, the twoclonesarenotidentical in every respect. first cloned mule, Idaho Gem. The what we've done,” Whitesaid. “It wasn’t just afluke.” brothers come from identical genetic but they don’t look alike. ‘] was a little bit surprised,” White said while heading to Salt Lake City “It underscores the repeatab’ Environmental factors still play a significant role in how clones develop, he said. Current technology is unable to produce exact copies ofanimals. This line of research could affect An online study from the journal fields ranging fromcancerresearch to Science detailed Idaho Gem's birth. agriculture. ‘Though theprint version of the results has yet to be published, White was un- sure whether there was time to add details of Utah Pioneer. The cloning method involves duplicating genetic material taken from the donor fetus. Oocytes, or horse eggs, werethen gatheredfrom mares and any remaining genetic material was removed. Copies of the mule DNA were inserted into the empty eggs. Chemicals wereadded to fool the egg into thinking it had been fertilized. The eggs were thenplaced into thefallopian tubes of femalehorses. Initially researchers had problems inducing pregnancies in the mares. But after calcium levels wereincreased inside and aroundthefertilized eggs, the team improved its success rate. In 2002, 113 DNAtransfers created 14 pregnancies, including the two foals now romping around Idaho. Mostof the pregnancies ended prematurely. [e-mail] Forfeiture Cases Before Court Could Pe#dline NearforSenateApplications HaveBroad Fiscal Impact for State Political hopefuls have until Wednes- By Kinsren Srewant The Salt Lake Tribune Forfeiture proceedings rarely attract public attention, much less require intervention from Utah Attorney Gen: eral Mark Shurtleff. But such is the case with three otherwise humdrum forfeiture cases before 3rd District Judge Tyrone B. Med ley. In addition to pitting Salt Lake County against the state ina “friendly”battle of logal interpretations, the case precedent-setting a fact Medley underscored Monda declaring hewill rule by written memorandumon or be- fore June27, At issue is whether district attorneys and courts in three counties skirted state law last year by awarding po: lice departments a quarter of a million dollars in seized money and property that Shurtleff believes rightfully be longs to publicschools, help fund schools, But a January audit of court records showed the state treasuryhasn't seen a penny offorfeited fundssince the law wentintoeffect on March 29, Instead, courts awarded the $237,999 in cash and other property ment to guns, cell phones and computer equip: West Valley City and Midvale police, the Weber/ Morgan crimestrike force and the narcotics divi sionof the Salt Lake City Police Department. District attorneys in Salt Lake, Davis and Weber coun: ties deny breaking thelaw. To the contrary, said Salt Lake Deputy County Attorney ChadPlatt, “wetried to follow” two conflicting statutes on the books but conceded to a newer and more specificstatute “to help with murkiness.” Roberts countered the newer law, though enacted more recently, was actually passed beforethecitizens initiative and had nothing to do withforfeitures, Rather,it was abill to clean up the Uniform Commercial Code,hesaid. Monday's proceedings affect only the three cases at Under a ballot initiative approved by 69 percent of Utah voters in the November2000 election, profits of forfeitures of propertyused in crimes that traditionally went to police were “clearly” diverted to the state, argued Assistant At torney General Thom Roberts on Monday, The moneyis supposedto be used to compensatecrime victims, pay legal fees of innocent forfeiture victims and ' hand, But both sides see Mediey's ruling asa starting point for ensuring that any illegally awarded forfeiture proceeds bereturnedtothe state “We'll have to look at each case oneby one,” said Platt. A similar case is pending before 2ndDistrict Court in Ogden. [e-mail] f day to apply for a chance toreplace former state Sen. David Steele, R-Wes Point. After 17 years on Capitol Hill, Steele resigned last week to spend more timewith family and focusonhisjob. Applicants should submit a written statement of interest to Davis County Republican Party Chairman Todd Weiler by faxing to 801-521-3484 or e-mailing [e-mail]. The Davis County Republican Party will submit one name to Gov. Mike Leavitt, WorkshopsPlanned on ExpansionofU.S. 89 Design workshops to discuss how to proceed with expansion of U.S, 89 in the upper end of Provo Canyonare scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday. Wednesday's meetingis from6-8 p.m. at Wasatch High School Library in Heber. The Thursday meeting runs from 68 p.m. at Foothill Elementary in Orem. UDOTofficials say the workshops are to “ensurethe highway design considers the natural and built environmental issues and community values.” The workshops are part of the supplemental environmental-impact study. Smoking, Campfires Banned in Zion Canyon Area Campfires and smoking along trails in the Zion Canyonarea of Zion National enclosed vehicle or building, a developed "ark are forbidden because of extreme fire danger in south-central Utah, Visitors may use stoves fueled by petroleum,liquid propane gas or charcoal, And smoking is allowed within an area. recreation site or a designated smoking Federal law also prohibits using any kind of fireworks at any time on federal lands. Violators could face up to $5,000 in fines and 12 monthsin jail. |