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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, January 22-24, 2020 A-3 The Park Record County Seat Look for me online at PropertyShopParkCity COUNTY EDITOR: ALEXANDER CRAMER 649–9014 EXT. 15712 | Countynews@parkrecord.com FaceBook County preps for Sundance Sheriff’s deputies, health inspectors are most impacted ALEXANDER CRAMER The Park Record As the film world descends on Park City for the Sundance Film Festival this week, county officials are preparing for increased demand for services, from a huge swell of Health Department inspections to an increase in calls to the Sheriff’s Office. Summit County Manager Tom Fisher said that Park City incurs about 99% of the film festival’s government planning demands but that Sundance remains the largest event held in the county annually and the impacts are felt in the county’s courts and jails, roads and hotels. “Sundance has a huge effect on the whole community,” Fisher said. “From a county government perspective, we don’t dread it at all. It’s a wonderful event in the community that certainly causes some impacts that our residents have either expressed opinions about, or deal with or stay away. Sundance brings a lot of good to our community as well, not just tax revenue.” Nate Brooks, the county’s environmental health director, said the Health Department spends more time in the run-up to the event to prevent “a storm of inspections” in just a few days. The department is responsible for inspecting the temporary “mass gathering sites” and places that will offer food. “It is all hands on deck and our staff is great (at) pitching in and working with people to ensure safe food consumption,” Brooks said. “We only have four licensed environmental health scientists ... and that requires that we team up to attempt to knock out all the inspections early in Sundance and then spot check and handle complaints throughout the events.” Summit County Sheriff’s Lt. Andrew Wright said the office is ramping up for the busiest event of the year. He said the volume of calls increases, which affects dispatchers, and jailers are kept busy with an increase in the number of bookings. The office also does a lot of planning before Sundance, Wright said, coordinating security plans with all the venues and discussing films that may draw protesters to ensure an adequate law enforcement presence. He added that the Park City Police Department bears the brunt of the event and that sheriff’s deputies supplement their efforts as much as they can, including providing extra staffing at venues and for traffic control. For the Public Works Department, there are compounded challenges for snow removal if a storm hits while there are more vehicles on the road. “The added traffic can slow us down a bit,” Public Works Director Derrick Radke said. The Transportation Department does what it can through signage and messaging to direct people to mass transit and parkand-ride options. Fisher said that, even though many residents are vocal about the event’s inconveniences, some see the positives. “We get a lot of exposure out of this as well,” he said. “There are a certain percentage of our residents who enjoy the event.” Instagram R E A L E S TAT E I N S I G H T S . S TA G E D V S VA C A N T H O M E S It’s always easier if a home is furnished or staged versus a home that’s vacant, because a family needs to see what the home is like when their belongings are there. Buyers have a hard time making sense of open spaces. By properly staging a home, you give the buyer an idea of how the home looks when it’s fully furnished. I offer a complimentary staging consultation service to help make your home stand out to perspective buyers. M I C H A E L H AT Z G L O B A L R E A L E S TAT E A D V I S O R +1 4 3 5 9 0 1 - 0 7 2 1 w w w . M i c h a e l H a t z . R E A LT O R ©2019 Engel & Völkers. All rights reserved. Each brokerage independently owned and operated. Engel & Völkers and its independent License Partners are Equal Opportunity Employers and fully support the principals of the Fair Housing Act. If your property is currently represented by a real estate broker, this is not an attempt to solicit your listing. Don’t get buried in news you don’t need. Call 435–649–9014 to get the news you care about Standoff locks down schools Shotgun-wielding man arrested without incident ALEXANDER CRAMER The Park Record A brief standoff in Coalville between Summit County Sheriff Office’s deputies and a shotgun-wielding man holed up in a garage led to North Summit schools being briefly locked down Thursday. Deputies responded to a Coalville residence after a woman reported that her boyfriend had stolen a shotgun from a trailer on her property and threatened her while pointing the gun at her, according to Sheriff’s Lt. Andrew Wright. He then went to a family member’s home with the weapon and refused to leave the garage. A member of the man’s family notified the Sheriff’s Office that they needed help dealing with the situation, Wright said, which took place blocks away from the North Summit elementary, middle and high schools. Law enforcement officials said the schools were locked down “out of an abundance of caution” because the man had a weapon in close proximity to the schools. The man was contained in the residence during the entire encounter. The lockdown lasted about 15 minutes and started at approximately 8:23 a.m., Wright said. The girlfriend reported the episode started the night before, when the man refused to leave her vehicle and came to her home, Wright said. The next day, the woman found that her boyfriend had torn apart her trailer and had retrieved a shotgun she had stored there, which belonged to one her associates. Wright said the 39-year-old Coalville man appeared to be having a mental health episode and was being aggressive. When threatening the woman, he accused her of having set him up with little people living in the heater, Wright said. Members of the man’s family opened the garage for Sheriff’s Office personnel, eight of whom responded to the scene. After initially refusing commands to leave the garage, the man eventually complied, Wright said. The man was known to law enforcement, with Wright estimating he had been booked into jail 25-30 times previously. He was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence aggravated assault, theft, failure to stop at the command of a peace officer and possession of marijuana. He was taken to the hospital for a medical evaluation, then taken to jail. Sheriff’s Report Deputies smashed two windows of a vehicle stopped for suspicion of DUI after its driver repeatedly refused to exit, according to Summit County Sheriff’s Lt. Andrew Wright. A fellow motorist notified the Sheriff’s Office Thursday of an apparently impaired driver on S.R. 224 who was swerving between lanes and crossing the median. The pickup truck crossed the dividing line and almost crashed into a patrol vehicle parked on the side of the road before that deputy attempted to initiate a traffic stop, Wright said. When the truck eventually pulled over in Newpark, the 37-year-old Park City man who was driving cracked his window two inches and requested to speak to a supervisor. When a sergeant arrived, he ordered the man out of the vehicle, but the man refused. After warning him they would be forced to break the vehicle’s windows, a deputy broke into the passenger side and attempted to force the man out. Another deputy subsequently broke the driver’s window and together pushed and pulled the man out of the vehicle. In all, five deputies responded to the scene. The man refused to take field sobriety tests and a warrant was issued to draw his blood and test it for alcohol. The man was arrested on suspicion of DUI and traffic offenses. According to the Sheriff’s Office, law enforcement responded to several other calls between Monday, Jan. 13, and Sunday, Jan. 19, including a father holding his 15-year-old son’s head in the snow during a fight and a $3,000 fraud. Sunday, Jan. 19 A 23-year-old Park City woman was cited for possession of marijuana and driving with expired registration after a traffic stop near Old Ranch Road. Deputies initially stopped the vehicle for having expired registration, but upon making contact, there was a strong odor of marijuana. The driver admitted to possessing the drug and gave it to deputies, who then searched the vehicle. A 28-year-old Park City man was arrested on suspicion of DUI after deputies responded to a report of a vehicle stuck in the snow in the median of Canyons Resort Drive. The man was alone and in the car’s driver seat, and deputies could smell alcohol when they spoke with him. He was booked into the Summit County Jail. A man reported that his semi-truck was broken into in a Coalville hotel parking lot and that the thief made off with personal items including a laptop and some hand tools. Deputies indicated they did not have information about a suspect. Saturday, Jan. 18 A woman reported that her husband had been gone longer than she expected after announcing at 3:45 a.m. he was leaving to search the area near the Rockport reservoir for his cellphone, which he had lost there. While the man would routinely leave for a night to be alone, the woman alerted authorities that this was longer than usual. He was found the next day in the Salt Lake Valley after deputies broadcasted an “attempt to locate” for his vehicle. Friday, Jan. 17 A Silver Springs man was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault and child abuse after Thanks for making a difference fighting with his 15-year-old son. Deputies were called to the house for a report of a family fight that started over the boy’s school attendance and possession of vaping paraphernalia. The man pushed the boy’s head into the snow in the driveway of their home and held it there. The boy was referred to juvenile court for running from deputies who were investigating the incident and the man was arrested. Deputies indicated they notified the Division of Child and Family Services and the Summit County Attorney’s Office. Thursday, Jan. 16 Summit County Search and Rescue assisted an elderly man who was having a medical issue in Tollgate Canyon. Deputies hiked to the elderly male and began walking him back to the parking area, where SAR personnel used a snow machine to transport him to the bottom of the canyon. A 28-year-old Salt Lake City woman was defrauded out of $3,000 by scammers claiming to be FBI agents. They told her she had connections to crimes in Texas and needed to pay them using Walmart and Best Buy gift cards, which she did. Deputies indicated the perpetrators used several numbers appearing to originate from Texas, that they did not have information about the suspects and that the case would be forwarded to the Investigations Division. Wednesday, Jan. 15 A 25-year-old Park City man was arrested on suspicion of intoxication after he was found passed out in his own vomit in the back of an Uber. He refused medical attention and could not find a friend or relative to pick him up and was taken to jail. You inspire us with your drive for continual improvement. Thank you to Utah businesses for investing in energy efficiency and saving nearly 158 million kilowatt-hours in 2019 – enough to power 18,420 average Utah homes for a year. 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