(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah Governor Spencer Cox delivered his 2026 State of the State address at the Capitol last night, outlining key priorities for the coming year. Cox highlighted efforts to implement the 582 bills passed during the 2025 legislative session and set goals including improving early childhood […]
(Undated) — The Drug Enforcement Agency reports that more than 378-thousand fentanyl pills were seized in Utah during October’s Operation Fentanyl Free America. The month-long operation targeted the Rocky Mountain region, which also includes Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming, and resulted in over one million pills seized across the region. In […]
(Washington, DC) — The largest fentanyl seizure in US history involves Utah. The Department of Justice announced yesterday officers seized over eleven kilos of fentanyl, including three-million pills labeled as oxycodone that were laced with fentanyl. Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed that Sinaloa cartel members, operating illegally in the U.S., […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A report from the Utah Department of Health and Human Services reveals a staggering one-thousand-160-percent increase in fentanyl-related deaths in the state between 2014 and 2023. The Salt Lake City Police Department highlighted the growing prevalence of fentanyl in the community, noting its increasing presence […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — As America’s opioid crisis spiraled into a fentanyl epidemic, prosecutors say one young Utah man made himself a drug kingpin by creating counterfeit prescription painkillers laced with the deadly drug and mailing them to homes across the United States. Former Eagle Scout Aaron Shamo, 29, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal indictment accuses a 24-year-old Salt Lake City-area man of distributing large quantities of fentanyl, including pills that resulted in the overdose death of a woman. John Aaron Favro of West Jordan was arrested Thursday on a July 3 indictment charging him with distribution […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man accused of running a multimillion operation selling powerful opioids disguised as prescription drugs has been charged in an overdose death. Prosecutors say in court documents Thursday that a person identified as R.K. died in June 2016 after taking fentanyl, which Aaron Michael […]
