Former Utah County Attorney David Leavitt and Utah County Sheriff Mike Smith publicly traded barbs in a bizarre series of back-to-back press conferences in June 2022. Leavitt called the reopening ...

and accused Utah County Sheriff Mike Smith and others of dredging up years-old, unverified witness statements that accused Leavitt, Hamblin and others of “cannibalizing young children” and ...

The Utah County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday that the department was “shocked” by a judge’s rare decision a week ago to permanently dismiss criminal charges against a central suspect in ...