Author: Mariah Wheeler

Provo, UT – According to the court documents, his name is Jordan Nathaniel Jensen and he was charged with three counts of human trafficking for labor exploitation and nine counts of unlawful possession of another’s identification documents. The 31-year-old man was illegally inducing more than 20 Mexican Nationals to work for his company’s traveling carnival. The suspect is accused of taking the passports of the workers, who were all in the U.S. legally, and keeping them so they would not leave his company, Midway West Amusements, Inc. The probable cause statement says the Mexican Consulate notified the Utah Attorney General’s Office…

UTAH – Police officers in Utah will undergo mandatory training to learn how better to interact with people on the autism spectrum — the result of legislation that passed in March and took effect this month. The new law requires all police officers in Utah have “training in intervention responses to autism spectrum disorder and other mental illnesses.” State Rep. Steve Eliason told ABC News that he introduced the bill, in part, after a teen with autism was shot by Salt Lake City Police in September 2020. “Knowing how to deal with (people with autism) more specifically, just seems like it could do…