New Year's stabbing leads to arrest of man in Layton
LAYTON -- A man who police say forced his way into an apartment wound up in jail after he assaulted his ex-wife and stabbed another man at a New Year's Day party.The 28-year-old suspect was booked into the Davis County Jail on multiple offenses, including violation of a protective order, assault, aggravated burglary and attempted homicide.
A Layton police report said the trouble started in an apartment complex at 225 N. Fairfield Road, where officers got a call of a fight in progress.
Witnesses told officers the man knocked on the door, forced his way in when it opened and struck his 22-year-old ex-wife. In the melee of people struggling, a 21-year-old man was stabbed, but his injuries were not life-threatening.
Riverdale road worker killed when steamroller falls on him
RIVERDALE, Weber County -- An 18-year-old man doing construction on the new Riverdale Road bridge was killed after the steamroller he was driving rolled off a 10-foot retaining wall and landed on him.
Killed was: Timothy M. Davies, an employee of the Draper-based Wadsworth Construction.
"The victim was running a steamroller and got a little to close to one of the edges, and that's when it rolled off a 10-foot retaining wall," said Riverdale Police Sgt. Don Anderson.
Police say Davies either attempted to leap clear of the machinery or fell.
No one else was injured in the accident, which happened at 4:35 p.m. Thursday at 600 W. Riverdale Road.
Bomb threat at Home Depot turns out to be a hoax
An anonymous caller decided to play an early Y2K prank at a Home Depot store in Salt Lake City Friday afternoon.
The male caller phoned Home Depot, 328 W. 2100 South, at 3:04 p.m. and told employees there was a bomb inside a black van with a satellite dish on its roof in the store's parking lot, according to Salt Lake Police Lt. Phil Kirk.
Home Depot called police immediately, and several hundred people were evacuated from the building and parking lot for roughly 11/2hours while bomb technicians investigated the van. Police also blocked off 300 West between 1850 and 2100 South.
After the van's license plates were linked to its owner, a Sugar House man, police tried unsuccessfully to call the man, Kirk said.
"Around 5 o'clock the registered owner showed up," Kirk said. "He contacted us and said what happened was he parks the van there on a daily basis and carpools with a co-worker to Park City. . . . So it all turned out to be a hoax."
The owner was not detained, and police still don't know who the anonymous caller was.