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Summit County Sheriff's Department Deals With Abandoned Car, Horse Thief And $50,000 Bracelet Stolen

Summit County Sheriff's Office

Among the incidents in the past week, Summit County Sheriff Deputies responded to a couple of single-vehicle rollovers and a variety of robbery reports.

Sheriff’s Lt. Andrew Wright told KPCW that in the early morning of Tuesday the 11th at about 2:45, a vehicle had crashed off Highland Drive through fencing at the Swaner Preserve.

No one was at the vehicle. Officers were able to contact family and friends of the driver, a 29-year-old Salt Lake woman. She had posted on Facebook that she had checked into a hotel.

Officers later found the woman and cited her for leaving the scene of an accident. She said she had not contacted authorities that night because she had lost her phone and was tired. She said she had consumed only once alcoholic beverage that night.

The following night, at about 11:20 pm officers responded to a report that a vehicle near I-80, on the Echo Dam Road, lost control, went off the road and came to rest on some boulders.

The driver, a 17-year-old male from Croydon, in Morgan County, admitted he was speeding. He was cited for Failure to Stay in One Lane, and for violation of his Learner’s Permit.

That same day, the theft of a horse was reported in Coalville. A resident reported she was selling a horse online. She received what she thought was a strange phone call from a woman who said she was from New Mexico, who said she was in the area, and wanted to try out the horse.

The complainant didn’t set up an appointment. She was at work and asked a neighbor to check on the horses in the pasture that afternoon. A couple of hours later, her husband notified her that the horse in question, a brown mare, was missing. There were tire tracks and foot prints at the site, indicating the horse was loaded onto a trailer.

The same night, Deputies got a report from a store at Tanger Outlet Mall that two suspects, described as Hispanic males, grabbed a large amount of clothing, ran out of the store without paying, and got into a waiting black Mercedes that fled the area.

And finally, a Basin resident reported a jewelry theft, about two months after she thinks it happened. A tenant at Canyon Creek Apartments told officers she suspects that a friend who stayed with her for three weeks in October, made off with a tanzanite bracelet valued at more than $53,000.

The woman said she didn’t realize the bracelet was gone until last month. She told officers she didn’t notify them because she was undecided about reporting it to her insurance company.

Known for getting all the facts right, as well as his distinctive sign-off, Rick covered Summit County meetings and issues for 35 years on KPCW. He now heads the Friday Film Review team.
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