Counterfeiting suspects arrested in Provo
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Valerie Watkins, Wyatt Carter and Wendy Goins
According to Provo Police, Investigators from a Special Enforcement Team (S.E.T.) received information that suspects at the residence of 343 North 800 West, Provo were counterfeiting U.S. currency.
On April 12, 2012, police say the S.E.T. team, with the help of the United States Secret Service served a search warrant on the residence, where investigators found three printers, cotton paper with partially completed 10 & 20-dollar bills along with other completed counterfeit bills.
Investigators estimated that the completed bills equaled more than 2,000.00 in fake bills.
Police say officers also found heroin, paraphernalia, and prescription painkillers at the home.
The suspects were identified as Valerie Watkins, Wyatt H. Carter and Wendy Sue Goins.
Police said all three suspects face Possession of Forged US Currency and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia charges, while Goins faces an added Heroin Possession charge.
All three suspects were booked into the Utah County Jail.
Crossing confuses pedestrians where Sandy teen was hit
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SANDY, Utah (ABC 4 News) - A Sandy teenager was fighting for his life Monday night after being hit by a truck over the weekend.
Dylan Gibbs was crossing a busy street where he shouldn’t have, but police say the accident may not have been entirely his fault—or the driver’s.
The crash happened at an unfinished TRAX crossing on 106th South in Sandy. Although there is no crosswalk, it is a popular place to cross the street and that may be part of the reason why this teenager was hit.
The 14-year-old had to be air lifted to Primary Children’s Medical Center where he is still in a medically induced coma.
The Gibbs family is struggling with what happened.
“This has really been devastating,” said Dylan’s aunt. "We're just sticking together and hoping he'll come out of this and be whole and be the 14-year-old playful, active, wonderful kid that he is."
Dylan was crossing the street after church with his brothers when he was hit by the truck. But police say the driver wasn’t at fault.
"At this point, he doesn't seem to be receiving any citations for this incident," said Sandy Police spokesmen Troy Arnold.
And although Dylan was crossing this street illegally, he may not be to blame either.
The problem is that the road is confusing for both drivers and pedestrians. For example, there is a bike path that runs through the middle of the road. There is even a sign that tells drivers to expect people on bikes to cross the street.
Ever since UTA put in the TRAX lines, it seems like the most natural place for people to cross. However, if you are walking the path and there are signs that say you cannot cross, you must go all the way to 7th East or down to State Street.
It is legal to cross at the unmarked crossing up the street, but as ABC witnessed on Monday, no one uses it.
Pedestrians continued to cross in the exact same place where Dylan was hit, even though they know it is dangerous.
"You think that you're safe to go across, you think the other people in the other lane aren't watching for you then you'll be more open to being hit," said one Sandy resident.
However, the problem remains that many pedestrians still do not know where, or how to cross safely at this unfinished TRAX crossing in Sandy.
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Miller's Megaplex group buys Westates Theaters
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Westates Movies 5 in Logan (Grant Smith, utahtheaters.info)
Westates Movies 5 in Logan (Grant Smith, utahtheaters.info)
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - The Megaplex Theatres is acquiring eleven movie complexes from Westates Theatres as part of an on-going expansion initiative.
According to Megaplex spokesman Jeff Whipple, several Westates locations in Logan, Cedar City, and St. George, Utah, as well as one location in Mesquite, Nevada will be transitioned into Megaplex Theatre complexes over the next several months.
Tony Rudman founded Westates in 1958 with the single screen Davis Drive-In Theatre in Layton Utah, and then grew Westates to over 100 movie screens in 25 theatre locations prior to his death in 2010, according to Whipple.
Whipple said Megaplex will look at upgrading most of the theaters, including options to convert film projectors into digital equipment over the coming months.
The acquisition includes the following theatre complexes:
Providence Stadium 8
Logan, Utah
University Stadium 6
Logan, Utah
Logan Movies 5
Logan, Utah
Cedar City Stadium 8
Cedar City, Utah
Cedar City Fiddler 6
Cedar City, Utah
Pineview Stadium 10
St. George, Utah
Sunset Stadium 8
St. George, Utah
Washington Red Cliffs 4
St. George, Utah
St. George Cinema 6
St. George, Utah
St. George Flood Street 4
St. George, Utah
Stadium 6
Mesquite, Nevada
The purchase includes 71 total screens, with a seating capacity for nearly 12,000 people.
Whipple said that all qualified Weststates employees at the acquired locations will be offered positions at Megaplex, and that the purchase will create more than 300 new positions.
Whipple said that the acquisition is part of a larger expansion program currently underway at Megaplex Theatres. In the past three years, Megaplex Theatres has grown from 70 screens in Utah to more than 150 screens in Utah and Nevada. The company is currently building a new theatre complex at Valley Fair Mall in West Valley City, due to open in late 2012. Construction is also underway for two new auditoriums at Jordan Commons in Sandy at the former site of the Mayan Adventure restaurant. A new VIP auditorium opened at Jordan Commons in March, 2012.
Westates will continue to operate theatre complexes in Elko, Nevada; Page, Arizona; Montpelier, Idaho; and Holladay, Utah.