Catch a Criminal October 22, 2012

SALT LAKE, Utah (ABC 4 News) – Police say Salt Lake’s industrial area is seeing a high rate of criminal activity. | Video

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - Bill creates new liquor licenses and adds more enforcement.

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) - Salt Lake area police are trying to capture a man who robbed a cleaners. And Provo police are trying to hunt down an armed robber who got in, got the cash and got out in 40 seconds. Here is this week's Catch a Criminal.

CLEARFIELD, UTAH (ABC 4 News) – Over the weekend a calm cul-de-sac in Clearfield was filled with people and police. A teen party came to an abrupt halt when someone came to the door with a loaded gun and began firing. At least four people, including the 16-year-old who threw the party, were hit by the bullets. | Video

PROVO, Utah (ABC 4 News) - Police say a man who is accused of sexual abuse in Utah County is avoiding the law in Venezuela.

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) Police in Utah County and West Wendover are looking for five fugitives wanted for various and violent crimes.

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) Violence and robbery are the themes of this Catch a Criminal report. And we begin with the freshest suspect. His name is Jorge Alfredo Tapia. Police want this 20-year-old off the streets because he is violent and has a felony warrant from an aggravated assault that injured the victim. Salt Lake City Police say his last known address was at an apartment at 4503 S. Little Mountain Drive in West Valley City.

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - This week, police are looking for two people with warrants and two people who pulled out a gun and used it. | Video

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) We begin with saying that our ABC 4 Catch a Criminal reports are working. In our last report - Monday, November 21st - we told you Jedediah Blythe who was wanted on a child rape warrant.Two hours after our report - Blythe was booked into the Utah County jail. | Video

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) Score one for the good guys. One of the fugitives we showed you a few weeks ago has been found. Provo Police say that 32-year-old Jeffrey Ryan Richmond was taken into custody in Springville last week. Richmond was booked into the Utah County Jail on kidnapping and robbery charges related to the abduction and robbery of a woman.

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) Police say they know who they are looking for, they just need help finding him. | Video

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) They know who they are. And they know what they did. Now, police want to find and arrest three wanted men in Utah County. | Video

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) Another fugitive featured on our Catch a Criminal reports has been found and arrested. Washington County authorities were looking for Randee Justine Davidson when she was arrested in Salt Lake City. She was wanted on a felony warrant for obstruction of justice. | Video

MAGNA, Utah (ABC 4 News) - Unified Police asked for the public's help in finding a man that robbed a Shell gas station early Thursday morning. | Video

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) On October 3rd we showed you a photo of 27-year-old Jessica Bell who was wanted on two felony theft warrants. Two days later - she was found and booked in the Utah County Jail.

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) Police say he robbed and raped a Salt Lake City woman and they want to find him before repeats his crime. | Video

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) Score another one for the good guys - as a fugitive we featured in our Catch a Criminal report is busted. But police are also trying to find another fugitive on the run - here's this week's report. | Video

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) This week we are traveling from Salt Lake CIty to St. George to help police find and arrest criminals. Let's begin in Salt Lake and move South. | Video

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) Police are trying to find the man behind a Zion's Bank robbery and an armed bandit who threatened a store clerk in this week's "Catch a Criminal" report. | Video

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) Police are looking for a man who robbed a store with a rifle, a woman who carjacked a teenage driver with a pistol, and man in a woman's wig who ripped off a bank. | Video

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) Last week he was wanted - this week he is behind bars. Plus, Washington County authorities are looking for a thief who is targeting pharmacies. Here's this week's catch a criminal. | Video

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) Since March of this year, our catch a criminal reports have helped nab a dozen people wanted for dozens of different crimes. This week we are hoping to add four more names to the list. | Video

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) We want to start by telling you that police finally found and arrested a suspect in the so called "cigarette bandits" case. We showed you video a couple of weeks ago of the burglary and on Wednesday - Unified Police say they caught up with one of the bandits. Police say they arrested Sean Clos. They also say they know the names of another man and woman involved and are investigating. | Video

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) A couple weeks ago we told you about a man wanted for sexual exploitation of a minor. Police say, that man, Herman Lopez-Juarez, has since been captured. Deputies with the U.S. Marshal service caught up with him and arrested him last week. Good work. | Video

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) Police would love to get their hands on a couple of crooks - who have eluded them for a couple of weeks. And they want to catch up to a two wanted men. | Video

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) - Another fugitive who was featured in an ABC 4 Catch a Criminal report has been captured. We recently featured Jamie Pullman in our Catch a Criminal Report. The 20-year-old was wanted for distributing drugs on school grounds. She was found two weeks ago and arrested. In this week's report, we are taking a second look at a movie theater robbery and we're spotlighting a couple of men who police know, but don't know where to find them. | Video

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - About a month ago a teenage bandit attempted to rob a Salt Lake pharmacy. Unified Police say they are still trying to find him before he strikes again.

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) Police have pictures - they just don't know who is in them. This week's Catch a Criminal report includes an update to a Southern Utah fraud crime and new information about a theft in Payson. | Video

St. George, Utah (ABC 4 News) Police are looking for a couple of suspects they know and one who they want to meet and put in handcuffs. | Video

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) A Utah County woman who was featured on ABC 4's Catch a Criminal two weeks ago has been arrested. Shelly Pederson (see her photo in the slide show) was arrested by Orem Police nine days after our report. She had warrants for felony forgery, felony burglary and obstruction of justice. | Video

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) This week's Catch a Criminal report begins includes a registered sex offender and a woman who used a stolen credit card more than 50 times. | Video

Salt Lake City (ABC 4 News) Police are looking for three fugitives and they are hoping you have a good eye, a good memory and a willingness to pick up a phone and help them out. | Video

OGDEN, Utah (ABC 4 News) - Ogden Police detectives say it's only a matter of time before an arrest is made in a cold case that's dogged them for two and a half years. | Video

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - A suspect featured in our Catch a Criminal report on the 14th is now in police custody.

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - When Phil Archuleta disappeared last year, he was immediately put on the Department of Corrections Most Wanted list. Three months later, authorities are now looking for help finding the parole violator and others who bolted before finishing their sentence. | Video

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - He is known by a half dozen names including Jessi Vega, Jesus Alonzo and Arturo Munguia. But to police in Utah, he is the accused killer who got away. | Video

OREM, Utah (ABC 4 News) A man was shot in the head and killed in an Orem home as the suspect stood nearby. Three years later, police are still hopeful they can get their man, and so is the family of the victim. | Video

It was the middle of the day on January 15, 1994. A pair of sledders noticed an SUV parked on the side of an empty stretch of road near the mouth of Butterfield Canyon. They made a horrifying discovery.

At the bottom of a dirt road a few miles north of Coalville, a Summit County rancher was gunned down. It was originally thought to be a hunting accident.

It all began in 1984 when two hikers stumbled across a human skull in the Christmas Meadows area of Summit County. No one knew who it might have been, until two detectives came out of retirement.

A beloved mother and grandmother was found dead by her son on February 9, 2008. It mirrored a murder that happened three miles away exactly two years earlier.

A mother and her unborn child, brutally murdered by an intruder who forced his way into her home. The killer got away. Four years later, authorities have everything they need to prosecute the suspect, except his name.

A husband and father, on his way to work, gunned down in his own driveway, apparent the target of a drug dealer who thought he was a threat.

Old crimes -- frozen in police cold case files for years -- are becoming warm again, thanks to brand new technology. At Utah's state crime lab, scientists are solving crimes that were once thought to be lost causes.

All these cases -- cold -- leaving detectives frustrated and loved ones grieving, until now. People are coming forward with information that has been hidden for years.

The murder was one of four in august of 1971 that terrified the Salt Lake valley. The killer got away. 39 years later, family and loved ones are still asking, “Who killed Johanna Leatherbury?”

It was a random act of gun violence. A man lost his life. It happened two years ago on an Ogden street. Today, family members and detectives are desperate for someone to come forward with a clue into who killed Jeffrey Bancroft.

Three years ago in September a Magna wife, mother and grandmother turned up missing. Her family and detectives investigating the case say it’s as though she fell off the face of the earth.

FREDONIA, Arizona (ABC 4 News) - The search continued on Saturday for the suspect accused of gunning down and killing a Kane County Sheriff's deputy on Thursday. Saturday, police widened their search area, and desperate for any leads in the case, announced a $10,000 reward for help in capturing the deputy’s killer.