Sherif Kadir Sirage,Patrick Bahati

Sherif Kadir Sirage to remain on release pending charges of importing a controlled substance.
Sirage, along with Patrick Bahati, was accused of importing more than 400 pounds of khat, a flowering evergreen shrub that is chewed like tobacco in East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Khat is considered a narcotic and is illegal in the U.S. as well as part of Europe, East Africa and Arabian Peninsula.
According to charging documents, Bahati and Sirage arranged to have boxes of the narcotic flown to Salt Lake City by claiming they were spices.
During Sirage's appearance in federal court, prosecutors said they were concerned that Sirage had not been employed for the past five years and that he had a Utah driver's license under an alias.
An attorney for Sirage said he had been offered a job at the "African restaurant" at 1800 S. Redwood Road and that a friend had offered for him to stay at his home pending the charges.
Judge Brooke Wells allowed Sirage to be released but warned him that he was not to be around anyone who uses or possesses khat. He was also ordered to surrender his passport and told not to leave the state of Utah without prior permission. He will also be placed under electronic monitoring.
Bahati, who has a history of arrests, has been placed on a federal immigration hold and remains in custody.

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Ben Shaw

Ben Shaw in the courtroom, wearing shackles on his ankles and wrists.Shaw, 23, and four friends had been drinking at a party on July 13 and left early that morning, intoxicated.
After driver Cody Fairbanks crashed into a sign, the passengers asked Stephan Peery to drive. He declined, and Shaw took the wheel.
Speeding nearly 30 miles over the limit, Shaw lost control of the Grand Am, hit a curb and slammed the car into a light pole at the intersection of 2230 North and University Parkway in Provo.
Peery, 20, died at the scene and passenger Ashley North, 20, died hours later at the hospital. Fairbanks, who wasn't expected to live, has now fully recovered, and Shaw and another passenger in the front seat were not seriously injured.
Laycock also added that even though everyone else in the car had been drinking, the responsibility fell on Shaw, the driver.

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Antonio Mayorga,Jose Luis Garcia

Antonio Mayorga, 19, and Jose Luis Garcia, 23, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of aggravated kidnapping and drug distribution.
Inside the house, detectives found evidence of the victim being tied up, his wallet and other evidence consistent with the story he gave deputies, Jaroscak said.
Detectives from the drug and violent crimes units went to the house where the man said he was held captive, near 3500 South and 7300 West. They set up surveillance and spotted a car in the driveway whose registered owner had a warrant out for robbery, Jaroscak said.
Two men exited the house, drove off in the car and were pulled over a short time later. In the car, investigators found cocaine and a large amount of cash, Jaroscak said.

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Marco Antonio Vargas-Perez

Marco Antonio Vargas-Perez, 36, was arrested for investigation of drug possession with intent to distribute and a restricted person in possession of a firearm.
Vargas-Perez also admitted to investigators to being in the United States illegally, according to a Salt Lake County Jail report.

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