pleading guilty in 2020<\/a> to a slew of federal charges, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering and tampering with a witness. He was also ordered to pay nearly $274,000 in restitution after targeting an 80-year-old widow in a “romance fraud” scheme.<\/p>\n“Powell is a career criminal who has fended off decades of rehabilitative attempts in the Utah state criminal justice system. He’s a convicted murderer and sexual predator who has now turned his criminal efforts to elder fraud while on state parole,” former U.S. Attorney for Utah John Huber said in 2020.<\/p>\n
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Powell was on parole when he defrauded the woman after he spent nearly three decades in the Utah State Prison for murdering a man in Utah County in 1987, in what began as a fight over whose truck was faster. Powell ran over and killed Glen Candland, 20, after a house party in Pleasant Grove.<\/p>\n
Powell is also convicted of two felony counts of aggravated sexual assault against another inmate while incarcerated.<\/p>\n
This story may be updated.<\/p>\n
Contributing: Daniella Rivera<\/p>\n
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