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ST. GEORGE — A traffic stop on Interstate 15 in Washington over the weekend led to the arrest of a man charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with a plane crash that left one passenger dead in 2019.
Shortly after 2 p.m. Sunday, 47-year-old Christopher Adam Anderson was arrested by the Utah Highway Patrol during a traffic stop on southbound I-15 near Exit 10 in Washington County. Washington police officers and Washington County sheriff's deputies assisted in the incident.
Before his arrest, Anderson initially was stopped near the Browse Exit but was released after he passed a background check run by emergency dispatch. It wasn't until several minutes later that the warrant emerged on the national crime database, which is when the trooper requested assistance to stop Anderson who was making his way south toward Arizona.
Anderson was arrested on a federal warrant issued out of U.S. District Court in Arizona for one count of involuntary manslaughter within an aircraft jurisdiction and one count of registration violations involving aircraft, according to the arrest warrant released Monday.
