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SANDY — A Utah man with a history of throwing rocks at cars and business windows was arrested again Monday after police say he threw rocks at a Utah Transit Authority police vehicle while the officer was sitting in his car.
Khaled Saleh Jeddou, 40, was arrested for investigation of assault on an officer.
A UTA police officer was sitting in his patrol truck while typing on his laptop in the parking lot of the TRAX Historic Sandy Station, 165 E. 9000 South, when Jeddou "walked up to the passenger side of the vehicle and threw a large softball-sized rock at the window. The impact broke the passenger front window and I was sprayed by glass from the impact," the officer wrote in a police booking affidavit.
The officer got out of his car to confront Jeddou, who then threw a second rock, "smashing the rear tail light on the cab of my patrol vehicle," the affidavit states.
At that point, Jeddou obeyed the officer's commands to get on the ground and was arrested.
Monday's arrest comes just four days after Jeddou was released from the Salt Lake County Jail where he was serving time for throwing rocks at another officer at another TRAX station, according to court records.
In that case, on March 28, Jeddou threw rocks at UTA employees and an officer at the Draper Town Center Station, 1131 E. Pioneer Road. He was charged in 3rd District Court with two counts of assault on an officer, a class A misdemeanor; and five counts of assault and property damage, class B misdemeanors. In May, Jeddou was convicted of one count of assault on an officer and one count of assault and was sentenced to time already served, according to court records.
In June, an arrest warrant was issued for violating the conditions of his probation in that case and he was rebooked into jail on Sept. 5.
Jeddou was also charged in February 2022 with two counts of criminal mischief, a third-degree felony and a class B misdemeanor, for throwing multiple rocks at the front sliding glass door of the Larry H. Miller building at 9350 S. 150 East, according to charging documents. After damaging the doors, police say Jeddou smashed the front windshield of a car in the parking lot.
That case was eventually dismissed after Jeddou was determined to be incompetent to stand trial, according to court records.
Jeddou's arrest at the Larry H. Miller building came just a week after he was arrested for "throwing several large rocks" at two UTA police patrol vehicles at 140 W. Vine Street. He threw at least nine rocks at two vehicles, the charges state. Jeddou was charged with criminal mischief, a second-degree felony, in that case, which was also later dismissed when he was determined to be incompetent to stand trial.
