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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Federal authorities have arrested a man they say was plotting to enter a Mormon temple in South Jordan to shoot people.
A complaint filed in U.S. District Court Tuesday says Midvale police were called to Valley Mental Health's facility on Feb. 2 and told that Benjamin Speakman, 27, had said he was planning to kill himself and others.
Speakman has been charged with one count of possession of an unregistered sawed-off shotgun.
Gregory Hopkins, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent, wrote in court papers that Speakman told an officer he was planning to go to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Jordan River Temple to shoot others and them himself.
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Information from: Deseret News
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