Police briefs

FBI investigating fatal stabbing

BLANDING — The FBI is investigating the apparent slaying of a 17-year-old boy on the Navajo reservation in southeastern Utah.

Federal agents were releasing few details Thursday but said it happened a couple of weeks ago in the Four Corners area.

"He was with his brothers, and he gets stabbed in the skull and stomach," FBI Special Agent Juan Becerra said Thursday. "They put him in the car and drove him to the emergency room, but he just bled the whole way and died due to blood loss."

Becerra said FBI agents have no suspects in the case yet and said witnesses were reluctant to provide information. The victim's name was not released Thursday.

— Ben Winslow

Man arrested in kidnapping girlfriend

PARK CITY — A man has been arrested, accused of kidnapping his girlfriend.

Summit County sheriff's deputies said it happened Wednesday night at the Elk Meadows apartments in Park City, when Jerardo Marquez Cantoriano abducted his estranged girlfriend and drove her against her will to South Salt Lake.

"During the transport, Cantoriano reportedly physically assaulted the victim," detective Ronald Bridge said in a statement.

She was taken to a nightclub, where police said the woman was able to get help from security guards to escape and was taken into protective custody by police. Cantoriano, deputies said, returned to Park City where he was ultimately arrested and booked into the Summit County Jail for investigation of kidnapping.

— Ben Winslow

NTSB to review probe of bus crash

More than a year after a deadly bus crash in Utah's Four Corners area, the National Transportation Safety Board will meet to discuss findings of an investigation into the cause.

The NTSB has scheduled a meeting April 21 to review the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2008, crash of a 56-passenger motorcoach traveling from Telluride, Colo., to the Phoenix area. The 52 passengers on board were en route home from a ski trip when the bus crashed near Mexican Hat.