Crime briefs

Home-invaders steal money, marijuana

MIDVALE — Police say two men forced their way into a Midvale home Thursday night and left with drugs and money.

About 10:15 p.m., four people were at their home near 600 East and 7200 South when one man stepped outside to have a cigarette, Midvale Police Sgt. John Salazar said. "When he went outside, he was met at gunpoint by two suspects who forced their way into the house."

One of the men fired a shot into the air during the break-in, he said. The men then gathered all four residents of the home into one room and asked for drugs and money, Salazar said.

"They got a wallet with maybe $50 in it, and they got some marijuana," he said, "and then the men left the same way they came in."

Police set up a perimeter of the area but were unable to find the men.

— Ethan Thomas

Woman goes to bat for kids over smoke

OREM — Police say a concerned mother tried to protect her children's lungs by going after a man with a baseball bat.

Officers received a call from neighbors that a woman was chasing a man with a bat in the area of 1200 North and 900 West. When they arrived, they learned that the woman's roommate had had a male friend over who had been smoking a "suspicious substance" around the children, according to Orem police.

When the man wouldn't leave, the woman got out a baseball bat and chased him out of the house, police said.

When officers caught up with the man, they found he had been hit several times, but he did not want to make a statement or press charges. The woman was not arrested.

— Sara Israelsen-Hartley

School bus, truck collide in W. Jordan

WEST JORDAN — A South Jordan man was critically injured Thursday when his truck and a school bus full of children collided.

Around 8:05 a.m., a school bus carrying 55 children to Terra Linda Elementary in West Jordan collided with a truck at 9000 South and 4000 West, said West Jordan Police Sgt. Drew Sanders.

The bus was northbound on 4000 West, and the southbound truck turned east "in front of the bus," Sanders said.

The driver of the truck, 46, was taken to Intermountain Medical Center in critical condition, Sanders said. One child received minor bruising.