SALT LAKE CITY — Body camera footage that wasn’t provided to the defense during a theft trial has led to a woman’s conviction being overturned. The Utah Court of Appeals noted that the video itself contradicted the testimony of the officer who arrested a store clerk on suspicion of stealing a purse.

In a ruling last week, the state appellate court overturned the jury verdict that convicted Dawn Draper-Roberts and ordered a new trial.

Draper-Roberts found a purse in the craft store where she worked. She locked it up in a cabinet, but not in the store safe, the ruling said. The purse’s owner used an iPhone tracking program to find it, and Draper-Roberts was accused of theft. She was convicted by a jury at trial in 2014 and appealed.

FIle: A police body camera

The Utah Court of Appeals noted numerous problems with Draper-Roberts’ trial, including witness issues and discovery not being fully provided to her defense. But the court was particularly critical of police body camera video that was not provided to Draper-Roberts’ attorney in a timely manner. The defense called for a mistrial, but the trial judge allowed them 19 hours to review it and ask questions of witnesses.

Utah Court of Appeals Judge Pamela Greenwood noted that the police body camera video contradicted the testimony of the police officer who arrested Draper-Roberts.

From the ruling:

Judge Greenwood wrote that a continuance would not have cured the prejudice to the defense from the prosecution failing to disclose the body cam video.

“Under these circumstances, it was erroneous for the trial court to deny Defendant’s motion for a mistrial,” she wrote.

Read the full ruling here:

Nathan Higgins, 35; Crucelis Nunez, 23; and Ruandall Tooko, 58. (Lakeland Police Department.)

LAKELAND, Fla. – Three Walmart employees have been charged with manslaughter in the death of a suspected shoplifter.

Police say Kenneth Wisham, 64, tried to steal nearly $400 worth of DVDs from the Lakeland, Florida, Walmart in February when store workers confronted him, according to WFLA.

Wisham ran but had trouble keeping his pants up, eventually causing him to trip and fall to the ground, police said. The Walmart employees held him down until police could arrive, but Wisham stopped breathing. In critical condition, he was rushed to an area hospital where he later died.

An autopsy found Wisham’s cause of death to be mechanical asphyxia due to restraint. The Medical Examiner’s report also found that he had 15 broken ribs.

Three Walmart employees have been charged in his death – Nathan Allen Higgins, a 35-year-old support manager; Crucelis Nunez, a 23-year-old customer service manager; and Randall Eugene Toko a 58-year-old loss-prevention specialist.

Walmart issued the following statement Friday:

“Our hearts go out to everyone affected by these events. The status of the associated involved continues to be reviewed. We’ll continue working with law enforcement officials, as we have from the beginning, while conducting our own review.”

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STOCKTON, Calif. — A gun stolen from Stockton Mayor Anthony Silva’s home was linked to several crimes, including the killing of a 13-year-old, according to the District Attorney’s office.

The Beretta pistol, which is in the Stockton Police Department’s possession as evidence, was used in the Feb. 15, 2015 in a drive-by shooting which killed 13-year-old Rayshawn Harris, according to KTXL. According to officials, Harris was standing in front of his home on South Sacramento Street around 7 a.m. when he was fatally shot.

There were no suspects identified in the shooting, but the investigation showed the shell casings were ejected from the stolen weapon. A witness described the shooter as an African-American man wearing a gray sweater and white shoes.

The weapon, a .40 caliber Beretta Px4 Storm semi-automatic pistol which was reported stolen from Silva’s house two months after the shooting, was also used in two other criminal investigations.

Silva responded to FOX40 via text message Friday evening saying he’s heartbroken over the news.

“I feel terrible and I feel sick to my stomach. Obviously this was my worst possible fear. I will be in shock for a long time. It’s a horrible tragedy that will that will be on my mind and in my prayers forever. I will reach out to the family and do whatever I can. I have not been provided any details yet, so I only can react to what the news is claiming. Everyone please pray for Stockton.”

According to a release by the District Attorney’s office, Silva reported the weapon stolen March 22, 2015 after reporting his home was burglarized. In addition to the pistol, Silva reported that a 100 quart cooler, a generator, a laser printer, camera and video game console were stolen.

The Beretta was also used Jan. 15, 2015 in a drive-by shooting at a home on East Church Street. The two residents in the home were not injured. Officials said eight .40 caliber and six 9 mm casings, which were fired by the stolen pistol, were recovered at the scene.

The weapon was recovered June 9, 2016 after Stockton Police responded to a domestic violence call on Treetop Drive.

Officials are still investigating the cases, and encourage anyone with information call the Stockton Police Department at (209)937-8377.

By Danielle Garcia

CNN

(CNN) — Almonds, pistachios and other high-value nuts are an appealing commodity for not only health nuts, but also more recently to highly sophisticated criminal organizations in the San Joaquin valley.

A cargo theft specialist describes the motivation behind a crime wave hitting California’s lucrative tree nut industry: “It’s not easy to track a nut.”

It’s also not easy to immediately detect the criminals strategically robbing millions of dollars in nut cargo. But that’s what’s facing growers, the industry and authorities in California, where nut production brought in $9.3 billion in 2014.

“It hit us right between the eyes,” said Roger Isom, CEO of the Western Agricultural Processors Association. “This is not anything we’ve really seen before … we’ve experienced 30 thefts in the last six months,” he said in April.

While over 600,000 loads or 310.847 tons of tree nuts were stolen last year, the majority of robberies involve no breaking in. Rather, criminal organizations are exploiting the industry’s weaknesses and scamming their way through the system via strategic cargo theft, said CargoNet, a cargo theft prevention and recovery network.

“They basically trick [the distributors] into giving [the criminals] the cargo,” said Scott Cornell, transportation lead and cargo & theft specialist at Travelers Insurance.

To do this, all one needs is a laptop and a cell phone, Cornell said. The “bad guys” use the identity of a legitimate trucking company but change the contact information. They then apply online to pick up the nut cargo load with the false trucking identity, arrive to pick it up, and disappear. It’s only days later, when the distributors try to contact the company and reach a disconnected number, that they realize they’ve been scammed.

Another common method is known as fictitious pickup: Thieves arrive to pick up a nut load before the trucking company does and appear to distributors as legitimate through falsified paperwork. Other times, unknowing truckers are tricked into picking up a load in return for immediate cash.

An increase in cargo theft began around 2012 and surged in 2015, with total losses of $4.6 million last year, according to the U.S. Department of Justice in Sacramento. While general cargo theft is nothing new, nut processors specifically have seen thefts rise from just one in 2009, according to the Justice to Department, to 32 in 2015, according to Cornell.

California produces the most tree nuts in the United States, growing almost all the nation’s almonds, walnuts and pistachios. It is second to China in world production of tree nuts and is hit the hardest by theft, according to the USDA. But nut thefts also have been spotted in Georgia and Arizona, Cornell said.

The monetary value of the nuts has risen due to both popular demand for their health benefits and California’s drought, said Bob DeMallie, senior director of communications at Travelers Insurance.

Not only does the high profit attract thieves, but also the low risk involved in stealing nuts; they’re untraceable, can quickly disappear and are easy to move, said Cornell.

One nut load can be “a lot of money with nobody getting hurt,” DeMallie said.

Criminals picked up on this when the 2008 recession hit, raising demand in the food and beverage industry as demand for expendable items such as electronics fell. Criminals followed suit and have not returned to electronics, said Cornell.

Many times the fraud goes unnoticed for as long as six days or more — and by then the nuts are gone. With the country’s largest exporting port in Los Angeles, the cargo may even be on another continent by the time distributors realize they’ve been scammed.

Once criminals have the nuts, within about 24 hours they have been distributed, mostly domestically, Tulare, California, County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said. Tuleare County is the No. 1 agriculture-producing county in the state. “Any crop — nut, vegetable, fruit, you name it, we’re growing it here,” Boudreaux said.

The nuts can be sold overseas, direct to domestic consumers or to small, unknowing businesses, said Cornell. Black market price for nuts is equal to fair market price, unlike other commodities such as electronics where price drops.

These robberies involve no violence, which means they are considered misdemeanor offenses in the state of California. When it comes to the agriculture world, Boudreaux said, crimes need to be considered felonies across the board, with severe penalties.

“It impacts us on so many different levels, as you can imagine,” he said, from migrant workers and their families to farmers to the shelf price a consumer pays.

The sheriff’s department created an internal task force to address the problem– and have recently doubled its size. Boudreaux said there have not been any recent thefts, and he credits the heightened sense of awareness and task force education efforts with nut growers, growing associations and distribution locations.

“Those [tactics] seem to be working really well,” he said.

He said officials expect theft to pick up again in September, which is harvest season for pistachios and walnuts. “Come walnut season, we do a lot of patrolling not only in air, but on the ground,” Boudreaux said.

State and local law enforcement work together on nut theft investigations. In 2013, Tulare law enforcement was able to coordinate the arrest of four people by working with Los Angeles port police.

“Our guys are going to follow these trucks as far as we need to … we’ve been as far as New Mexico,” Boudreaux said.

Western Agricultural Processors’ Isom said his group wants to see the nut thieves in jail, but the first step is raising awareness of the problem. California Assembly Member Kristin Olsen wrote a bill that would create an agricultural cargo theft task force. The bill has passed the House and is expected to be approved by the Senate.

Along with law enforcement, insurers, associations and distributors are working together to step up security such as recording copies of truckers’ driver’s licenses, using fingerprint scanners and more.

“Our resources need to be focused on protecting those [people affected] … at the end of the day, we’ve got to catch these guys,” Boudreaux said.

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah — Police are looking for a suspect who stole an entire vending machine from a laundromat.

The surveillance video below was shot at the Splish Splash Laundromat, and the time stamp indicates the crime occurred July 09 around 6:30 p.m.

The footage shows the suspect walking around the laundromat before fiddling with the machine and pulling it away from the wall. West Valley City PD said the man then loaded the machine onto a hand truck and made off with it.

The vending machine, along with the money inside, was stolen, but it’s not clear exactly how much was taken.

Anyone who recognizes the man or who has information about the alleged theft is asked to call West Valley City PD at 801-840-4000.

SALT LAKE COUNTY, Utah -- Police are asking the public for help identifying two suspects in a massive spree of burglaries in Salt Lake County.

According to the Unified Police Department, the two suspects pictured below are wanted for burglaries in Midvale, Riverton, Taylorsville, Salt Lake City, Murray, South Jordan, Cottonwood Heights and possibly other locations.

Surveillance footage gives crystal clear images of what appear to be two men, carefully and completely covered from head to toe, with gloves, backpacks and pry bars-- one of them yellow.

"Their pants were tucked into their socks," said Red Eye Coffee co-owner Jonathan Ross, who was burglarized by the two suspects a couple of weeks ago.

He said the two busted through the back door early on a Sunday morning.

"They spent about 10 minutes getting all of our payroll, our paychecks, our tips for the employees," he said.

Ten minutes that, for he and the other co-owner, meant $3,000 in losses and damages. He said they both paid that money out-of-pocket.

On top of that, he said, he and his brother had to sleep in the coffee shop for a few days until a company could replace the back door.

It's the story for the 20 or so businesses like Ross' that got burglarized.

"They're bordering on professionals," Unified Police Lieutenant Lex Bell said. "At this point, they are serial burglars."

He said the two usually pick a food establishment or car wash, and most likely case each business beforehand.

"They do, it seems, have a plan when they go in there, and they follow that plan," Bell said.

Lt. Bell said within minutes, the pair will enter and leave each business, after busting open safes and cash drawers.

The burglaries began in July and have continued, usually on weekends between the hours of 2 a.m. and 4 a.m.

The suspects are described as being younger and agile. Lt. Bell said sometimes they ditch their clothes as they leave the area.

The first suspect may be a white male. The suspect has a slim build, longer blond or light brown hair and was seen carrying a yellow pry bar.

The second suspect is a male of an unknown race who has a slim build.

Both suspects are pictured in the video above and the gallery below.

Anyone who recognizes the suspects or who has information about the alleged crime spree is asked to call Unified PD's coordinating detective on the case at 385-468-9311.

PARK CITY, Utah — Police are looking to recover several stolen items after vandalism and burglaries occurred at the Kimball Arts Festival in Park City early Sunday morning.

The Kimball Arts Festival fills Main Street with booths and vendors, but some of those vendors are facing huge losses after criminals struck in the early-morning hours.

According to Park City Police Department, the crimes occurred early Sunday in the 700 and 800 blocks of Main Street sometime between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m.

Several artist booths were burglarized and vandalized, and police estimate the total damages at $20,000.

Two of the stolen items are hand carved wooden chairs valued at $11,000. The artist is from Colorado and told police this was his first show in Utah and he has not yet sold any chairs to customers from Utah. The chairs are large and would be difficult to conceal. Both are pictured above.

A unique, handmade jacket was also among the stolen items. The jacket is pictured above.

Each vendor signs an agreement before setting up at the festival, and the agreement includes information about security as well as a note indicating each vendor is the sole responsible party for any losses that occur at their booth during the festival.

Robin Marrouche, Executive Director at the Kimball Arts Center, issued a statement regarding the thefts.

“We are working closely with the Park City Police Department – and they have been deeply committed, as are we, to finding the people responsible for the thefts. By morning [Sunday], they had already discovered key pieces of evidence as well as several of the missing items. The festival contracts with a professional security company each year. Even so, artists agree that protecting their work is ultimately their responsibility. This is a rare, and deeply unfortunate situation – and one we don’t take lightly. We will continue to be proactive in working with our artists, the community and the investigators to solve this crime.”

Anyone who has information about the vandalism or thefts, or who sees the stolen property, is asked to call PCPD at 435-615-5500.

PARK CITY, Utah -- A vendor at the Kimball Arts Festival is offering a $2,000 reward for the recovery of two pieces stolen from his booth on Main Street over the weekend.

Woodworker Kevin DesPlanques said when he walked into his tent Sunday he discovered two uniquely-designed chairs were stolen. In total, they cost $11,000 and took him 200 hours to complete.

"My pieces are one of a kind pieces," said DesPlanques, of Durango, Colo. "There are no other pieces like them on earth. I just felt sick to my stomach."

The crime is suspected to have occurred on Aug. 14 between 1 and 6 a.m. Police say six vendors were stolen from or had artwork damaged. The theft and vandalism is estimated to be $20,000.

Since the theft, DesPlanques said, he doesn’t trust the festival. He said his main disappointment was the lack of security.

"(Just) kind of violated to be honest with you," said DesPlanques. "Because you in good faith believe the show is going to everything in their power to try to protect your work.”

The Kimball Arts Center Executive Director Robin Marrouche released a statement:  “This is a rare, and deeply unfortunate situation - and one we don't take lightly."

In her statement, Marrouche also pointed out rules and regulations of the festival: “Exhibitors may leave their booth in place Friday and Saturday nights. While overnight security does roam the festival grounds, artwork displayed/stored in booths is done so at the artist’s own risk.”

The last time art was stolen from the festival was in 2012, said Park City Police Capt. Rick Ryan. One of the pieces stolen that year was a 600-pound lion sculpture.

"We actually recovered its body cut up in pieces in the Uintas," Ryan said.

DesPlanques worries his chairs will also be destroyed.

Anyone with information the thefts or vandalism is asked to call Park City police at 435-615-5500.

COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS, Utah — Police are asking the public for help in identifying two women who were captured on surveillance cameras before using a credit card that was stolen during a burglary.

According to a press release, the women used the stolen card at a Gordman’s clothing store in Midvale.

Police said one of the suspects was driving a black 2-door Honda, possibly an Accord, that has a sunroof and aftermarket rims.

One suspect is described as a white female who stands between 5-feet 5-inches and 5-feet 10-inches tall. She is between the ages of 25 and 30 and was seen wearing a gray tank top and black pants. She has long, curly brown hair and a tattoo of stars over her right breast.

The second suspect is a white female who stands between 5-feet and 5-feet 5-inches tall. She is believed to be between the ages of 20 and 25. She was seen wearing black tank top and pink shorts. She has long, straight brown hair and a tattoo on her right forearm.

The suspects and their vehicle are pictured above. Anyone who recognizes the women or the vehicle is asked to contact Lt. Dan Bartlett at 801-944-7046 and reference case #16×004582.

By Steve Visser

CNN

(CNN) — A man who breached a security gate at a Nebraska airport, stole a truck near the taxiways and rammed it into a parked Southwest Airlines plane was detained and taken to a hospital for a medical evaluation, police said Friday.

The plane was loading for takeoff at Eppley Airfield outside Omaha Thursday night when a truck driven by Dealario Koonce, 35, struck the plane’s nose gear, police said.

Several crew members suffered minor injuries; no one among the 18 passengers was injured, the airport said. The flight, scheduled for Denver, was delayed and the plane taken out of rotation for inspection.

The incident started when Koonce, having been seen acting irrationally at the south end of a terminal, ran off when police tried to intercept him, airport police spokesman Tim Conahan said.

The man then ran into some shrubbery, and eventually scaled an 8-foot high fence topped with six stands of barbed wire, Conahan said. On the other side of the fence, he found an unattended airport pickup truck, and drove it on to the apron when the planes park to load passengers, Conahan said.

A police cruiser cut him off, but the man made an U-turn, drove further and eventually struck the plane’s nose gear, Conahan said.

Police took Koonce to the Nebraska Medical Center for an evaluation. He faces two felony charges and is in police custody, according to Conahan.

CNN’s Sheena Jones, AnneClaire Stapleton and Carma Hassan contributed to this report

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ALBUQUERQUE - The Romeros didn't think it could happen to them. They've seen similar stories on the news, but the thought of them being the victims of a theft seemed unlikely.

"I'm thinking, is this really happening?" Josh Romero said.

He, his wife, and their 14-month-old daughter had packed their life into a 20-foot U-Haul truck with the family's 2008 Kia Spectra hitched to the back.

"I thought this was a good move for us," Romero said of accepting a new job in Florida.

The family left their home in Provo early Monday morning, and they stopped in Albuquerque Monday night at a Days Inn Hotel. But when they walked out in the morning, both their U-Haul and their car were missing.

Image courtesy Romero family.

"I thought maybe he had moved the truck," said Jessica Romero, Josh's wife. "Then I thought maybe someone towed it. But how would you tow a 20-foot truck with a car attached to the back?"

The Romeros said virtually everything they own was in the U-Haul.

"Baby items, clothes, furniture," Jessica Romero said, listing off some of the stolen items. "But then there's the sentimental things."

The Romeros posted about what happened to their Facebook page. Within hours, their friends had shared the post and people from New Mexico began reaching out to help the family.

"The offered money, clothes, gift cards, it's been unreal," Jessica Romero said.

One local even bought the family a car seat and took them shopping for baby shoes for the couple's daughter.

They said the U-Haul has been found, but virtually nothing was left inside it. Family members have created a GoFundMe account to help recoup the cost of the stolen items.

Mark Anthony Brooks, 52. (Myrtle Beach Police Dept.)

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Police arrested a 52-year-old man on his birthday after finding him naked and bleeding in a South Carolina bar early Wednesday, police said.

Police found Mark Anthony Brooks inside the St. George Bar in Myrtle Beach around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, naked except for a shredded pair of boxers he held around his buttocks, according to WBTW.

Brooks had swelling “almost the size of a golf ball” under his right eye, according to police, and his face was “covered in blood and he had multiple lacerations on his knees, elbows and feet.”

When officers tried to speak with him, Brooks began rambling about bars in Miami and kept repeating “bad boys, bad boys, watcha gonna do” to himself, according to WPDE.

Brooks eventually told officers that three men attacked him near several trash cans outside the bar, beating him before stealing his clothes and $700.

When paramedics arrived to treat him, Brooks became belligerent and police arrested him for public intoxication, according to the police report.

He was booked at the Myrtle Beach Jail after being treated for his injuries.

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah — Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man who allegedly purchased hundreds of dollars in coffee shop gift cards using a stolen credit card number.

According to the West Valley City Police Department, the suspect used a stolen credit card number to buy gift cards totaling hundreds of dollars.

Police also had a little bit of fun while describing the crime.

“Please be on the lookout for the man who committed this coffee caper, but beware, he may be a little jittery. Just give us a call and we’ll take care of the rest. We’ll even make sure he gets a cup of coffee. Not those pumpkin spice lattes, though. The jail doesn’t serve them.”

Police did not provide specific details about the date or location where the transaction occurred, but surveillance images appear to show the interior of a Starbucks location.

Anyone who recognizes the man or sees him is asked to call police at 801-840-4000 or contact them through their Facebook page. Tips can be made anonymously.

LAYTON, Utah -- Layton Police stumbled upon a huge break in a months-long case involving burglaries at nearly two dozen businesses.

Officers finally caught the suspected burglar red-handed Friday morning after he allegedly threw a rock through the window of Holy Smoke BBQ.

Owner Jeff Ray arrived to work about 15 minutes after the ordeal.

"I could see that the window had broken," Ray said. "I wasn't sure what had happened."

He said the freshly broken glass on his front door still crackled and snapped as he arrived. The restaurant's surveillance camera caught the suspect in action.

"You could see the rock come through the window, land on the floor," he said, describing the footage. "He had a pretty good pitching arm, because the rock went quite far through the building."

According to police, that pitching arm belongs to 40-year-old Lowell Pagano. They think he's burglarized more than 20 businesses in the area since May.

"There have been several here in Layton and Clearfield both," Lt. Travis Lyman said. "It's picked up quite a bit and escalated recently."

Down the street from Holy Smoke, Moe's just went through the same rock-through-the-window ordeal on Wednesday.

"He tried to open up and jimmy rig the register drawer," District Manager Jake Nordahl said. "It wouldn't open, so he just took the whole thing. Just ripped it all off, cut the cords, and was gone."

Pagano made off with about $200, court documents allege, and caused hundreds more in damages.

While they've only racked up charges and losses for eight businesses, Lt. Lyman said detectives are reviewing Pagano's connection to other cases. They estimate he's made off with thousands of dollars total.

It all came to a halt at Holy Smoke, when an officer passed by shortly after Pagano allegedly threw that rock through the window. According to court documents, Pagano denied everything except admitting he was riding a stolen bike.

While Moe's and Holy Smoke shelled out hundreds to fix the damages, all is back to normal.

Ray even decided to put a positive spin and host a caption contest on Facebook for his picture of the broken door.

Dozens of people wrote clever responses, even creating memes. Holy Smoke handed out gift cards to the winners with the best captions.

MIDVALE, Utah – A Utah woman who said she was the victim of a burglary is pleading for the return of a locked box holding the ashes of her beloved pet.

Stephanie Hale got an alert Tuesday morning indicating her back door was open, even though nobody was at home.

She rushed to her residence to discover her electronics, jewelry and money were all were they should be, but one thing was missing: Hannah’s ashes.

“Return them on my door step, throw them in my yard, take them to the police station, take them to the vet clinic, I don't care,” Hale said. “But it's not valuable to anybody else but me.”

The box was locked, so Hale said she thinks the thief may have thought there was something valuable inside. She said she can’t think of anyone who would have a specific vendetta against her. Police are investigating the break-in.

Hale said Hannah was her best friend for 14 years.

By Heather Kelly

SAN FRANCISCO (CNNMoney) — The first lawsuit has been filed against Wells Fargo by customers following revelations that the bank collected fees for millions of unauthorized accounts.

The proposed class action suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Utah on Friday, accuses the bank of invasion of privacy, fraud, negligence, and breach of contract. The three plaintiffs are asking for compensation to cover damages related to identity theft, anxiety and emotional distress, and legal fees.

According to the filing, two of the plaintiffs are from South Jordan and the third is from Salt Lake City.

The suit is the latest fallout for the bank after it was caught opening millions of fake bank and credit card accounts for customers over the past five years. The phantom accounts were a way for the bank to earn extra fees from unwitting customers, as well as artificially inflating its sales figures.

“Wells Fargo’s resulting market dominance has come at a significant price to the general public, because it has been achieved in large part through an ambitious and strictly enforced sales quota system,” said the complaint.

It claims Wells Fargo managers and bankers took part in unethical techniques to improve sales numbers. The bank has an average of six accounts per customer, but was pushing to have eight, the suit claims, and blames the bank for pushing bankers into fraudulent practices though the quotas and constant monitoring.

Wells Fargo said it has fired 5,300 employees in relation to the scam. It also agreed to pay $185 million in fines and refund $5 million to customers.

But its problems may just be beginning. The Department of Justice has opened an investigation and has issued subpoenas to the bank.

Earlier on Friday, the U.S. House Financial Services Committee announced it would launch an investigation into the bank and hold a hearing in later September. Wells Fargo said its CEO, John Stumpf, will testify.

This is the first lawsuit to be brought against the bank for the fake accounts. Wells Fargo did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

CNNMoney’s Matt Egan contributed to this report

UTAH -- From fraudulent bank transactions to more brazen acts of theft, police in Utah are looking for several suspects and persons of interest.

In this week's edition of Wanted with Scott McKane, surveillance images from three alleged crimes are featured, and police hope you can help them identify those involved.

Check out the video above for more information and visit our Wanted page for details on the cases. 

WASHINGTON TERRACE, Utah – One family displaced by a tornado in Washington Terrace Thursday returned home Saturday to find out they had been the victims of a theft while they were away.

Several areas of Washington Terrace were deemed unsafe after the tornado, but Friday night and Saturday morning those areas reopened and residents were allowed to return home.

By Saturday afternoon, several boxes of stuff filled the front yard of the Padilla home.

"We've been going through everything, trying to just grab and go," Karen Padilla said. Inside, her house sat in disarray.

Her family's belongings ended up thrown about after the tornado hit her home. Much of it is not salvageable, she said, and some areas of the home have been deemed structurally unsound. The family can no longer live there.

On top of the overwhelming and emotional job of sorting through and cleaning up, they found a nasty surprise.

"As we're going through stuff, we started realizing that we had had somebody that had came in our house and had stolen stuff," she explained. "They were upstairs, they were downstairs. They knew exactly kind of where to go and get. "

The family says the stolen items include an Xbox, tablets, video games and even some loose change. The Weber County Sheriff's Office said it is investigating the theft and looking for leads. They said just the one home reported the looting.

“It’s sad when you lose stuff, but when somebody comes in and takes advantage of that, you know, then... Where is the world going to anyway?” Padilla asked.

There are still a few things to be grateful for. She said they reunited with the family pets-- a dog and two cats. She also found two hand-painted angels her mother made had survived the destruction.

Across the street, Ronna Steele crawled out of the rubble of a nearly upside-down garage, dragging a bicycle.

She said she and another person were inside that garage fixing her bike when the tornado uprooted the entire building and threw it on its side.

Steele returned on Saturday to retrieve her bike and look at the damage.

"I don't see how we made it out, looking at that," she said. "I just can't believe we didn't get hurt, I can't believe that we didn't. That's amazing. I don't know how that's possible"

Next door, Paul Hulet unlocked his door and stepped inside. Like everyone else on the block, he and his family returned Saturday for the first time to take in the scene of wreckage.

Glass shards litter his entire living room. A piece of his sprinkler system from his lawn somehow ended up inside on the carpet. His wife's piano-- one of their most beloved possessions-- is completely trashed.

They may not be able to move back in for a while, but he's keeping his spirits up.

"We survived," he said, adding, "Now, we just got to put everything back together."

This week's edition of Wanted with Scott McKane features several persons of interest in cases ranging from theft to murder.

See the video above for a look at the persons of interest sought in each of the three cases, which include a vehicle theft, a fraud case, and a cold case murder investigation. Click here for more details on each case as well as contact information for the relevant police agencies. 

HACKENSACK, N.J. – A New Jersey teenager faces a slew of charges after an alleged cheese heist gone wrong.

Darluis Ortiz, 18, made off with multiple pallets of Jamaican cheese from a Moonachie, New Jersey, warehouse on September 23, prosecutors said.

The pilfered dairy product, a brand called Tastee Cheese, is often eaten by Jamaicans around Easter time, generally on sweet or spice buns, crackers or bread.

Police arrested Ortiz Wednesday after a two-week investigation by the Bergen County prosecutor’s office and local police.

He faces charges of theft, burglary, conspiracy and possessing burglary tools.