SALT LAKE CITY — A 31-year-old Lehi man was sentenced Jan. 14 to serve one to 15 years in prison following a complex, monthslong fraudulent scheme that defrauded businesses and individuals from Brigham City to Cedar City.
Dalton Slangerup was sentenced for two counts of theft, two counts of issuing a bad check, and one count of theft by deception. All charges were prosecuted as second-degree felonies after investigators uncovered a pattern of unlawful activity spanning from July 2024 to early 2025.
According to court filings, Slangerup engaged in a consistent pattern of misrepresentation to obtain high-value property, including e-bikes, motor vehicles, trailers, and an all-terrain vehicle. The scheme involved a variety of deceptive banking practices, such as providing sellers with screenshots of sufficient bank balances and promising wire transfers or cashier’s checks that never materialized. Slangerup would also deposit personal checks that appeared temporarily credited to accounts before being returned for insufficient funds.
In several instances, prosecutors alleged that Slangerup failed to return the property even after the sellers were formally notified that the payments had failed. The unlawful activity impacted multiple communities, with coordinating law enforcement agencies reporting incidents in Box Elder, Utah, Davis, Weber, Salt Lake, and Iron counties.
During the sentencing, the court ordered Slangerup to pay a total of $246,983.71 in restitution to his victims. While he was sentenced to one to 15 years on each of the five counts, the judge ordered the terms to run concurrently.
The investigation and subsequent prosecution were led by the Utah Attorney General’s Office in a joint effort with local law enforcement to address the hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses reported by the victims. Officials highlighted that the conviction underscores the state’s commitment to pursuing white-collar crime and patterns of financial deception.