Former cop gets 16-20 years

Jacob Anglesey, once a highly regarded officer with the Green River Police Department, will go to prison.

At the end of a two-day sentencing hearing Thursday, Anglesey was sentenced to spend 16-20 years in prison, with credit for 679 days served, for aggravated homicide in the death of two-year-old Konnor Allen in 2009. The maximum sentence for aggravated homicide is 20 years of imprisonment. Allen died after sustaining severe injuries while in Anglesey’s care, which the Sweetwater County Attorney’s Office said was the result of physical trauma inflicted by Anglesey.

Anglesey was originally ar...