Utah Highway Patrol: Town's Police Chief Accused Of DUI

Utah Public Radio | By Kerry Bringhurst

Published January 31, 2019 at 12:32 PM MST

The chief of police of a small Box Elder County community has been cited for driving under the influence.

According to a press release from the Utah Highway Patrol, Mantua City Police Chief Shane Zilles was arrested after being pulled over Tuesday night near Wellsville.

Zilles was driving his police vehicle on US Hwy 89/91 at a high rate of speed, without emergency lights or siren. After failing a Standard Field Sobriety Test, Zilles was arrested.

Zilles has been chief of police in Mantua since 2016. Prior to his appointment, he served as a deputy for the Cache County Sheriff’s Office, where he was named deputy of the year in 2015.

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Kerry Bringhurst

At 14-years-old, Kerry began working as a reporter for KVEL “The Hot One” in Vernal, Utah. Her radio news interests led her to Logan where she became news director for KBLQ while attending Utah State University. She graduated USU with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and spent the next few years working for Utah Public Radio. Leaving UPR in 1993 she spent the next 14 years as the full time mother of four boys before returning in 2007. Kerry and her husband Boyd reside in Nibley.

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