Alex Doran Craig, Assault, Kidnapping, Theft, Utah 2025

Alex Doran Craig, 32, of Tooele County, Utah, has been charged with multiple violent crimes after allegedly assaulting two motorcyclists in Skull Valley.

According to court documents, in April 2025, Craig and his codefendant, Russell Allen, 50, of Tooele County, Utah, allegedly assaulted the victims and told them they were trespassing on Indian land.

The victims were allegedly ordered to the ground facedown, zip-tied, kicked and threatened with a knife. As alleged, the defendants took the victims' belongings, including their motorcycles, purportedly as an impound for trespassing.

The victims were then transported in a truck traveling at an estimated 100 mph to a remote desert area. The victims were then released without any of their property and had to hike over 10 miles, which took about six or seven hours, for help from the Dugway gate guards.

Law enforcement later recovered the motorcycles in a maintenance shed on Skull Valley Indian Reservation Road. In June 2025, many of the additional stolen items were recovered by law enforcement, including two cell phones, two wallets containing identification cards for the victims and a GoPro Max camera.

Craig and Allen are charged with kidnapping, assault, and theft while within Indian Country. Their initial appearance on the superseding indictment is scheduled for July 31, 2025, at 1:30 p.m. in courtroom 8.4 before a U.S. Magistrate Judge at the Orrin G. Hatch United States District Courthouse in downtown Salt Lake City.

Acting United States Attorney Felice John Viti for the District of Utah made the announcement.

The case is being investigated by the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force. Assistant United States Attorney Sam Pead of the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Utah is prosecuting the case.

This case is part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the government to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime.

This case is also part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and gun violence, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everyone.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ut/pr/second-defendant-charged-superseding-indictment-after-allegedly-assaulting-two