ST. GEORGE, Utah (KUTV) — A jury returned a guilty verdict against a Chicago man accused of trafficking 25 pounds of cocaine through Utah with a firearm and cash.

Marcus Kentral Brown, 41, of Chicago, was found guilty on Tuesday of possessing 500 grams or more of cocaine with the intent to distribute and carrying a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime.

A Utah Highway Patrol trooper pulled Brown over in his Jeep Grand Cherokee on July 13, 2021. Brown reportedly said that he was traveling back to Chicago from California.

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The U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Utah said that, according to evidence presented at trial, the trooper conducted a consensual search of the vehicle and found 10 packages of cocaine (25 pounds worth) and a loaded Glock pistol in a hidden compartment in the rear cargo area. The trooper also found air fresheners and about $14,000 in cash.

Brown is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 28 in St. George.

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The state of Utah has revoked the license of a boarding school where socialite Paris Hilton said she was abused as a teen, saying the school “failed to provide applicable health and safety services for clients.” The state’s action, which took effect Monday, cites multiple noncompliance issues against the Provo Canyon School’s campus in Springville, reports the AP. The school has 15 days to request a hearing before the Department of Health & Human Services. The wide-ranging citations, which go back to 2025, include failing to increase staff-to-client ratios, engaging in unnecessary restraint and aggressive physical contact with a client, neglecting care, and not verifying employee information or submitting background checks for applicants in a timely manner.

“For more than fifty years, children came forward with stories of abuse, neglect, and trauma,” Hilton said in a statement provided Tuesday. “Today, the state confirmed what survivors have known all along: Provo Canyon School failed the children in its care. I was one of those children. I know what it feels like to cry for help and believe no one is coming. Today, children still inside that facility know someone is finally coming to protect them.” Hilton, the hotel heiress and media personality, spent almost a year at the school in the late 1990s. She alleges staff members beat her, watched her shower, fed her unknown pills, and locked her in solitary confinement without clothing.

Hilton, 45, called on Utah regulators to shut down the school. She has testified about her experiences there in Congress and state legislatures around the US, helping pass laws to protect teens in Utah and 15 other states. Utah has long played an outsized role in the troubled teen industry, a network of private, for-profit residential centers for children with behavioral issues. In June, Hilton returned to the school to speak in support of two families who filed lawsuits alleging their children were mistreated there. The school is under new ownership. The administration has said it can’t comment on anything that came before the change, including Hilton’s time there. Provo Canyon School did not immediately respond to an AP email seeking comment. The state said in its letter that all services at the campus must be terminated by Aug. 6.