SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Two Utah-based Homeland Security Agents were sentenced in federal court for stealing illegal bath salts from law enforcement agencies and selling them, in a scheme worth over $300,000.
The two people in this case, David Cole and Nicholas Kindle, were Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agents working out of the Salt Lake City Field Office, and according to the federal indictment, they used their positions as federal agents “to wrongfully obtain illegal narcotics” seized by law enforcement and sold those narcotics to drug dealers.
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David Cole was charged federally with felony conspiracy to convert property of another by an officer or employee of the United States and remove property in custody of the United States, and he was also charged with felony conspiracy to distribute a schedule 1 controlled substance. Nicholas Kindle was charged with the same felony counts in the United States District Court of Utah.
Cole pleaded guilty to both charges and was sentenced in August 2025. Kindle also pleaded guilty to both charges, and he was sentenced on October 28…