SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The arrest of five people in Saratoga Springs is connected to an investigation into bath salt manufacturing that has been underway since January, a spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration said Monday.
The spokesman did not offer details on prior arrests or whether more are to come. A KUTV review of public documents shows where federal and local investigators found, or suspect there were, bath salt manufacturing labs in Utah this year.
One search warrant also explains how the DEA suspects a white supremacist group called Soldiers of Aryan Culture, or SAC, of making and selling bath salts.
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Greg Rogers, a retired FBI agent who infiltrated SAC and similar groups, said SAC is a dominant prison gang in Utah and sells drugs to send money to incarcerated members…