| by Travis Uresk | March 19 th , 2026 | Vernal, Utah—On 3/18/2026, Deputy Young with the Uintah County Sheriff’s Department was dispatched to a welfare check for a man wearing a blue shirt who was walking in the middle of the road near 2000 N 1000 W. The caller told dispatch he believed the man may be intoxicated. The deputy arrived and met the man matching the description, a 25-year-old named Brandon Bryce Pierce, walking down the shoulder of the road. Brandon was using a s