A Roosevelt man charged with connection with the Melissa Goodrich human trafficking case
- Travis Uresk
- 3 days ago
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By Travis Uresk
5-27-25
| Roosevelt, Ut. | May 23rd, 2025 |
During the investigation, it was uncovered that the 15-year-old victim was being human trafficked and drugged by multiple adult males who were having sex with her.
During the interview with detectives, the female victim stated while at the apartments in Roosevelt, she met 35-year-old Jeffory Murray, who would have been around 33 years old at the time of the incident.
The victim told detectives that Jeffory would come over to Melissa Goodrich's apartment to hang out and do drugs often. He would play his guitar, do drugs, and have sex with the victim for payment for the meth. This occurred approximately five times.
On May 20, 2025, Detectives interviewed Jeffrey at the Duchesne County Sheriff's Office, where he is currently incarcerated.
Jeffory admitted to living on and off again in Melissa Goodrich's residence. Jeffory denied knowing the victim at the beginning of the interview. When confronted about having sex with her, he then stated it was mutual, and she led him on.
Jeffory admitted to having sex with the victim once that it happened at Melissa's house in the living room. Jeffory stated that he believes Melissa knew about it because she was in the room when it happened.
Jeffory stated Melissa and the victim were all in the apartment when he was getting high on meth. He said he never saw Melissa smoke any meth and denied that the victim smoked any meth.
Jeffory claimed not to know anything about the human trafficking going on in the apartment he visited frequently. When confronted about the number of times he had sex with the victim, Jeffory claimed only one time, but he would make comments indicating that it was more than one time and that it was only the apartments where he and the victim were together.
When the detective confronted Jeffory about her telling him her age, he denied that she had mentioned it when they were talking. Jeffory also claimed that they did not sleep in the same room when he was there. He claimed he found out she was a minor from others talking.
Jeffory admitted to not "thinking" and said that he was on the couch, he didn't have to move, that he had on loose clothing, and then said he had pushed her off of him when he thought someone was coming up the stairs.
Then, later that day, someone came to pick her up. Jeffory said that he didn't remember much about it, then said he was trying to remember if it was that day or this day, indicating that he had been with the victim more than once.
FBI arrests Jared Buckley, Melissa Goodrich, Gustavo Uroza in Utah
| May 7, 2025 | Kiyoshi Motohiko | law & money, United States |
Jared Dallan Buckley, 40, of West Point, Utah, United States, Melissa Goodrich and Gustavo Uroza Rodriguez were arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in Utah. It is part of the bureau’s Operation Restore Justice, a five-day initiative to identify, track and arrest child sex predators across the country.
Buckley is an employee of the Leadership Learning Academy, a charter school for grades kindergarten through six. Since 2014, he has been the lead director of the school’s campuses in Layton, Utah and Ogden, Utah.
The respective ages and residences of Goodrich and Uroza are unknown. Originally from Mexico, the latter is in the U.S. illegally.
Operation Restore Justice
Operation Restore Justice was conducted in coordination with all the 55 FBI field offices in the U.S. The bureau arrested more than 190 perpetrators on charges related to crimes against children in April 2025, which is the National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
In October 2024, FBI agents started investigating a person using an application known to be used by people interested in child sexual abuse material. The person, known only as EMMA, distributed a video of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) and represented that they had original CSAM that they could produce and distribute to others for a price.
The agents were able to connect EMMA to a telephone number associated to Buckley. On April 22, 2025, they executed search warrants on his residence in West Point and his 2009 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD LT.
A cell phone found in the vehicle was consistent with the make and model of the phone being used by the internet accounts associated with EMMA. Through the forensic examination of the cell phone, evidence revealed that Buckley has been distributing images of CSAM across multiple online platforms. The cell phone contained more than 10,000 images and videos of CSAM.
On April 23, 2025, Buckley was charged with attempted coercion and enticement, distribution of child pornography and possession of child pornography, Goodrich was charged trafficking of a minor and Uroza was charged with possession of child pornography, distribution of child pornography and attempted coercion and enticement. The FBI has yet to release details about Goodrich and Uroza’s alleged crimes.
On May 7, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of 205 child sexual abuse offenders and the rescue of 115 child exploitation victims in Operation Restore Justice. The operation report was released by ninth FBI director Kashyap Pramod “Kash” Patel, 45, and 87th U.S. attorney general Pam Bondi, 59, at a press conference in Washington, USA.
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