Utahn in water rights dispute charged with making fake bomb as scare tactic

IVINS, Washington County — An Ivins man allegedly involved in a water rights dispute has been charged with setting up a realistic-looking bomb to try and scare people away. Carlos Enrique Oliver-Dean, 70, was charged Tuesday in 5th District Court with possession of a hoax weapon of mass destruction, a second-degree felony. On Monday, officers from the Santa Clara-Ivins Police Department were called to 145 E. Center in Ivins by an employee from the Ivins Irrigation Company. Officers were told that the company had been in an ongoing dispute with Oliver-Dean since last summer over water rights, according to a…