Derek Brown wins GOP primary for Utah attorney general

By the numbers: Brown received about 45% of the vote as of midnight Wednesday.

• Rachel Terry, director of the state's risk management office was at 33%.
• Frank Mylar, a Cottonwood Heights attorney, received nearly 22%.

Catch up quick: Brown will face three other candidates in November to replace outgoing AG Sean Reyes — the third state AG in a row to leave office amid controversy.

• Reyes announced in December he would not seek re-election after facing scrutiny over his ties to embattled anti-sex-trafficking crusader Tim Ballard and Operation Underground Railroad (OUR), the nonprofit Ballard founded.
• AG John Swallow, who preceded Reyes, resigned in 2013 amid investigations into an alleged pay-for-play scheme.
• Swallow and his predecessor, AG Mark Shurtleff, were arrested in 2014 on charges relating to public corruption. Prosecutors dropped their case against Shurtleff in 2016 and in 2017 Swallow was acquitted by a jury.