A leader of the GlenMob gang has been charged with raping a 15-year-old girl.
According to West Jordan Police, Daniel Silva, 27 — aka D-Mac — picked up the 15-year-old girl and her friend at a convenience store on Feb. 12 and gave the victim alcohol and marijuana. She told police she was “so intoxicated that she did not realize” Silva had dropped off her friend and taken her to his home.
She recalled Silva guiding her upstairs and that she pushed his hand away, “telling him she was not comfortable.” Silva said he “did not care and forced himself on her.”
She woke up the next morning in Silva’s bed and in pain from the sexual assault; he then allegedly sexually assaulted her again.
The victim said Silva took her shopping for new clothes because she had vomited on the clothes she was wearing. He dropped her off at the Valley Fair Mall, and — with “a gun on his lap” — he told her “not to tell anyone his name.”
Silva has been charged in 3rd District Court with rape and forcible sodomy, first-degree felonies; obstructing justice, a second-degree felony; and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a class B misdemeanor.
In May 2018, federal prosecutors in Utah filed a drug-trafficking complaint against 15 people allegedly associated with the GlenMob gang, so called because of its affiliation with Salt Lake City’s Glendale neighborhood. The gang is also known as a rap group. Silva was among those 15 people.
Silva has been identified as a leader of the GlenMob, which was broadly accused of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. The federal investigation included listening to phone calls, setting up cameras to watch the alleged conspirators and initiating a number of controlled drug buys that netted at least 15 firearms, 15 pounds of methamphetamine, a half-pound of heroin, “several” pounds of marijuana and $36,000.
