Utah guy charged with kidnapping and attack of Snow Faculty scholar

Brent Neil Brown, 39, faces six legal counts within the case.

A Utah guy was once charged Tuesday in reference to the five-day disappearance of a Snow Faculty scholar.

Brent Neil Brown, 39, faces six legal counts within the case, together with obstruction of justice, irritated kidnapping and 3 first-degree fees associated with sexual attack, together with rape. He’s lately being held in Sevier County prison with out bail.

Police arrested Brown on Saturday at his house in Loa on the heart of Wayne County — about 90 miles south of the Snow Faculty campus in Ephraim.

Consistent with a possible purpose remark from police, the person attached with the 19-year-old Snow Faculty scholar in a web-based staff chat and organized to select her up from her dorm on Dec. 13 — the closing time she was once reported being noticed. He then drove her to his area, the remark stated.

The lady’s roommates reported the scholar lacking after she didn’t go back the next day to come. Native, state and federal legislation enforcement officials turned into concerned within the seek for the lacking youngster.

The Salt Lake Tribune most often does now not title sexual attack sufferers. Even supposing the scholar’s title was once launched all through the quest, she has requested to not be recognized in ongoing protection.

The person allegedly turned into violent together with her when they were given to his area, consistent with courtroom paperwork.

Brown allegedly took the scholar’s telephone, permitting her time best to textual content her circle of relatives as soon as at the morning of Dec. 14, courtroom paperwork state.

The possible purpose remark alleges the person tied up the scholar whilst he was once at paintings, threw her telephone away when he came upon police had been looking for her and threatened to injure or kill her circle of relatives if she attempted to go away.

All the way through the quest, police used cellular phone tower knowledge to seek out the place the girl’s telephone closing confirmed a location, which was once in Loa, consistent with courtroom paperwork.

Police officers carried out a seek during the small central Utah the town of about 500 other folks. As police got here to a area on Major Side road, they noticed an individual matching the scholar’s description within the window of a basement, the charging paperwork state.

Brown responded the door and informed police he was once by myself in the home, consistent with the paperwork. Police later searched the house and located the scholar’s ID sitting out, along side a gun.

They then discovered the girl in a basement coal room, coated in coal, the paperwork state.

On Saturday night time, the varsity and the scholar’s circle of relatives reported that the girl have been discovered.