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ST. GEORGE — Police announced they are applying for an arrest warrant for a man accused of kidnapping a mother and three children from St. George last week as he remains in jail in Nevada.
St. George police announced Monday night detectives have gathered enough evidence to seek criminal charges against David Gene Remley, 36. Detectives are applying for an arrest warrant on investigation of charges including child kidnapping, aggravated kidnapping, violation of a protective order, unauthorized control of a motor vehicle and assault, police said on social media.
As of Monday, Remley is incarcerated in the Humboldt County, Nevada, Detention Center, according to the Vinelink inmate search database.
Brittany Etta Deal, 27, and her three children — age 2, 5 and 9 — were considered "missing and endangered" last week until they were found safe by the Nevada Highway Patrol on Tuesday. St. George police also said Tuesday Remley had been taken into custody.
Deal and her children had not been heard from on Aug. 19, when they were last seen being picked up from a St. George day care by Remley, so police put out an alert calling them "missing and endangered." Police noted on Tuesday there was an "active protective order between David and Brittany and the children from a recent family fight. Because of this, we consider Brittany, Quetin, Braylee and Briston to be endangered."
Remley has a long history of domestic violence, according to court records. Most recently, he was charged Aug. 16 in 5th District Court with aggravated assault, a second-degree felony; and three counts of domestic violence in the presence of a child, violating a protective order and witness tampering, third-degree felonies.
The charges stem from an Aug. 14 incident during which Deal was hospitalized following a fight with Remley, her boyfriend, according to court documents. Remley head-butted Deal, causing her to lose consciousness, charging documents state. Deal had a protective order against Remley at the time that was issued June 29 due to a prior domestic violence incident.
In June, Remley was arrested and later charged with assaulting Deal when she told him she no longer wanted to be with him, according to a police booking affidavit.
