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ST. GEORGE — Nevada authorities have found the missing St. George mother and her three children and they are safe, and suspect David Remley is in custody.
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According to a statement issued by St. George Police Department Public Information Officer Tiffany Mitchell Tuesday afternoon:
“Brittany and the three children have been located by Nevada Highway Patrol and they are safe and unharmed. David Remley is in police custody. St. George Police Detectives are working with NHP to determine what happened. More information will be released when it becomes available. Thank you to everyone who assisted in this investigation.”
The St. George Police Department had been seeking the public’s help to locate Brittany Deal and her three children, all of whom went missing Monday afternoon. Police considered them to be in danger.
According to information released by St. George Police Officer Tiffany Mitchell on the department’s social media page, 27-year-old Brittany Etta Deal’s three children had last been seen on Monday shortly after 5:15 p.m., when they were picked up from a daycare center in St. George by 36-year-old David Gene Remley. Remley was reportedly driving a white GMC Terrain registered to the children’s mother with a Utah license plate of 5AF687.
Police said they didn’t know if the mother was inside the vehicle at the time or her current whereabouts.
Remley is described as a 5-foot-10-inch white man weighing about 185 pounds. He has blonde or sandy hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a striped T-shirt, blue jeans and white tennis shoes.
Deal is described as a 5-foot-1-inch white woman with bleached blonde hair and blue eyes. She has a dermal piercing on her right cheek, a tattoo of mountains and arrowheads on her left arm and flowers on her right thigh.
The three children are described as follows: Braylee Michelle Kelly, 9, is a 5-foot white girl with brown hair and brown eyes who weighs 80 pounds; Quentin Michael Kelly, 5, is a 4-foot-8-inch white boy who weighs about 60 pounds; and Brixton King Haley, 2, is a 3-foot white boy who weighs approximately 45 pounds.
There is an active protective order between Deal and Remley in place that was filed following a recent family altercation, police say.
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“Because of this, we consider Brittany, Quetin, Braylee, and Briston to be endangered,” Mitchell said in the social media release.
The incident is currently under investigation.
“Finding them safe is our highest priority,” Mitchell said.
Anyone with any information that may help locate Remley, Deal or the three children is asked to contact the St. George Police Department at 435-627-4300.
This report is based on statements from court records, police or other responders and may not contain the full scope of findings. Persons arrested or charged are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law or as otherwise decided by a trier-of-fact.
Updated Aug. 20, 2:50 p.m.: Reports Deal and children have been found and suspect is in custody.
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