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ST. GEORGE — A northern Utah man arrested in February in Washington County with a juvenile runaway appeared for sentencing in St. George recently. He had also been arrested as a fugitive in Cambodia by U.S. Marshals Service agents in April.
On June 18, the defendant, 58-year-old Philip Alan Rogers, of Davis County, appeared in 5th District Court for sentencing on one third-degree felony count of possession of a firearm by a restricted person, a charge he pleaded guilty to in February. Two misdemeanors, harboring a runaway and possession of marijuana, were dismissed under the terms of the plea agreement.
The weapons case was filed by the Washington County Attorney's Office in February after Rogers was found with a firearm and THC while also harboring a runaway on the evening of Feb. 3, according to charging documents filed at the time of the arrest.
At the time of the arrest, a Washington County Sheriff's deputy responded to southbound Interstate 15 near the Sunriver exit in St. George shortly after a statewide notification issued by Layton police. The alert was sent to all law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for a missing and endangered juvenile possibly traveling through the southern Utah area.
