Second person tied to missing Idaho man faces federal charge – East Idaho News

LUCIN, Utah (KSL.com) — A second one who is believed to have had contact with Dylan Rounds shortly earlier than he disappeared now faces federal weapons fees.

Chase Montgomery Venstra, 41, was charged in federal courtroom on July 1 with being a restricted individual in possession of a firearm. That criticism was unsealed on Tuesday when Venstra made his preliminary look in federal courtroom. A decide ordered him to stay in custody pending his subsequent listening to on July 19.

The motion comes on the heels of a criticism being filed in opposition to James Brenner, 58, within the U.S. District Courtroom of Utah for being a felon in possession of a firearm. On Wednesday, an indictment was filed in opposition to Brenner on the identical cost. An indictment is obtained after a case is reviewed by a grand jury.

A decide on Wednesday ordered Brenner to stay in custody pending his arraignment on Friday. Based on a petition filed by prosecutors requesting that Brenner stay in custody, he’s thought of a “suspect” in Rounds’ disappearance.

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Dylan Rounds, initially from Rigby, Idaho, was final heard from on Could 28 whereas within the distant neighborhood of Lucin in northwest Utah close to the Nevada border. Based on members of the family, Rounds lived by himself in a camp trailer the place he started farming grain a couple of years in the past.

Members of the family say he known as a number of kinfolk on Could 25 after having a “bizarre run-in” with a person on a gravel street. That man — believed to be Venstra — was noticed a number of day later in Montello, Nevada, in keeping with the household. Rounds was allegedly seen in Montello on Could 26.

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On Could 30, Rounds’ household requested the Field Elder County Sheriff’s Workplace to conduct a welfare test on him. Deputies discovered a number of suspicious circumstances, together with a pair of Rounds’ boots that appeared to have blood on them, in keeping with members of the family, no tire tracks within the grime resulting in the place his pickup was discovered or mud on the tires, and his cellphone and pockets have been lacking.

Federal courtroom paperwork filed in opposition to Venstra state that the Davis County Sheriff’s Workplace and Field Elder County Sheriff’s Workplace served a search warrant on Venstra’s West Level residence on Could 12 “along with a murder investigation.” The criticism doesn’t say which murder was being investigated, however says two firearms have been discovered inside his motorhome.

Then on June 12, a search warrant was served on the residence of an individual who investigators say was requested by Venstra to carry firearms for him. Three firearms have been present in a water heater closet in a storage, in keeping with the criticism. A bulletproof vest and ammunition was additionally recovered and one other firearm was present in a crawlspace in a baby’s bed room.

Venstra’s legal historical past contains an arrest in 2016 in Clinton following a 10-hour standoff with police.

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On Wednesday, the Rounds household, along with the Field Elder County Sheriff’s Workplace, launched an announcement asking the general public to cease looking for Rounds.

“The regulation enforcement investigation into the disappearance of Dylan Rounds is ongoing. Legislation enforcement continues to be within the Lucin space. Right now there are not any organized searches deliberate for members of the general public to take part in which might be supported or licensed by regulation enforcement. We’re asking the general public to not search the world, because it has the potential to compromise the investigation.

“As a household, we’re not asking for or requesting any extra public searches for Dylan Rounds right now. We request that everybody permit regulation enforcement to proceed their organized investigation with none hindrance or interference, to be able to keep away from jeopardizing the investigation. We thank everybody for his or her continued assist find Dylan Rounds.”