Family desperately searching for missing son living in rural Utah

LUCIN, Utah — The household of a lacking teenager is asking for the general public’s assist in the seek for their son.

Nineteen-year-old Dylan Rounds lives in Lucin, Field Elder County. His household mentioned he was final seen Memorial Day weekend in Montello, Nevada — 30 miles west of his house.

His father, Justin Rounds, mentioned Dylan moved from Idaho to Lucin to pursue desires of farming.

“That is the pond he dug out,” Justin confirmed FOX 13 Information. “He talked to me about planting bushes round it and stocking fish with it. It was at all times simply one in every of his desires.”

It’s been virtually per week and a half since Dylan was final seen on the Saddle Sore Bar.

“I’m satisfied it’s foul play. Each car he has, each tractor, is accounted for and in place,” mentioned Justin.

One of many final conversations Dylan had together with his dad was about his pleasure for the crop he had simply planted.

“He wished to see it develop. He wasn’t going to depart. There’s nothing that was going to take him away from right here,” he mentioned.

Justin mentioned each the Field Elder County Sheriff’s Division and Weber County Search and Rescue searched the realm final week. Three helicopters, a airplane, and cadaver canine had been a part of the search. Search events had been additionally out and about all week serving to out.

“They referred to as off the search — Field Elder [County Sheriff’s Office] — as a result of they had been 95 % positive there’s no signal of Dylan out within the 3-to-5-mile space,” mentioned Justin.

Regulation enforcement discovered his boots 5 miles west of his camper.

“I’ll always remember the look on [Dylan’s mom’s] face. I may solely think about what I regarded like once we noticed these boots,” he mentioned.

Every day with out solutions is agony for his household, who all reside in Idaho. They’re providing a $20,000 reward to carry Dylan house.

“I simply got here again at the moment to type of poke round as a result of I can’t hardly go away right here,” mentioned Justin. “Twenty-thousand is burning a gap in my pocket and I need to spend it at the moment.”

Dylan is 5’10” and weighs round 160 kilos. He has brown hair and brown eyes. Anybody with info is inspired to name police.