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Both men suspected of allegedly kidnapping and assaulting a Centerville woman and her four daughters were in police custody in Wyoming on Saturday night.
The father, Flint Wayne Harrison, 51, turned himself in early Saturday. The search continued for his son, also a suspect in the case, until about 10 p.m. when he was taken into custody, according to Sublette County Sheriff's Sgt. Kam Peterson.
Flint Harrison surrendered to authorities at a detention center in Pinedale at 1:45 a.m. Saturday, according to a Sublette County Sheriff's Office news release. He had arrived in the area a few days earlier, the release says.
Harrison's son, 22-year-old Dereck James "D.J." Harrison, was on the loose for much of Saturday, believed to be in the forest near the Half Moon Lake area of Sublette County.
Authorities believed Dereck Harrison was armed and "extremely dangerous" and said he had "made direct threats towards law enforcement officials." The younger Harrison was believed to have two knives, and possibly a .300 win mag rifle and a .22 Remington 10/22 with high capacity magazines.
Harrison was taken into custody without incident after the search was halted late Saturday. Peterson said details would likely not be available until Sunday morning.
Personnel from the Wyoming Highway Patrol, Green River Police Department, Rock Springs Police Department and Utah Department of Public Safety had worked Saturday with the sheriff's office in the search, and a Utah Department of Public Safety helicopter was also on hand.
Flint Harrison had also helped with the effort to locate his son, according to the sheriff's office.
The Half Moon Lake campground had been evacuated by the early afternoon, and nearby homes and buildings cleared. One camper said he had seen a man fitting Dereck Harrison's description running away from the campground earlier Saturday morning.
The sheriff's office had asked people to keep out of the area and warned residents to use extra caution until Harrison was caught.
Before the search was suspended at dusk, search teams located a makeshift campsite in the area with items that matched descriptions of Dereck's gear.
Both Harrisons are charged in 2nd District Court with 10 counts of first-degree-felony aggravated kidnapping.
The Harrisons, who are acquaintances of the mother who was allegedly assaulted, invited her and her daughters — ages 13, 15, 17 and 18 — to a barbecue at a residence near 200 North and 700 East in Centerville, according to Centerville police Lt. Von Steenblik.
At about 6 p.m. Tuesday, the woman and her daughters arrived and were invited to the basement, charges state.
Dereck Harrison, carrying a shotgun, ordered them to get on the floor, charges state. The females did not take him seriously and went back upstairs, where Flint Harrison, carrying a baseball bat, forced them back to the basement by prodding and jabbing them with the bat.
Once on their knees, the victims' hands were bound behind their backs and their feet were tied. Flint Harrison put duct tape over the mother's mouth and a bag over her head, charges state.
All five females tried to break their bonds and flee. The men grabbed two of them, but two girls ran to a closed garage, where one them called 911 before Flint Harrison took the phone away, charges state.
When Flint held a gun to the 18-year-old's throat, she slapped it away and ran. Meanwhile, the 17-year-old got the bat and struck Dereck Harrison, charges state. The mother and girls, bruised by the blows, escaped and called for help from neighbors.
Police have said the motive for the abduction and assaults appeared to have been meth-fueled paranoia that the mother had informed police of their drug activities.
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