Judge reads charges to murder suspect.
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KEMMERER — Lincoln County prisoner Dereck “DJ” Harrison, 23, arrested in Pinedale last summer with his father, made his initial appearance Thursday morning in Lincoln County Circuit Court, to hear four felony murder and kidnapping charges against him read by Judge Frank J. Zebre.
Harrison and his father, Flint Harrison — who hanged himself in a Utah jail last year — had been charged in June with the May 2016 death of Utah Transit Authority (UTA) employee Kay Porter Ricks.
The Harrisons allegedly kidnapped Ricks and stole vehicle on May 12, 2016, and fled into Wyoming; Ricks’ body was found outside Kemmerer five days later, after the Harrisons had turned themselves in to the Sublette County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) during an extensive manhunt initiated after authorities learned Flint Harrison owned a home in Pinedale.
The two had been returned to the Davis County (Utah) Jail where they remained to await the outcome of charges against them in Centerville, Utah. The younger Harrison pleaded guilty to five counts of first-degree felony kidnapping and was sentenced in October to 30 years to life in a Utah prison.
Harrison was then transported to Lincoln County on Tuesday, March 28, to await his initial appearance on Thursday.