Harrison appears in Kemmerer courtroom

By Joy Ufford jufford@pinedaleroundup.com
Posted 3/31/17

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 the murder and kidnapping charges against him read by Judg

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Harrison appears in Kemmerer courtroom

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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 the murder and kidnapping charges against him read by Judge Frank J. Zebre.

Harrison and his father, Flint Harrison – who hung himself in a Utah jail the month

after the Wyoming charges were filed – were charged in June with the May 2016 death of Utah Transit Authority employee Kay Ricks.

The Harrisons allegedly kidnapped Ricks with his vehicle on May 12 and fled into Wyoming; Ricks’ body was found outside Kemmerer, after the Harrisons turned themselves in to the Sublette County Sheriff’s Office, which was in on the extensive manhunt after learning Flint Harrison owned a home in Pinedale.

The two were next moved 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 fist-degree felony kidnapping and was sentenced to up to life in a Utah prison.

After the resolution of that case, Harrison was transported to Lincoln County on Tuesday to await his initial appearance on Thursday.