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ST. GEORGE — After cutting his ankle monitor and fleeing the country, a northern Utah former police officer was recently picked up by the U.S. Marshals Service. Currently in federal custody in Southern California, he is awaiting extradition to southern Utah for sentencing in a case filed in Washington County.
The defendant, 57-year-old Philip Alan Rogers, of Davis County, was awaiting sentencing on a weapons case filed by the Washington County Attorney's Office in February when, according to law enforcement, he reportedly cut his ankle monitor and fled the country, resulting in a warrant being issued for his arrest.
Rogers was charged with several offenses specific to what deputies found in Washington County on Feb. 3. Rogers was located inside a St. George restaurant with a juvenile reported as missing out of Layton City hours earlier.
He was later charged with one third-degree felony count of possession of a firearm by a restricted person after being found with a firearm and THC while also harboring a runaway. Officers also recovered a law enforcement badge during a search of the Rogers' vehicle.
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