James Brenner pleads responsible to murdering Dylan Rounds

BRIGHAM CITY — The person charged with Dylan Rounds’ homicide pleaded responsible on Wednesday, shortly after serving to investigators find Rounds’ stays.

James Brenner, 61, pleaded responsible in Utah’s 1st District Courtroom as a part of a plea deal that resolved three separate circumstances. A cost for aggravated homicide, a first-degree felony, was decreased to homicide, a second-degree felony, and a cost for desecration of human remans, a third-degree felony, was dismissed.

Brenner additionally agreed to reveal the placement of Rounds’ stays. He offered data that helped legislation enforcement discover his stays close to Lucin, in Field Elder County, on April 9.

Rounds, 19, went lacking after Could 28, 2022, and the Field Elder County Sheriff’s Workplace spent hundreds of hours investigating the case and looking for him, with help from companies in a number of states.

Blair Wardle, deputy legal professional for Field Elder County, stated he labored carefully with Rounds’ mother and father to assessment the plea deal and potential sentencing. Within the plea deal, attorneys agreed to suggest a compulsory jail sentence and that sentences for various prices would run consecutively.

Brenner additionally pleaded responsible on Wednesday to 2 counts of possession of a firearm as a restricted individual, a third-degree felony. A cost of aggravated assault in an unrelated incident and a 3rd cost of possession of a firearm, each third-degree felonies, had been dismissed.

“With the ability to deliver Dylan residence and convey this prosecution to a profitable conclusion is a good reduction,” Field Elder County legal professional Stephen Hadfield stated in a press release. “It has been wonderful to see what the tireless and unrelenting efforts of so many alternative folks can accomplish.”

The legal professional’s workplace expressed condolences to Rounds’ household and gratitude to them and different volunteers who helped legislation enforcement in the course of the course of the case.

Brenner is scheduled to be sentenced July 1.

Rounds’ household began a nonprofit in his honor that was introduced earlier this month.

“Whereas we had hoped for a distinct final result, we have now recognized because the begin Dylan was not alive,” they stated in a press release. “This current improvement means the investigation has gone full circle, and now we will lastly deliver Dylan residence and shut this chapter.”