A neighbor at an apartment complex can hear screaming. A man gets beaten up, and a child gets taken.
- Jun 4
- 5 min read
| by Travis Uresk | June 4th, 2026 |
Roosevelt, Utah (5/27/26)—A neighbor at an apartment building at 700 E 290 N called police, saying she could hear a lot of screaming and banging around.
Police arrived at the scene and could see a man looking out of a window. The officer knocked on the door, and a man asked who it was. Officer Arnold identified himself as a Roosevelt City Police officer, and the male opened the door.
The officer asked the man what was going on inside the apartment. He apologized and said he was still "hopped up" on adrenaline. The man told police he was hanging out with his roommate, and her baby daddy was over for visitation. The two went into a different room for some alone time, and the baby daddy kicked the door open and started "beating the shit out of" him. The man stated that it was because they had a history of a relationship.
Officer Arnold asked where the suspect was now, and he said he had run off about 10 minutes ago. The officer asked if there was anyone else inside the apartment, and the man said it was only him and his roommate's daughter. The officer wanted to see for himself who was inside the home, and he gave them permission to enter.
The man took Officer Arnold inside and showed him around the house. He said his room is on the left-hand side, but pointed to the right-hand side, saying it was where the girl's daughter was sleeping. Inside that room was a full-size bed and a smaller bed, on which the child was lying.
After the officer confirmed that nobody else was inside the house, he asked the male to walk him through, from start to finish, what had happened.
The male said that 26-year-old Trevor Eugene Phillips was there to see his kid. He stated they went to the other room, and Trevor kicked the door in and started punching him. While the officer and the male were speaking, the female walked in, talked over them, saying, "They were in there doing their thing.”
She told Officer Arnold her son was passed out in the front room, and she heard a loud bang. She said, "After he got done beating his ass", he came out. She told police that when they came out, their son was gone, and he is still gone.
The officer asked the female if Trevor had a car, and she said she didn’t know. The other officers who were looking for Trevor were notified that he had his son with him. She told the police she had just dropped the protective order so he could visit. She said Trevor's mom told her he was going to counseling.
The officer asked the female if she had full custody, and she said yes. Then she was asked whether she knew where he lived, and she told the police that, as far as she knew, he was living in Colorado.
Later on, the female called back and told dispatch she had received a call stating that Trevor was taking the 1-year-old son to Colorado to avoid being caught and that he was driving a 1999 Toyota Corolla.
Officer Arnold returned to the apartment with Officer Adams and Deputy Clyde to ask the female additional questions. She told them she was on the phone with Trevor's mother when police arrived, and his mother told her about "everything." She told the officers he had asked why she called the police.
The female explained to the police that the room that Trevor kicked down the door to was the male's space. She had mentioned that the door was unlocked and that Trevor had come in, so the police asked if she had let him in for a visitation, and she said no.
Officer Adams asked whether he had permission to come in at all, and she said no. She told them she told his mom maybe tomorrow for the visitation. The police told her they would try to track down the vehicle and asked her to let the police know if she heard anything.
Later on, the female texted 911, stating that Trevor was on R-Hill and that she was there to pick up her son. Dispatch began tracking her location based on the 911 text and relayed it to the officers. Officer Arnold went up around R-Hill looking for the tan vehicle, and Officer Reed located the female in Roosevelt. Officer Reed informed Officer Arnold that the female now had her son back. Officer Arnold was unable to locate the Toyota, so he told Officer Reed he would meet the female at the apartment.
Officer Arnold met with the female back at her apartment, confirmed she had gotten her son back, and then asked her to tell him what happened. She told him that Trevor called her, saying he would give her son back, but they'd have to meet on R-Hill, and he would run if she called the cops.
As soon as the female got her son back, she tried to pin the location and text it to 911.
A later review of plate reader data showed that the vehicle Trevor was suspected of driving was heading eastbound past mile marker 12.8 on SR121 at 6:00 am, and the text from R-Hill came in at 5:42 am. That vehicle was also seen coming eastbound into Roosevelt on the west side of US-40 at 12:42 am. It then left town on the east side and came back at 1:18 am, heading westbound on the east side of US-40. This timeline matches the statements about when Trevor arrived at the apartment.
On 6/1/2026, Officer Arnold was notified by Cpl. Cox with the DCSO, who had Trevor in custody. He told Cpl. Cox stated that he had probable cause to arrest Trevor on charges of Burglary of a Dwelling, Assault, and other charges. Deputy Cox informed Officer Arnold that he would have Trevor booked into the Duchesne County Jail.
A review of Protective Orders showed that the protective order was still active as of the date of arrest, which was served on 4/15/2026.
Trevor Phillips was booked into the Duchesne County Jail on charges of Burglary of a dwelling for entering the dwelling without permission with intent to commit crimes including assault, charges of protective order violation for violating an active protective order, charges of assault for assaulting the male subject, charges of criminal mischief with a domestic violence enhancement for the damage caused to the door frame of the bedroom, and charges of domestic violence in the presence of a child because there were two children in the residence at the time of these occurrences.
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