Man charged in Roosevelt arson

ROOSEVELT — A Duchesne County man has been charged with aggravated arson after investigators say he barricaded the doors of his family's trailer home and used gasoline to set it on fire.

David Wayne Ames, 37, is also charged with disarming a peace officer, interfering with a legal arrest and two counts of assaulting a police officer.

Duchesne County Sheriff's Lt. Travis Tucker said Ames' wife had taken the couple's three children to her mother's house following a verbal dispute over the weekend. He said Ames set the family's trailer ablaze Monday.

Deputies responding to the fire found Ames walking down a nearby road and stopped him. Tucker said Ames resisted arrest and attempted to take a deputy's gun.

One deputy suffered a broken finger in the scuffle and officers used a Taser on Ames twice before he was taken into custody, Tucker said.

Ames is being held in the Duchesne County Jail. He is due to make his first court appearance Thursday.

A fund has been set up at Zions Bank to help Dawnette Ames and her children.

— Geoff Liesik