Donald Wells Arrested on Domestic Assault Charge 5 Years After Summer Wells Vanished
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Updated · Fox News · Oct 14
Donald Wells Arrested on Domestic Assault Charge 5 Years After Summer Wells Vanished
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Oct 14
Summary
Hawkins County Jail records show Donald Wells, 61, was booked at 4:15 a.m. Tuesday on a domestic assault charge and was due in arraignment Wednesday morning.
Additional details were not immediately released, and neither the Wells family nor the Hawkins County sheriff's office responded to requests for comment.
Wells has prior arrests on domestic assault, DUI and firearms charges unrelated to his daughter Summer's disappearance, and a protection order was filed on behalf of his wife in 2020.
Summer Wells disappeared from her family's Rogersville, Tennessee, home on June 15, 2021, at age 5; the case remains unsolved and no suspects have been publicly identified.