Remington approached authorities and offered information about Ricci, a focus of the investigation into the girl's still-unsolved June 5 disappearance.
The original story was Ricci gave police Young and Remington's names as people he had worked with in Federal Heights and Remington returned the favor by fingering Ricci as the gunman in the bank robbery.
This is from the SLC Tribune on Oct 17:
A separate bank robbery charge filed against Remington was dismissed on Wednesday. Prosecutors had alleged that he robbed a Murray bank of nearly $700. Remington's criminal history dates to the 1980s, when he was sentenced to up to life in prison for bank robbery. He was later sentenced to 14 years in prison after he went on a crime spree while on a home visit from the Utah State Prison, according to a story in the Jan. 19, 1986, edition of The Salt Lake Tribune. For a Salt Lake County robbery committed during the home visit, Remington, then 28, was convicted of being a habitual criminal and given an additional sentence of 5 years to life. He served two years in prison and completed his parole on March 8, 1994.
And now this guy will be out of jail again in no more than 5 years. What is up with Utah?
None of the Utah papers printed a picture of Remington in the articles about the court decision this past week. We have still never seen a picture of John Russell Remington.