Police seek Rohnert Park man in disappearance of daughters

Authorities Thursday night were searching for a Rohnert Park man who disappeared with his two daughters in apparent violation of a court order.

Authorities said Everett Dean Reep, 45, retrieved his daughters Kyra, 11, and Alyssa, 9, from an after-school program in Rohnert Park on Tuesday, the same day that a Mendocino County judge awarded Reep temporary custody of the girls. The judge apparently was unaware that the girls’ mother - Everett’s ex-wife - had obtained a restraining order against him.

The judge rescinded the custody order Wednesday after Reep, an unemployed electrician who has a criminal history, had already vanished with the girls.

Rohnert Park Police Sgt. Jeff Justice said Thursday night that authorities were treating the case as a possible parental abduction.

“Our primary concern is trying to track down where the kids are,” Justice said.

Reep was driving a white 1998 Mercedes Benz E320 with the California license plate 4RIG229.

Justice said an Oregon state trooper pulled the car over at about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday on Interstate 5 in Cottage Grove, near Eugene. But the trooper let Reep continue on after the Rohnert Park man told the trooper he was on his way to Washington state to visit his father.

The girls’ mother, in the meantime, said Thursday evening that she just wanted her “babies home.”

“It’s a mother’s worst nightmare,” Kami Reep said from the stands of a softball field in Rohnert Park where Kyra’s team played a game. The girls wore T-shirts with Kyra’s No. 10 in her honor.

A news release issued by Rohnert Park police said Everett Reep has been acting “very hostile” and that he is possibly attempting to conceal the children from their mother after he was served with the restraining order. Justice said a Sonoma County judge issued the order on April 22.

Kami Reep said she sought the protective order after her ex-husband threatened coaches and spectators at a softball game. The order prevents Reep from coming within 1,000 yards of his ex-wife and the girls.

Ukiah police took Reep into custody April 30 on suspicion of resisting arrest, according to Mendocino County sheriff jail logs. His booking photo depicts him with visible wounds on his right cheek and shoulder. His head is clean-shaven and he has a goatee.

Everett Reep was out on bail Tuesday when the Mendocino County judge granted Reep’s request for an ex-parte hearing to discuss custody issues involving his children. The judge then granted Reep’s request for an emergency custody order for the girls.

It’s unclear what motivated the judge, whose identity was not immediately available Thursday night, to grant the request.

Later Tuesday, Reep retrieved the girls from a Boys and Girls Club after-school program in Rohnert Park without notifying the girls’ mother. Kami Reep said she found out about it after a staff member from the school program contacted her.

On Wednesday, Kami Reep met with the Mendocino County judge who issued the custody order and convinced the judge to rescind it.

“They never checked any databases,” Kami Reep said of court officials.

Everett Reep left a message with officials at Monte Vista Elementary School, where his daughters attend school, saying that the group was going camping at the Petaluma River and that the girls would not return to school until May 15.

Rohnert Park police, notified of the incident, so far have been unable to contact Reep.

“We’ve left text messages, voice mail and email with him, and we’re told he’s been in contact with other people. But he’s not contacted us,” Justice said.

Rohnert Park police were attempting Thursday to get authorization for a statewide Amber Alert to assist authorities in finding Reep and the girls. But Justice said that effort was thwarted after authorities uncovered information that Reep was in Oregon.

Justice referred to the case as a “fluid investigation” and said an arrest warrant has not been issued for Reep.

You can reach Staff Writer Derek Moore at 521-5336 or derek.moore@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @deadlinederek.