Oakley spa bomb scare and knife robbery report end in arrest

A bomb warning tied to Oakley’s Chateau Health & Wellness quickly turned into a wider public-safety response when Summit County deputies were also sent to a knife robbery report at Ken’s Kash. By the time the evening settled down, investigators had linked the two calls to one suspect, stopped a white limousine near Rockport State Park and found no explosives inside.

The first alarm came from Oklahoma City, where police were told by the woman’s boyfriend that she might be carrying out a bomb plan connected to the spa. Deputies were dispatched just after 9 p.m. and headed toward the Oakley business, but that response was interrupted when dispatch received a separate 911 call from Center Street saying a female suspect armed with a small knife had tried to rob the convenience store.

That second call gave deputies a clearer picture of what was happening in Oakley. The Ken’s Kash employee said the suspect could not open the cash register and left in a white limousine. As deputies worked both scenes, they concluded the descriptions matched, which tied the bomb threat and the attempted robbery into one fast-moving investigation centered on the same woman and vehicle.

Deputies located the limousine around 9:45 p.m. and tried to stop it on State Route 32. The driver kept going, and Utah Highway Patrol and Summit County deputies used spike strips to slow and stop the vehicle after a pursuit that covered about 5 miles and reached roughly 52 mph. The woman ran a short distance on foot before surrendering in a roadside culvert. An explosives-detection K9 searched the limousine and found no explosives. A knife was later found inside the vehicle.

Court-related reporting later identified the suspect as 37-year-old Roslin Tarley Castell. She was reported to be facing charges including aggravated robbery, aggravated assault, failure to stop at the command of police, providing false information to police, threat of violence and failure to comply with duties at a vehicle accident. Additional allegations said an 18-year-old woman was struck in the legs by the limousine and had her phone demanded, and that the father of that woman saw the limo back into his vehicle, causing an estimated $1,000 to $2,000 in damage.

For Oakley and the rest of Summit County, the case showed how quickly one threat can force deputies to protect a small business, chase down a suspect and separate a false bomb alarm from a real robbery report. Chateau Health & Wellness had opened the year before, making the response especially significant for a newly established spa in a small mountain town.