Missing Summer Wells' father arrested on domestic assault charge in Tennessee

Donald Wells, the 61-year-old father of missing Summer Wells , has been arrested again — this time on a domestic assault charge, according to court records in Tennessee.

Hawkins County Jail records show he was booked into custody at 4:15 a.m.

Tuesday and was scheduled for arraignment at 9 a.m.

Wednesday.

Additional details were not immediately available.

Neither a spokesperson for the Wells family or the sheriff's office immediately responded to requests for comment.

MISSING SUMMER WELLS: JAILED DAD WRITES NOTE ‘TO THE PERSON OR PERSONS RESPONSIBLE' FROM INSIDE COUNTY LOCKUP The elder Wells has been arrested before on domestic assault, DUI and firearms charges unrelated to his daughter's disappearance, which remains unsolved.

He was also served with a civil order of protection on behalf of his wife back in 2020.

Summer Wells was 5 when she vanished from her family's home in rural Rogersville, Fox News Digital has reported previously.

She would now be 10, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has released an age-progressed image showing what she may have looked like as a 9-year-old.

MISSING TENNESSEE CHILD SUMMER WELLS: REWARD REACHES $58,000 Summer's mother, Candus Bly, told police she last saw her daughter at their home on Ben Hill Road in Rogersville on June 15, 2021 — when she said the child came inside from planting flowers with her grandmother.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM THE FOX TRUE CRIME HUB SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWS The parents have maintained that they believe someone entered their 11-acre property, lured the girl outside and took her.

FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X No suspects have been publicly identified but investigators had been looking for a potential witness — the driver of a red pickup truck that had full-sized ladder racks and white buckets in the bed.

GOT A TIP? When she was last seen, Summer was about 3 feet tall and around 40 pounds.