Archive | June, 2012

This past April, a Maricopa County Superior Court jury ignored the mama’s boy picture the defense tried to paint of their client and found Dominic Chagolla guilty today of first-degree murder and concealment of a dead body in his mom’s 2010 stabbing death.  Today, a judge condemned Chagolla to spend the rest of his natural [...]

Stemming from a road-rage altercation back in December of last year, a Mesa police sergeant has now been indicted on two felony counts of aggravated assault in which he was first portrayed as the victim. Sgt. Mike Duke, 42, is a 19-year veteran of the Mesa Police force.  He was off-duty on a Sunday and [...]

A Paradise Valley man convicted of deliberately burning down his $3.5 million Biltmore Estates mansion in 2009 collapsed in the courtroom just moments after the verdict was read.  Video from inside the Phoenix courtroom showed 53-year-old Michael Marin having some type of medical episode shortly after the verdict was read.  With the jury already cleared [...]

Posted by Phoenix DUI Attorney Nick Alcock: With the help of an experienced DUI attorney it is certainly possible for a person accused of DUI to get his or her DUI reduced down to the lesser charge of Reckless Driving.  The key is in knowing the situations and circumstances that tend to lead to reductions [...]

A Marana, AZ man charged with handcuffing his eldest son to furniture was sentenced this week to six months in jail and seven years’ probation.  Federico J. Ballesteros II was indicted in February on three counts of child abuse and one count of custodial interference after his 14-year-old son told staff members at Marana Middle [...]

A Phoenix school bus driver for the Deer Valley Unified School District is in jail, along with his wife, after some disturbing accusations against them.  Brian DiCamillo is accused of child molestation, child pornography and child prostitution.  His wife, Jennifer DiCamillo, is accused of knowing about at least some of those crimes and not reporting [...]

A Mesa man is headed to prison following a plea deal with prosecutors that resulted in a 24-year sentence and lifetime probation.  33-year-old George Kuykendall is the Mesa man who was arrested exactly two years ago for beating his young daughter with a folded power cord.  Mesa police still refer to the crime as “the [...]

The criminal defense attorney for an officer accused of sexually abusing a young woman at a downtown bar last summer will try to convince a jury this week that the victim is mistaken about what she felt. Robb Gary Evans, 43, is accused of walking up behind a woman he didn’t know in a bar, [...]