3+ week, 3+ day ago (544+ words) Inset: Ascencio Largo (Phoenix Police Department). Background: The adult store where Largo visited while his children were left in a hot car in Phoenix, Ariz. (Google Maps). An Arizona man has learned his fate after leaving his four children in an exceedingly hot car while he visited an adult store. Ascencio Largo, 38, was sentenced this week to four months in jail and 10 years of probation " after previously facing substantial time behind bars for the ill-fated mid-summer excursion. In July, Largo was arrested on eight felony counts after his children were found in a car that became as hot as 124 degrees. "Where's mom or dad?" an officer asks while rescuing the quartet, according to body-worn camera footage released by the Phoenix Police Department when announcing the charges. Later, another officer can be heard asking: "Do you know where your guys' family…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago (618+ words) An Alaska man will spend most " if not all " of the rest of his days behind bars after he and others were lured into murdering a woman by a man offering $9 million who was actually catfishing them and lived in his grandparents' basement. Kayden McIntosh, now 22, was sentenced Friday to 85 years in prison with 15 suspended, meaning he'll spend 70 years behind bars. He was the last of the six defendants to be sentenced for bringing 19-year-old Cynthia Hoffman to a waterfall just north of Anchorage in 2019. Once there, she was bound with duct tape and McIntosh shot her once in the head. Her body was dumped in a river. McIntosh pleaded guilty last year to second-degree murder. The plea agreement called for between 30 years and 85 years. While Hoffman's family was hoping for the maximum punishment, the sentence he received was sufficient....

3+ week, 6+ day ago (732+ words) Years after being accused of killing his girlfriend and hiding her body in the woods, a 57-year-old man has learned whether his defense stood up. Matthew Pahl sat stoically in court on Tuesday as a Waukesha County judge announced that he had been found guilty of first-degree intentional homicide and hiding a corpse in the death of his girlfriend, 44-year-old Stephanie Pavlons. The trial lasted six days. It was Sept. 9, 2022, and construction workers were in the area of Golf Road in Delafield when they saw a dead body and called 911. The corpse was in an "accelerated state of decomposition," according to a criminal complaint obtained by Law&Crime. Once the body was identified as Pavlons, authorities spoke with her family. Her parents said they had not heard from their daughter in nearly three weeks. She had been in an "on…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago (510+ words) Left: Zarbab Ali (Ventura County District Attorney's Office). Right: Rachel Castillo (Simi Valley police). A California man will spend the rest of his life in prison after a jury convicted him of murdering his estranged wife while he hid in her apartment and waited for her to come out of her bedroom before he pounced and stabbed her to death. Zarbab Ali, 28, was found guilty Friday of first-degree murder in the death of 25-year-old Rachel Castillo, according to the Ventura County District Attorney's Office. Ali will receive a mandatory life prison sentence during a hearing scheduled for Jan. 12. Castillo's family reported her missing on Nov. 10, 2022, after her sister came home to their Simi Valley apartment and found a large amount of blood. Rachel Castillo's phone, keys and vehicle were also left behind. Cops rushed to the scene to find "a…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago (539+ words) Inset: Charles Devin Harris (McLennan County District Attorney's Office). Background: The motel in Texas where Harris' infant son starved to death (Google Maps). A 27-year-old man in Texas will spend decades locked up for fatally starving his 3-month-old son, who authorities said looked "like a skeleton" when he was found dead in a rural motel two years ago. District Judge Susan N. Kelly on Thursday ordered Charles Devin Harris to serve 40 years in a state correctional facility for his role in the death of Jacob Jeremiah Amon Harris. Kelly sentenced Harris after he reached a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to charges of injury to a child, endangering the welfare of a child, and possession of methamphetamine. In exchange for his plea, prosecutors dropped an additional charge of murder. Specifically, Harris will serve 40 years for the charge of injury to…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago (415+ words) Inset: Justin Daugherty (Allegheny County Sheriff's Office). Background: An image of a bridge in McKees Rocks, Pa. (Borough of McKees Rocks). A Pennsylvania man is behind bars after brutalizing and kidnapping his pregnant ex-girlfriend, foiling a rescue attempt with gunfire, and then kidnapping her 1-year-old child, according to Keystone State police. The underlying incidents date back to late August " when Allegheny County Police officers were called to an apartment in McKees Rocks, a tiny urban enclave located a few miles northwest of Pittsburgh. The defendant has been on the run since then, authorities say. Daugherty was finally arrested on Friday, court records show. On Aug. 27, a woman reported being beaten and physically restrained by her ex-boyfriend, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Pittsburgh-based ABC affiliate WTAE. Three days before that, Daugherty showed up at her residence after being released…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago (585+ words) Insets, left to right: Keylin Chavez Dominguez and Francisco Lara-Garcia. Background: The eastbound Intercounty Connector in Silver Spring, Maryland, where Chavez Dominguez's body was found (Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office). A 33-year-old man is headed to prison for decades for murdering his ex-girlfriend and throwing her body off a Maryland bridge before driving to Philadelphia to bring in the New Year and later reporting her missing. Francisco Lara-Garcia was sentenced to life in prison with all but 40 years suspended for the death of 20-year-old Keylin Chavez Dominguez, the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office said. Lara-Garcia pleaded guilty in March to first-degree murder. The pair started dating in early 2021 when they lived in Honduras and continued their relationship and stayed together at an apartment in Rockville, a Washington, D.C., suburb, according to a probable cause affidavit. Chavez Dominguez began dating another man…...

4+ week, 15+ hour ago (400+ words) Background: News footage of Adam Crespo in court on Oct. 31, 2025, during his sentencing hearing (WTVJ). Inset: Silvia Galva (GoFundMe). A Florida man who killed his girlfriend with a spear that was used as decoration in their bedroom has been sentenced to life in prison. Adam Crespo, 49, was found guilty of murder by a jury in August, six years after the violent death of 32-year-old Silvia Galva. As Law&Crime previously reported, Crespo told police who responded to the bloody scene on July 12, 2019, that Galva "must have grabbed onto the spear" while the couple were having a fight on their bed. Crespo and his attorneys attempted to convince jurors that Galva accidentally ran herself through with the 12-inch spear. After deliberating for less than two hours, they found him guilty of murder. Local NBC affiliate WTVJ was in the courtroom on…...

9+ hour, 56+ min ago (380+ words) Inset: Rick P. Artis (Bexar County Adult Detention Center). Background: The area in San Antonio where Artis allegedly killed an infant (Google Maps). A 31-year-old man in Texas is accused of killing a 9-month-old girl earlier this year, beating the infant to death and then giving police a fake name because of an outstanding warrant for his arrest in connection with another young child who was brutally killed'several years ago. Rick P. Artis is facing one count of injury to a child with intent to cause serious bodily injury, court records show. Officers with the San Antonio Police Department and emergency medical personnel responded to a call regarding an unresponsive child at an apartment complex in the 6100 block of Ingram Road at about 10:43 a.m. on Jan. 25, local ABC affiliate KSAT reported, citing a probable cause affidavit. First responders found the unresponsive baby and…...

4+ week, 10+ hour ago (400+ words) Inset: Joseph Bonito (Wood County Justice Center). Background: The block in Ohio where Bonito allegedly killed his infant son earlier this year (Google Maps). A 25-year-old father in Ohio will spend more than two decades behind bars for killing his infant son, shaking and squeezing the 4-month-old to death earlier this year. Just before noon on Feb. 11, officers with the Fostoria Police Department and emergency medical personnel responded to a call regarding an unresponsive infant at a residence in the 1500 block of North Countyline Street, the Sentinel-Tribune reported, citing a prior news release. Bonito placed the 911 call, telling the emergency dispatcher that he had last checked on his son about three hours earlier to feed the boy, but the child now appeared "white" and was "not responding," Toledo ABC affiliate WTVG reported. "I don't know what's wrong," he told the…...