Murder-suicide suspected in two NW-side deaths
The deaths of a man and a woman in their northwest-side home Monday are being investigated as a murder-suicide, the Pima County Sheriff's Department said.
David Rosas Munguia, 37, and Ceciela Lopez, 41, were discovered in their home in the 7300 block of North Camino de la Tierra, north of West Ina Road, at 3:17 p.m., said Deputy Jason Ogan, a sheriff's spokesman. Munguia is suspected of killing Lopez, who was his girlfriend and the mother of his children, Ogan said.
A family member alerted the Sheriff's Department after she received a call from one of the residents to come to the house, Ogan said. She arrived to find the couple dead.
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A 26-year-old Tohono O'odham Nation resident was sentenced to nearly 22 years in federal prison in the 2007 stabbing death of his cousin.
Gabriel Gastelum pleaded guilty in February to second-degree murder for killing Loren Anthony Gastelum, who died Oct. 13, 2007, near the village of Chuichu on the Tohono O'odham Nation, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Tucson.
Gastelum's attorney, Clay Hernandez, argued his client has battled alcohol problems since he was 12 and is a "different person" when he drinks.
U.S. District Judge John Roll gave Gastelum 262 months in prison, the maximum allowed under his plea agreement, with credit for 26 months he had already served in jail since his arrest in early 2008, court records show.
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3 men sought in stickup of SW-side Circle K
The Pima County Sheriff's Department is looking for three men suspected of robbing a southwest-side convenience store early Sunday, assaulting the clerk in the process.
The men, each described as Hispanic and between the ages of 25 and 30, entered the Circle K in the 3200 block of West Valencia Road about 5 a.m. Sunday, according to a Sheriff's Department news release.
One man grabbed the clerk by the collar, punched him several times with brass knuckles and demanded money, while the second man grabbed a grocery bag and filled it with alcohol and cigarettes, the release said. The third man served as a lookout.
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Businessman pleads guilty in $2M-plus tax scheme
A Tucson businessman faces up to 2 1/2 years in federal prison after admitting he hid more than $2 million from the Internal Revenue Service.
Robert Nelson Hayes, 47, pleaded guilty last week in U.S. District Court to one count of subscribing and filing false income-tax returns and one count of false accounting in relation to a bankruptcy proceeding, according to court records.
Hayes, who is co-owner of a vintage Hawaiian-shirt business called The Hana Shirt Co., acknowledged filing tax returns for 2007 and 2008 that failed to list $2,001,382 in proceeds from shirt sales, court records show.
Hayes accomplished this by funneling proceeds through a PayPal account linked to an eBay account that he first established in 2002, three years before creating The Hana Shirt Co., according to court records.
Hayes' company experienced a sharp increase in sales starting in June 2007, court records show. At that time roughly 77.5 percent of the sales proceeds went to Hayes' PayPal account instead of to a business account linked to the company, court records show.
Hayes also filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection in April 2005, claiming $240,000 in debts against only $4,400 in assets, records show.
Among those assets were $500 worth of Hawaiian shirts, but during his change of plea hearing Thursday, Hayes admitted his stock of shirts at the time of the bankruptcy was worth more.
Reached Monday Hayes declined to comment but said his company will "continue on."
Hayes will be sentenced Aug. 31 by U.S. District Judge John Roll.
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