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Michael King

Michael King, who was wanted in the rape of a Pleasure Palace porn shop employee -- that is, until he was caught robbing a bank, and tossed the stolen cash all over a Phoenix backyard -- took a plea agreement today that's sending him to prison.

King, 23, pleaded guilty today to three counts of sexual assault and two counts of attempted sexual assault, and won a 35-year trip to prison, as well as a lifetime of sex-offender probation when he gets out.

According to court documents previously obtained by New Times, King became known to police after raping an employee of the Pleasure Palace porn shop in Phoenix on October 17.

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Dominic Chagolla was convicted of murdering his ma.

Dominic Chagolla was described as a bit of a mama's boy in court documents obtained by New Times detailing the death of his mother, Maria Chagolla, in December 2010.

Turns out, he wasn't that much of a mama's boy, as a jury found Dominic Chagolla guilty today of first-degree murder in his mom's stabbing death.

Maria Chagolla's body was found hidden under a blanket behind the passenger seat of the same car her son claimed she used to drop him off at a Glendale park the day she was reported missing.

Maria Chagolla was stabbed in the face several times, including in both eyes.

When she didn't come home after dropping her son off at the park that day, family members began to question Dominic -- who showed up back at the family's home shortly after leaving with his mother, and was the last person to see her alive.

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Jacob Nelson

Believe it or not, sneaking into a house and stripping down to your underwear to hop in bed with a random 14-year-old girl could lead to prison time.

Four-and-a-half years in prison, in Jacob Nelson's case.

In July, Phoenix police said that Nelson, 35, waited for a father of two to leave the house around 8 a.m. one morning, and crawled into the house, where the 14-year-old girl and her 11-year-old brother were sleeping.

Police said Nelson hopped into bed with the girl, wearing just his boxer-briefs, and told her to be quiet.

As you can imagine, a 14-year-old girl waking up next to some 35-year-old weirdo in his underwear did not stay quiet -- she screamed.

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Daytona Johnson

Believe it or not, living with two ex-boyfriends at the same time didn't work out well for Phoenix woman Daytona Johnson.

After punching one ex-boyfriend/baby-daddy, then throwing a can of Febreeze at her other ex-boyfriend/baby-daddy -- and later slicing his throat with a meat cleaver -- Johnson's getting a trip to prison.

Johnson was sentenced today to five years in prison, after pleading guilty to one count of aggravated assault, while the five other charges were dropped as part of a plea agreement.

According to court documents previously obtained by New Times, Johnson -- who lived in her Phoenix home with the two ex-boyfriends and children fathered by each of the men -- got into an argument with one of the men at the house back in September.

While Johnson was arguing with one of her exes, Chad Grubbs, Johnson's other live-in ex-boyfriend, Dominick Glarruisso, entered the room and asked Johnson to give him his cell phone, which she refused to do.

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Joseph Goldmeer

Cab driver Joseph Goldmeer was sentenced to five years in prison today for a June incident in which Goldmeer ended an argument at a Phoenix gas station by running a guy over with his cab.

Goldmeer was convicted by a jury in February of three counts of aggravated assault, and received sentences from four to five years on each count, which will run concurrently.

The mowing-over took place around 3 p.m. on June 26, at a Circle K convenience store near 15th Avenue and Indian School Road.

Witnesses told police they watched as the cab driver and the 45-year-old victim argued inside the store before taking the argument to the parking lot -- where Goldmeer ran him over.

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Julian Titcomb

Julian Titcomb, a former volunteer basketball coach at a Valley elementary school, was sentenced today to six months in jail for sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl.

Titcomb, 22, was booked into jail on eight counts of sexual conduct with a minor in March 2011, but pleaded guilty in February to three counts of child abuse.

Titcomb was the victim's basketball coach at Phoenix Saint Catherine's Elementary School in 2010, the same year the two became Facebook friends, according to court documents obtained by New Times.

Titcomb initially told the girl he wished she was older so the two could hang out, but he then proposed the idea of being "friends with benefits" not long after that.

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Michael Brown

Michael Brown, a former CVS pharmacy employee who was busted on child-porn charges in June 2010, pleaded guilty today to five related charges.

Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies arrested Brown after they received a tip that he had left several pornographic images of children in one of the store's photo kiosks.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was upset at the time, since he said he was a frequent shopper at that very CVS location.

Brown, 51, was arrested on June 29, 2010, after sheriff's deputies conducted a search of his home near 17th Street and Union Hills Drive in Phoenix, where police found thousands of images of "child erotica," according to court documents.

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Angela Simpson

Angela Simpson, the Phoenix woman who impaled, stabbed, strangled, beat, and extracted the teeth from a disabled man -- then dismembered him and set pieces of his body on fire -- was sentenced today to life in prison for the 2009 murder.

Simpson pleaded guilty on March 22 to first-degree murder for killing 46-year-old Terry Neely, in what Phoenix police called "one of the most heinous homicide cases the department has ever seen."

Among other things, Simpson pulled Neely's teeth out, drove a nail into his head, bashed him with a tire iron, stabbed him around 50 times, and strangled him. Then she chopped up his body and threw the pieces in a trash can, which she lit on fire.

Simpson was already in jail on an unrelated armed robbery charge in August 2009 when she was interviewed by police, and admitted that she killed Neely.

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David Buot

​David Buot decided he was going to kill himself in October, 2010, and opted for one of the most unsafe methods for the rest of the people who felt like living another day -- driving his SUV head-on into another vehicle.

Buot failed at killing himself, but he did end up killing 49-year-old Christine Anderson, whom Buot decided to crash into.

He'll be going to prison for a while for that one.

According to the Phoenix Police Department, Buot was driving his 2003 Toyota 4-Runner eastbound near 6200 East Pinnacle Peak Road when he crossed over the center of the roadway into on-coming traffic and collided head on with a Anderson's Mercedes.

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Izrahias Morales

The Goodyear teenager who brought a gun to school last year to kill his math teacher was sentenced today to two years in jail.

Izrahias Morales was 15 years old when he brought a the gun to school last February, and was charged as an adult by the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.

According to authorities, Morales brought a loaded, 9-millimeter handgun to Millennium High School in Goodyear on February 12, 2011, with the intention of shooting his math teacher in the parking lot after school that day.

Morales was mad at the teacher because she'd told him the previous week that if he didn't complete a project he would receive a failing grade in the class.

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