A deputy U.S. marshal from Brea was convicted final week of making an attempt to border his ex-girlfriend for a hoax intercourse assault and made-up threats as a part of a 2016 plot to get her to surrender her share of a condominium they owned collectively in Anaheim, based on the U.S. Justice Division.
A jury discovered Ian Richard Diaz, 44, responsible of all counts on Thursday, March 23 after a week-long trial held in federal courtroom in Downtown Los Angeles.
He was convicted of 1 rely of conspiracy to commit cyberstalking, one rely of cyberstalking, one rely of perjury and one rely of obstructing a federal continuing. Diaz is about to be sentenced in June; he faces a most of 20 years in jail, based on a DOJ assertion.
A federal grand jury indictment filed in opposition to Diaz almost two years in the past detailed his plans of revenge in opposition to his ex-girlfriend, Michelle Suzanne Hadley, of Ontario. The 2 had dated for 2 years, with their relationship ending in 2015. Diaz married his now ex-wife, Angela Diaz, in February 2016. The scheme started a number of months later.
Prosecutors mentioned the couple arrange on-line accounts in Hadley’s title in Might 2016, then used them to make it seem as if Hadley was threatening them. From one account on Craigslist, the couple made it appear as if Hadley had organized for males to go to their residence to sexually assault Angela Diaz.
In a kind of purported incidents, the couple claimed a masked man despatched by Hadley attacked Angela Diaz of their storage.
Ian Diaz reported the false crimes to Anaheim police, touchdown Hadley in jail for greater than three months.
Finally, Diaz’s story fell aside and Hadley was launched, but it surely nonetheless took almost 5 years for federal authorities to arrest and cost the deputy U.S. marshal in Might 2021.
Diaz’s conviction Thursday “has introduced a lot peace to my household and restored a few of the religion we misplaced within the justice system on account of (his) crimes in opposition to me,” Hadley mentioned in an announcement to NBC Information.
Hadley’s ordeal left her with post-traumatic stress dysfunction, based on a lawsuit she filed in opposition to the town of Anaheim in 2018. After her arrest, Hadley misplaced her job and was pressured to drop out of enterprise college.
Courtroom data present Anaheim police arrested Hadley in June 2016. She rapidly bailed out. However lower than a month later, Orange County prosecutors demanded she be rearrested — they claimed “escalating occasions” required them to jail Hadley within the title of public security. Police took Hadley into custody in July, and she or he would stay jailed till October 2016.
Hadley’s lawsuit, and the later indictments in opposition to Ian and Angela Diaz, confirmed the couple satisfied police of the alleged harassment marketing campaign they mentioned Hadley was waging in opposition to them.
“APD detectives willfully turned a blind eye to Ian Diaz’s clearly false reviews as a result of he was a fellow regulation enforcement officer,” Hadley’s lawsuit learn. “He was pleasant with the detectives investigating Ms. Hadley, texting and emailing with them.”
Angela Diaz was convicted for her half within the plot in 2017. She was sentenced to 5 years in jail.
Anaheim settled Hadley’s lawsuit in 2021 for $1.8 million, based on a metropolis spokesman.
Attorneys for each Ian Diaz and Hadley didn't return requests for touch upon Monday.