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Charge Against Ex-Arizona Lawmaker Caps Downward Spiral
Source: Associated Press
Charge Against Ex-Arizona Lawmaker Caps Downward Spiral
By RACHEL D'ORO, BOB CHRISTIE AND JACQUES BILLEAUD, ASSOCIATED PRESS ANCHORAGE, Alaska — May 20, 2016, 3:36 AM ET
Nearly a decade before he would be charged with murder in Alaska, Mark Desimone was a well-liked state lawmaker in Arizona for a brief time, a moderate one-term Democrat in a minority caucus filled with left-leaning members, according to lawmakers who worked with him.
But then the Phoenix bar owner was arrested on the last day of the 2008 legislative session on a spousal abuse charge and resigned shortly thereafter. The case was dropped after he agreed to counseling.
His life never got quite back on track before he moved back to Alaska a month ago.
Now, Desimone is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a man in a hunting party near Juneau, Alaska, after a day of drinking. He's being held on $500,000 bail, charged with shooting 34-year-old Duilio Antonio "Tony" Rosales twice in the back of the head on Sunday. Authorities have not disclosed a motive.
Desimone, who had lived in Juneau in the 1980s, found work as a day laborer there. He was essentially homeless this time around, couch-surfing at the home of the owner of a local jewelry store, The Jewel Box, where Desimone worked as a salesman in the summer of 1989.
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By RACHEL D'ORO, BOB CHRISTIE AND JACQUES BILLEAUD, ASSOCIATED PRESS ANCHORAGE, Alaska — May 20, 2016, 3:36 AM ET
Nearly a decade before he would be charged with murder in Alaska, Mark Desimone was a well-liked state lawmaker in Arizona for a brief time, a moderate one-term Democrat in a minority caucus filled with left-leaning members, according to lawmakers who worked with him.
But then the Phoenix bar owner was arrested on the last day of the 2008 legislative session on a spousal abuse charge and resigned shortly thereafter. The case was dropped after he agreed to counseling.
His life never got quite back on track before he moved back to Alaska a month ago.
Now, Desimone is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a man in a hunting party near Juneau, Alaska, after a day of drinking. He's being held on $500,000 bail, charged with shooting 34-year-old Duilio Antonio "Tony" Rosales twice in the back of the head on Sunday. Authorities have not disclosed a motive.
Desimone, who had lived in Juneau in the 1980s, found work as a day laborer there. He was essentially homeless this time around, couch-surfing at the home of the owner of a local jewelry store, The Jewel Box, where Desimone worked as a salesman in the summer of 1989.
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/charge-arizona-lawmaker-caps-downward-spiral-39247382