Investigators later learned that Laurie wanted to leave Draegeth and that she was recently kicked out of their house. Investigators did not discover any signs that she was suicidal and was “actually excited about a trip planned to (a) foreign country with her daughters,” according to the complaint.
Crimes Draw Arizona Sanctions
The Arizona Presiding Disciplinary Judge accepted a consented-to two year suspension an attorney who had self-reported a criminal matter involving a felony conviction
Generally speaking, the ethical issues arose in the context of Respondent McNally’s conviction of serious felonies resulting from the Respondent driving after drinking heavily a [sic] which resulted in an intersection crash that injured four people, with extensive injuries to at least two victims.
Respondent was sentence to one-year imprisonment with three year of supervision on release.
In an unrelated matter, an Arizona attorney consented to disbarment after a felony manslaughter conviction that he had failed to report to the Bar.
KOLD 13 reported
The Oro Valley man who admitted to fatally shooting his wife more than five years ago has been sentenced to probation for seven years.
According to court documents, Trevor Stark Draegeth’s prison sentence was suspended, and he will serve 100 hours of community service per year of probation.
On Wednesday, Oct. 23, Draegeth pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
He had been facing a first-degree murder charge after his wife Laurie was found dead in the family’s Oro Valley home on Feb. 12, 2019.
Two young children were found safe in the home, located in the 200 block of East Brearley Drive. Draegeth wasn’t arrested until about a month after the shooting.
Draegeth claimed his wife fired two shots at him and then shot herself. Her body was found face-up on her bed with a gunshot wound to her head.
Draegeth said after his wife was shot, he sat down near her body for about 10 minutes. He admitted he moved evidence but claimed he did it to make his wife’s body look “pretty.” Investigators said he also tried to wash the gun, his shirt, and blanket from the bed with a bar of soap.
Authorities said Draegeth shot his wife and tried to make it look like suicide.
Weeks after Laurie died, an autopsy report from the Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause of death was homicide.
Oro Valley police arrested Draegeth the following day on March 6. Police initially classified the incident as a “suspicious death” and were fairly tight-lipped prior to Draegeth’s arrest.
Draegeth was booked into the Pima County jail on a $10 million bond.
(Mike Frisch)
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