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The Independent has been following a number of criminal cases which have generated a lot of public interest and provides an update below on some of them. The defendants whose cases have not resulted in a conviction or plea of guilty are presumed by law to be innocent.
Kevin Wynn
In the case of The United States of America vs. Kevin Scott Wynn, an Alpine property owner was convicted of one felony count of tax evasion in the U.S. District Court for Arizona. The jury returned its verdict in December of last year. His sentencing was set for this month after a long delay due in part to Wynn absconding from his court-ordered release and being captured in Mexico in August.
A year after three children drowned in Tonto Creek, a White Mountains couple has pleaded not guilty to charges of child abuse and manslaughter.
A grand jury indicted Daniel Grant Rawlings on three counts of reckless manslaughter and seven counts of child abuse, while his wife, Lacey Lynn Rawlings was indicted on seven counts of child abuse.
On Nov. 29, 2019, Daniel reportedly drove a large military-style truck around a road closed barricade with Lacey and seven children aboard into a flooded Tonto Creek, killing two of their children and a niece.
Daniel, Lacey and four other children survived while Willa, 6, Colby, 5, and Austin, 5, drowned.