Former Miss AZ contestant Kumari Fulbright gets prison sentence

Friday, December 10th, 2010 By Victoria Kingston

Kumari Fulbright, former Miss Arizona contestant, gets two years in prison. (Photo: "T"eresa/Flickr/CC-BY)

Kumari Fulbright, the former Miss Arizona pageant contestant, has been sentenced to two years in prison for her role in kidnapping and torturing her ex-boyfriend two years ago. Who would have ever thought Fulbright, also a former UA law school student, would be capable of such brutal deeds?

Kumari Fulbright charged for assault and kidnapping

Former pageant contestant Kumari Fulbright, 28, was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison and six years probation after she pleaded guilty to conspiracy to kidnap and aggravated assault charges. Joshua Conway, Fulbright’s former boyfriend, was reportedly beaten, cut with a knife and held at gunpoint for hours before he managed to escape.

According to U.K.’s Daily Mail, Fulbright had asked Conway to sell some jewelry she had gotten from her former boyfriend, Rober Ergonis. When Ergonis later came back into her life, she lied to him, claiming Conway stole and sold the jewelry. Fulbright told jurors that the plan was only to talk Conway into telling them where where the jewelry was, but things quickly got out of hand. According to prosecutors, Fulbright lured Conway to her flat, where Ergonis and two other men jumped him.

Ergonis was charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, kidnapping, armed robbery and aggravated robbery. The other two men involved, David Radde and Larry Hammond, struck plea deals with the state after agreeing to testify against Ergonis last month.

Beauty queens with ugly behaviors

Onstage, it’s all smiles. But lives of many of these beauty pageant contestants aren’t always picture-perfect. Tia Shorts, Miss Maryland 2004, pleaded guilty to obstructing a police investigation in a drug case involving cocaine, as reported by CBS. Colombian beauty queen Angie Sanclemente Valencia was accused of enticing other models to smuggle cocaine from Argentina to Europe with promises of first-class travel, according to BBC. So, what is it exactly that moves women like Kumari Fulbright to make such ugly choices?

Sources

Daily Mail U.K.