An Arizona couple has been charged with murder after authorities said they killed a sex offender because of his criminal history.

Jacob Dylan Middlebrook, 35, and his partner, Layne Justine McIntosh, 36, were arrested Saturday in connection with the death of Arron Christopher Warren, 29, the Bullhead City Police Department said.

Warren, a homeless Level 2 sex offender, was found fatally stabbed in the desert roughly a mile east of Bullhead Parkway earlier that morning, officials said.

Authorities have not said why Warren was required to register on the national sex-offender database. Investigators said, however, that Middlebrook and McIntosh had expressed strong hostility toward people listed on the registry.

Level 2 offenders are considered to present a moderate risk of reoffending and a mild degree of danger to the public.

Detectives said the couple, who were also living as transients, “expressed distaste for registered sex offenders and had planned the homicide in advance.”

Police allege that Middlebrook and McIntosh selected the desert as the place where they would leave Warren’s body. Investigators also said the pair measured furniture discarded along the roadside to determine whether it would be large enough to conceal him.

A passing motorist later found Warren’s body on the dirt road and contacted police.

Arron Christopher Warren, 29, was found fatally stabbed Saturday morning in the desert roughly a mile east of Bullhead Parkway. He was registered as a Level 2 sex offender

Jacob Dylan Middlebrook, 35, and Layne Justine McIntosh, 36, were arrested Saturday in connection with Warren’s death. Police said the couple “expressed distaste for registered sex offenders and had planned the homicide in advance”

Several hours later, officials found Warren’s vehicle parked at a casino in Laughlin, Nevada, just over the state line, authorities said.

Officers arrested Middlebrook and McIntosh and booked them into the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas. They are awaiting extradition to Mohave County, Arizona.

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Following the arrests, Bullhead City Police Chief Paul George assured residents that the department closely monitors registered sex offenders as they move through the area.

“When a Level 2 or Level 3 sex offender moves into our area or, more commonly, changes addresses, the Bullhead City Police Department shares that information as a public service to help keep residents informed,” he said.

“Although required notifications are mailed to residents living within an approximate 1,000-foot radius of an offender’s registered address, we go a step further by posting those notifications on social media to reach a broader audience.”

“Our goal is to provide information, not create fear or alarm. We believe an informed community is a safer community,” George said.

George also addressed the circumstances of the alleged killing, emphasizing that the department “will not tolerate anyone using this information as a reason to threaten, intimidate, harass or harm another person.”

“Our Bureau of Criminal Investigations conducts monthly address-verification checks to help ensure registered sex offenders are complying with registration requirements. Our responsibility is to protect our community, keep residents informed and enforce the law. We take all three of these responsibilities seriously,” he added.

A motorist found Warren’s body on the dirt road, pictured, and called police. Hours later, authorities located his vehicle at a casino in Laughlin, Nevada, just across the state line

The Daily Mail contacted the Bullhead City Police Department for comment.

Data shows that 750,066 sex offenders are currently registered across the United States.

People who fail to register can face additional felony charges, longer prison sentences and the revocation of parole or probation.

Individuals are removed from sex-offender registries after their deaths, although the procedure varies by state and jurisdiction.

A mother whose infant son was found buried alive inside a dog crate says his father sent her a disturbing message mentioning a “dumpster baby” shortly before the child allegedly disappeared.

Dezarae Sharp’s 11-month-old son, Koah, was found “clinging to life” on Tuesday afternoon after spending an estimated 24 hours shallowly buried beneath dirt in woodland in South Carolina, police said.

Sharp, 25, said her former partner, Michael Comer, sent her a text before Koah vanished that appeared to hint at what was about to happen.

“Michael did text me 2 days ago, I skimmed the message and the bottom said something about a dumpster baby,” she wrote on Facebook Tuesday morning.

“I assumed he was talking about the baby I’m pregnant with but here we are.”

As the search for Koah continued, Sharp urged people in the greater Lexington area to check “any type of ‘dumpster’” for the missing infant. She added that she had already searched her own trash can.

Comer, 25, was arrested late Monday in Lexington County after police found him hiding in an outbuilding. He has been charged with burglary, but no charges have yet been filed in connection with Koah’s disappearance.

Comer’s mother, Trish, had been caring for Koah on Monday morning before leaving him with her son. She has since denounced him as “pure evil.”

Dezarae Sharp, pictured with her son Koah, says the infant’s father sent her a disturbing message mentioning a “dumpster baby” before he allegedly buried the child alive

Michael Comer, pictured with Koah, was arrested late Monday in Lexington County on a burglary charge. No charges have yet been filed in connection with Koah’s disappearance

The suspect’s mother, Trish Comer, pictured with her grandchildren, has disowned her “pure evil” son. She said: “There is no excuse for what my son did and I hope that he pays”

Trish had posted repeatedly online after Koah was reported missing at about 11am Monday.

Police located the child at around 1.30pm Tuesday, after he had apparently spent about 24 hours buried beneath the ground roughly 50 yards from his paternal grandfather’s home.

“How the baby was found is pure evil,” Trish wrote approximately six hours after officers rescued Koah.

“There is no excuse for what my son did and I hope that he pays for what he did.”

She also responded to social media users criticizing her family, writing: “Now can we please just be thankful that he is alive and praise God for it because that’s the only person who can be thankful for what that poor baby went through.”

Trish said she felt guilty for trusting her son to care for his child.

Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon said Comer had left Koah with Trish on Monday morning, explaining that the grandmother regularly babysat the infant.

When Trish left to run an errand, Koah remained in Comer’s care while another babysitter was expected to arrive. “By the time the caregiver got there, Michael was gone and Koah was gone with him,” Koon said.

Sharp’s 11-month-old son was found “clinging to life” Tuesday afternoon after spending an estimated 24 hours shallowly buried beneath dirt in the South Carolina woods, police said

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The search ended Tuesday when Koah Sharp, seen with his father Michael Comer, was found crying inside a buried wire crate near Batesburg-Leesville, Sheriff Jay Koon said

Sharp has full custody of Koah but allowed Comer weekend visitation because “he’s been going to therapy and stopped drinking”

Police were called around midday, and Koah was reported missing as law enforcement launched a search.

Investigators went to Comer’s father’s nearby home and found both doors open. Baby items were inside, but there was no sign of either Comer or the infant, Koon said.

Comer was discovered hiding in an outbuilding at a Batesburg property later that evening and was arrested. Koah, however, was not with him.

Nearly 100 first responders joined the search, focusing on woodland near Koah’s paternal grandfather’s home.

On Tuesday afternoon, search crews spotted dirt and pine straw that appeared to have been freshly disturbed. Officers began digging and eventually heard the infant crying.

“As they probed it, laid it out and started digging, you could hear little Koah crying,” Koon said. “So, as you imagine, the race was on, everybody’s getting down there trying to get him out.”

The child was pulled from a wire crate covered with a towel. Koon said the covering may have created an air pocket that helped Koah survive.

“By the Grace of God, probably provided enough air for him to survive, our estimation is about 24 hours, under that dirt,” Koon said.

Koah was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment and “hopefully will make a full recovery,” the local sheriff said

Trish said she knew her son, Comer, pictured after his arrest, was a “problem” but “did not know that he was this bad”

Koah was taken to a nearby hospital, where he received treatment. The sheriff said he “hopefully will make a full recovery.”

Sharp has full custody of Koah but said she permitted Comer to visit on weekends because “he’s been going to therapy and stopped drinking.”

In a Facebook post, Sharp said Comer “is a harm to himself as far as I’ve heard, so possibly to others.”

Trish said she had known her son was “a problem” but never realized “that he was this bad.”

“He loved that baby, he’d do anything for that baby. He took good care of that baby, if you could see him with that baby he was wonderful,” she wrote.

“I did not know that he would do something like this and I’m sorry that I did not see this beforehand.”

The Daily Mail has contacted Sharp and Trish for comment. Comer remains in jail and has not yet retained an attorney.

Amid the serious allegations that David Walliams groomed and abused young women over a number of years, can we really be expected to believe that his former close friend Jonathan Ross knew nothing about the rumours? Or that he was unaware of the way Russell Brand allegedly treated women who crossed his path?

Following the deeply disturbing claims that Walliams preyed on teenage girls and abused his position of power as far back as 2003 — allegations the former Little Britain star strongly denies — Ross said: ‘I am as horrified by the revelations about David Walliams and the crimes of Russell Brand as the rest of the nation.

‘There was a time in my life when I was on friendly terms with both men and, during that period, I was genuinely unaware of their conduct.’ He added: ‘My thoughts are with the many, many women who have bravely come forward.’

Genuinely unaware? I’m sorry, but I find that difficult to accept.

I admit that ‘Wossy’ and I have our own history. As the saying goes, I have ‘skin in the game’.

I encountered him at a pre-Christmas event on Hampstead Heath, close to where I lived, in 2021.

Jonathan Ross said he was ‘horrified’ by the allegations involving David Walliams, whom he met in the early 2000s

Ross with Russell Brand, who was jailed this week for more than ten years after being convicted of rape and sexual assault

Ross was with his wife, Jane Goldman, and their daughter Honey when he saw me approaching. He then snarled, with barely concealed contempt: ‘They don’t let dogs in here, Amanda.’

Perhaps he was acting protectively towards Honey. I had previously criticised her after questioning whether it was wise for her to post photographs of herself wearing a G-string in an attempt to challenge what she described as a ‘fat-phobic’ society.

Even so, that hardly gave Ross the right to call me a ‘dog’. What kind of man speaks to a woman like that?

Whatever his reason, the incident left me with a lasting impression of the sort of man he is.

That is why I believe his statement about Russell Brand and David Walliams was less an expression of genuine shock than an attempt to protect his own reputation.

The problem is that it has not worked.

After all, none of us can forget that in 2008 Ross joined the so-called ‘jape’ on his Radio 2 programme, when his then friend Russell Brand humiliated Andrew Sachs by leaving a crude message about having sex with the actor’s granddaughter, Georgina Baillie.

To understand just how offensive the episode was, it is worth recalling Brand’s words: ‘Andrew Sachs, Andrew Sachs. I said something I didn’t oughta, like I had sex with your granddaughter.

Ross and his then friend Brand left a crude message about having sex with Georgina Baillie during Ross’s Radio 2 show in 2008

Ms Baillie is the granddaughter of the late Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs

‘But it was consensual and she wasn’t menstrual, it was consensual lovely sex. It was full of respect, I sent her a text, I’ve asked her to marry me, Andrew Sachs.’

Ross and Brand found the whole thing hilarious. They are not laughing now.

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Ross also appeared to refer to alleged inappropriate behaviour by David Walliams towards young girls at the 2004 Comedy Awards. ‘The comedy awards is 15 years old,’ he joked, ‘and like most 15-year-olds is probably going home with David Walliams.’

Why make such a remark in front of a room packed with television celebrities unless those listening were expected to understand the reference? Does it not suggest that rumours about Walliams were already circulating in the wealthy, self-satisfied media world in which Ross moved?

Ross addressed the issue in his statement. He accepted that the joke was tasteless, but said: ‘This joke was submitted to me by the Comedy Awards script-writing team and I believed that the punchline was a reference to the fact he had publicly dated younger women, exaggerated for comic effect.

‘Had I had any reason to suspect that it might be referring to actual events, I would not only have refused to use it, but I would not have felt comfortable continuing a personal or professional relationship with him.’

At the 2004 Comedy Awards, Ross appeared to allude to alleged behaviour by Walliams, joking that the 15-year-old event was ‘probably going home with David Walliams’

Ross with Walliams at a charity event in 2003, where the Little Britain star had his arm around 18-year-old Lilly Creightmore

Oh, please, Wossy. That explanation sounds deeply sanctimonious. At the time, you were one of the most successful presenters in broadcasting, having recently signed a BBC contract reportedly worth around £6million a year.

Would the BBC really have paid such an extraordinary sum to someone who simply read out — without questioning — an offensive joke supplied by an awards ceremony’s scriptwriters?

Was Ross not expected to exercise his own judgement? Or did he choose to overlook Brand’s behaviour and the alleged conduct of Walliams towards young women?

Ross insists he knew nothing. If that is true, he must have been among the least perceptive people in the media as he continued to welcome both Brand and Walliams onto his programmes.

To be clear, I am not suggesting that Jonathan Ross was involved in anything resembling the alleged conduct attributed to Walliams or the abuse allegations made against Brand.

Ross has been married to Jane Goldman, the acclaimed screenwriter and mother of their three children, since 1988.

I am simply asking how anyone can accept his claim that he knew so little about Brand and Walliams when he maintained close personal and professional relationships with both men for so many years.

Ross met Walliams in the early 2000s and was photographed with him at a charity event in 2003. In the image, Walliams has his arm around 18-year-old Lilly Creightmore.

Creightmore said Walliams contacted her after seeing her at a live Little Britain filming. She alleged that he obtained her address, made contact and later met her for dinner, where she says his ‘grooming’ of her began.

Ross became friends with Brand in 2006, after Brand appeared on BBC One’s Friday Night With Jonathan Ross. Then came the Sachsgate scandal, which both men described as a ‘bonding’ experience that brought them ‘very close’. Their friendship was such that Ross attended Brand’s first wedding, to Katy Perry, in 2010, and his second, to Laura Gallacher, in 2017.

There is a familiar saying, often attributed to the 18th-century philosopher Edmund Burke: ‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.’

Does Ross fit that description — a good man who said or did nothing? Was he an unwitting facilitator of the alleged abuse of women by Brand and Walliams while continuing to associate with them? Both men appeared on his television programmes and seemed to believe they were untouchable.

Or did he simply decide not to confront an ugly truth? Only Ross knows.

But his insistence that he was ‘genuinely unaware’ of what was happening is unlikely to restore much of the credibility he has already lost.

A senior White House official has resigned as President Donald Trump’s decision to replace Susie Wiles with Stephen Miller as chief of staff triggers a wave of departures.

Meghan Bauer, who oversaw Cabinet affairs, stepped down on Wednesday.

Miller’s appointment immediately set off personnel changes throughout the administration, including at the highest levels of the White House.

Deputy Chief of Staff Richard Walters, a close ally of Wiles, had also resigned several days earlier.

Asked by reporters about the abrupt change in the Oval Office leadership team, Trump gave a brief explanation: “Sometimes you change.”

At least six officials have so far left their positions across the administration.

The first was Harmeet Dhillon, who resigned as head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division. She became the first senior Trump administration official to leave after Democrats’ historic victories in the midterm elections. Dhillon said she had requested to resign weeks earlier but was asked to remain until after the elections.

A former Republican Party official and attorney for Trump’s campaign, Dhillon was chosen by the president for the position after his 2024 election victory.

Three other Justice Department officials resigned soon afterward: Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg; Jason Reding Quinones, a prominent federal prosecutor involved in several major cases during the first two years of Trump’s second administration; and Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate, who led the department’s Civil Division.

Attorney Harmeet Dhillon speaks at a Turning Point USA event in 2022. She was the first senior Trump official to resign following Democrats’ historic victories in the House and Senate.

A major White House leadership transition has prompted a series of departures after President Donald Trump replaced Chief of Staff Susie Wiles with his top immigration adviser, Stephen Miller.

Walters was next, submitting his resignation on Friday shortly after Miller’s promotion became public.

He had worked alongside Wiles as one of her closest advisers for more than a decade.

In public statements, Walters praised the administration and its work.

“Serving President Trump has been the honor of a lifetime, and I will always be thankful to Susie Wiles for the opportunity,” he said in a statement. “Stephen is building an incredible and capable team to implement the President’s agenda, and I look forward to being part of it from the outside.”

A veteran Republican strategist, Walters had held the deputy chief of staff role since May. Before that, he led the inaugural committee for Trump and Vice President Vance.

“I love my Cabinet. I think they’re good. But I’ll be doing maybe a few changes. I don’t want to mention who,” Trump told 60 Minutes in an interview after Wiles was dismissed.

Deputy Chief of Staff Richard Walters was among the first officials to step down, resigning on Friday shortly after Miller’s promotion was announced.

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A White House spokesperson confirmed that Cabinet Secretary Meghan Bauer, who oversees President Trump’s Cabinet, is leaving her position.

A White House spokesperson confirmed that Bauer, who is responsible for managing Trump’s Cabinet, is stepping down.

“Meghan Bauer is a valuable part of the team and will continue to work in the White House in a new role,” spokesperson Allison Schuster said.

White House insiders said Trump’s dissatisfaction with Bauer had grown in recent months, prompting him to consult senior advisers about arranging her departure.

Bauer’s work with Trump stretches back to his 2016 presidential campaign and his first term in office. She held scheduling roles before becoming a senior policy adviser at the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

The mother of two is expected to remain in place for several months to help with the transition.

Her responsibilities included arranging Cabinet secretaries’ meetings with the president, media interviews and travel logistics.

Bauer’s departure is part of a wider pattern of female officials in Trump’s orbit leaving the administration.

Veteran Republican strategist Richard Walters had held the position since May. Before taking the role, he directed the inaugural committee for Trump and Vice President Vance.

Miller’s appointment immediately led to significant personnel changes throughout the administration.

Bauer, who leads the Office of Cabinet Affairs, is expected to leave the White House at the end of the year.

Other rumored Cabinet changes involve Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Trump has repeatedly defended Hegseth and said he is doing a “great job” when questioned by reporters.

Bauer’s resignation follows the departures of several other senior female officials, including Wiles, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer.

“I love my Cabinet. I think they’re good. But I’ll be doing maybe a few changes. I don’t want to mention who,” Trump told 60 Minutes just hours after Wiles was dismissed.

One rumored Cabinet change involves Hegseth, reportedly over his guidance on the Iran war. Trump, however, has repeatedly defended him and said he is doing a “great job.”

Morgan DeWitt-Snow, the 29-year-old de facto head of the Presidential Personnel Office, is also reportedly facing uncertainty in her position. She is a known protégé of Wiles.

Like Walters, DeWitt-Snow is among the officials whose loyalty Trump is re-evaluating as he scrutinizes members of his administration, many of whom strongly supported Wiles.