A Santa Barbara County Superior Court judge dropped a false imprisonment charge against Ashlee Buzzard at a hearing on Thursday. Buzzard's daughter Melodee remains missing.

Ashlee Buzzard has entered a not guilty plea to the false imprisonment charge. Ashlee Buzzard, the mom of missing 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard, allegedly armed herself with a box cutter and kept a man ...

The case took an unexpected turn on Friday when Buzzard, 40, was arrested on a charge of false imprisonment – but not for the disappearance of her daughter. The case took an unexpected turn on Friday ...

The mother of missing 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard has been charged with a felony unrelated to her daughter's disappearance, authorities said on Nov. 10. Ashlee Buzzard, 40, has been charged with one ...

Ashlee Buzzard is not cooperative with the search for her daughter. A false imprisonment charge has been dropped against Ashlee Buzzard, the mom of missing 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard, according to ...

The mother of a missing "at-risk" 9-year-old girl reportedly told a man she's accused of falsely imprisoning that she knows where her daughter is. An investigation into 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard's ...

The grandmother of missing Melodee Buzzard says she was in the process of adopting the child when the 9-year-old's mother "took her away" shortly after being released from a mental hospital in 2021.

Ashlee Buzzard was arrested last week on a false imprisonment charge — unrelated to the case of her missing daughter, according to police Samira Asma-Sadeque is a legal reporter at PEOPLE's crime desk ...

Ashlee Buzzard, the mother of missing 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard, is in custody after being arrested Friday on suspicion of false imprisonment. According to Santa Barbara County jail records, Buzzard, ...

Melodee was reported missing more than one month ago by a school official Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024, and was previously an ...

The search for Melodee Buzzard began on October 14 when a school administrator reported the 9-year-old had been absent for a prolonged time. The investigation into her whereabouts has now stretched ...