A district judge dismissed the false imprisonment case against Ashlee Buzzard, the mother of missing 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard, on Thursday.
Law enforcement arrested Buzzard on November 10 after Tyler S. Brewer, a legal document assistant, alleged that Buzzard had not permitted him to leave her Vandenberg Village home on November 6. The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release that this case was not directly related to her daughter’s disappearance.
In a social media post from last week, Brewer said that he had contacted Buzzard to offer assistance in locating Melodee. While at Buzzard’s house, Brewer said in the post, Buzzard told Brewer “information she appeared to regret disclosing” and became agitated. Brewer said Buzzard did not immediately permit him to leave and that a box cutter “was produced.”