Kumari Fulbright Suspected in torture of ex-beau.

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One of four people accused of torturing a Tucson man for hours during a robbery has agreed to testify against his co-defendants in a plea agreement worked out with prosecutors Monday.

Larry Bruce Hammond, 40, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and could receive probation or up to 8.75 years in prison when he is sentenced in Pima County Superior Court.

Hammond and two other men are accused of helping former beauty queen Kumari Fulbright, 25, hold a former boyfriend captive for eight to 10 hours last December.

The former boyfriend told police they tied him up with plastic cable and duct tape and held him captive in two houses.

Court documents say the four suspects pointed pistols at the man, threatened his life and stole his wallet, cell phone and briefcase, and $500 to $600 in cash.

The documents also say Fulbright bit her ex-boyfriend several times while he was tied up and that she stuck a butcher knife in his ear.

The former boyfriend said he escaped after a struggle with Fulbright over a gun.

At the time of her arrest, Fulbright was a University of Arizona law student and a volunteer clerk in U.S. District Court; she has since been suspended from school and moved to Texas.

Court documents indicate Hammond told detectives that Fulbright was upset with her former boyfriend because he had stolen and pawned some of her jewelry to pay a drug dealer a $16,000 debt.

The former boyfriend told police that Fulbright asked him to sell the jewelry.

Last week, Fulbright's attorney, Stephen Weiss, filed court documents using Hammond's original statement to police in an attempt to help his client. Hammond originally told detectives that he never saw anyone point a gun at the boyfriend, stick a gun in his mouth or put a knife in his ear, according to those court documents.

Weiss is complaining that grand jurors weren't made aware of Hammond's statement. If they had known about that statement and had they known the boyfriend stole the jewelry to pay a drug debt, they might not have indicted Fulbright, Weiss said.

Weiss has asked Judge Richard Nichols to send the case back to the grand jury.

Once Assistant Attorney General Kim Ortiz responds to Weiss' motion, Nichols will schedule a court date to discuss the matter.

Fulbright and her other co-defendants, Robert Arthur Ergonis, 45, and David Wayne Radde, 45, will be in court Monday.

Hammond is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 15.