A Phoenix court found that former West Valley lawmaker Leezah Sun violated a restraining order stemming from an incident that led her to resign from the state legislature last year.
Tolleson City Manager Reyes Medrano and two other employees obtained an injunction against harassment against Sun in 2023, prohibiting her from contacting them.
That came after Sun allegedly harassed the employees during a meeting at city offices. She was also accused of telling other attendees at a conference that she would “smack” a city lobbyist if she attended the conference and would “throw her off this balcony to kill her!”
According to Phoenix Municipal Court records, a judge found Sun violated the order on July 24, 2024, and a sentencing hearing will be held on Oct. 9.
The incident involving the Tolleson employees was one of several conflicts brought up in an ethics complaint filed against Sun by her fellow Democrats in 2024.
Sun, who now serves on the Tolleson Union High School District Board, resigned from the Arizona House of Representatives in January 2024 as her fellow lawmakers prepared to vote to expel her after an ethics committee found she engaged in disorderly conduct in violation of House rules.
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