Former beauty queen on kidnap and assault charges

A LAW school student and former beauty queen who has posed for a racy calendar while brandishing a weapon, has been accused of kidnapping, biting and threatening a former boyfriend with a handgun.

Kumari Fulbright, 25, who is in second year in law school, faces a long prison term if convicted of kidnapping, armed robbery, aggravated robbery and two counts of aggravated assault.

Fulbright, who competed for the Miss Arizona title in 2005 and 2006, recently completed a semester-long unpaid stint clerking for a federal judge, US District Judge Raner Collins, said his office. She has also posed wearing a shiny black bikini for a 2008 calendar that features women holding guns.

Fulbright is accused of holding and torturing her 24-year-old ex-boyfriend in December with the help of three other men, including another man she had previously dated.

Authorities think the dispute began because the ex-boyfriend was believed to have stolen jewellery given to Fulbright by the former beau suspected of helping in the attack.

Fulbright invited the man to her apartment, said police spokesman Sergeant Fabian Pacheco. Then two men arrived and bound him with duct tape, accused him of taking the jewellery and threatened to shoot him, said Mr Pacheco.

Fulbright then allegedly bit the man on his forearm, right hand and ear, held a butcher knife to his head and told him she was going to kill him. Authorities said the man was then taken to another home, where the assault continued.

He was then taken back to Fulbright’s house where the man finally managed to escape.

Police also are seeking to serve her former boyfriend, Robert Ergonis, 44, and his brother, Michael Ergonis, 46, with arrest warrants charging them with kidnapping, armed robbery and aggravated assault, but police believe they may have fled the country.