LOMPOC, Calif. (Scripps News San Luis Obispo) — A Vandenberg Village mother charged with felony false imprisonment, who is also at the center of a missing child investigation , will have her electronic monitoring discontinued and the felony charge against her dismissed.

Ashlee Buzzard appears in court on Nov. 20, 2025. (Scripps News San Luis Obispo)

Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Stephen Dunkle made the ruling Thursday in a Lompoc courtroom following more than two hours of testimony in Ashlee Buzzard’s preliminary hearing.

The hearing was the third, and now final, in just over a week following Buzzard’s Nov. 7 arrest .

The media was only allowed to take pictures during the hearing. No video or audio recording was permitted, and photographs of the alleged victim were

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