PINAL COUNTY, AZ — The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office has decided to seek the death penalty against one of Arizona’s most notorious criminals.
Ricky Wassenaar was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of dangerous and deadly assault by a prisoner in relation to the April 2025 killing of three fellow inmates at a Tucson prison.
The deaths occurred just months after prison officials had moved Wassenaar from a maximum-security cell to the general population…