Henderson, Nevada’s Russell Phay breaks into Ty Warner’s Montecito, California home 

Russell Maxwell Phay, a U.S. Army veteran from Nevada, has a criminal history including a 2013 jail sentence for violating a protection order and a 2017 assault charge. In May 2025, he allegedly broke into a residence in Montecito, injuring Linda Malek-Aslanian. Phay faces charges including burglary and kidnapping, with bail set at $100,000.