Laura Owens

Their investigation had uncovered more.

I'm Stephanie Young, and this is Love Trapped.

At the end of the last episode, we left off in San Francisco.

Laura Owens filed to renew her domestic violence restraining order against Mike Maricini.

But this time, Mike had secured legal counsel and was ready to fight back.

The evidentiary hearing was slated for October 2025, and I flew to San Francisco to be in the courtroom.

The night before the hearing was set to start, someone in Laura's camp emailed Mike's attorney, Omar Serrato.

Omar and Mike thought Laura was agreeing to drop the DVRO renewal.

But 12 minutes later, they found out that wasn't the case.

Here's Omar.

There was like that surreal moment where you have all this adrenaline and then it's over, but the adrenaline's still there and you're trying to like calm down.

Mike is crying and he's like raising his arms in triumph and hugs all around.

And then I get this mysterious email come through my phone.

In the email, Laura requested a Zoom link for the next day's hearing, which Omar expected.

She would need to agree to the deal in front of the judge.

But she also asked for a Zoom link for her former attorney and nurse practitioner.

That didn't make sense.

If she planned to dismiss the case, why did they need to be present?

Everybody's still in celebration mode.

And so I'm like trying to sitting on that for five minutes, like, what does this mean?