The news piece has been all over the place
Um, no. The link has been reposted "all over" a bunch of blogs.
A full 48 hours after the story broke, Google News shows only six (count 'em, six) publications running this story. For comparison, there are 110 stories currently running about "mtgox withdrawals".
Try searching for the guy's names "Pascal Reid" or "Michell Abner Espinoza". Another dozen pages include a one-sentence mention of the event as part of a larger story on bitcoins in general.
https://www.google.com/search?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&tbm=nws&gl=us&as_q= Pascal+Reid&as_occt=any&as_qdr=a&authuser=0
https://www.google.com/search?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&tbm=nws&gl=us&as_q=Michell+Abner+Espinoza&as_occt=any&as_qdr=a&authuser=0
Remember to search google news, not google, so you get real news publications instead of just link-propagating blogs.
Still no court docs.