Category: Court News

LAKE HAVASU CITY – A Lake Havasu City woman celebrated her 64th birthday the day before she was killed by a drunk driver while she was traveling to California to witness the birth of her 6th grandchild. The woman was talking to her husband on the cellphone when the crash occurred, the call dropped and he subsequently drove by the crash site. This was some of the information provided at a Sept. 21 sentencing hearing for Connor Roberts, 26, Kingman. Roberts pleaded guilty to aggravated wrong-way drunk driving and manslaughter for the March 10 crash on State Route 95, three miles from…

KINGMAN – Blinding one of the eyes of a local teenager results in an 8.75-year prison term for a Kingman man. The sentence that Mohave County Superior Court judge Derek Carlisle ordered Thursday, Sept. 21 for Richard Pounds was the maximum punishment possible under terms of a plea agreement convicting him of aggravated assault. The 34-year-old defendant admits the 14-year-old girl was wounded by a ricochet projectile while he played “BB gun wars” inside a Packer Ave. home. Defense attorney Ron Gilleo called the conduct reckless but unintentional. Child abuse charges associated with the girl and her dead brother are…

KINGMAN – Kingman police report the arrest of a local teenager who allegedly fled the scene after causing a traffic accident that injured others. Deputy Police Chief Joel Freed said officers responded to the incident at about 1:40 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 16 in the 3200 block of Airway Ave. “Officers found that an all-terrain vehicle driven by a 32-year-old female and occupied by an 8-year-old male, a 4-year-old female and a 7-year-old female had been struck by a four-door sedan causing the all-terrain vehicle to roll approximately twice,” Freed said. “The driver and the two female passengers were ejected….

BULLHEAD CITY – A local judge heard rival pleas for leniency and for maximum punishment during a Sept. 22 sentencing hearing involving a Bullhead City traffic fatality in which both drivers were impaired, one by alcohol and the other by marijuana. Megan Jergens previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter and aggravated assault charges associate with the July 15, 2021 traffic accident at the intersection of Lakeside Drive and Baseline Road. The 28-year-old Bullhead City woman accepted responsibility and apologized for the two-vehicle collision that claimed the life of Lucia Mendoza, 20, Bullhead City and seriously injured her aunt. “I am so…