Category: Court News

BULLHEAD CITY – A teenager admitted sexually motivated touching of young sisters in Bullhead City as he entered a plea agreement that will send him to the Arizona Department of Corrections. Terms of the deal unveiled on Aug. 9 in Kingman before Judge Doug Camacho would convict Landen Ziede, 18, of charges reduced to attempted child molestation and attempted sexual exploitation of a minor. Four counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and a sexual conduct with a minor charge are dismissed in the proposed deal. Deputy Mohave County Attorney Leah Nelson said Ziede inappropriately touched the three and five-year-old…

BULLHEAD CITY – A teenager admitted sexually motivated touching of young sisters in Bullhead City as he entered a plea agreement that will send him to the Arizona Department of Corrections. Terms of the deal unveiled on Aug. 9 in Kingman before Judge Doug Camacho would convict Landen Ziede, 18, of charges reduced to attempted child molestation and attempted sexual exploitation of a minor. Four counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and a sexual conduct with a minor charge are dismissed in the proposed deal. Deputy Mohave County Attorney Leah Nelson said Ziede inappropriately touched the three and five-year-old…

KINGMAN ­ A Kingman man faces more than a decade behind bars for an intoxicated, wrong-way driving traffic accident that claimed the life of a Lake Havasu City woman five months ago. Connor Roberts, 26, will be convicted of manslaughter through a plea agreement entered during an Aug. 9 hearing conducted before Judge Doug Camacho. Roberts also pleaded guilty to aggravated DUI wrong-way driving.  The Department of Public Safety (DPS) said a vehicle operated by Roberts was northbound on SR 95 at 9:30 a.m. on March 10 when it struck a southbound vehicle at milepost 199, about three miles from…

KINGMAN – A Kingman teenager is being prosecuted as an adult and faces extensive potential prison time for a deadly traffic accident. A Mohave County Grand Jury handed up an indictment on Thursday, Aug. 3 charging Brady Shuffler, 16, with two counts of second-degree murder and four counts of aggravated assault. The charges follow investigation of a high-speed April 13 traffic accident that claimed the lives of Tatum Meins, 17, and Sherene `Siri’ Walema, 15. Shuffler sustained serious injuries as did Cannon Cobanovich and Reilly Feil, both 16. All five teenagers involved in the single vehicle rollover were student athletes…

BULLHEAD CITY – The Bullhead City police department has released the name of the pedestrian who was fatally injured when struck by a vehicle on Friday, July 28. Agency spokeswoman Emily Fromelt said the 6:46 p.m. collision on highway 95 near Riverview Drive claimed the life of David Leland Arnold, 59. Arnold died following life flight to a hospital in Las Vegas. Fromelt said police tracked down the man who fled the scene of the accident by locating the suspect vehicle in the 2500 block of Calle Bonita. Eidy Ruiz, 23, Bullhead City was taken into custody for failing to…

BULLHEAD CITY – The Bullhead City police department has released the name of the pedestrian who was fatally injured when struck by a vehicle on Friday, July 28. Agency spokeswoman Emily Fromelt said the 6:46 p.m. collision on highway 95 near Riverview Drive claimed the life of David Leland Arnold, 59. Arnold died following life flight to a hospital in Las Vegas. Fromelt said police tracked down the man who fled the scene of the accident by locating the suspect vehicle in the 2500 block of Calle Bonita. Eidy Ruiz, 23, Bullhead City was taken into custody for failing to…