Category: Court News

BULLHEAD CITY – A Bullhead City man’s request for probation and a chance to live drug free was rejected by another judge who instead sent him to the Arizona Department of Corrections. Jeffrey French, 53, conceded a history of drug related problems during a Sept. 10 sentencing hearing. “When I’m messed up, boy I’m really messed up your Honor,” French said. “I have motivation to get out of this hole.” Judge Billy Sipe noted the defendant’s extensive criminal history and said French had blown previous opportunities to get clean. Sipe said it is disturbing that French victimized his own mother,…

LAKE HAVASU CITY – A sentencing hearing is the only matter left in the prosecution of parents from Lake Havasu City who were charged in the blunt force trauma and starvation death of their toddler daughter. Andrew Lamorie, 24, is already serving a 16-year prison term after pleading guilty to second degree murder. Attempts to enter plea agreements for co-defendant Brittany Rodriquez, 27, went south for various reasons on a half dozen occasions. Finally, on Sept. 9, a plea deal for Rodriquez was formally accepted by Mohave County Superior Court Judge Rick Lambert. Rodriquez pleaded guilty to a reduced charge…

LAKE HAVASU CITY – A sentencing hearing is the only matter left in the prosecution of parents from Lake Havasu City who were charged in the blunt force trauma and starvation death of their toddler daughter. Andrew Lamorie, 24, is already serving a 16-year prison term after pleading guilty to second degree murder. Attempts to enter plea agreements for co-defendant Brittany Rodriquez, 27, went south for various reasons on a half dozen occasions. Finally, on Sept. 9, a plea deal for Rodriquez was formally accepted by Mohave County Superior Court Judge Rick Lambert. Rodriquez pleaded guilty to a reduced charge…

LAKE HAVASU CITY – A sentencing hearing is the only matter left in the prosecution of parents from Lake Havasu City who were charged in the blunt force trauma and starvation death of their toddler daughter. Andrew Lamorie, 24, is already serving a 16-year prison term after pleading guilty to second degree murder. Attempts to enter plea agreements for co-defendant Brittany Rodriquez, 27, went south for various reasons on a half dozen occasions. Finally, on Sept. 9, a plea deal for Rodriquez was formally accepted by Mohave County Superior Court Judge Rick Lambert. Rodriquez pleaded guilty to a reduced charge…

LAKE HAVASU CITY – A Lake Havasu City man has been arrested for allegedly raping a sleeping woman at the Crazy Horse campground. The 39-year-old victim and her daughter ended up in an altercation with her alleged assailant about 12:30 a.m., on Sept. 7. The woman told officers she was being raped by 30-year-old Jeremy Sorenson when she woke up. The daughter said Sorenson walked by her and into her mother’s bedroom after asking where she was. A physical fight ensued when Sorenson exited the bedroom several minutes later, according to a police report. It said Sorenson twice punched the…

GRAND CANYON – Following an investigation by Special Agents of the National Park Service (NPS) Investigative Services Branch and U.S. Park Ra ngers, Thomas Grabarek, 71, of Flagstaff, Ariz., pled guilty on September 8, 2020 to misdemeanor violations for starting a wildland fire within Grand Canyon National Park. The Cottonwood Creek Fire ignited approximately 64 acres in the Inner Canyon along the Tonto Trail near Horseshoe Mesa. On October 27, 2019, while backpacking near Cottonwood Creek, Grabarek started a fire by lighting toilet paper in an attempt to incinerate it. High winds that day allowed the fire to quickly spread uphill,…