Category: Court News

LAKE HAVASU CITY – A Kingman man charged in Lake Havasu City drug cases is being sent to the Arizona Department of Corrections for 7.5 years. The punishment Mohave County Superior Court Judge Doug Camacho imposed Friday was mandated in a plea agreement approved in the prosecution of Brian Wolf, 40. Wolf was already on probation for possessing drugs in Lake Havasu in 2016 when he was arrested on August 30, 2017. A usable amount of heroin was seized when officers executed a search warrant at the defendants’ home in the 3600 block of Jamaica Drive, according to former deputy…

MOHAVE COUNTY – Mohave County will conduct its first jury trial this week since suspending them in mid-March to protect staff and the public from the COVID-19 pandemic. Jury selection begins Tuesday for the two-day trial of Sunday Kunkushi. Most who enter any court facility in Mohave County will be required to wear face coverings except when speaking or testifying. Center for Disease Control social distancing and crowd size recommendations are also implemented. Presiding Judge Chuck Gurtler has said that the county has been a national pioneer in use of teleconferencing to conduct Grand Jury procedings. And now some summoned as…

LAKE HAVASU CITY – A prosecutor and a local judge blame the coronavirus pandemic, in part, for a plea agreement they agreed was an imperfect resolution of a Lake Havasu City child homicide case. The comments came during a Friday sentencing hearing in Kingman for 24-year-old Andrew Lamorie. Lamorie pleaded guilty to second degree murder in the blunt force trauma and starvation death of 27-month-old Gabriella Lamorie. Mohave County Judge Billy Sipe expressed reluctance to approve the deal, complaining it “handcuffed” him to impose no more than a 16-year prison term, which he did. Judge Sipe told attorneys he believes child homicide…

LAKE HAVASU CITY – Seems no one was satisfied with the outcome of the case of a Lake Havasu City man given a 16-year prison term Friday for the January, 2018 death of his toddler daughter. It was the harshest sentence possible under terms of the plea agreement convicting 24-year old Andrew Lamorie of second-degree murder. An autopsy concluded that blunt force trauma and severe starvation claimed the life of Gabriella Lamorie who weighed just 17 pounds when she died at the age of 27 months. Judge Billy Sipe said it is disturbing that the victim’s father and mother, 27-year-old…

KINGMAN – A judge has broad range of punishment discretion in the case of a Golden Valley man who has entered a plea agreement in a drug case. Daniel Davis, 70, pleaded guilty on June 16 to separate possession and attempted possession of dangerous drug charges. Deputy Mohave County attorney Morgan Carstensen said 7 grams of methamphetamine was confiscated from the defendant’s home on south Tonto Road in Golden Valley in March. The prosecutor told the Court that the seizure occurred after deputies conducted a “knock and talk” due to intelligence about suspected drug dealing activity at the residence. Carstensen…

KINGMAN – A judge has broad range of punishment discretion in the case of a Golden Valley man who has entered a plea agreement in a drug case. Daniel Davis, 70, pleaded guilty on June 16 to separate possession and attempted possession of dangerous drug charges. Deputy Mohave County attorney Morgan Carstensen said 7 grams of methamphetamine was confiscated from the defendant’s home on south Tonto Road in Golden Valley in March. The prosecutor told the Court that the seizure occurred after deputies conducted a “knock and talk” due to intelligence about suspected drug dealing activity at the residence. Carstensen…