Category: Court News

KINGMAN – An inmate of the Mohave County Adult Detention Facility tested positive on Tuesday for COVID-19. The inmate, currently housed in medical isolation at the jail, has shown no signs or symptoms of the virus and will continue to be monitored and provided treatment as may be necessary. The male inmate, in the 30 to 40 age group, came into jail custody earlier this month from outside the state of Arizona. “Our protocol for all new intake prisoners involves a quarantine process wherein they are monitored and assessed for symptoms daily while housed in a restrictive housing unit. This…

LAKE HAVASU CITY – A Lake Havasu City man who played video games and got high with a friend while his young daughter suffered fatal heat exhaustion when left unattended in a vehicle will go to the Arizona Department of Corrections for 16 years. The punishment for Ty Martin, 24, is stipulated in a plea agreement entered Friday in Mohave County Superior Court. Martin is convicted of second degree murder in the May 11, 2019 death of his 18-month old daughter. Deputy Mohave County attorney Karolina Czaplinska said Martin left his sleeping daughter in his vehicle with the windows rolled…