Category: Court News

KINGMAN – The driver of a moving vehicle from which pounds of methamphetamine were tossed onto Interstate 40 during a police chase recently entered a plea agreement. Guadalupe Astorga, 44, Tulare, California is being convicted of transportation of dangerous drugs for sale. Terms of the deal require Mohave County Superior Court Judge Doug Camacho to order a five-year prison term when Astorga is sentenced on July 20. Authorities allege Astorga kept driving when a Mohave County Sheriff’s deputy tried to conduct a traffic stop for a suspected lane change violation about two miles east of Kingman. Co-defendant Pedro Aguirre, 38,…

KINGMAN – Thunder-Rode was viciously and brutally vandalized Thursday night June 25, by a person or hate group when they ripped the Heritage Not Hate Confederate Battle flag sign affixed to a 4×8 sheet of plywood and screwed to the fence, from the fence and left askew on the ground in the front parking area. If you have any information or know anyone who may know someone who took part in this wanton act of physical violence against a private Kingman business, please let Jack at Thunder-Rode 928-542-6059 and the police know what you may know or suspect. Any assistance…

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…