Category: Court News

LAKE HAVASU CITY – A Lake Havasu City man who was snared in an undercover investigation targeting adults seeking sex with underage girls is going to the Arizona Department of Corrections under terms of a plea agreement entered Friday in Mohave County Superior Court. Dean Tarnow, 46, is one of more than 20 men from Las Vegas to Parker who ended up indicted through an operation involving a Mohave County Sheriff’s detective who pretended to be a teenager. Prosecutor Karolina Czaplinska told Mohave County Superior Court Judge Derek Carlisle that Tarnow posted an ad on Craig’s List expressing interest in…

The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) has announced the promotion of Lara Kelly to the rank of Corporal. She has demonstrated that she has the knowledge and experience to excel in her new rank at the Adult Detention Facility. Lara Kelly is recognized as a valuable member of the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office. Corporal Kelly started her career as a Detention Officer in September of 2018, where she has excelled in her assigned duties and was quickly assigned to Field Training Officer. Corporal Kelly came to MCSO with multiple years of experience, previously working as a correctional officer, certified deputy,…

KINGMAN – A man accused of sex offenses involving his underage stepdaughter at separate homes in Kingman a few years ago was fully acquitted at trial in Mohave County Superior Court. The jury deliberated less than an hour Thursday before returning not guilty verdicts in the case against Wallace Soltz, 37. Soltz was charged with a total of seven counts of child molestation and sexual conduct with a minor. The alleged victim, now 13, testified that Soltz would molest her while her mother was working over a two-year period ending in December, 2017. “It felt really uncomfortable,” the girl told…

BULLHEAD CITY – A Bullhead City woman resolving her drug case through a plea agreement will be going to the Arizona Department of Corrections for five years. The punishment for Destiny Ohlemacher, 27, is prescribed in the deal entered Thursday in Mohave County Superior Court in Kingman. Prosecutor Jacob Cote told Judge Rick Lambert that Ohlemacher was a passenger in a vehicle from which one pound of methamphetamine was seized following a January 30 traffic stop in the 600 block of Highway 95. “The defendant admitted trading methamphetamine for heroin,” Cote told the Court. Defense attorney Gregory Pridham took some…