Category: Court News

KINGMAN – A 5.5-year prison term was imposed January 22 for a Fort Mohave man arrested for drug and weapon offenses after a traffic stop last summer. The punishment imposed by Judge Doug Camacho was mandated in a plea agreement. Mohave County Sheriff’s reports indicated Steven Anthony Galeana was pulled over for expired registration at 3:20 a.m. on July 4 at the intersection of River Valley Road and River Valley Place. Officers reportedly confiscated a handgun, 26 grams of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Galeana pleaded guilty to misconduct involving weapons as a prohibited possessor. He also pleaded guilty to theft…

KINGMAN – A Parker man who caused an inmate health and contamination scare at the Mohave County Adult Detention Center is being sent to the Arizona Department of Corrections. Judge Doug Camacho ordered a 13.5-year prison term during a recent hearing for Jonathan Hutchinson, 24. Authorities said Hutchinson used his body cavity to smuggle illegal drugs into the jail facility in downtown Kingman last spring. “Investigation revealed that Hutchinson had smuggled into the detention facility approximately 30 counterfeit Hydrocodone 30 mg pills and an unknown amount of methamphetamine,” a news release said. Sheriff’s office spokeswoman Anita Mortensen said crime lab…

MOHAVE COUNTY – Three more suspects have been arrested in a Mohave County Sheriff’s Office sting operation targeting sexual predators of minor children. The defendants charged with sexual exploitation of a minor related offenses are identified as Gregory Schutte and Michael Shaw, 29 and both of Kingman and Daniel Saguchi-Cazares, 26, Fort Mohave. The Sheriff’s Office has been using a male detective posing as a teenage girl engaging in text and online communication with sexually solicitous men. “During the past 14 months that we have been conducting these operations we have charged 22 individuals with internet crimes against children,” said…