Category: Court News

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…

Largest seizure in DPS history LITTLEFIELD – The largest single methamphetamine seizure in the history of the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) occurred last Friday, Jan. 24, in north Mohave County. DPS said 362 pounds of meth was seized after a trooper pulled over a vehicle on Interstate 15 just south of Littlefield at 8:20 p.m. An agency news release said the street value of the confiscated drugs is $4.1 million. Married suspects identified as Julie Jeannie Mason, 52, Burlington, Iowa and Maurius Montez Mason, 38, Peoria, Illinois were arrested. They were booked into jail in Mesquite, Nevada on…