Category: Court News

A former Bullhead City resident who roughed up his girlfriend last month will be placed on supervised probation through a plea agreement entered March 14 at the Mohave County Courthouse in Kingman. Nicholas Alfonso Heredia, 32, can still be ordered to serve up to one year in the county jail when he is sentenced next month. Bullhead City police said Heredia’s live-in girlfriend sustained a serious injury to her face when a Feb. 18 argument escalated into an altercation in the 1700 block of Highway 95. “He knocked her to the ground and started choking her from behind, leaving abrasions…

LAKE HAVASU CITY – Authorities allege a four-year-old Lake Havasu City boy was molested by a teenager who was on Christmas leave from basic training from a U.S. Army base in South Carolina. An investigation began Jan. 1 when the victim’s parents contacted police. Police reports said that Joshua Sword was visiting the victim’s parents when the boy’s father used his fingernail to unlock a bedroom door on Dec. 26, 2018. The man reportedly discovered his partially undressed son in the room while 19-year-old Joshua Sword ran to a closet. Police reports indicated that Sword told the father that his…

A Bullhead City man was sentenced to prison Wednesday after admitting he committed new crimes constituting violation of his probation for a prior armed robbery conviction. Bradley Richard Adkins, 22, was placed on five year’s probation for his involvement in a March, 2017 home invasion at a residence on Anna Circle. Adkins and co-defendant Cory Edward Cummings, 20, accepted plea agreements for entering the home in an attempt to sell an iPad. Bullhead City Police said Adkins pepper-sprayed the victim when he refused to buy the device, thinking it had been stolen. Police and prosecutors said Cummings stole the victim’s…