Category: Court News

KINGMAN – Trial opened Thursday, Oct. 17, in Kingman for a Lake Havasu City man charged with attempted second degree murder of SWAT team officers who executed a search warrant at his home in the 1600 block of South Palo Verde Boulevard. Officers were uninjured, but the defendant, Charles Gonzalez, 24, was shot at least three times when officers fired more than 20 rounds during the October, 2016 encounter Prosecutor Jaimye Ashley told the Mohave County Superior Court jury that officers loudly announced their presence and directed Gonzalez to comply with commands to drop his weapon as they entered his…

KINGMAN – A Lake Havasu City woman who engaged in fraud to obtain drug prescriptions has entered a plea agreement. Thirty-two criminal charges are dismissed in the deal for Marcie Lyon, 38. Lyon pleaded guilty to possession of narcotic drugs (Hydrocodone), attempted forgery and attempted taking identification of another. Prosecutor Cynthia Giltner said Lyon was working at an assisted living facility and that she swiped a prescription pad from a doctor who tended to patients there. Giltner said Lyon used the pad to write herself prescriptions for a number of drugs. Terms of the plea deal provide incentive for Lyon…

KINGMAN – Mohave County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Johnny Earl Burks, 46, of Golden Valley, for dangerous drug possession and drug paraphernalia possession, both felonies. On Saturday, October 5, deputies were called to a residence in the 4400 block of Willow Rd. to assist Mohave County Probation with a search. Burks was suspected of being in possession of a firearm and had allegedly made threats against another person. Deputies found Burks hiding in a closet. The alleged weapon was not found, however a search of Burks’s backpack revealed approximately two grams of methamphetamine.

KINGMAN – A Kingman man accused of manufacturing an assortment of drugs at his home in the Walleck Ranch subdivision faces a dozen felony offenses. Alexander Mucho, 29, was named in a 12-count indictment returned Thursday by a Mohave County grand jury. Sheriff’s detective Aaron Devries said Mucho was involved in full-scale drug cooking operations when Homeland Security executed a controlled delivery of 25 kilos of drug production chemicals that had been ordered from the Netherlands through the internet. Devries said Mucho was detained when he tried to flee from a back door in his residence on October 4. Devries…

LAKE HAVASU CITY – Mohave County Sheriff’s Office Deputies arrested Aaron Jacob De La Cruz, 19, of Lake Havasu City, on multiple felony charges. On Friday, Oct. 11, at approximately 9 p.m., deputies made a traffic stop for a disabled brake light. A search of the vehicle was conducted and deputies located 20 individually packaged THC vape pen cartridges, 97 grams of marijuana, baggies, and a digital scale. When asked about the quantity of items found in the vehicle, De La Cruz claimed it was for personal use.