Category: Court News

LAKE HAVASU CITY – A month-long investigation of suspected methamphetamine sales activity in Lake Havasu City and Parker has resulted in drug seizures and the arrests of four suspects. Lake Havasu police report that one pound of meth was confiscated from a vehicle that was stopped in La Paz County on September 17. Subjects in that vehicle identified as Clint Martin, 49, and Tara Cosby, 29, both of Lake Havasu, were arrested and jailed on drug charges. “On September 20, information was received that approximately two additional ounces of methamphetamine was located at a residence occupied by Clint Martin and…

LAKE HAVASU CITY – A Lake Havasu City man faces prosecution for allegedly beating a woman earlier this month. The victim told police the argument started at a bar and continued at the suspect’s home on September 10. Police responded to a report of a domestic dispute and altercation at a home on Bluewater Drive. A police report said arriving officers witnessed Marcus Romo, 31, beating the victim inside the home. Officers reportedly drew weapons and arrested Romo and noticed a busted chair, a smashed front window and lots of blood inside the home. The victim, police said, was sobbing…

KINGMAN – A three-year prison term was ordered Monday for a Bullhead City man who was found slumped over in a vehicle during a drug binge. Christopher Pratt, 25, was discovered unresponsive in a running vehicle on Riviera Boulevard on July 3. Officers reportedly found about three grams of methamphetamine in the vehicle along with usable quantities of heroin and marijuana, as well as some drug paraphernalia. Pratt pleaded guilty to an attempted sale of dangerous drug charge in exchange for dismissal of other drug related counts. Defense attorney Christopher Margolis told Mohave County Superior Court Judge Rick Lambert that…

LAKE HAVASU CITY – On Monday, Sept. 16, at approximately 10:10 p.m., several 911 calls were placed about a boat crash near Site 5 on Lake Havasu. Deputies from the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office Division of Boating Safety, along with officers from the Lake Havasu City Police Department, the Lake Havasu City Fire Department, River Medical Ambulances, and a trooper from the Arizona Department of Public Safety, responded to the scene. According to a Mohave County Sheriff’s Office press release, a 2008 Cobra 26-foot boat with eight people on board was traveling southeast on Lake Havasu, approaching Site 5, when…