Category: Court News

An investigation of suspected heroin sales from a residence in Lake Havasu City culminated in a seizure and arrest on Wednesday. Police Detective Chris Angus said officers effected a traffic stop after the target of the investigation, Jacob Olson, 21, drove from the suspect residence in the 2600 block of Tanglewood Place. Olson was taken into custody for five previous heroin sales. Angius said officers found Olson to be concealing more than 19 grams of heroin when he was being detained at the police jail facility. A search of the suspect residence did not discover any drugs, though numerous drug…

A Lake Havasu City man snared in an undercover sting operation targeting men preying upon underage women entered a plea agreement in Kingman Thursday. Daniel Martin, 33, pleaded guilty to the reduced charge of attempted luring a minor for sexual exploitation. Martin is one of nine men from Lake Havasu, Bullhead City, Kingman and Las Vegas who were indicted for allegedly attempting to have sex with someone they believed to be a teenager who was actually a Mohave County Sheriff’s office detective. Authorities allege each of the defendants responded to a law enforcement planted social media post before diverting to…

Two Bullhead City men were arrested after Mohave County Sheriff’s deputies spotted a suspect vehicle before making a traffic stop in Mohave Valley last Saturday. Agency spokeswoman Anita Mortensen said it was about 8:00 p.m. when deputies spotted a vehicle matching the description of a vehicle involved in theft of gas the previous evening. Deputies reportedly effected a traffic stop in the area of Calle Agrada Drive and Paso Sur Drive where they made contact with the driver, Trevor David Elder, 27, and the passenger Antonio Raymond Vallejos, 21. Mortensen said deputies detected an odor of marijuana emitting from the…

A Kingman man was arrested over the weekend for an axe attack that injured no one, but damaged a vehicle. Spokeswoman Anita Mortensen said Mohave County Sheriff’s deputies responded Friday afternoon to a report of a disturbance at a home in the 2900 block of Spinner Bait Drive. The reporting party advised that a subject later identified as Ramon Trevino Ortiz, 45, was muttering about “unknown things” when confronted about crossing through his property. “The argument escalated and Ortiz produced an axe from his waistline and began swinging it around and lunged at the victim,” a news release said. “The…

A Kingman woman who allegedly threatened neighbors with a broken glass jar and a knife was taken into custody after scuffling with deputies late Sunday morning. Mohave County Sheriff’s office spokeswoman Anita Mortensen said deputies responded at 11:20 a.m. to the disturbance in the 3100 block of Northfield Avenue. Mortensen said the reporting party indicated that a woman later identified as Amanda Lynnette Barr threatened to kill multiple neighbors with a knife. “Deputies observed Barr, known to them from prior incidents, sitting on the porch of a nearby residence and Barr immediately began shouting obscenities at deputies,” Mortensen said. “Barr…

Involved attorneys and Judge Billy Sipe agrees that mystery clouds the case of a Las Vegas man who claimed to be on a religious pilgrimage when discovered completely naked on a Chloride hillside more than a year ago. Mohave County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the naked subject report on February 20, 2018. A sheriff’s office report said that 39-year-old Nicholas Lash did not comply with directives and struggled during an attempt to detain him. It said he made religious references when he told deputies they should not interfere. “He was the son of God and (deputies) had no right to…