Category: Court News

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…

One southern Nevada resident has been sentenced to prison while a judge has indicated he may reject terms of a plea agreement for her co-defendant charged in a crime spree that began in Las Vegas and ended in Mohave County. The case involves the May, 2018 abduction of an Uber driver and her male passenger in Nevada, shots fired at an 18-wheeler near the Arizona-Nevada border and the resulting police pursuit that ended in downtown Kingman. Raitasha Antoinette Williams-Gardner, 21, pleaded guilty to kidnapping and aggravated assault for her involvement in the case. Mohave County Superior Court Judge Derek Carlisle,…

A young father leaves four children behind as he goes to the Arizona Department of Corrections for his involvement in home invasion robbery and drive by shooting incidents just five days apart in Kingman. “His children are going to suffer for his actions,” defense attorney Gerald Gavin said at the March 8 sentencing hearing for Corey Thomas, 26. Thomas is one of three armed suspects who forced their way into a home on Comanche Drive on Oct. 2 last year. No one was hurt though occupants of the home were threatened at gunpoint as the robbers demanded money and cell…

Prior child abuse, domestic violence convictions considered A 16-month prison term was imposed in an arson case Friday, March 8 for a Golden Valley woman dealing with a variety of mental health issues. Heather Amundson, 39, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of attempted arson for setting a fire following an argument with her boyfriend where they lived together in the 600 block of Vaquero Drive. Prosecutor Jacob Cote said Amundson set the Sept. 11, 2018 fire that melted a chair and a trash can and caused relatively minor damage to the exterior of the RV in which she and…