BULLHEAD CITY – A drug mule from Bullhead City pleaded guilty and went straight to jail Tuesday, willfully skipping the 30-day period that usually elapses before sentencing. Amanda Boone, 37, told Mohave County judge Doug Camacho she prefers to start serving time to get it over with as soon as possible.
Judge Camacho imposed the five-year prison term mandated in the plea agreement. Several charges in two criminal cases were dismissed in exchange for Boone’s conviction on a transportation of danger drugs for sale charge.
Prosecutor Rod Albright said Boone was driving when pulled over on Interstate 40, about eight miles from Needles, California on December 11, 2018. The deputy Mohave County attorney said Boone responded “marijuana” when asked if they would find drugs in her vehicle.
Albright said officers located 5-one-pound baggies full of methamphetamine in the vehicle. He said additional seizures included 7 grams of meth in one baggie, 13 grams in another and 5 packages containing 3.3 grams of meth each.
Officers also confiscated a digital scale. Albright said Boone admitted transporting the drugs at the time of her arrest.
- Dave Hawkins
