KINGMAN — A Kingman man who was drunk and disorderly when two ambulance attendants tried to help him last month will serve no further jail time. Judge Doug Camacho placed Joseph Pacheco, 46, on probation for three years after he entered a plea agreement on September 18.
Deputy Kingman police chief Joel Freed said Pacheco was heavily intoxicated and unresponsive inside a fast food business when an ambulance was dispatched to the 3400 block of Stockton Hill Road on August 10.
Freed said Pacheco groped the breast and lower torso of one female health care worker as she and another female tried to administer an IV inside the ambulance. He pleaded guilty to a reduced attempted sexual abuse charge while two aggravated assault charges are dismissed.
Defense attorney Daisy Mazoff said Pacheco has battled alcoholism.
“That’s how we get here today,” Mazoff said. “My client was highly intoxicated at the time.”
Deputy Mohave County attorney Jacob Cote said it did not appear that Pacheco’s aggressiveness was sexually motivated.
Pacheco said he enjoyed a 16-month period of sobriety before a relapse leading up to the ambulance incident. He expressed desire to seek treatment for alcohol abuse.
Judge Camacho placed Pacheco on probation for three years. He ordered a 39 day jail sentence, crediting him with 39 days previously spent in custody.
