Prescott News

Governor Ducey gave an update on the COVID-19 pandemic Thursday afternoon. He told the media things look better today than they did ten days ago, but there’s a long way to go. Ducey announced a new executive order that would limit dine-in service at restaurants to “less than 50-percent capacity.” He also says there willFull Story

Cottonwood Police, along with help from their K9 “Kratos,” seized over three pounds of black tar heroin during a traffic stop Wednesday afternoon. Officers were conducting interdiction operations in the area and pulled over a 1999 Chevy Silverado at around 2:39 p.m. in the area of I-17 and State Route 169. Police arrested 35-year-old FidelFull Story

The National Weather Service has issued an Excessive Heat Warning for parts of Northern Arizona for Saturday through Monday. The warning is in effect from 10 a.m. Saturday through 8 p.m. Monday for areas below 45-hundred feet. The warning includes Cottonwood, Camp Verde and other lower elevations of Yavapai County. Forecasters say extreme heat willFull Story

Day Nine of the “Catch 22” program focuses on the search for a robbery suspect in Camp Verde in 2014, who has skipped out on his probation. Yavapai County Sheriff’s officials say sometime between February and June of 2014, then 19-year-old Austin Hanson broke into a residence in the 18-hundred block of Long Rifle RoadFull Story

Prescott Fire crews tended to a tractor trailer fire Wednesday. The fire was reported at around 1 p.m. in the 39-hundred block of Willow Creek Road in Prescott. When the first units arrived, they found a semi-truck connected to what appeared to be a roll-off dumpster trailer, with the cab on fire. Crews were concernedFull Story

U.S. Marshals have arrested “Catch 22” Day Seven suspect Jared Neil Kelly in Flagstaff. In the early evening of January 21st, 2019, the 39-year-old Kelly was driving in the area of South State Route 260 and East Prairie Lane in Cottonwood. It was then when he collided with the rear end of another vehicle thatFull Story

Today is Day Eight of Yavapai Silent Witness’s “Catch 22” program. Today we focus on 23-year-old Davion Marquice Zacharie, who is wanted after he was arrested in November of 2016 on Interstate-40 near Ash Fork. Yavapai County Sheriff’s deputies say Zacharie was pulled over for speeding and when the deputy went to question him, anFull Story

The Northern Arizona Suns have announced they will be leaving Prescott Valley and the Findlay Toyota Center. The Suns Public Affairs Advisor Maria Baier said the COVID-19 pandemic forced the move. She says “Sadly, when the 2020-21 G-League season tips off, the team will be playing at a location, to be determined, in the PhoenixFull Story

Two men have been arrested after they were connected to several fentanyl overdose cases in the Prescott area recently. Yavapai County Sheriff’s officials say in a one-week period in mid-June, the Prescott Police Department handled five overdose incidents, two of which were fatalities. Detectives directly linked two of the non-fatal overdoses to 26-year-old Dylan Corgan,Full Story

Prescott Fire crews battled a structure fire Monday night on Granite Street. Officials say crews were called to the area of the 400 block of South Granite Street at around 8:45 p.m. When units arrived they found a 450 square-foot shed that was fully engulfed in flames. Crews quickly put the fire out to helpFull Story