Cottonwood

Today is Day 21 in Yavapai Silent Witness’s “Catch 22” program. Today we focus on the search for 35-year-old Jonathan Sterling Mansfield. Between September 9th and 15th of 2018, Mansfield stole a vehicle from the UHAUL store in Sedona. On September 15th Cottonwood Police located the UHAUL truck pulling a trailer in the area ofFull Story

Today is Day 14 of Yavapai Silent Witness’s “Catch 22” program. Today we focus on 60-year-old John Gregory Lukasik. Clarkdale Police are looking for Lukasik, who is wanted for taking sexually explicit photographs and video recording of two separate victims and displayed them on multiple websites back in 2010. Most of the photos and videosFull Story

Today is Day 13 in Yavapai Silent Witness’ “Catch 22” program. Today we feature the search for 23-year-old Aron Jose Bermudez-Felix. On August 6th, 2018, Bermudez got into an argument with his girlfriend, which led to him hitting her in the face with a closed fist. He then threw her onto the bed while sheFull Story

Tuesday is Day Five of the “Catch 22” program with Yavapai Silent Witness. Today we focus on finding 41-year-old Brian Allen Curtis. On April 28th, 2019, Curtis and two other adult males, assaulted an elderly male in a tunnel near a business located in the 19-hundred block of West State Route 89A in Sedona. DuringFull Story

A 75-year-old Cottonwood man was recently scammed out of thousands of dollars in two separate phone scams. The first call took place between December 13th and 18th. A scammer who went by the name “Mike McCarthy” told the man his social security number had been used for illegal activity in Texas and in order toFull Story

A Cottonwood man was arrested last week after he assaulted a Yavapai County Sheriff’s deputy when trying to help Cottonwood Police with a vehicle collision. Officers were called to the area of State Route 260 and Fir Street at around 8:49 p.m. for a traffic accident back on December 8th. The collision involved two vehiclesFull Story

Yavapai County Health officials reported over 800 new cases of COVID-19 in the county since Wednesday on Monday. The county saw nine new deaths and a two-week positive percentage of 26.2-percent. Of the 814 new cases, 251 came from Prescott, 122 in Cottonwood, 64 in Prescott Valley and 53 in Chino Valley. Yavapai Regional MedicalFull Story

A Cottonwood man was arrest recently in connection with the sales of fentanyl-laced pills and having guns after being prohibited to do so. Yavapai County Sheriff’s officials say PANT detectives went to a home in the 45-hundred block of East Silver Leaf Trial in Cottonwood back on November 11th. Just before 8 p.m. a deputyFull Story

A murder case that was highlighted on a national television show has ended in a hung jury. A jury deliberated the murder case of Cecilio Cruz, who is accused of murdering Marisol Gonzalez, and her unborn son, in Cottonwood in 1997 when the two were both 17-years-old. The jury met for ten hours Friday andFull Story

The executive director of the Verde Valley Homeless Coalition has been arrested for fraud and embezzlement. Cottonwood Police say at the beginning of September, the Coalition reported discrepancies in their financial statements and suspected an employee was stealing money. It was reported to the police and the suspected employee was placed on administrative Leave. TheFull Story