Cottonwood

Five Flagstaff residents were arrested Saturday in Cottonwood on drug charges. During the evening, police conducted a traffic stop on a white Chevy Impala in the area of Airpark Road. During the stop, the driver didn’t have his driver’s license and the name he provided officers ended up being false. Police were able to identifyFull Story

Three people were arrested last week on drug and weapon’s charges during a traffic stop in Cottonwood. Officers pulled over a silver Oldsmobile Alero in a residential area of Cottonwood last Thursday at around 9 p.m. Based on information officers had on one of the three people in the car, the person had been involvedFull Story

Two men were arrested last week in Cottonwood with a slew of fentanyl pills found in a vehicle. Yavapai County Sheriff’s investigators saw 30-year-old John Gonzales in the parking lot of the Cottonwood Walmart last Tuesday. Detectives know Gonzales for his involvement in the use and sale of fentanyl in the past. Gonzales was seenFull Story

Cottonwood Police arrested a man for possession fentanyl pills after an officer pulled him over. Last Friday, officers conducted a traffic stop in the area of 15th Street and Cochise Street. During the stop the driver, 24-year old Chandler resident, Mathew Lee Gibson was found to be in possession of Fentanyl pills and drug paraphernalia.Full Story

Free drive-thru testing for COVID-19 is coming to Yavapai County every Saturday in August, starting this week. Spectrum Healthcare Group is hosting the events. If you have symptoms of the coronavirus, which include fever, fatigue, difficulty breathing, cough, chills, headache, sore throat and runny nose, you need to get a test. Health officials say youFull Story

A single vehicle accident led to a heroin drug case in Cottonwood last week. Police responded to the 300-block of North Main Street for a report of the accident last Thursday. The vehicle left the road and collided with landscaping, leading up to the south side of the CTS building. The female driver was seenFull Story

A multi-agency law enforcement task force focused on speeders along Highway 260 between Cottonwood and Camp Verde was successful last week. On Wednesday, officers pulled over 36 vehicles between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. The stops resulted in 20 speeding tickets and three additional citations unrelated to speed. The highest speed recordedFull Story

Cottonwood Police responded to the parking lot of the Verde Valley Medical Center Thursday afternoon on a report of a man threatening people with a gun. The incident happened at around noon when the man jumped out of vehicle without being provoked, pulled out a gun and said: “you guy’s gotta problem? If you doFull Story

A stolen vehicle was recently used in an attempted ATM burglary Sunday morning in Cottonwood. Officers responded to the 800-block of South 12th Street at around 5:30 a.m. for a report of an abandoned vehicle. The truck was found in the reporting person’s driveway running with a chain hanging from the back, appearing if itFull Story

Today is Day 21 in Yavapai Silent Witness’s “Catch 22” program. Today we focus on the search for 24-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