Cottonwood

Two people have been arrested in Cottonwood on multiple drug charges along with child abuse. Yavapai County Sheriff’s officials say detectives from Partner’s Against Narcotics Trafficking task force, or PANT, arrested 39-year-old Jairo Chavez-Rodriguez back on December 19th after it was discovered he was selling meth and heroin. A search of his home found moreFull Story

Cottonwood Police are looking for the former treasurer of the Old Town Association who is wanted on fraud charges. Police say 50-year-old Traci Ann Koelzer hasn’t been seen since detectives launched an investigation into missing funds in April of last year. The investigation started when 100-thousand dollars went missing from the Association. Police has establishedFull Story

The ACLU is demanding that Mingus High School in Cottonwood stop flagging some students for their academic record. The group says students at the school, who have fallen behind in class, must openly wear red ID badges indicating their status. The badges distinguish them from other students who wear grey badges and the ACLU saysFull Story

A former City of Cottonwood foreman was given three years probation Monday for allegedly altering drinking water bacteria test results for the city. Hans Burnett is accused of telling employees to change results submitted to state regulators to replace positive results for bacterial contamination with negative results from 2015 until 2016. The bacteria included Cloriform,Full Story

A 57-year-old woman was rescued from the Verde River after being knocked out of her kayak Saturday. Yavapai County Sheriff’s officials say deputies were called to the river near Thousand Trails Park just outside of Cottonwood on a report of a kayaker trapped in the river. The woman had been knocked off the kayak andFull Story

There was a tense situation last night in Cottonwood. Yavapai County Sheriff’s deputies were called to a home in the 700-block of Desert Jewel Drive after a man barricaded himself inside a home. Deputies and SWAT members arrived at around 6:40 p.m. and the man fired gunshots from the house. Authorities evacuated homes in theFull Story

Cottonwood Police arrested a 14-year-old female student at Mingus Union High School Tuesday for making a threat toward another female student. Police say says the student was taken into custody at around 10 a.m. after text messages indicated the victim would be shot on school grounds on Halloween, even though detectives determined the student hadFull Story

Two suspicious items were found this morning in Cottonwood. Police were called to the 700-block of East Mingus Avenue at around 8:30 a.m. where they found two “soda bottle bombs.” Authorities say one had exploded and the other one hadn’t. The unexploded bottle had been placed under a window to an apartment complex and theFull Story

A man has been arrested in Cottonwood after he was found to be transporting meth from Phoenix to the Camp Verde area. Yavapai County Sheriff’s officials say 38-year-old Jason Robert Clark from Sun City was arrested back on Wednesday at around 10 p.m. Authorities say he was found seated inside a vehicle parked in frontFull Story

A Cottonwood man was arrested after he threatened his neighbors with a gun. Cottonwood Police say 63-year-old Ronald Levy became annoyed shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday when he said his neighbors were playing music too loud. The incident happened in the 50-block of South 15th Street in Cottonwood. The neighbor called police saying Levy wasFull Story