Mohave County Sheriff: Parents arrested after teen son’s body found behind wall in desert | Complimentary
KINGMAN — The Mojave County Coroner’s Office is trying to determine the cause of death of a Kingman teenager whose parents admitted to dumping a body in the desert. Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Anita Mortensen confirmed on Feb. 25 that Amber Leah Valentine and her husband, John Imes, both 41, were killed at 2300 Packard Avenue […]
CBP releases body camera video for fatal Border Patrol shooting in AZ
US Customs and Border Protection on Wednesday released body camera footage of border agents shooting and killing a US citizen near Sasabe in March. The release of the footage comes at 6:41 PM on March 14, nearly a month after it was shot in southwestern Arizona, north of Sassave. The dead man is suspected of […]
A man was fighting with his girlfriend before deputies found his body, SC cops say
An investigation is ongoing after a man’s body was found at his Midlands home over the weekend. Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. Altron T. Burrell, 45, died in what appeared to be a shooting, the sheriff’s office said in a news release. An autopsy is scheduled at Newbery Pathology to determine Burrell’s cause of […]
Mohave County Sheriff’s Office makes 3rd arrest in abuse and abandonment of a body case | Kingman Daily Miner
KINGMAN — Detectives from the Mojave County Sheriff’s Department continue to investigate child abuse and abandonment of a dead 16-year-old man in Kingman. They arrested another person, Kingman’s Siobhan Gujda, 39, and charged her with child abuse. On Tuesday, March 7, detectives participated in a forensic interview of the victim’s 14-year-old sister, according to an […]
Walter Mitchell sentenced to 6 years for dumping body parts in Arizona
A former operator of a Seattle donated corpse business who mercilessly dumped dozens of bodies in central Arizona was sentenced Monday to more than six years in prison. A Yavapai County Superior Court jury in September convicted Walter Harold Mitchell III of 29 felony counts of concealing or abandoning a body. Judge Krista Carman sentenced […]
Parents arrested for concealing dead teenager’s body, lying to deputies in Kingman
arizona news Has been updated: March 6, 2023 at 5:16 PM Amber-Leah Valentine (left), 41, Jon Imes (middle), 41, and Richard Pounds (right), 34. (Mohave County Sheriff’s Office Photo) PHOENIX — The parents of a 16-year-old boy who died in Kingman were taken into custody Thursday for hiding the teenage boy’s body in a blanket […]
Kingman parents arrested after son’s body found
The parents of a 16-year-old boy found dead in Kingman have been arrested on suspicion of hiding the body and lying to police about the boy’s whereabouts. Amber Leah Valentine, 41, and John Ames, 41, called the Mojave County Sheriff’s Office on February 25 to report that their 16-year-old son had run away from home. […]
Investigation underway after body found near Sunset Crater National Monument
Coconino County Sheriff’s Department detectives are investigating the death of a person whose body was found south of Sunset Crater National Monument on Friday. Lawmakers were summoned to a popular tourist destination after the death was reported.CCSO identified the subject and launched an investigation. Investigators have ruled nothing out, according to John Paxton, now a […]
Police ID body dumped in norther Arizona in 1989
Moherb County, Arizona — Mojave County Sheriff’s Office hopes the public can help identify the man who killed his mother in California more than 30 years ago and dumped her body in northern Arizona. On December 12, 1989, the body of a naked woman was found on Old Temple Bar Road in Mojave County, about […]
Body found in canal, identified as missing person out of San Luis
Yuma, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) – The Yuma Police Department (YPD) has identified a man found dead in a canal as the same man who went missing over a week ago. The YPD received a report that a body was found near Avenue 3E and 48th Street Monday afternoon by workers in the Yuma Mesa Irrigation […]
