THE YAVAPAI COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE RESPONDED TO NUMEROUS INCIDENTS OVER THE WEEKEND.

ON SATURDAY, DEPUTIES RESPONDED TO I-17 IN THE AREA OF MILE POST 267 FOR A WRONG WAY DRIVER WHO WAS REPORTEDLY DRIVING SOUTH IN THE NORTH BOUND LANES. THE VEHICLE WAS FOUND STOPPED IN THE MEDIAN ON NORTHBOUND I-17 FACING SOUTH.  THE DRIVER, 37-YEAR-OLD LIONEL KING, WAS BOOKED INTO THE CAMP VERDE JAIL ON AGGRAVATED DUI.

DEPUTIES RESPONDED TO TWO SEPERATE ATV ROLLOVER ACCIDENTS ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON. THE FIRST WAS ON COPPER BASIN ROAD ABOUT 5 MILES OUTSIDE OF TOWN WHERE INITIAL REPORTS STATED A MALE WAS PINNED UNDER THE ATV AND HAD POSSIBLE PELVIC AND HEAD INJURIES. THE CALLER AND HIS WIFE WERE ABLE TO LIFT THE ATV FROM THE MALE PRIOR TO DEPUTIES ARRIVAL. HE WAS CONSCIOUS AT THAT TIME BUT HAVING DIFFICULTY BREATHING. LIFELINE AIR AMBULANCE ARRIVED, ESTABLISHED AN AIRWAY AND TRANSPORTED THE MAN TO YRMC-WEST BY AMBULANCE. ALCOHOL IS SUSPECTED AND THE CASE IS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION.

THE SECOND ATV ROLL-OVER OCCURRED ON CROWN KING ROAD WHERE IT WAS REPORTED TWO PEOPLE HAD BEEN EJECTED FROM THE VEHICLE WITH SEVERE INJURIES. THE DRIVER, A 54-YEAR-OLD WOMAN AND HER 62-YEAR-OLD FEMALE PASSENGER, BOTH FROM THE PHOENIX AREA, WERE EJECTED AFTER THE VEHICLE ROLLED AND SLID APPROXIMATELY 100 YARDS BEFORE COMING TO REST. THE CALLER REPORTED THAT NEITHER VICTIM WAS CONSCIOUS NOR WERE THEY BREATHING.

THE VICTIMS WERE AIRLIFTED TO DEER VALLEY HOSPITAL WITH LIFE THREATENING INJURIES. DEPUTIES FOUND MULTIPLE ALCOHOL CONTAINERS IN AND AROUND THE VEHICLE. THE MEDICAL CONDITIONS OF THE TWO WOMEN HAVE NOT BEEN RELEASED, AND YCSO WILL CONTINUE THEIR INVESTIGATION.

A SINGLE VEHICLE ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON CORNVILLE ROAD SUNDAY AT 3 A.M. DEPUTIES SAID THE DRIVER, IDENTIFIED AS TREVOR A. PAQUIN, MADE A STATEMENT THAT HE HAD BEEN DRINKING. HE HAD NO INJURIES, WAS PLACED UNDER ARREST AND TRANSPORTED TO THE CAMP VERDE JAIL.