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A8 Thursday, July 12, 2018 ArizonA DAily Sun 1 Here is a roundup of projects that have recently received county construction approval or are in the planning stages. Slayton Ranch Located in the northeastern part of Doney Park, construction in the 126-lot Slayton Ranch subdivi- sion began in 2004. The first and second phases of the project were completed by 2006, but progress stalled during the Great Recession and the housing market bust, said Tim Shinkle, a realtor who is the local marketing representative for the subdivision and is developing some homes there. Roads and utilities infrastruc- ture for the final two units, which encompass 42 parcels, was com- pleted last year. Shinkle said he plans to start selling the final 18 parcels next week.

Most buyers of the 2.5-acre lots are custom building their homes, Shinkle said. He is building two spec homes in the subdivision that he said will sell for between $600,000 and $620,000 for about 2,500 square feet. Johnson Ranch The 61-lot subdivision is being built on one of the last large un- developed tracts of land in Doney Park. Construction on the first 20-home phase of the project fin- ished more than a year ago and 80 percent of those homes have been sold, said Chris Garrison, devel- oper at Johnson Ranch. The second, 41-home phase of the project should be completed in September, Garrison said.

The homes are starting in the high $300,000 range, she said. When Johnson Ranch went be- fore county supervisors in 2015, it was the first new subdivision to be proposed in Coconino County in at least seven years, according to the community development department. Because county supervisors gave approval for the developers to change the zoning to a planned residential development, the lots are as small as one acre and are built in a clustered design, which differs from most of Doney Park. Kachina Village North The 40-acre development, which will occupy the last large undeveloped parcel in Kachina Village, has had a bumpy history. The developers have sought and received county building approvals at least four times over more than a decade, Christelman said.

Three of those times, the Scottsdale-based developer let its approvals lapse, which meant starting the process over each time. In May, county supervisors again gave initial approval to the Kachina Village North construction plan, which calls for 130 lots on the northeast end of Kachina Village. Pine Valley Pine Chandler-based developers want to build a 10-acre RV park and a 20-acre manufac- tured home park on land located to the northwest of the Bellemont interchange. The project needs to renew its conditional use permit for the RV park, which would include 146 ve- hicle spaces and amenities such as a clubhouse, Christelman said. The remaining 20 acres would have 140 spaces for manufactured homes.

Flagstaff Meadows The final phase of construction is underway at Flagstaff Meadows in Bellemont. This last stage of the project calls for a total of 243 lots. The homes are advertised as energy efficient and several mod- els will begin below $300,000, according to Flagstaff-based de- veloper Capstone Homes. This is another development that was put on hold during the Great Recession, with work just re- starting in 2017, Christelman said. Harkey Ranch Design plans yet been submitted for a 106-acre devel- opment off Harkey Ranch Road, north of the Coca Cola bottling fa- cility on west Route 66.

The own- ers of the property are members of the Harkey Family, which has a long history in Flagstaff, Christel- man said. Those family members are still meeting with surrounding property owners to determine the appropriate size and number of lots. The Estates A Scottsdale-based developer has proposed 16 lots of 10 acres each in an area southwest of the Forest Highlands subdivision. The access is through Forest Highlands, Christelman said. County supervisors approved preliminary construction plans for that subdivision last month.

Emery Cowan can be reached at (928) 556-2250 or azdailysun.com JAKE BACON, ARIZONA DAILY SUN The interior of a home under construction on one of the lots at The hills at slayton ranch. JAKE BACON, ARIZONA DAILY SUN a lot plan shows the available and the sold lots at The hills at slayton ranch in doney Park Wednesday afternoon. Between 75 and 80 percent of the lots in the third phase have been sold. HOGP In this file photo, FBI agents conduct a search in and around a pond for Katherine Tortice in McNary, ariz. FROM THE FRONT PAGE Building From A1 to a lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter.

He was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison, followed by three years of super- vised release. Prosecutors said presenting such an old case to a jury would have been risky as memories fade and documents are lost. They had no direct evi- dence against Hinton and worried a jury might not view the teenage who admitted to helping bury body as credible, given his criminal history. think any dis- pute this is a circumstantial prosecutor Dimitra Sampson told The Associated Press. put- ting all the puzzle pieces together.

No one was there except the two of Roberta Tortice and her family wanted Hinton locked away for life and for him to show remorse. He said nothing about her or the crime at his sentencing. killed my daughter, buried her and getting (involuntary) Tortice told The Associated Press. the part I understand. But going to face the true judge one Savannah Abraham, Hin- sister and one of best friends, was torn yet made no ex- cuses for him.

just hope he comes out better than when he went she said. In court documents, Hinton acknowledged striking Kat in the head. She lost consciousness but he seek medical attention. He and Charles Jones later buried her body, burned their clothing and ditched the digging tools in a pond near the highway. Prosecutors said Hinton abused several women over the years, us- ing his hands, a stove pipe, a stick and possibly an electrical cord as weapons.

Court documents de- tail the bruises, bleed- ing, swelling, scrapes and scars. Some were knocked unconscious. The judge Tuesday took that history into account in sentenc- ing Hinton. His attorney, Mark Paige, ar- gued in court that the death was an accident. He said Hinton was scared and wanted to call police but Jones dissuaded him.

It uncommon for Kat to disappear with Hinton and return home with injuries, court docu- ments state. sister, Daisy, and her mother both told au- thorities Kat would cringe in pain when they hugged or touched her because of injuries that Hinton inflicted. In late October 2006, they said they filed a missing persons re- port with tribal police. It would be weeks before her body was found. Roberta Tortice said she drove back and forth on a local highway for work not knowing her daugh- ter was buried nearby.

She and her late husband searched the woods in McNary and begged police to help, she said. say time will heal, but you never heal from losing a child, especially when your child was brutally Tortice wrote in a letter read Tuesday. Authorities said Jones, the teenager who helped Hinton bury body, led them to her grave after getting into a fight with brother. White Mountain Apache police responded and looped in federal authorities. But authorities have enough to charge Hinton and the case sat for years, although it was reviewed at times.

FBI special agent Scott Flake took it over in 2015. He re-inter- viewed Jones and heard details no one else would have known: the burial site pinpointed on a map, a half-eaten burrito in pocket and the location of the digging tools. An FBI dive team searched the pond in 2016 and found a rounded wooden handle where Jones said it would be. lot of things came together with a sustained push to see what was going Flake said. Medical investigators deter- mined Kat died of bleeding in the brain caused by the hit to her head.

explanations for her death match the evi- dence, they said. After body was exhumed from the frozen ground in De- cember 2006, her family had a closed-casket funeral service. Hinton attend. Justice From A1 Flagstaff Medical Center. The Coconino County Medical Ex- Office was unable to de- termine an official cause of death through an autopsy.

Lillian was the primary caregiver, and he lived in her home with his sister and four children for his entire life. boyfriend, Jason Con- lee, 36, had also been living with them for nine months. Because of reported behavioral problems, at one point Jason was living with Lenda and her common-law husband, Kimmy Wilson, 61, for several months. A week before Jason died, Lil- 12-year-old nephew came to stay with her temporarily, af- ter getting in trouble for stealing his car. The 12-year-old shared a room with Jason, and Lillian said the two did not get along, adding that behav- ior started to change.

At the time of his death, Jason was 41 inches tall and weighed 29 pounds. One of the responding deputies noted how small Jason was for a 6-year-old boy and said there were scratches on his face. An- other deputy described the child as abnormally thin. Coconino County medical examiners found no significant internal injuries that could have contributed to death, but they did find numerous scrapes, cuts and bruises on the face, scalp and body. An X-ray revealed a fractured arm that had never healed properly.

The boy was se- riously underweight and showed signs of dehydration. The autopsy report listed the above findings as of child Lillian and Lenda explained Ja- injuries as self-inflicted and his thinness as the result of rapid weight loss from refusing to eat for a week. They described Jason as a troubled and sometimes vi- olent child, saying he was prone to self-harm and that they took measures to prevent him from hurting himself or putting him- self in danger. Right after his death, Lillian told detectives she should have taken him to a doctor but she had no insurance. last doctor appointment was in 2013, but Lillian had taken her own child to the hospital for abdominal pain two months before death.

According to the re- port, the father of chil- dren told detectives he believed Lillian did not like Jason. He said his daughters had told him in 2012 or 2013 that Lillian was keeping Jason locked up in his bedroom. The girls also told their father Lillian would use a rope to lock Jason in a high chair and that she was not giving Jason any water. Also accused in death were Lenda, Wilson and Conlee, who were each indicted on one charge of negligent homicide and one count of child abuse. There was no information available on potential trial dates for them at press time.

Hester From A1 $150,000 restitution to the vic- tims and as much as eight years of probation. Santana, a former associate professor of interior design at NAU, allegedly sent threatening messages to three hotshot crew members, a student and others, according to a federal complaint. The victims reported being ha- rassed by someone using various false identities, email addresses, social media accounts and tempo- rary phone numbers. Federal investigators said they connected the accounts to San- tana through search warrants of her phone and electronic com- munications. At least one of the men told federal investigators he had a re- lationship with her that ended; others met her online.

The 36-year-old Santana was a Flagstaff resident and married when the alleged incidents took place from Feb. 1, 2015, to Sept. 22, 2017, according to the com- plaint. One victim told investigators he had a sexual relationship with Santana. After ending the rela- tionship, he said his car was van- dalized, and he received several derogatory texts from unknown numbers.

One text message read, not be like the granite mountain hotshots and go die in the The statement was a reference to the 19 members of the Gran- ite Mountain Hotshots who were killed in a 2013 wildfire. attorney, Stephen Wallin, declined comment on the allegations and the plea agree- ment. Santana was employed at NAU for five years, but her employment ended Nov. 1, 2017, shortly after she was arrested on Oct. 30 on stalking charges.

Stalking From A1 SAN DIEGO (AP) Immi- grant parents who reveled after joyful reunions with their young children spoke Wednesday of the traumatic impact of being separated from their sons and daughters for months after they were taken from them at the U.S. border. The administration has been scrambling to reunify the fam- ilies this week to meet the first of two deadlines set by a federal judge in San Diego who ordered thousands of children be given back to their immigrant parents. Scores of children separated from their families were sent to govern- ment-contracted shelters or fos- ter care hundreds of miles away from where their parents were detained. Roger Ardino, from Honduras, was happy to be back with his 4-year-old son, Roger who sat on his lap and played with the mi- crophones as the father spoke to reporters.

The father said he was still shaken by the ordeal he had to go through just to speak to his boy while he was in government custody. The two were separated in February. He described feeling a pain in his heart and like he breathe after his son was taken away. The father held up his wrist and told reporters that after they were separated, he threatened to use a razor on himself if he speak to his son. He spoke Wednesday at An- nunciation House, an El Paso, Texas-based shelter, along with another father recently reunited with his child.

They arrived there Tuesday. was completely the father said in Spanish. He added later: time I spoke to him, he would start crying. Where are the rights of children? I thought children were supposed to be a priority here in the United Immigrant parents are happy but still traumatized.