Lancaster Girl Among 3 Charged in Arizona Slayings
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A 14-year-old runaway girl from Lancaster is one of three people charged with first-degree murder in a triple slaying at a trailer home 15 miles west of Kingman, Ariz.
The girl also has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder, according to Mohave County Superior Court records.
She was arrested Friday at a homeless shelter in Evanston, Ill., along with 20-year-old Robert A. Poyson of Golden Valley, the community in which the murders were committed.
Poyson is charged with three counts of first-degree murder, as is Frank Anderson, 48, of the Los Angeles area, said Mohave County Atty. Jace Zack.
Anderson was arrested Aug. 18 in Anna, Ill., after police ran a computer check on the pickup truck he was driving. The truck turned out to be the one Arizona authorities were searching for in connection with the triple homicide.
Roland Wear, 50, and Leta B. Kagen, 37, were found shot to death Aug. 15 in their trailer home in Golden Valley. Kagen’s son, Robert Delahunt, 15, was found stabbed to death nearby.
Authorities did not know what the relationship was between Poyson and the victims, although they believe Poyson took off with Wear’s pickup truck.
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