In the early morning of Saturday, Dec. 17, a masked person entered a home through an unlocked door in Cottonwood. This person was unknown to the family residing there.
Video courtesy of Cottonwood Police Department
At the time, a husband and wife were sleeping in their bedroom with two large dogs and their 12- and 14-year-old daughters were sleeping in another bedroom.
Video courtesy of Cottonwood Police Department
The intruder was armed with a pocket knife and prybar and stole several thousand dollars of currency. He was inside the home for approximately eight minutes before exiting by the front door.
“Nothing else appears to be missing,” CPD Sgt. Chad Sinn stated.
Cottonwood police investigators are asking for help identifying the subject, who was captured on several cameras while inside the residence. Two videos are online at journalaz.com.
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Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective M. Strickland at (928) 295-7264 or mstrickland@cottonwoodaz.gov.
Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rocks News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been featured in Editor & Publisher magazine. He lectures on journalism and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. Retired U.S. Army Col. John Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs referred to him as "Mr. Slam Poet." In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."
