A Waddell man accused of brutally murdering his mother has been arrested in Nevada.
Levi Moses, 20, was taken into custody June 11 in Laughlin after he was tracked down by a vehicle satellite service that honed in on a global positioning device installed in the car he was driving, according to a report obtained from the Laughlin substation of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
Moses is accused in the bludgeoning death of his mother, Sally, a day earlier in his family’s Waddell home near 175th Avenue and Ocotillo Road. Moses then unsuccessfully attempted to burn down the house by setting fire to the living room rug, police said.
His mother’s body was discovered by the suspect’s father and sister, police said. His mother’s car was missing from the garage, they added.
Sally Moses’ official cause of death is listed as “extreme head trauma,” according to a police report.
On Star, a vehicle tracking service that Sally Moses subscribed to, located her 2005 Chevrolet shortly before 4 a.m. along State Route 163, near mile marker 7, police said.
Informed that Moses might have been armed, Laughlin police summoned officers from the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office, the Bullhead City Police Department, the Nevada Highway Patrol, the Fort Mojave Tribal Police and the Nevada Parks Service. They found the car parked about 250 yards from the side of the road, police said.
A SWAT team surrounded the vehicle and took Moses into custody at 7:30 a.m., police said. His mother’s purse was in his possession, they said.
Moses is being held in a Nevada jail awaiting extradition to Arizona, a spokesman for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said.
John Machay can be reached by e-mail at jmachay@westvalleyview.com.
