BISBEE — Trial or plea hearing dates for the three men charged in connection to three December home invasions and a kidnapping were set at pretrial hearings in Cochise County Superior Court on Monday.

A Dec. 5 and 6 crime spree and manhunt involving Cochise County Sheriff’s deputies and U.S. Border Patrol agents led to the arrest of Yerco Vedobch Arrvayo, 19, of Las Manches, Mexico; Alejandrino Lara Silva, 36, of Puebla Puebla, Mexico; and Natalio Valenzuela Valdez, 41, of Alamos, Mexico. The three were sought after fleeing on foot Dec. 5 from an interrupted home invasion in the unincorporated Pearce area.

The Mexican nationals are accused of tying up a 58-year-old woman in her guesthouse restroom during the Pearce incident, after she interrupted them burglarizing the guesthouse on the property.

The woman was not injured, freed herself after about a half hour, and went to the neighbors for help. The three men were picked up the next day north of Davis Road, south of Highway 181.

Among the three, they are charged with more than 40 counts, in connection with other break-ins in addition to the one in Pearce on Dec. 5, to include kidnapping, first degree armed burglary and theft.

The three also have been charged with a home invasion in Willcox on the same day as the Pearce incident, and another one before they were taken into custody on Dec. 6 in the unincorprated Elfrida area, Cochise County Attorney Ed Rheinheimer said.

“We have charged them as to three separate victims,” Rheinheimer said.

Pending any eventual release, there are U.S. Border Patrol holds on the defendants, and they remain in custody at the Cochise County Jail without bond.

Monday, for the three cases against Arrvayo — CR2007-00778, CR2007-00781, and CR2007-00784 — the trial date was scheduled for 8:30 a.m. on April 7, in Superior Court Division 2.

For all three cases against Silva — CR2007-00777, CR2007-00780, and CR2007-00783 — no written plea agreement has been yet drafted but his state appointed defense attorney said an agreement has been discussed with prosecutors, and the formal document is forthcoming. So if need be, Silva’s trial date was scheduled for 8:30 a.m. March 17 in Division 2, but once a plea agreement is submitted, a plea hearing will take place April 24 in Division 6.

For all three cases against Valdez — CR2007-00779, CR2007-00782, and CR2007-00785 — a trial date is set for 9 a.m. May 13 in Division 2, unless a plea agreement is submitted in the meantime, in which case the plea hearing will be heard in Division 6.