Joshua Sebold
Staff Writer
11/4/2009

Plumas County will get another infamous hour in the limelight this Saturday, the latest in a string of less than uplifting TV moments.
Plumas has been on Chico and Reno news programs recently because of woes in the logging industry and tragic cases in the courtroom.
In the evening, Nov. 7, we’ll hit the big time in terms of nationally recognized stories you’d rather not have going on in your backyard as America’s Most Wanted will air a program focusing on a suspect accused of committing murder somewhere inside the Plumas County lines.
This particular episode, airing at 6 p.m. on FOX, will feature the story of Nazira Cross, also known as Nazira Ugalde, who was charged Wednesday, March 25, with murder and a special circumstance alleging the murder was committed for financial gain.
Cross, currently at large, has been accused of killing her ex-husband, Michael Cross of Reno, sometime around the beginning of August 2009.
Police believe she made several efforts to poison her husband with different substances and that one or a combination of them eventually succeeded.
Law enforcement agencies in Reno, Nev., Plumas County and Pershing County, Nev., worked together on the case, recovering Michael Cross’s remains in Lovelock, Nev., although they suspect he died in Plumas County.
He was last seen alive in Chilcoot, where neighbors reportedly helped load him into a car, believing at the time that Nazira Cross was taking him to a hospital in Reno.
When those close to him realized he hadn’t arrived at any Reno hospital, they called Reno police.
Michael Cross owned car dealerships in Lovelock and Reno.
The case has been charged in Plumas County because of law enforcement’s belief that his death took place inside county borders; Nazira Cross would be brought here for criminal court proceedings if apprehended.
Plumas Superior Court Judge Ira Kaufman issued a million dollar arrest warrant for her when the Plumas County District Attorney’s Office charged the case in March.
Plumas County Sheriff’s Office Undersheriff Greg Hagwood said Cross was in Costa Rica for several months shortly before the crime occurred and that she probably isn’t in the United States at the moment.
America’s Most Wanted will be flying Hagwood and PCSO Investigations Sergeant Steve Peay down to Southern California for a live screening of the program.