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Stalder takes plea in noxious fume case

KINGMAN – A Kingman man was released from jail when sentenced after pleading guilty to exposing his duplex unit neighbors, including three children, to dangerous carbon monoxide fumes. Michael Stalder, 36, pleaded guilty to three counts of endangerment on Jan. 2 and was set free after spending 110 days in the Adult Detention Center. Deputy Mohave County Attorney Phillip Delgado said Stalder was found asleep in his running vehicle in his garage where he resided in one unit of a duplex in the 900 block of Sheldon Ave., last Oct. He said alcohol bottles were strewn about Stalder’s home and…

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Stalder takes plea in noxious fume case

KINGMAN – A Kingman man was released from jail when sentenced after pleading guilty to exposing his duplex unit neighbors, including three children, to dangerous carbon monoxide fumes. Michael Stalder, 36, pleaded guilty to three counts of endangerment on Jan. 2 and was set free after spending 110 days in the Adult Detention Center. Deputy Mohave County Attorney Phillip Delgado said Stalder was found asleep in his running vehicle in his garage where he resided in one unit of a duplex in the 900 block of Sheldon Ave., last Oct. He said alcohol bottles were strewn about Stalder’s home and…

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Kingman Police looking for impaired drivers on Super Bowl Sunday

KINGMAN – The Kingman Police Department, in conjunction with the Western AZ DUI Task Force, will be out providing extra patrol for the Super Bowl LVIII looking for impaired drivers. This year the Super Bowl LVIII falls on Sunday, February 11, 2024. Get ahead of the game and create your game plan now. If you’re going out to a Super Bowl party and you plan to drink alcohol, make sure you plan for a designated driver to get you home safely at the end of the night. If you’re hosting a party, prepare plenty of food and non-alcoholic drink options…

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Kingman Police looking for impaired drivers on Super Bowl Sunday

KINGMAN – The Kingman Police Department, in conjunction with the Western AZ DUI Task Force, will be out providing extra patrol for the Super Bowl LVIII looking for impaired drivers. This year the Super Bowl LVIII falls on Sunday, February 11, 2024. Get ahead of the game and create your game plan now. If you’re going out to a Super Bowl party and you plan to drink alcohol, make sure you plan for a designated driver to get you home safely at the end of the night. If you’re hosting a party, prepare plenty of food and non-alcoholic drink options…

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El Salvador man killed in motorcycle crash

KINGMAN – A weekend traffic fatality is under investigation by the Kingman Police Department. Deputy Police Chief Joel Freed said the motorcycle crash occurred at about 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 5 in the area of Stockton Hill Road and Johnson Avenue. “A motorcycle ridden by Alexis Bladmimir Guevara Coca, 21, El Salvador, was traveling southbound on North Stockton Hill Road approaching Johnson Avenue when he lost control of the motorcycle striking the curb,” Freed said. ?“Coca was ejected from the motorcycle and sustained major injuries.” Freed said emergency personnel stabilized Coca, who died following life flight to Sunrise Medical Center in…

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An airstrip? In a neighborhood?

Dear Editor, There is a storm brewing in SoHi Estates, a small, quiet community six miles northwest of Kingman. The cause? Angry residents here are up in arms about a proposed airplane landing field being slated for construction in a location that will have planes flying at very low altitudes and low speeds directly over numerous private homes. The developer of this impending disaster plans to build this runway atop a hogback ridge in a canyon that offers three steep opposing mountainside faces in dangerous proximity to any expected flight activity. Couple that with the erratic winds that plague this…

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