KINGMAN — Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced 65-year-old Michael Thomas DeArmond, a former caretaker who worked in the Kingman area, was sentenced to five years in prison for Escape and Theft. In 2018, DeArmond was originally arrested for violating the terms of his probation stemming from a 2015 case (CR-2015-00159). DeArmond was released from custody in May 2018, but ordered to return to the Mohave County Jail by a specific date. When DeArmond failed to return, the charge of Escape in the Second Degree was filed in August 2018. In July 2016, DeArmond was convicted of Theft, as a class…

KINGMAN – A Kingman man faces an array of felony criminal charges following a vehicle and foot chase that ended with his arrest last week. Police Chief Rusty Cooper said the incident began when an officer attempted to stop a Hyundai Tucson for a traffic offense committed about 11:50 p.m., Thursday, August 6 in the 800 block of Airway Avenue. The driver who was later identified as Marty Tisdale, 39, reportedly failed to stop and fled at a high rate of speed. “As Tisdale continued eastbound on Airway Avenue he failed to stop for a red light at the intersection…