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Beale Street Theater presents Disney’s Little Mermaid Jr

Beale Street Theater is putting on Disney’s Little Mermaid Jr June 27 thru June 29 that starts at 7 p.m. with a 1 p.m. matinee showing on June 29. The performance will be at Beale Celebrations 201 N. Fourth Street in Kingman. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for kids (4-11). The tickets are available for purchase at the Gallery at Kingman Center for the Arts, www.bealestreettheater.com, or at the door.

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Byrd gets four years for burning of RV

There was little discussion at a June 14 hearing where a Lake Havasu City woman was given a four year prison term for torching an RV in Desert Hills. The punishment was prescribed in a plea agreement convicting 42-year-old Vanessa Byrd of arson of an occupied structure. The Mohave County sheriff’s office said Byrd was spotted with a five gallon gas can while running from a burning RV in the 3500 block of London Bridge Road in June, 2017. The agency said Byrd had been trespassing on the property before she set the RV on fire. Byrd had been placed…

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Richter enters plea agreement; to pay restitution and may face jail

A plea agreement was entered June 14 for a Lake Havasu City woman who engaged in a spending spree with her roommate’s assets. The victim discovered he’d been ripped off when he was released from the Mohave County jail in an aggravated assault case last September, according to police. Donna Richter, 58, pleaded guilty to taking the identity of another in a deal dismissing six forgery counts and two theft charges. Defense attorney Winston Meeth said Richter used the victim’s checks and credit cards to rack up personal purchases. Meeth said Richter claims she had the victim’s permission to use some…

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Craft arrested and booked on arson and endangerment charges

A woman was jailed early Thursday for allegedly setting multiple brush fires near the downtown Kingman home where she resides with seven other people. Fire Department officials responded to three separate brush fire incidents Tuesday near a residence in the 500 block of Gold Street. Deputy Kingman Police Chief Rusty Cooper said Patricia Craft, 27, told investigators she suspected her brother lit the fires. “Officers investigating the fires learned that other fires had been set, wherein the home was actually damaged by fire before being extinguished,” Cooper said. Cooper said a surveillance operation was conducted and that officers observed Craft…

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Community assistance sought in suspect identification

Over the past month, detectives with the Lake Havasu City Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Unit have been investigating several vending machine burglaries that occurred between May 4 and May 5, in the 3200 block of Maricopa Avenue. As a result of the burglaries, an undisclosed amount of cash was taken as well as a significant amount of damage caused to the vending machines. During the course of the investigation, Detectives located surveillance video footage that showed the male suspect manipulating the vending machines for several hours. The suspect is described as a white male wearing a dark blue colored shirt, black…

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