Category: Community News

A longtime addict will spend five decades in the Arizona Department of Corrections for dealing drugs in Lake Havasu City. Andrea Lashway, 43, was given a 51.5-year prison term by Judge Billy Sipe during a May 9 sentencing hearing at the Mohave County Courthouse in Kingman. Lashway skipped out in the middle of her trial in May, 2016 during which the jury convicted her of five sales of dangerous drug counts, three dangerous drug possession charges and a single count of possession of drug paraphernalia. Defense attorney Sandra Carr said Lashway, at that time, had been dealing with problems associated…

Defense attorney Robin Puchek recently told a local judge that autopsy results are needed before there can be meaningful plea negotiations in a criminal case involving a Mohave Valley shooting death. Puchek represents James Manker, who told authorities that the death of his girlfriend, Tina Marie Stimmell, was a mercy killing. Few details in the case have surfaced through court proceedings or from law enforcement. Most information comes from a probable cause statement featuring Manker’s purported admissions. That statement indicated that Manker, 29, first told dispatch that he killed Stimmell, 56, when he called the sheriff’s office at 9:45 a.m….

Investigation has determined that a jail inmate used a body cavity to smuggle dangerous drugs into the Mohave County Adult Detention Center in Kingman. That’s the primary update from the Mohave County Sheriff’s office regarding the April 16 hospitalization of five jail inmates for treatment of overdoses within the jail. Detectives learned that inmate Jonathan Hutchinson, 24, of Parker, had smuggled contraband into the Detention Facility in his body cavity,” a news release stated. “The investigation revealed that Hutchinson had smuggled into the Detention Facility approximately 30 counterfeit hydrocodone 30 mg pills and an unknown amount of methamphetamine.” Sheriff’s office…