Category: Court News

KINGMAN – Their pets fought first before the scrap spread to their elderly owners, one of whom shot the other about six weeks ago at the dedicated dog park at Lewis Kingman Park off Andy Devine Ave., in Kingman. That is the factual basis for a plea agreement entered June 12 in Mohave County Superior Court.

KINGMAN – Trial has opened in Kingman for a Meadview man accused of using his homemade dune buggy to ram the quad operated by his on-again, off-again girlfriend, resulting in fatality. John Stettler, 42, is charged with second-degree murder in the July 28, 2023 death of Sally Minard, 38, Meadview.
Prosecutor Amanda Claerhout and defense attorney Paul Amann agree that the defendant and victim endured a super tumultuous relationship that could turn on a dime. They told the jury that the rocky nature of the couple’s relationship would be evident during trial.

LAKE HAVASU CITY – A couple of Lake Havasu City fraud case victims flipped the script at a change of plea hearing in Kingman, and essentially tried to conduct a mini-trial for defendant Edward Krown, 43.
Judge Doug Camacho had already accepted the plea agreement entered June 5, but that was before two of Krown’s victims railed against the defendant for 20 minutes or more.

LAKE HAVASU CITY – An elderly Lake Havasu City man no longer faces prosecution for the chaos he allegedly caused during a March 3 triathlon event. The Mohave County Attorney’s Office has dismissed all the charges and the case against John Welcher, 91.

TOPOCK – Two of the three suspects charged in a more than two-year-old double homicide in Colorado are in custody in Kingman. Toni Gurule, 43, and Suzzette Salyer, 42, were arrested following a June 1 standoff with local law enforcement authorities in the Colorado River community of Topock.

LAKE HAVASU CITY – A subject was wounded by police gunfire in Lake Havasu City. Authorities said an officer responding to a suspicious person report shot an unidentified subject after responding to the 2700 block of Arcadia Dr. at 5:34 a.m. on June 10.