Category: Court News

LAKE HAVASU CITY – A Lake Havasu City man faces possible prison time for smacking a police officer at the local hospital last fall. Christopher Bartrow, 45, pleaded guilty Monday, Jan. 8 to aggravated assault. Deputy Mohave County Attorney Julia Ketchum told the court that officers responded to Havasu Regional Medical Center at 101 Civic Center Ln., after the hospital reported a patient was being belligerent with staff. She said Bartrow used his right fist and forearm to strike an officer on the left side of the head. Bartrow also admitted violating probation for failing to report for a probation…

MOHAVE VALLEY – The Mohave County Sheriff’s office reports the arrest of a Mohave Valley woman in a burglary investigation. 29-year-old Jazmen Hickstein is charged with burglary, theft and trafficking stolen property. Hickstein was arrested following a Jan. 15 warrant-based search of a Mohave Valley home in the 10000 block of S. Queens Rd. The search was follow-up by investigators looking into a break-in last August where another Mohave Valley home was burgled while unoccupied for several months. “Items stolen from the house included the victim’s vehicle, tools, electronics, jewelry and mail,” said sheriff’s office spokeswoman Anita Mortensen. “Several of…

MOHAVE VALLEY – The Mohave County Sheriff’s office reports the arrest of a Mohave Valley woman in a burglary investigation. 29-year-old Jazmen Hickstein is charged with burglary, theft and trafficking stolen property. Hickstein was arrested following a Jan. 15 warrant-based search of a Mohave Valley home in the 10000 block of S. Queens Rd. The search was follow-up by investigators looking into a break-in last August where another Mohave Valley home was burgled while unoccupied for several months. “Items stolen from the house included the victim’s vehicle, tools, electronics, jewelry and mail,” said sheriff’s office spokeswoman Anita Mortensen. “Several of…

BULLHEAD CITY – A second-degree murder charge is dismissed in a proposed plea agreement involving a traffic fatality in Bullhead City. Eidy Ruiz, 24, Bullhead City, pleaded guilty Jan. 12 to leaving the scene of an accident involving injury or death. The Bullhead City man concedes he was driving a Corvette on Highway 95 that struck a pedestrian at about 6:46 p.m. on July 28 in the vicinity of Riverview Dr. David Arnold, 59, was transported to Western Arizona Regional Medical Center, and he later died following life flight to a Las Vegas hospital. Deputy Mohave County Attorney Jeff Haws told…

BULLHEAD CITY – A second-degree murder charge is dismissed in a proposed plea agreement involving a traffic fatality in Bullhead City. Eidy Ruiz, 24, Bullhead City, pleaded guilty Jan. 12 to leaving the scene of an accident involving injury or death. The Bullhead City man concedes he was driving a Corvette on Highway 95 that struck a pedestrian at about 6:46 p.m. on July 28 in the vicinity of Riverview Dr. David Arnold, 59, was transported to Western Arizona Regional Medical Center, and he later died following life flight to a Las Vegas hospital. Deputy Mohave County Attorney Jeff Haws told…

KINGMAN – Questions are many, but answers are few in the matter of a police-gunfire-wounded Kingman man who was not charged for nearly two weeks and was somehow able to exit Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas and make it back to Kingman, only to suffer medical complications to be returned to Sunrise. It is unclear how many hours or days that the wounded man was uncharged and in the wind between hospital admissions and discharges between Kingman and Las Vegas. The story began Dec. 29 when Kingman police officers reportedly encountered a shotgun-brandishing Andrew Romero after responding to a domestic…