Category: Court News

WIKIEUP – A teenager who reportedly shot and killed his father in Glendale was arrested following a high-speed pursuit in Kingman. The Tuesday, May 28 incident is thoroughly detailed in Maricopa County Juvenile Court records.

BULLHEAD CITY – A teenager who was sexually offended by a trusted family member in Bullhead City remains traumatized, has engaged in self-harm and is undergoing continuing mental health counseling. The suffering of the victim and her family swayed Mohave County Superior Court Judge Lee Jantzen to order an aggravated 20-year prison term during a May 29 sentencing hearing for Michael Campise, 69.

MOHAVE VALLEY – A mid-May traffic stop in Mohave Valley netted drug seizures and the arrests of a woman and her mother. Bullhead City police department spokeswoman Emily Fromelt said Detectives were working information that Amber Nowak, 31, was involved in the transportation and sale of illegal drugs in the tri-state area.

KINGMAN – A local judge has broad discretion at an upcoming sentencing hearing for a Kingman man arrested early this year for a sex offense involving a minor. Police reports indicate 69-year-old Russel Farney performed a sex act on a nine-year-old boy in Feb. at his home in the 2900 block of Snavely Ave.
Farney pleaded guilty to a charge reduced to attempted sexual conduct with a minor. Terms of the agreement entered may allow the Court to impose as little as probation and as much as 15 years in prison.

KINGMAN – A previously convicted sex offender has accepted a plea agreement in a new case. Johnathan Proenneke, 38, Kingman, entered a plea agreement during a May 21 hearing before Mohave County Superior Court Judge Derek Carlisle.