Category: Court News

KINGMAN – The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office has identified the man who was killed and provided additional details as it conducts an independent investigation of an Officer Involved Shooting (OIS) incident. Agency spokeswoman Anita Mortensen said the man who died following a multiple hour Wednesday morning standoff in Kingman is Jason Peters, 45, Kingman. Mortensen said Kingman police were first summoned at 12:36 a.m. to a report of a man chopping bushes on his neighbor’s property in the 2000 block of Fairgrounds Boulevard. The subject had left by the time police arrived. Police responded to the same area again at…

KINGMAN – Her chilling, blood-curdling screams pierced a Mohave County courtroom as a Kingman woman’s attacker was sent to the Arizona Department of Corrections Thursday. Their home security surveillance system captured 43-year-old Brian Crossland’s brutal assault of his long-time partner in their Kingman home on Golf Drive on May 13. Crossland can be seen striking the woman, holding a knife to her throat and yelling at her during the near nine-minute video segment played during the sentencing hearing before Superior Court Judge Rick Lambert. “I think the video speaks for itself,” said Deputy Mohave County Attorney Reed Weisberg. The victim…

KINGMAN – A multiple-hour standoff and Officer Involved Shooting (OIS) incident resulted in a civilian death in Kingman. Police Chief Rusty Cooper said the ordeal began unfolding about 2:00 a.m. Wednesday when dispatch was advised gunfire was coming from a home in the 2000 block of Fairgrounds Boulevard. Cooper said Kingman police officers surrounded the home and used a Public Address system to communicate with the male adult who had fired from inside the home. He said the subject was uncooperative and verbally aggressive with officers. Cooper said more than one officer encountered gunfire over a period of hours. He…

KINGMAN – A Colorado City man faces mandatory prison after pleading guilty to sex offenses involving his own daughter. Judge Doug Camacho accepted the plea agreement entered on behalf of Samuel Timpson during an Oct. 6 hearing in Kingman. Deputy Mohave County Attorney Karolina Czaplinska said Timpson, 44, engaged in a variety of sexual conduct with his 15-year-old daughter between June and Sept., 2016. Timpson pleaded guilty to three sexual abuse charges and one count reduced to attempted sexual conduct with a minor. Timpson can get up to 4.5 years in prison when sentenced Nov. 13. Terms of the deal…

KINGMAN – Formal indictments have been handed up in the prosecution of three young Golden Valley residents charged in the brutal slayings of a Chloride couple. Dustyn Wade Walsh and Tyler Susan Reed, both 19, and Johnny Ford Parsons, 20, are charged with first degree murder, burglary, theft of means of transportation and abandonment or concealment of a dead body. Court records most of the deadly violence was inflicted by Walsh. The victims were his grandmother, Robin Hammontree, 61, and her partner Bryan Drake, 57. Walsh told Mohave County Sheriff’s office investigators that he had a beef with Drake because…