Category: Court News

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…

KINGMAN – The Lake Havasu City police department will investigate a shooting involving Mohave County Sheriff’s office (MCSO) personnel and a civilian who was killed in north Kingman. Independent investigation by outside agencies is standard procedure in Officer Involved Shootings (OIS). Spokeswoman Anita Mortensen said a report of a possibly suicidal male drew sheriff’s office response to a residence in the 4200 block of Irving St. at 10:42 p.m. Saturday, October 10. Neighbors reported gunfire to MCSO dispatch as officers were enroute. “Victim statements claimed that a male subject shot at them, but they were able to get away uninjured,”…

KINGMAN – The Lake Havasu City police department will investigate a shooting involving Mohave County Sheriff’s office (MCSO) personnel and a civilian who was killed in north Kingman. Independent investigation by outside agencies is standard procedure in Officer Involved Shootings (OIS). Spokeswoman Anita Mortensen said a report of a possibly suicidal male drew sheriff’s office response to a residence in the 4200 block of Irving St. at 10:42 p.m. Saturday, October 10. Neighbors reported gunfire to MCSO dispatch as officers were enroute. “Victim statements claimed that a male subject shot at them, but they were able to get away uninjured,”…

KINGMAN – A Kingman man who faced life in prison is a free man after entering a plea agreement resolving allegations that he forced a six-year-old girl to perform sex acts three years ago. Bradley Manseau, 30, was released from the Mohave County Adult Detention Center after he entered a plea agreement and was sentenced Wednesday. Lenient disposition results from the mother of the victim not wanting to put her daughter through the stress of a second trial. A hung jury was declared during Manseau’s trial last November because the panel could not reach unanimous verdicts. “This little girl has…