Category: Court News

A Kingman woman has entered a plea agreement for her lesser role in a criminal case involving the discovery and theft of a suitcase full of cash that was accidentally left behind at Walmart. Chrystal Himmelright, 41, pleaded guilty to theft during a July 18 hearing. Prosecutor Bob Moon explained that security video spotlights Himmelright’s boyfriend Jeremiah Peacey, 40, Kingman, finding the suitcase in a shopping cart at the Kingman Walmart in the summer of 2017. Moon said an elderly woman who had a mix of reasons for having that much cash forgot that she left the suit case behind,…

A weekend stabbing is under investigation in Bullhead City. Police Department spokeswoman Emily Fromelt said the agency learned of the incident about 1:30 a.m. Sunday. “It was reported that Theresa Ann Sloan, 28, stabbed a male multiple times in the back with a knife,” Fromelt said. “The victim ran into Circle K, 1000 block of highway 95, yelling that he had been stabbed by his roommate.” Fromelt said the victim was transported to a local hospital before he was flown to Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas. She said he is expected to “be okay.” Fromelt said detectives had limited success…

KINGMAN – A Kingman woman and her boyfriend murdered the woman’s mother because they feared she would attempt to take custody of their son, according to the statement of probable cause for the search that led to the discovery and recovery of the victim’s body. 62-year-old Shawn Vanover apparently had legal custody of Carrie Vanover’s five-year old daughter for undisclosed reasons. Vanover, 23, told detectives that she and Mark Baldonado, 31, began planning to kill her mother about a month before their son was to be born. The probable cause affidavit said they wanted to regain custody of the girl…

A Cedar City, Utah man who admitted transporting his fiancé to massage parlors to perform sex acts for pay was sentenced in Kingman on Tuesday, July 16. 41-year-old Stephen Hansen previously entered a plea agreement convicting him of the reduced charge of attempted pandering. Hansen is among eight people who were arrested in September, 2018 for various alleged involvements in human trafficking and prostitution at massage parlors operated in Lake Havasu, Bullhead City. Prosecutor Megan McCoy said Hansen was not a participant in the alleged enterprise that operated in Arizona, California and Utah and merely drove the fiancé who is…

A no prison guaranteed plea agreement was entered July 16 for a Bullhead City woman charged in a drug case. Kristine Graff, 42, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of facilitation of possession of dangerous drugs for sale. Bullhead City police said suspected drug sales activity led to a warrant based search of the home of Graff’s former boyfriend Michael Wain, 51. The August 3, 2017 search of the residence at 3169 Locust Boulevard prompted the seizure of three grams of heroin, a loaded handgun and numerous drug paraphernalia items. Police said they believed that methamphetamine and marijuana was flushed…