Category: Court News

A 14-year prison term was ordered September 25 for an 18-year-old Kingman man who admitted a variety of sexual involvements, including rape, of younger teenage victims during the first six months of 2018. Dillan Gonzales previously pleaded guilty to attempted sexual exploitation of a minor, two counts of attempted child molestation, attempted sexual assault and sexual conduct with a minor. Family members addressing Judge Billy Sipe said Gonzales was a “good kid” who “messed up.” They requested compassion, leniency and mercy from a Judge who could have ordered up to 25.75 years in prison. Family members of victims who were…

KINGMAN – A veteran firefighter was arrested Thursday after Homeland Security agents made a controlled delivery of 25 pounds of dimethyltryptamine, a club drug commonly known as DMT, to his home in Kingman. Mohave County Sheriff’s Detective Aaron Devries testified Friday that Alexander Muchow, 29, was detained as he tried to flee out the back of his residence at 3965 Walleck Ranch Road. A probable cause statement filed in Kingman Justice Court said the drugs were purchased from the Netherlands via the internet and that the address delivery slip bore Muchow’s name. It said a search warrant was obtained for…

GOLDEN VALLEY – An inmate accused of selling drugs while serving time in the state prison in Golden Valley who rejected a five year plea offer to resolve his case was instead given 18 more years in prison during a Monday hearing in Kingman. Donnie Twiggs, 59, was sentenced by Judge Billy Sipe. Twiggs is serving a 7.25 year sentence for Maricopa County drug convictions and he was set to be released from custody next July. Judge Sipe’s order, however, means that Twiggs will remain behind bars until 2038. Prosecutor Kellen Marlow said a detention officer confiscated about one gram of…

KINGMAN – A woman accused of twice setting fires at a downtown Kingman property faces a possible prison sentence after entering a plea agreement Monday. Patricia Craft, 28, pleaded guilty to one arson of an occupied structure count, in exchange for dismissal of a second arson charge. Craft was jailed on June 20 for allegedly setting multiple brush fires near the downtown Kingman home where she resided with seven other people, including her own children. Fire Department officials responded to three separate brush fire incidents near a residence in the 500 block of Gold Street. Deputy Kingman Police Chief Rusty…

Local authorities have declined prosecution of a Lake Havasu City resident who has been linked to the drug overdose-related death of a recording artist in California. Ryan Reavis, 36, was arrested when authorities seized prescription pills and weapons on September 23 from the home he and his girlfriend occupied in the 1000 block of Barcelona Loop in Lake Havasu. It was revealed that Reavis was a person of interest in the September, 2018 death of an accomplished rap star known as Mac Miller. A newly-unsealed federal indictment charges Reavis and two other California men with conspiring to distribute cocaine and…

A lawyer representing a Chinese immigrant who allegedly worked as a prostitute from her home in Bullhead City is demanding information about federal agents who purportedly paid his client and others for sex acts. Lake Havasu city-based defense attorney Brad Rideout on Monday filed his motion seeking additional disclosure so he can prepare for the trial of his client Yuqin Shu, 57. Shu is not charged with prostitution, but rather with money laundering for allegedly forwarding proceeds to others involved in an organization suspected of using women of Asian descent in massage parlor environments in Bullhead City and Lake Havasu….