Category: Court News

A five year prison term was ordered May 10 for a stabbing that occurred in Bullhead City almost a year ago. Michael Scott Boyea, 35, pleaded guilty to attempted murder for the May 21, 2018 incident. Prosecutor Jaimye Ashley previously stated that the violence occurred shortly after Boyea arrived at a friend’s home at 821 Glenn Drive. “He walked behind the victim and stabbed the victim in the neck and back approximately five times,” Ashley said during the March 6 change of plea hearing. Defense attorney Nathan Best told the Court another version of the story during Friday’s sentencing proceeding….

A seven year prison sentence was imposed Thursday for a Kingman man held responsible for the death of his own young son. Daniel Stuart, 31, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol and manslaughter. Stuart was driving a pickup truck that left U.S. 93 and rolled after striking a guardrail almost 30 miles north of Wikieup on January 2, 2017. Ejected and pronounced dead at the scene of the rollover was Kaleb Stuart, 4. Daniel Stuart, a woman and three other children in the vehicle survived the crash. Authorities said that Stuart’s blood alcohol content measured .101 percent…

A longtime addict will spend five decades in the Arizona Department of Corrections for dealing drugs in Lake Havasu City. Andrea Lashway, 43, was given a 51.5-year prison term by Judge Billy Sipe during a May 9 sentencing hearing at the Mohave County Courthouse in Kingman. Lashway skipped out in the middle of her trial in May, 2016 during which the jury convicted her of five sales of dangerous drug counts, three dangerous drug possession charges and a single count of possession of drug paraphernalia. Defense attorney Sandra Carr said Lashway, at that time, had been dealing with problems associated…

Defense attorney Robin Puchek recently told a local judge that autopsy results are needed before there can be meaningful plea negotiations in a criminal case involving a Mohave Valley shooting death. Puchek represents James Manker, who told authorities that the death of his girlfriend, Tina Marie Stimmell, was a mercy killing. Few details in the case have surfaced through court proceedings or from law enforcement. Most information comes from a probable cause statement featuring Manker’s purported admissions. That statement indicated that Manker, 29, first told dispatch that he killed Stimmell, 56, when he called the sheriff’s office at 9:45 a.m….

Investigation has determined that a jail inmate used a body cavity to smuggle dangerous drugs into the Mohave County Adult Detention Center in Kingman. That’s the primary update from the Mohave County Sheriff’s office regarding the April 16 hospitalization of five jail inmates for treatment of overdoses within the jail. Detectives learned that inmate Jonathan Hutchinson, 24, of Parker, had smuggled contraband into the Detention Facility in his body cavity,” a news release stated. “The investigation revealed that Hutchinson had smuggled into the Detention Facility approximately 30 counterfeit hydrocodone 30 mg pills and an unknown amount of methamphetamine.” Sheriff’s office…