Category: Court News

A local judge has imposed a 20-year prison term for a New Mexico man convicted of fondling a young girl on an Amtrak train. Jeffery Moore, 43, was sentenced July 17 by Mohave County Superior Court Judge Rick Lambert. A trial jury found Moore guilty of child molestation. Deputy county attorney Jacob Cote said the offense occurred in June, 2016. Cote said the 11 year old victim had played in a volleyball tournament in California and was returning to Arizona with her team when she was groped in east Mohave County. He said the victim was stretched across two seats…

A Lake Havasu City woman has entered a second plea agreement involving violent domestic disturbances at her residence this year. Nancy Canchola, 39, pleaded guilty July 18 to aggravated assault. Prosecutor Jonathan Robinson told the Court that a May 16 argument turned violent after Canchola asked her roommate for her cell phone in their residence in the 1200 block of Anacapa Drive. Robinson said Canchola pressed the 29-year-old victim up against a wall, choking her with one hand while taking control of the phone with the other. Robinson said Canchola then broke the phone before using both hands to continue…

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…