Category: Court News

A former Desert Hills resident who sold significant quantities of drugs in the Lake Havasu City area and beyond was convicted in absentia at his jury trial in Kingman. A Mohave County Superior Court jury deliberated for less than 15 minutes May 16 before finding David Allen Muehlhausen, 59, guilty of all seven felony offenses.   Prosecutor Kellen Marlow told the jury that Muehlhausen sold drugs to a confidential informant who was working for law enforcement. Defense attorney Sandra Carr countered that the informant was not a credible witness and should not be believed because he was making controlled buys to…

A former Bullhead City resident was placed on probation Monday, 17 days after a co-defendant was sent to prison in the same drug case. Edward Darling, 61, and Debra Couch, 53, were both arrested when authorities seized 5.5 grams of methamphetamine from the bedroom of Darling’s former residence in Bullhead City in September 2017. Couch’s defense was that she was just a “middle-man” and that it was Darling who was most involved in drug dealing. Couch pleaded guilty to the reduced charge of attempted possession of dangerous drugs for sale. Mohave County Superior Court Judge Derek Carlisle sent Couch to prison…

A three-week Mohave County jail term was ordered Thursday, May 16, for a Lake Havasu City woman who was arrested on drug charges early this year. Adreanna Gaston, 22, is one of four people taken into custody following a January 26 search of a residence at 2785 Barbara Drive in Lake Havasu.  Prosecutor Amanda Claerhout said officers first responded to a domestic dispute at the home. She said arriving officers detected an odor of marijuana which enabled them to secure a warrant to search the property. Claerhout said the search of the home and its occupants netted the seizure of…

A Fort Mohave man is going to the Arizona Department of Corrections for the sexually motivated attack upon a woman more than a year ago. Mohave County Superior Court Judge Derek Carlisle ordered a 6.5-year prison term Wednesday for Kenneth Cyril Smith, 52. Mohave County sheriff’s deputies responded in April 2018 to a 911 hang-up call originated from a home in the 1700 block of Hammer Lane in Fort Mohave. Arriving deputies reportedly encountered Smith on a bicycle outside a residence on that block. When deputies asked if he had any weapons Smith emptied his pockets of items that included a…