Category: Court News

LAKE HAVASU CITY – A couple of Lake Havasu City fraud case victims flipped the script at a change of plea hearing in Kingman, and essentially tried to conduct a mini-trial for defendant Edward Krown, 43.
Judge Doug Camacho had already accepted the plea agreement entered June 5, but that was before two of Krown’s victims railed against the defendant for 20 minutes or more.

LAKE HAVASU CITY – An elderly Lake Havasu City man no longer faces prosecution for the chaos he allegedly caused during a March 3 triathlon event. The Mohave County Attorney’s Office has dismissed all the charges and the case against John Welcher, 91.

TOPOCK – Two of the three suspects charged in a more than two-year-old double homicide in Colorado are in custody in Kingman. Toni Gurule, 43, and Suzzette Salyer, 42, were arrested following a June 1 standoff with local law enforcement authorities in the Colorado River community of Topock.

LAKE HAVASU CITY – A subject was wounded by police gunfire in Lake Havasu City. Authorities said an officer responding to a suspicious person report shot an unidentified subject after responding to the 2700 block of Arcadia Dr. at 5:34 a.m. on June 10.

WIKIEUP – A teenager who reportedly shot and killed his father in Glendale was arrested following a high-speed pursuit in Kingman. The Tuesday, May 28 incident is thoroughly detailed in Maricopa County Juvenile Court records.

BULLHEAD CITY – A teenager who was sexually offended by a trusted family member in Bullhead City remains traumatized, has engaged in self-harm and is undergoing continuing mental health counseling. The suffering of the victim and her family swayed Mohave County Superior Court Judge Lee Jantzen to order an aggravated 20-year prison term during a May 29 sentencing hearing for Michael Campise, 69.