Category: Court News

Names of parties involved in a Kingman homicide and some details of the Feb. 11 incident on Interstate 40 are beginning to surface. The Department of Public Safety said Bradley Stumpf, 31, has admitted shooting the victim Jason McCafferty, 46, believed to be a Kingman area resident. Stump’s reported confession is laid out in a probable cause affidavit that the Department of Public Safety filed in Kingman Justice Court. The report indicated that the men had been performing survey work in the Phoenix area and were returning to Kingman when the shooting was reported on the Stockton Hill Road off…

A unique plea agreement has been crafted for a Bullhead City man, providing him incentive to reimburse the state of Arizona in a benefit theft caper. Prosecutor Jacob Cote said that Jonathan Hegge, 36, illegally obtained DES and AHCCS benefits worth more than $67,000 from the State of Arizona while he and his wife lived in southern Nevada between late Jan., 2014 and late Oct., 2015. Cote said Hegge also served as a lookout at the Mohave County jail when two other inmates fought in a cell on Nov. 23 last year. He said Hegge did not participate in the…

More than a half ton of marijuana was seized during a Feb. 5 traffic stop near the Nevada border in north Mohave County. The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) said the pot was confiscated from a fake delivery van spotted on Interstate 15. “While the van had authentic-looking markings of a commercial package-delivery service, an officer with ADOT’s Enforcement and Compliance Division noticed that the vehicle, traveling northbound toward the Virgin River Gorge, had an out-of-state license plate on the front,” an ADOT news release stated. “Local delivery vans for the company have Arizona plates and registration, but a check…