Category: Court News

KINGMAN – A Kingman teenager prosecuted as an adult is going to the Arizona Department of Corrections for his role in an assault that evolved into a shooting a year ago. Angel Bravo was just 16 years old when he and three co-defendants lured another 16-year-old male to a Kingman park where he was confronted over an alleged debt. Prosecutor Bob Moon said Bravo used a shotgun like a club when he butted it into the victim’s head at the community park on Willow Road. He said the victim suffered two non-life threatening wounds when shot by Timothy Bell, 19,…

GOLDEN VALLEY – A Golden Valley teenager involved in a burglary spree is going to the Arizona Department of Corrections. An 11.5-year prison term is mandated in a plea agreement entered March 1 for Austin Ward, 19. Twelve miscellaneous charges are dismissed in exchange for Ward’s convictions for five burglary charges, theft of means of transportation and unlawful flight from law enforcement. Prosecutor Bob Moon said Ward was a one-man crime wave who left at least 20 victims in his wake  in the Golden Valley and Kingman area. Moon said Ward targeted commercial and residential property and vehicles during his crime…

A Feb. 28 hearing involving a Bullhead City child abuse case was halted by a hiccup involving restitution. Terms of the deal required 22-year-old Dalton Milne’s guilty plea to child abuse with punishment ranging from probation up to seven years in prison. An agreement had not been reached on restitution and defense attorney Michael Beane requested that the hearing be continued because he would not stipulate to an undesignated amount, capped at $1 million. Attorneys might resolve the restitution issue and complete entry of the change of plea at the next hearing which is scheduled before Mohave County Superior Court…

MOHAVE VALLEY – A Mohave Valley resident has fully confessed to the murder of his girlfriend of eight years, claiming it was an act of euthanasia. Details are provided in a probable cause statement authored by Mohave County Sheriff’s Detective William Dixon. The statement indicated that James Paul Manker, 28, first told dispatch that he killed Tina Marie Stimmell, 56, when he called the sheriff’s office at 9:45 a.m. on Jan. 29. His speech was slurred and he reportedly said that he had taken medication and had been drinking vodka after shooting Stimmell while she slept in her recliner in…

KINGMAN– An inmate from the state prison in Golden Valley has pled guilty to aggravated assault charges for scuffling with corrections officers at Kingman Regional Medical Center (KRMC). Robert Craft, 31, was transported to the hospital on April 21, 2018 because he was behaving erratically in a recreation area of the prison after he ingested methamphetamine and smoked spice. Corrections officer Ericka Escobedo told criminal investigator Mark Banks that Craft was behaving like a zombie. Escobedo said that Craft was “being aggressive and stating he was going to eat someone’s face.” “Since Craft refused to walk, they escorted him to…