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BULLHEAD CITY – Bullhead City police have distributed security system images hoping that citizens might recognize the man who reportedly robbed a gas station and convenience market early Monday. Police department spokeswoman Emily Fromelt said the male adult suspect started shoving cigarettes into a small suitcase after entering the AM/PM in the 2100 block of Highway 95 at 4:15 a.m. “He shouted at the clerk to open the register,” Fromelt said in a news release. “The clerk believed he was armed with a Taser. The suspect then fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash and stolen cigarettes.” No…

LAKE HAVASU CITY – A 25-year prison term was ordered Monday for a former Desert Hills resident convicted of selling significant quantities of drugs in Mohave County. Judge Derek Carlisle also ordered David Muehlhausen, 59, to pay almost $23,000 in fines and surcharges. Muehlhausen was not present when convicted at trial last May and he was a fugitive from justice before he was arrested in Las Vegas on December 18. Muehlhausen told the Court that he has been afflicted with addiction since 1972 but noted that he enjoyed one five-year, drug free period. “I would just like a chance to…

KINGMAN – Two Kingman residents who’ve reportedly confessed their involvement in the murder of a local woman and the burial of her body had separate status hearings in Mohave County Superior Court Monday, Feb. 24. Mark Baldonado, 32, and Carrie Vanover, 21, are charged with kidnapping, abandonment of a dead body and first-degree murder in the death of Vanover’s mother Shawn, 62. Court records reveal the couple admitted killing the elder Vanover in a child custody dispute. A probable cause affidavit said the elder Vanover already had custody of her five-year-old granddaughter and had threatened to try to gain custody…