KINGMAN – A five-year prison stint has been imposed for a Bullhead City man who said he was addicted to drugs when he committed a spree of violence late last year. Trevor Maestre, 28, was sentenced after entering a plea agreement at the Mohave County Courthouse in Kingman Friday, Sept. 13.
Maestre pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and a charge that was reduced to attempted arson of an occupied structure.
Deputy County Attorney Jim Ferlmann told the court that Maestre visited the home of a friend where his girlfriend was staying overnight at 470 Malibu Drive on Dec. 12, 2018. Ferlmann said Maestre held a knife to the woman’s throat in a bedroom.
Ferlmann said two men tried to convince Maestre to let the woman go, before one of them got him to drop the knife when he struck him in the head with a metal pipe. After he was given a cigarette to calm him down, Maestre used the cigarette to light three fires in the bedroom, the prosecutor said.
Ferlmann said Maestre struck one of the men with a baseball bat before leaving the residence. The man reportedly suffered a broken nose and fractures around his eye.
Ferlmann said Maestre was trespassing the next day at an RV park where he pepper-sprayed two men.
“I apologize for all of my actions and anyone I harmed along the way,” Maestre told Judge Doug Camacho. “I am a father of four children and I’m trying to get back home to them as soon as possible. I am truly sorry for what I have done.”
