KINGMAN – One of the 24 defendants charged through the Operation King Crimson investigation that reportedly dismantled two Kingman based drug rings is going to prison for convictions from a previous case. Mohave County Superior Court Judge Derek Carlisle ordered a four-year prison term last Wednesday for Cynthia Stojevich, 37.
Stojevich was convicted of trafficking in stolen property in 2011 and forgery in 2013 before serving prison time. Defense attorney George Hibbeler said Stojevich led a crime free life in Phoenix for seven years after prison, but relapsed into criminal activity after returning to Kingman where her troubles began.
“It’s really unfortunate that the defendant moved back to Kingman,” Carlisle said. He said the community, however, is not to blame for Stojevich reverting to poor choices in the local drug culture.
The prison term was imposed for her guilty plea to possession of narcotic drugs for sale. Stojevich possessed 4.5 grams of heroin and admitted selling drugs when arrested on May 16.
Stojevich is charged in the new case with sale of narcotics drugs, possession of narcotic drugs for sale, money laundering and illegally conducting an enterprise. The Arizona Attorney General’s office is assigning personnel to prosecute the Mohave County cases resulting from the investigation involving federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.
Some 23 others ranging from 28-to-70 years in age have been indicted, many of them linked with Austreberto Acolttzi-Bautista, 48, and Carlos Ochoa-Quinones, 30, Kingman men who allegedly headed separate Drug Trafficking Organizations that employed more than a dozen drug dealers.
Dave Hawkins
