A Kingman man has been released from prison after pleading guilty to exposing his neighbors in a duplex unit, including three children, to dangerous carbon monoxide fumes. Michael Stalder, 36, pleaded guilty on January 2 to three counts of endangerment and was released after spending 110 days in an adult detention center.
Deputy Mohave County Attorney Phillip Delgado said Stalder was found asleep in a running car in October of last year in the garage of the home where he lived in a duplex in the 900 block of Sheldon Avenue. He said alcohol bottles were scattered around Mr. Stalder's house, creating a worsening security situation. Authorities responded to a report of a noxious odor.
It was not clear at the hearing whether Mr. Stalder had tried to take his own life or simply passed out in the moving car, but no one was injured and Mr. Stalder survived. Notable for Judge Billy Sipe.
'You were there for an hour.' It's amazing that you're alive and sitting in the courtroom,'' Sipe said. He ordered three years of probation for endangering children between the ages of four months and two years old.
“Mr. Stalder, I hope this is a wake-up call to you,” the judge said. “I hope you get the help you need.”