Subject: Jason Schechterle

• Paul Charlton endorses Gerald Richard over Andrew Thomas for Maricopa County Attorney

  June 30, 2008

• A Legal Matter

  Litigators and legislators play chicken-or-egg with nursing home issues

  December 2, 2004

• "Fatal Femme" Pleads Guilty in 2005 Murder; Woman Admitted to Pulling Trigger

    Samantha Somegustava's mug shot from her 2005 arrest.The woman who pulled the trigger of a shotgun in a 2005 murder has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder. New Times covered the tragic case of victim Gabe Cruz and the woman who robbed and killed him in a 2006 feature story. The article by Paul Rubin details both the crime and the interesting behind-the-scenes work of experienced detective Jack Ballentine and one of his apprentices, burned officer Jason Schechterle. Accordin

  March 24, 2009

• The Case of the Wily Coyote

  Getting smuggled into the U.S. is a dangerous game, even when the smuggler's just like family

  April 6, 2006

• The Case of the Fatal Femme

  Samantha Somegustava's boyfriend tells the homicide detective she has a "hard heart." By now, the cop knows what he means

  March 9, 2006

• The Case of the Grim Tweaker

  Officer Dave Uribe's murder made no sense, until detectives made the killer as a doper bent on shooting a cop

  February 2, 2006

• Fallen Police Officer David Uribe Is Honored with a Street-Sign Dedication as His Alleged Killer Stands Trial

  April 23, 2009

• What was he thinking?!

  Bishop O'Brien drove away without offering last rites to the man bludgeoned by his Buick. It wasn't the first time he'd left an accident scene.

  February 12, 2004

• Bladder Problems

  Phoenix has spent $1.5 million to install fuel bladders in police cruisers and they can't pass emissions tests

  November 20, 2003

• PLEA Bargain?

  Phoenix cops are questioning the relationship between their union president and Ford

  September 25, 2003

• Scales of Injustice

  County prosecutors have a history of seeking long prison sentences for drivers who cause injury accidents. That is, unless those drivers are cops.

  June 6, 2002

• Ex-Undercover Cop Ballentine Wows `Em at Poisoned Pen Book-Signing

  We got to know an awful lot about Jack Ballentine during 2005, the year we spent with him and his fellow Phoenix Police detectives of the C-32 squad -- after which we published several stories in our "Murder City" series.  Ballentine was and is a classic character: He worked as a cop for three decades, most famously as an undercover operative (he infiltrated motorcycle gangs) and as a "bad guy" who pretended to be a hitman in murder-for-hire cases. He ended up putting a lot of fol

  June 10, 2009