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Subject: Manuel Torres

  • One-Stop Shopping: Cops Say Tire Store Owner Linked to Robberies, Home Invasions and Cockfighting

    How do folks do it these days? You know, run a small business, keep a stable of thugs in line, figure out which home to invade next and still save energy for Saturday night's big cockfighting event? Just thinking about all the work that police say went into operating a south Phoenix tire shop makes us pooped. The entrepreneur at the apostrophically challenged "Brother's Tire's" at 10th Street and Broadway, Manuel Torres, 39, was arrested yesterday and is getting some rest now in jail, accused

    January 8, 2009
  • Cockfighting, Home-Invading, Kidnapping and Robbery Charges Still Pending in Phoenix Tire Store Case, Police Say

    This tire shop at 10th Street and Broadway Road still appeared to be open for business when we drove by a couple of weeks ago, despite the heavy criminal charges police say are still pending against the owner, Manuel Torres. We wrote previously about meeting several employees at the shop the day after Torres' arrest.Police say Torres, 39, and his employees ran a crime syndicate from the shop at 1010 E. Broadway Road that preyed on illegal immigrants, launching a spree of kidnappings, home invas

    January 27, 2009