Subject: Tempe Police Department

• Shaquille O'Neal shuns Sheriff Joe Arpaio, chooses Tempe PD instead.

  March 26, 2008

• The assault of hip-hop DJ Double-O at Cherry Lounge raises questions about Tempe PD’s behavior

  August 6, 2008

• THE BIG BANG THEORYWHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO BLOW UP CARL RITTER'S CAR?

  December 23, 1992

• Letters

  November 9, 1995

• The War on Hip-Hop

  Nightclubs draw minorities, they get dissed by the authorities. Rap ain't allowed in this white-bread town. Don't hire our Kops? We bust yo' chops. Word.

  December 21, 1995

• The Great Zia Robbery

  June 13, 1996

• Code Blues

  A Tempe activist wins the first round in a civic skirmish to soften the city's innovative rental-housing rules. But look for a new and improved version later this year, after landlords and tenants forge a compromise code.

  August 14, 1997

• The Internet Internist

  Dr. Pietr Hitzig of Maryland has prescribed a fen-phen panacea for all manner of ailments to thousands of patients he has never met. One of them, Alvin Chernov, killed himself.

  March 19, 1998

• Shooting Star

  Three years ago, at the pinnacle of their 15-year career, local rock heroes the Meat Puppets vanished from view, after bass player Cris Kirkwood became addicted to cocaine and heroin. The story only gets worse from there.

  November 12, 1998

• Prostitutes From 18 to 54 Caught in One-Day Dragnet, Says Tempe PD; Felony Warrants Served, Too

  Tempe Police Patricia Scala Tempe police teamed up with the U.S. Marshal's Office for a one-day dragnet for prostitutes and fugitives yesterday, aided by information from north Tempe neighbors. The results: Nine people were arrested on a total of 17 warrants for kidnapping, child abuse, armed robbery and probation violations. Authorities also arrested 10 suspected call girls -- though girls, in this case, some were not. Accused prostitute Patricia Scala, 54, is pictured here. Another wom

  March 25, 2009

• Fixed-gear fanaticism rolls into the PHX

  July 24, 2008

• Bombshell: The explosive backstory in the Robert Ortloff murder trial may be more fascinating than the case itself

  February 14, 2008

• Drinking Games

  Bureaucratic bumbling leaves two Tempe restaurateurs high and . . . dry

  July 5, 2007

• I Dunnit

  Here's how a Kentucky inmate conned Tempe cops and the County Attorney's Office into believing he'd killed a stripper, who really was a victim of the Baseline Killer

  September 21, 2006

• Head Games

  The winged wonder on bong laws, a coffee table art book on (yes) Phoenix and the 12-drink minimum at FBR

  February 16, 2006

• Phoenix Means Well

  The feathered fiend bombs a naive national homeless advocate, then woodpecks haughty City Hall suits and clueless condo yups in Tempe

  January 26, 2006

• Catch Him If You Can

  August 12, 2004

• Spiked

  Mountains "AGE," lawyers have hissy fits, and Arpaio asks you to draw

  June 12, 2003

• Murder, She Wrote

  Sister of slain ASU co-ed pens memoir more than 30 years later

  March 30, 2000

• Night & Day

  June 25 - July 1, 1998

  June 25, 1998

• The Art of Darkness

  ASU art professor Joe Young has spent four years telling the world he's the victim of institutional homophobia. But he's no victim. He's the incredibly persistent aggressor in a long, vicious game of smear-the-boss.

  November 28, 1996

• DEATH IN THE DESERT

  IN HER SEARCH FOR ANSWERS, KIMBERLY NILSON DABBLED IN MYSTICISM AND POSSIBLY PEYOTE. NOW, EIGHT MONTHS AFTER HER DISAPPEARANCE TRIGGERED NATIONAL HEADLINES, EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THE ASU STUDENT'S QUEST INTO LIFE'S MYSTERIES MAY HAVE LED TO HER OWN DEATH.

  May 4, 1995

• DEAD & HARRIED

  JOSH BURNER BOUGHT A HOME WHERE A WOMAN HAD DIED. NOW SHE'S BACK, AND SHE CLAIMS SHE WAS MURDERED.

  August 25, 1993

• Tempe Changes Rules on Towing to Prevent Companies From Scamming Drivers

  Downtown Tempe will no longer be the feeding ground of disreputable towing companies, thanks to changes by the city council. Visitors to the urban hotspot around Mill Avenue fell victim for years to highly aggressive towing companies that hooked vehicles up within minutes of an errant parking job. Hapless drivers were shaken down for scandalous amounts of money, their vehicles literal hostages. Tammy Leitner of Channel 5 (KPHO-TV) had a good report two years ago on the situation. The

  May 29, 2009

• More Than 90 Party Related Arrests in Three Days; Can ASU Reclaim "Party School" Status?

  www.babyjakemedia.com ASU is back in session, and Tempe police are ready and waiting​As ASU's status as a "party school" has declined in recent years, we should have known that you can't keep a good dog down.Tempe police say that on Thursday and Saturday of last week, they made more than 90 party-related arrests at The Vue, a swanky student apartment complex located directly across from the university's Tempe campus.Tempe Police Spokesman Steve Carbajal says that the majority of the arr

  September 2, 2009

• More Than 50 Cited At A Tempe Bar For Underage Drinking

  funk.co.uk​So 52 underage people walk into a bar...and they all got arrested.The Tempe Police Department, in response to a complaint from the Department of Liquor Licensing and Control, made 52 arrests at a single bar in Tempe Saturday night.That many minors in one place would even put Michael Jackson's Neverland to shame (too soon?).Hail Mary's, located at 1402 S. Priest Drive in Tempe, played host for the melee of muddled minors, and is more than likely in a bit of trouble itself."We receive

  September 14, 2009

• Rodney Hu Expanding Yucca Tap Room, Launching All-Ages Venue

  Yucca Tap Room owner Rodney Hu.Rodney Hu has some big plans for the Yucca Tap Room. Walking through a vacant restaurant space adjacent to his Tempe bar and music venue, Hu eagerly gestures around the room while describing how he'll transform the place into a funky lounge area. "There will be a doorway from the Yucca here and booths along the wall there," he says. "The bar is gonna come across this side and we'll have some old school video games probably here, pool tables there, and then my liqu

  September 18, 2009

• Concrete Bungle: Tempe’s Twin-Towers Condo Project Collapses Financially, Leaving Investors in the Rubble

  October 15, 2009