Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is littering social-media websites with alerts to his upcoming verbal sparring match with civil rights leader Al Sharpton. “Interview with host Al Sharpton on MSNBC today @ 6:40 est Last time we spoke he led thousands of protestors here and asked for me to quit,”…
Don’t bother asking state Senator Lori Klein about why she pointed a loaded gun at a reporter — she’s apparently done talking about it. “It makes little sense to contribute to a media feeding frenzy that is driven by a few individuals who never miss the opportunity to advance an…
Alleged pederast Bradley Gietz and Jose Luis Juarez have a few things in common. For starters, they both work at a McDonalds. They also live together. They also allegedly like sexually abusing little kids and posting photos and video of the abuse on the Internet.As we reported yesterday, one of the…
Yesterday was the memorial service for Shannon Stone, a Texas father who died last week after falling from the stands at a Texas Rangers game while trying to catch a ball thrown into the crowd.Yesterday was also the Home-Run Derby portion of Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game, and a Kingman…
2003, the Major League Baseball All-Star Game meant literally nothing as far as the regular and post seasons go. If nothing else, it was just an opportunity for the league’s best players to get hurt in a game that did nothing to benefit their team. Exhibit A: catcher Ray Fosse.In…
A Tempe man set his own apartment on fire Friday night, tried to blame the blaze on his next-door neighbor, and then laid down on the ground in front of the burning building and started screaming, according to court documents obtained by New Times.When police got to the apartment at…
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon says America’s self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff” has agreed to keep his chain gangs away from the Major League Baseball All-Star Game tomorrow night at Chase Field. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, you may recall, said last month he planned to roll out the chain gang in response…
Bradley Kirk Gietz is a pretty sick pup — not only is he into kiddie porn, he’s also into his own son.Earlier this month, while investigating kiddie porn found outside of Arizona, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigations obtained several photos of a naked boy under the age of…
Republican presidential candidate/Godfathers Pizza baron Herman Cain has a solution for the immigration problem currently plaguing the United States. It involves a moat, alligators, and a new take on China’s “great wall.”Cain’s archaic solution is as follows: build a moat along America’s southern border, fill it with alligators, and construct…
At 11 a.m. today, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio plans to unveil his new line of pink skivvies. But there’s a twist: the traditional “Go Joe” written on the promotional boxers will now be in Spanish, which — according to Arpaio — proves he isn’t a racist.Arpaio will be at the…
The best sluggers in Major League Baseball will gather tonight at Chase Field for the Home Run Derby portion of this year’s MLB All-Star Game.Representing the National League will be Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Prince Fielder, who is coming into the contest with 22 home runs so far this season;…
Normally, possessing photos of Jaden Smith, the star of the most recent Karate Kid movie/son of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, won’t land you in prison.However, if you’re a convicted sex offender currently on probation after getting convicted of child prostitution charges, photos of the 12-year-old star could land you…
Things just got even worse for “reality” porn recruiter Antonio Adrian “Gonzo” Gonzalez.”Gonzo” was charged last month with several kiddy-porn-related charges for allegedly sexually attacking several underage girls he was recruiting for his websites, photosbygonzo.com and gonzomodeling.com — both feeders for the porn website “Backroom Casting Couch” — and now…
Jesus Busso Estopellan, who admitted murdering an Arizona State University student and his friend earlier this week, told police he was ordered to kill one of the men by an unidentified “Jamaican” following a weed deal gone wrong. According to court documents obtained by New Times, Estopellan told detectives he brokered…
The Arizona Supreme Court has again upheld the death sentence of a man who murdered his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son more than 20 years ago.Styers is one of 24 inmates who’s been on Arizona’s death row for two decades or more.In a 4-1 ruling today, the court has again affirmed the…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says oppressive heat has prompted him to briefly “cool it” on the whole tough-guy thing when handling inmates in his Tent City jail — and, of course, he wants the world to know.With temperatures expected to reach nearly 120 degrees this weekend, Arpaio’s apparently concerned…
An arrest has been made in the murders of an Arizona State University student and his friend earlier this week.Read about the murders of pre-med student Tyler Webster, 18, and 19-year-old Olek Wladyszewski here.Jesus Busso Estopellan was picked up yesterday after police discovered text messages exchanged between him and Wladyszewski…
New Times took a look yesterday at Arizona’s 130 death-row inmates awaiting execution. Turns out, nearly 20 percent (24 of 130) have been rotting away/cheating court-ordered death for more than 20 years — on taxpayers’ dime. The extended-stay hotel that Arizona’s death row has become ain’t cheap — last year alone, nearly $600,000…
Kid-killing child molester Richard Bible was executed this morning after sitting on death row — on taxpayers’ dime — for more than 20 years.But Bible’s not the only convicted murderer who’s called death row home for more than two decades. In fact, we crunched the numbers and found that nearly 20…
The Arizona Legislature’s not in session, but the State Capitol is still swarming with rats. Not the usual elected rats, but actual rodents that are apparently “invading” the building.According to the Arizona Republic, “The House of Representatives, the Senate and the executive tower where the governor works have been magnets…
Planned Parenthood announced today that it’s filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of two abortion bills signed into law by Governor Jan Brewer earlier this year that make it more difficult for Arizona women to end a pregnancy.Aside from forcing abortion doctors to offer patients the opportunity to look at…
A Cave Creek man who stabbed a woman to death before setting her house on fire has been sentenced to 23 years in prison, Maricopa County Superior Court officials announced this afternoon.Justin Wade Lunsford pleaded guilty in to second-degree murder and arson of an occupied structure in the death of 29-year-old Mary Elisabeth…
