Drug smugglers trying to get weed across the U.S./Mexico border are getting even more creative than simply loading watermelon trucks with marijuana — National Guard troops found a catapult a drug cartel’s using to launch bundles of marijuana over the border fence.National Guard troops near the Naco Border Patrol Station…
Divers from the Tempe Fire Department are currently searching Tempe Town Lake for Willie Jigba, the 24-year-old Tempe man reported missing nearly two weeks ago.Tempe police tell New Times that police dogs got a “hit” while scouring the lake in search of Jigba. The “hit,” police say, is not specific…
“Spiritual Warrior”/snake-oil salesman James Arthur Ray — accused of manslaughter in the deaths of three participants in a 2009 sweat-lodge ceremony in Sedona — doesn’t want the jury in his upcoming trial to hear what two experts on cult behavior have to say about his “self-help” retreats.Attorneys for the “self-help guru”…
the Chandler Police Department’s release this morning of details of the relationship between Susan Brock, estranged wife of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, and a teenage boy, the supervisor tells New Times he knew nothing of the sexual encounters before his wife’s arrest in November. “My wife was untruthful to me. She was untruthful to…
The widow of slain Phoenix police Sergeant Sean Drenth has purchased her husband’s department-issued gun from the city of Phoenix, according to minute entries from the Phoenix City Council’s December 8 meeting.The gun is the same Glock pistol found just feet from Drenth’s body when he was discovered shot to…
Turns out that she, her county supervisor husband, Fulton Brock, and the parents of the victim of her bizarre sexual trysts met with leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in October 2009 to discuss “frustration with Mrs. Brock’s interference in [their] son’s life.” The report goes on…
Remember that publicity stunt job offered to Bristol Palin to co-host a morning radio show in Phoenix? About that… Palin’s reportedly met with management at Clear Channel’s Phoenix-based Mix 96.9 (KMXP-FM) about the gig and apparently “seems interested.” If you missed it (or tried desperately to forget) Palin inexplicably bought…
Doctors treating Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Houston have upgraded the congresswoman’s condition to good, another milestone in her miraculous recovery after being shot “through the brain” less than three weeks ago. Giffords was moved from the Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center Hospital — where she’s been in intensive care since…
Alleged Tucson shooter Jared Loughner’s next court appearance will be in a Phoenix courtroom, not in Tucson, as prosecutors handling the case had requested.Loughner appeared in a Phoenix federal court yesterday where a plea of not-guilty was entered on his behalf for the attempted murders of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and…
As we reported yesterday, Phoenix police still have no suspects in a triple homicide in the west Valley earlier this month, but they have some new leads, including images of two vehicles seen following the Jeep driven by the victims the day police suspect they were murdered.Newly released video recorded…
The identity of the new “Go Daddy Girl” won’t be revealed until the Super Bowl in Dallas in just under two weeks, but the company is dropping hints as to whom it’s going to be in the form of body parts — including the photo of the new girl’s ass…
The Surprise teacher arrested yesterday for allegedly grabbing the breast of his 13-year-old niece tried to explain away the alleged boob grab by telling the girl it was just a “wrestling move” he took “too far,” according to court documents obtained by New Times. He also sent the girl text…
A federal grand jury has indicted 34 people in a massive drug and firearm trafficking ring. The indictment, unsealed this morning, alleges that defendants were helping supply Mexican drug cartels with weapons bought in Arizona. The indictment alleges that between September 2009 and December 2010, the defendants conspired to buy…
Susan Brock, the estranged wife of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock who entered a guilty plea yesterday to charges that she attempted to have sexual relations with a minor, faces a minimum of seven years in prison, court documents obtained by New Times show.”The prison sentence could be as low…
When Clear Channel’s Phoenix-based Mix 96.9 (KMXP-FM) offered Bristol Palin an on-air radio job earlier this month, the station’s director, Ron Price, insisted it wasn’t a publicity stunt. He better hope he was telling the truth because Palin now says she’s considering taking the job.”It is an official offer to…
In a not-so-shocking development in the case of Susan Brock, the estranged wife of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, the county supervisor’s soon-to-be former wife changed her plea to guilty this afternoon in one of the stranger cases of an older woman having sex with a teenage boy that we…
The man pictured to the right is 28-year-old Ezequiel Gardea Diaz, and police say that over the weekend he whipped it out and started “shaking” it in front of three young girls.According to court documents obtained by New Times, about 5 p.m. Saturday, the three girls, ages 9, 10, and…
A teacher at a Surprise high school was arrested earlier today for allegedly sexually abusing his 13-year-old niece.Marcos Cantu, 39, a teacher at Valley Vista High School is Surprise, has been charged with one count of sexual abuse for allegedly groping his niece as he drove her home from school.The…
Authorities still have no suspects in a triple homicide earlier this month in Phoenix, but they do have new leads, the Phoenix Police Department announced today.Adrian Moreno, 38, Raul Piziarro, 28, and Jimmy Alejandro Villa, 23, were found murdered near 107th and Southern Avenues, near the Salt River bottom, in early…
Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner was in a Phoenix federal courtroom this morning where he pleaded not guilty to charges that he tried to kill Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and two of her aides.Outside the courthouse, dozens of local and national media outlets awaited information on his plea from court officials…
Where better than Phoenix for droves of gun-loving conservatives from across the country to assemble for a conference.The national “Tea Party Patriots” announced this morning that they’ve selected Phoenix for the group’s first-ever national policy summit dubbed “Pathways to Liberty.”The conference is scheduled for February 25-27 — the second anniversary of…
Tilmon Strickland wants answers.His daughter, Melissa Strickland, was murdered in Phoenix in March 1997. She was bludgeoned to death, and her body was dumped in broad daylight near 21st Street and Corona Avenue. She was 24 years old. “It seems I’ve had to fight every step of the way just to…
