A Chandler thug is behind bars after attacking a man with a knife in the parking lot of the El Coyote Bar for no apparent reason.Ernesto Rascon, 24, wasn’t trying to rob the victim. The victim hadn’t slept with his girlfriend. Rascon, it seems, was just being a dick to a guy…
Last week, we told you about 50-year-old Maria Delores Chagolla, who had been reported missing by her family last Wednesday. We’re sad to report that Chagolla was found dead in her SUV last night.Residents in a neighborhood near 83rd and Glendale avenues called the Glendale Police Department last night to…
There are only three teams in the National Football League with worse records than the Arizona Cardinals. The Carolina Panthers — the worst of those three teams — beat the Cards 19-12 yesterday in game 14 of the Cardinals’ series of practices for next year (a.k.a.: the 2010 football season) in…
To accompany the audio recordings we published yesterday, where Pinal County Sheriff’s Deputy Louie Puroll confirms his claim of a supposed death threat made against New Times reporter Paul Rubin by a Mexican rancher, and discusses being approached by Mexican cartels he claims tried to get him to look the…
A Phoenix man who beat his mother and nephew to death with a shovel earlier this year is heading to the slammer — for a long, long time (or until he croaks, whichever comes first).In November, Erik Lampert, 35, copped to murdering his two relatives, 14-year-old Logan Lampert and 61-year-old…
The Phoenix Police Department just announced that an investigation has been opened into the case of a dead baby found in a box authorities believe was shipped from Phoenix to McAllen, Texas.Earlier today, the Phoenix P.D. said it had limited knowledge of the case.”Although they cite Phoenix as being the…
A Glendale woman thought it would be a good idea to toss her one-month-old son across a room and onto a bed Wednesday night, and she probably wouldn’t be in as much trouble as she’s in today had she not gone completely berserk on everyone around her afterward. Police responded…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office fears that two suspected illegal immigrants — both under the age of 18 — drowned in a canal near Gila Bend after fleeing a car pulled over by a sheriff’s deputy last night.MCSO spokesman Jeff Sprong says the sheriff’s dive team is headed to an…
The brother of a Phoenix man found shot to death in his home earlier this week is a suspect in the man’s murder. He’s also a suspect in the murder of his brother’s son — the suspect’s 6-year-old nephew, who was found shot to death in alley, the Phoenix Police…
UPDATED: Click here for update.A baby, reportedly from Arizona, has been found dead in a box shipped to southern Texas.According to KNES in San Antonio, Texas, the baby was found in a box shipped to a clothing distribution center in McAllen, Texas, at some point in the last 24 hours.Given…
A Peoria woman is missing and cops need your help finding her. Maria Delores Chagolla, 50, was last seen dropping off her adult son about 9 a.m. yesterday in the area of 8700 West Butler Drive in Peoria. She never made it home and hasn’t been heard from since.In a…
A guilty verdict was returned this afternoon in the case of a Mesa man accused of murdering a 19-year-old Gilbert woman in January of 2007.Jonathan Burns, 29, was found guilty of first-degree murder, kidnapping, sexual assault, and misconduct with a weapon for the January 28, 2007, murder of Jackie Hartman,…
Three Chandler schools were put in lockdown this morning after an unknown suspect assaulted a 72-year-old man in his home and then fled on a bicycle.The three schools — Chandler High School, Galveston Elementary School, and St. Mary-Basha Elementary School — are no longer in lockdown, but the suspect is…
It’s official: Jeffrey Phillips, the flashy frontman for the Phillips and Associates personal injury law firm, will not be allowed to practice law for six months thanks to a decision handed down today by the Arizona State Supreme Court.Following a lengthy investigation last year by the Arizona State Bar Association,…
Well that didn’t take long…Less than 24 hours after Johnny “Irish” McNeel tried to shoot a Maricopa County sheriff’s deputy, he was captured in Mesa, MCSO Sergeant Jesse Spurgin confirms to New Times.We figured it was only a matter of time before McNeel got nabbed, as you can see in…
A Phoenix man found shot to death at his home the day before his 6-year-old son was found murdered in an alley was a drug dealer, court records show.The boy, Xavier Jaquez, was found shot to death Tuesday morning in an alley near his mother’s home, near 65th Avenue and…
Phoenix police shot and killed an armed domestic violence suspect early this morning and are currently seeking another man — a potential victim — in the incident.Phoenix police got a call about 1:45 a.m. that a man with a knife was running amok at the Phoenician Palms apartment complex near…
What do Barry Bonds, Phil Mickelson, and the guy who shot up the school board meeting in Florida yesterday all have in common? They’re all Sun Devils.Turns out, 56-year-old Clay Duke, who fired several rounds at members of the Bay District school board at a meeting near Panama City, Florida,…
UPDATED: Tatooey’s been caught. That didn’t take long. Click here for details.Before today, if we saw a man on the street with “480” tattooed on his chin, we’d probably take a second look, think to ourselves “wow, that’s the dumbest f***ing tattoo we’ve ever seen,” and carry on with our…
The 6-year-old Phoenix boy found shot to death in an alley yesterday has been identified and it turns out he’s the son of a man found murdered the day before.The boy has been identified as Xavier Daniel Jaquez. The father, police say, is Angel Jaquez, 27, who he was found…
A convicted rapist, who has already served a prison sentence for sexual assault, is headed back to the big house after being found guilty of sexual assault (again) and kidnapping yesterday.At the very least, 34-year-old Jacob Israel Randles is looking at a minimum sentence of 94 years in prison when…
A U.S. Border Patrol agent was fatally shot while on patrol near Nogales Tuesday night.Authorities investigating the shooting aren’t saying much about it at this point, only that the agent, 40-year-old Brian Terry, was killed about 11 p.m. yesterday near Peck Canyon while on patrol about 10 miles north of…
