See the latest update on the police hunt for Juan Garcia. Phoenix police are looking for 18-year-old Juan Garcia, who allegedly went over to his girlfriend’s house on Friday night, beat her 2-year-old son to death, and left.The boy’s 18-year-old mother, Wendy Rogel-Pagas, was jailed on Saturday, after telling police…
Tent City is turning 19 later this year, but Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is getting started early for the jail’s annual birthday publicity stunt.This time, Arpaio’s putting up a sign outside the jail, displaying the total “Number of Inmates ‘Served'” — an idea stolen from what the sheriff’s office…
Michael Crane — who’s facing first-degree murder charges for the deaths of Paradise Valley couple Glenna and Lawrence Shapiro, as well as Phoenix man Bruce Gaudet — made it to his arraignment today without causing a scene.Crane was scheduled to be in court on Tuesday his arraignment, but court officials…
Last week, we asked readers to write the caption for the above photo of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio shaking a carrot at things.The photo comes from a Fox 10 segment that was based around a horse eating a carrot out of Arpaio’s hand in the middle of an interview,…
A bank-robbery suspect the FBI’s calling the “Bearded Bandit” has struck again, as has the FBI’s bank-robber-naming department.The “Bearded Bandit” may have robbed five Valley banks, but whether he actually has a beard is up for debate.According to the FBI — and the pictures it has provided — there’s definitely…
After releasing two not-so-scathing statements through his campaign last week about Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s Mexican ex-lover problems, Congressman Paul Gosar now sounds pretty peeved off with Babeu (he is one of his Republican primary opponents in the congressional race, after all).Instead of the tone last week — where…
New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer sent a letter to Governor Jan Brewer yesterday, asking her to give testimony before his Senate Subcommittee on Immigration about Senate Bill 1070.According to a release from Schumer’s office, the point of Brewer’s testimony would be “to hear whether she still believes the law…
Ammandea Stoltzmann, a cousin of Ame Deal — the 10-year-old girl who died after her family members admittedly stuffed the girl in a footlocker for taking a Popsicle — has now become the fifth member of the family arrested for horrifically abusing the girl before her death.Read the tragic detail’s…
Cab driver Joseph Goldmeer was convicted by a jury yesterday on three counts of aggravated assault, stemming from a July incident in which Goldmeer ended an argument at a Phoenix gas station by running a guy over in his cab, according to a court spokesperson.Police weren’t even sure the 45-year-old…
Late last week, Fox 10 put out a story based on the fact that a horse ate a carrot out of the hand of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the middle of an interview.The rest of the segment just involves the anchors talking over video of Arpaio shaking a…
If you’ve ever wanted to start an argument based off nothing but the opinions of 743 random Arizona voters, we’ve got some material for you.Public Policy Polling often releases “Odds and Ends” surveys along with its political polls, asking voters about some off-the-wall things like whether they approve of God’s…
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), but a Valley teacher is accused with having sex with a student.In fact, with 23-year-old Andrew Islas — a Tempe High School assistant band director — being arrested yesterday after admitting to sexing…
Nogales charter school teacher Ricardo Siqueiros took a ride on Interstate 10 toward Phoenix Tuesday evening.According to the Arizona Department of Public Safety, he took his 19.5 pounds of meth and 12 pounds of cocaine along for the ride.Siqueiros, 32, was stopped by the cops around 7 p.m. while driving…
The results show for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “birther” investigation into President Obama’s eligibility is apparently so important that it’s going to be steamed live on a conspiracy-theory website.That’s right — World Net Daily, which has been the mouthpiece for the latest inquiry into the repeatedly debunked conspiracy theory,…
UPDATE: The Marine Corps Air Station-Miramar now says one of the Marines killed was based out of Yuma.A collision of two helicopters during training exercises last night along the Arizona/California border killed seven Marines, according to a Marine Corps spokeswoman.Lieutenant Maureen Dooley tells New Times that as of now, the…
Last night, the four remaining candidates for the Republican presidential nomination took the stage in Mesa for the party’s 20th presidential debate of the election cycle.There’s less than a week to go before Arizona’s presidential primary, and according to the pollsters, the race is tight — likely to be taken…
The Republican Presidential debate in Mesa just wrapped up a few minutes ago, and in the mid-debate words of Mitt Romney, “I didn’t follow all of that, but I can tell you this…” Among the few Arizona-related topics discussed included, unsurprisingly, immigration and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. CNN moderator…
According to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, the gentleman pictured above is 35-year-old Clifton Dawayne Brooks — the guy the sheriff’s office says “threatened to kill” Sheriff Joe Arpaio.Arpaio and the FBI announced yesterday that the FBI’s Portland, Oregon office raided the house Brooks was living in, after it was…
A Scottsdale woman was kidnapped from her garage yesterday and driven to a bank, where she was told by her kidnapper to empty her account or he’d harm her and her mother. A bank teller tipped off the cops, who came and arrested their suspect — 40-year-old Thanh Andrew Harlan.Scottsdale…
For some reason, a few legislators weren’t fans of Arizona Congressman Trent Franks naming his bill for a federal ban on race/gender-based abortions after Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony.The bill was submitted by Franks under the name “Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Non-discrimination Act of 2011,” but…
Paul Fischer is a “family and marriage counselor” in Downtown Phoenix.What allegedly assaulting a woman during a counseling session had to do with therapy is anyone’s guess.According to court documents obtained by New Times, the woman told the cops about the incident that occurred on February 3 at Fischer’s 7th…
Congratulations to the New Times reader known as HermanKain, you’ve won this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.On Monday, we asked readers to write their own caption for the photo above, a self-portrait of Pinal County Sheriff Paul “studboi1” Babeu, which accompanied the New Times story Friday that…
