After allegedly slamming into a school bus full of 28 elementary-school children and driving away, Jonathan Carillo-Rubio tried to tell the cops he was just a scared kid — until they found out he wasn’t a kid, but a well-known human smuggler. The Arizona Department of Public Safety says Carillo-Rubio,…
The U.S. Census Bureau released Arizona’s detailed population totals Thursday, revealing a 46.3-percent increase in the Hispanic population over the past decade. According to the Census Bureau press release (conveniently written in Spanish), nearly 600,000 more people identifying as Hispanic live in the state — bringing 2010’s total to nearly…
Arizona State University police and a task force from the U.S. Marshals Service arrested a wanted California parolee for allegedly robbing an ASU student at gunpoint last week. Police say Shelven Jason Gasaway Jr., 26, held an ASU student at gunpoint in the University’s Rural Road parking structure in Tempe…
scrapetv.com In case anyone in the Valley needed a reminder that you don’t make enough money and the recession put your retirement fund in the crapper, Forbes reminds us that five of the world’s 1,210 billionaires are Arizonans. Forbes put out their annual list of worldwide billionaires Wednesday, and in…
Photo by Matthew Hendley In a DUI even Governor Jan Brewer probably couldn’t get away with, police say an allegedly drunk 56-year-old man crashed his truck straight into Phoenix police headquarters early Thursday. Phoenix police Sergeant Tommy Thompson tells New Times the man was driving his 2003 half-ton Chevrolet truck…
Sometimes people are practically begging to be arrested — like the two goons who allegedly decided to load 227 pounds of pot into their truck on the side of an interstate highway today. The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrests of Prior Marcano, 40, and Fernando Sanchez-Moyinedo, 26, after…
While Tampa Bay Rays all-star third baseman Evan Longoria is swinging away in Florida as his team prepares for the upcoming season, thieves back in Arizona took off with his $75,000 Chevy Camaro. Longoria’s 1967 Chevrolet Camaro RS was one of two cars stolen out of the parking lot of…
State Senator Scott Bundgaard’s roadside domestic violence debacle on February 25 continues to dust up the many blemishes in the majority leader’s past. And today, the tale of another jilted love affair involving Bundgaard and a woman are making headlines. The skeletons in the Peoria Republican’s closet are enough to…
Apparently Robert Conley doesn’t believe in the phrase “mother knows best,” since he allegedly tried to murder his mom after she poured out his bottle of whiskey. According to documents obtained by New Times, Conley, 31, went to his mother’s Phoenix apartment Thursday evening and began drinking a bottle of…
The nearly 600-pound spokesman of Arizona’s own Heart Attack Grill died Tuesday — not ’cause of what would have been an ironic heart attack for a man whose weight suggests his heart probably resembled a basketball filled with ricotta cheese — but probably from pneumonia. Blair River was the 6-foot-8, 575…
A 28-year-old man was arrested early Friday morning after allegedly shooting and killing another man outside of a Phoenix strip club. About 2:30 a.m. Friday, an unidentified 34-year-old and his ex-wife left Le Girls Cabaret West, near Interstate 17 and McDowell Road. As the man was escorting his ex-wife to…
Arsonist and alleged penta-murderer William Craig Miller was sentenced today to 16 years in prison in a 2005 arson case, which probably doesn’t sound that bad to Miller, since prosecutors will seek the death penalty in his upcoming murder trial. Back in November 2005, Miller set his north Scottsdale house…
After a young girl told her teacher Tuesday that her step-grandfather had been molesting her for the past two years, police discovered the old man has allegedly molested several branches on the family tree. Rafael Montenegro Calderon, a 51-year-old Phoenix resident, was arrested Tuesday evening after family members over two…
PCP and hallucinogenic mushrooms seem to be to blame for the rescue of Eugene Gimzelberg, whose “trip” took him to the depths of the Gilbert sewer system in search of his kids. The children, of course, weren’t actually in the sewer — where he got stuck for 36 hours. Last…
Putting your hands on a woman is never a good idea (just ask that guy who socked “Snooki” in the face, or state Senator Scott Bundgaard), but Michael Pollard allegedly didn’t get that memo.According to court documents obtained by New Times earlier this week, Pollard punched his own mother in…
A 21-year-old man was shot this afternoon as he pulled up to his Tolleson home to discover it was getting burglarized. Phoenix police Sergeant Tommy Thompson says about 12:15 p.m., the unidentified man went to his home on the 3700 block of South 100th Avenue to find at least one…
Hide your kids, hide your wife, and hide your grapes.Tempe police arrested a 17-year-old Phoenix kid suspected of a burglary on Friday afternoon — as he sat eating the same grapes he’d stolen from a house he allegedly broke into…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office received a call early Tuesday about a possible suicide at a Sun Lakes home, but after deputies arrived at the scene, they’re now investigating a possible homicide. MCSO Sergeant Jesse Spurgin tells New Times that the sheriff’s office received a call around 2 a.m. about…
Joe Arpaio may be notorious for pursuing illegal aliens, but Arizona played home to those hunting a different type of alien — or at least their spaceships — this past weekend. The Radisson Fort McDowell Resort, just north of Fountain Hills on SR-87, was the host of the 20th annual…
It seems 19-year-old James Keehn’s remedy for his apparent “Bieber Fever” is oxycodone — authorities say he tried to get a fake prescription for the drug filled at a Mesa Target in December, but the pharmacist immediately recognized the script as bogus. Keehn left the store, but was identified in…
Apparently for two men arrested Thursday, “doing it doggy style” meant finding people on the internet who would let them have sex with their dogs. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced the arrests of Keith Kiefer, 47, and Patrick Trejo, 25, after an ongoing investigation revealed the men were using…
Phoenix police are on the lookout for one of the more-gullible attempted bank robbers of all time. Cops say just after noon on February 14, a man went into a bank near 16th Street and Camelback Road demanding cash from a teller. The teller said they didn’t have any cash,…
