Arizona is home to many, many crappy drivers, and a 14-year-old kid police say was driving a stolen car drunk through Phoenix Wednesday night is only the latest.Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Bart Graves tells New Times a highway patrolman spotted a white Ford Focus “driving erratically” northbound on…
More than 2,000 underage drinkers in Tempe had some pretty crappy fake IDs last year. The Tempe Police Department announced Tuesday that 2,064 fictitiously used IDs were seized by police and Tempe’s Downtown District bars in 2010, all from under-21ers trying to get into liquor establishments…
Carrying around $14,000 in cash is a bit suspicious. Throw a few guns, brass knuckles, knives, burglary tools, marijuana, meth, and heroin into the mix, and cops are definitely going to ask questions, which they did of a Phoenix man yesterday. Mark Anthony Kukawski racked up six felony charges during…
Phoenix police are searching for three men who robbed a CVS Pharmacy of more than 5,000 prescription pills early Thursday morning. Police say most of the approximately 5,200 pills taken from the pharmacy were OxyContin, a powerful painkiller Rush Limbaugh was once known to eat like candy used to treat…
Most people don’t do meth. Most people don’t let their 9-month-old kid die from a meth overdose. Most people don’t then give birth to another child with a circulatory system full of meth. By those standards, Veronica Marie Linares allegedly doesn’t qualify as “most people.” Glendale police say Linares, 23,…
Here’s a tip: If you’re trying to fly to Mexico to evade a felony warrant, you may want to pony up the extra couple of bucks for a direct flight. Apparently, 37-year-old Norma Vera-Nolasko didn’t heed that advice, as Phoenix police arrested her at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport around…
Arizona State University announced the formation of a new initiative to develop aerospace and military applications to build the military-industrial complex “partnership between higher education and industry” in Arizona. The Aerospace and Defense Research Collaboratory will host its launch ceremony in February, the school says. It’s being funded by Science…
The father of a 24-year-old man last seen at a party in Tempe early Saturday morning says there’s “no way” his son willingly went off the radar from his friends and family. Emmanuel Jigba, a Sierra Leone native now living in the San Jose, California, area, was in Tempe Thursday…
After pistol-whipping a female employee at a west Phoenix Quiznos on January 11, it seems the serial armed-robbery suspect police have dubbed “Shy Guy” isn’t too sheepish anymore. Phoenix Police Sergeant Trent Crump said during a press conference Thursday that he believes the same man has committed 14 different robberies…
When independent filmmaker Charlie Minn saw the news of the Tucson shooting rampage on January 8, it drew an ominous likeness to what he’s seen in Juarez, Mexico. “What happened in Tucson a couple of Saturdays ago happens in Juarez every day,” Minn says. “Every day.” Minn is unleashing a…
After spending his evening at a strip club, slamming some beers, and re-enacting The Fast and the Furious on the streets of west Phoenix over the weekend, the last thing on a Phoenix man’s to-do list was apparently to crash into a family’s house and kill a man sleeping inside…
With much of the local media focused on the tragedy in Tucson, it seems somebody feels a little left out.Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio held a press conference Monday to announce what was billed as “new important information” regarding the case of a man fatally shot by one of his…
After fleeing to Arizona from California to escape a felony warrant, Jerome Dawkins’ plan to hide from police allegedly included choking and pistol-whipping a prostitute. Police say Dawkins, 25, had a felony warrant for a probation violation from California when he came to Mesa, and began pimping women out…
Daniel Hernandez: An awesome dude. While most interns spend their time filling Starbucks orders and finding ways to screw up making photocopies, Daniel Hernandez was busy applying pressure to the entry wound on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ forehead to keep her alive. Hernandez, who had only been Giffords’ intern for…
After being offered a place to live by an elderly Mesa man, 41-year-old Henry Eric Young decided to show his gratitude by allegedly beating the man into critical condition. Police say they found 81-year-old Gene Fitzsimmons in his car on the 700 block of East First Avenue in Mesa about…
The U.S. Marshals have arrested a man wanted in connection to a 2001 stabbing murder of a 40-year-old Phoenix resident. The Phoenix Police Department announced today the arrest of Marc Salinas, 38, for allegedly stabbing Rishard LaPointe to death in his Phoenix apartment near the intersection of East Bell Road…
The bodies of three men found dead near the Salt River bottom were identified by Phoenix police Tuesday. The men, thought to be victims of a triple homicide, were identified as Adrian Moreno, 38, Raul Piziarro, 28, and Jimmy Alejandro Villa, 23…
Saturday’s shooting rampage in Tucson, which left six people dead and 14 others injured — including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords — is just the latest in at least 30 documented rampage shootings in American history.Listed below are 10 of the deadliest:…
As Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords remains hospitalized and in critical condition after taking a bullet through the brain during Saturday’s shooting spree in Tucson, it’s unclear who will fill her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives if she’s unable to finish her two-year term. Should the congresswoman not be able to…
The Saturday shooting rampage in Tucson that felled Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others, six of whom died, wasn’t the first such mass-killing spree in Arizona.Listed below are other Arizona mass shootings, dating back to a 1966 massacre inside a Mesa beauty school…
