Arizona Department of Public Safety officers clocked a speeder going 131 mph on State Route 51 on Sunday afternoon. According to DPS, when a motorcycle officer attempted to pull over the 2014 Ford Mustang, the driver, 22-year-old Alejandro Barraza, veered right over several lanes and crashed into another car…
Drunk driving is bad. That said, here’s where police will be setting up “saturation patrols” around the Valley, looking for impaired drivers this Cinco de Mayo:…
A 24-year-old Phoenix man was shot and killed by his girlfriend early Sunday morning in an apparent domestic-violence incident, police say. According to court documents obtained by New Times, Erasmo Gonzales and his family were hosting a party at their house Saturday night for the Mayweather-Pacquiao boxing match, and his…
Microsoft recently rolled out a website that tries to guess the age of someone just based on a photograph. So, we took pictures of some of Arizona’s most famous residents, to see what the computers came up with:…
A 2-year-old boy in Peoria shot himself in the face last night after finding a gun in his parents’ bedroom. Peoria Police Sergeant Shari Howard says the boy is alive, and in stable but critical condition at Phoenix Children’s Hospital…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, it’s starting to warm up…
Lawsuits brought by people who lost their homes in the 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire have been dismissed. The suits alleged that negligent firefighting led to the destruction of dozens of homes, blaming the Arizona State Forestry Division for “unthinkingly and incompetently react[ing] to events.” Of course, 19 firefighters died while…
Democratic Congressman Ruben Gallego is pushing for the government to allow young people who were brought to the country illegally as children to serve in the military. Gallego plans to do this by offering an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act encouraging the Department of Defense to allow people…
Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner is entering a diversion program that would result in charges being dismissed if she successfully completes the program. Griner was arrested just last week along with fiancée and fellow WNBA player Glory Johnson after a physical fight at the couple’s house in Goodyear. A Goodyear…
For the first time in more than a decade, the percentage of Arizona kindergartners getting exempted from vaccinations by their parents actually went down. The Arizona Department of Health Services reports this week that 4.6 percent of the state’s kindergartners this year haven’t been vaccinated due to a parent’s personal…
A jury found Jerice Hunter guilty Monday of murdering her 5-year-old daughter, Jhessye Shockley, in 2011. Hunter was the one to report Jhessye missing to police and even went to the state Capitol to bash police for not finding the girl. “I really think they should take the focus off…
While Sheriff Joe Arpaio was testifying in federal court last week in his civil contempt trial, there’s been movement in another lawsuit that could cause more trouble for Arpaio and taxpayers. Last January, as part of Arpaio’s crusade to arrest unauthorized immigrants in workplace raids, the Sheriff’s Office actually went…
Democratic Congressman Ruben Gallego is sounding the horn on the significant amount of debt faced by students after they graduate from college. “You should be able to go to a public university and graduate debt-free or as nearly debt-free as possible,” Gallego said this morning at his office in Phoenix…
Last week, we showed you the most popular states that Arizona’s transplants come from. This week, we’ll show you where native Arizonans have moved:…
“Chemtrails” are apparently a hot political issue in Arizona. Less than a year after state Senator Kelli Ward held a community meeting in her Lake Havasu district to address concerns from her constituents that the government is poisoning people with chemicals dumped from airplanes, another politician took heat over his…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, we bring you a little…
The Phoenix Mercury’s Brittney Griner was booked into the Maricopa County Jail Wednesday after an alleged domestic-violence incident. Goodyear police spokeswoman Lisa Kutis says Griner and fiancée Glory Johnson were arrested following a physical fight. Johnson also plays in the WNBA, as a forward for the Tulsa Shock, and was…
The Phoenix City Council approved on Wednesday the study of a city identification card. The idea behind such an ID card is to provide identification to those who don’t have a government-issued ID, mainly unauthorized immigrants…
A Phoenix woman forced into an arranged marriage was brought against her will to her “husband’s” apartment on Monday, where police say she was violently sexually assaulted. According to court documents obtained by New Times, the woman’s parents “married” her to 30-year-old Mohamed Abdullahi without her knowledge in November. Court…
The Phoenix Suns’ Markieff and Marcus Morris face felony assault charges stemming from a beating that landed a man in the hospital in January. According to police, the Morris twins were among a group of five men who assaulted 36-year-old Erik Hood outside a high school basketball tournament in Phoenix…
A Phoenix man was caught on camera fatally shooting a Circle K clerk Saturday night, police say. After police sent out stills from the video over the weekend, two people called police identifying the shooter as 35-year-old Seth Martin, according to court documents obtained by New Times…
A man who says he was pulled over for a case of “driving while black” in Tempe plans to file a lawsuit against the city. Anderson Jean-Louis, 29, recorded his encounter with Tempe police after being pulled over for playing his music too loud. Mind you, Jean-Louis was pulled over…
