LifeLock has finally responded to our feature article this week about the Tempe-based company, and the revelation that its CEO, Todd Davis, has had his identity stolen at least 13 times. We offered Davis and LifeLock the chance to come clean about Davis’ problems with identity theft before we published…
We asked Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley last week what he planned to do with the illegal immigrants arrested by Sheriff Joe Arpaio on suspicion of smuggling themselves into the country. Romley’s spokesman, Bill FitzGerald, wrote back that a decision hadn’t been made yet. Today, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Andrew…
It looks like Nik Richie’s getting nervous. On the heels of a new lawsuit filed against him, the self-described “reality blogger” took down several blog posts from www.thedirty.com that had targeted a woman who sued him last year for invasion of privacy. Richie published the posts last week to retaliate…
The “real Republicans” over at Sonoran Alliance hate John McCain so much, they’ll post left-wing propaganda just to make their point. Which is fine with us, because otherwise we might have missed the latest parody of McCain’s idiotic “danged fence” video:…
More than 120,000 pounds of crystals and fossils worth about $25 million were moved illegally from a Sedona warehouse to Phoenix, where they were sold for $1 as part of a land scheme, a lawsuit alleges.Seattle resident Richard Berger claims in the suit filed in federal court yesterday that a…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office released records to New Times that seem to contradict our notion that the SCA fishing trip in Alaska may have been funded by the county. To the office’s credit, the taxpayer-funded trip to Alaska taken by Sheriff’s Office personnel in late October to early November 2006…
Captain Joel Fox finally received his computer equipment back from the state Attorney General’s Office, which is investigating him on allegations of making improper political contributions. Fox, typically chatty, has been mostly silent in the last few months as rumors swirl that he’s going to be indicted. But the other…
Was it just us, or did Tom Horne seem out of his league last night on CNN during a debate with Georgetown Professor Michael Dyson about Arizona’s new ban on public-school classes that teach “ethnic solidarity?” If Arizona’s image needs a shot in the arm right now because of its new…
Will the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors “contempt hearing” planned for May 24 really be the first step in the jailing of Sheriff Joe Arpaio? It’s hard to imagine that scenario will actually occur, but heck, the Arizona Republic says it might happen. Forget the possibility of a federal indictment…
It’s been two months since the feds tried to gut LifeLock with a $12 million penalty for deceptive advertising, and the company’s Web site still boasts that it can protect people from identity theft. The Tempe-based company has spent millions of dollars since 2006 on ads that broadcast CEO Todd…
Maricopa County health officials denied reports by the Sheriff’s Office that 160 jail inmates had been quarantined two months ago because of four illegal immigrants with chicken pox. Officials also downplayed a news release issued by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office last night about chicken pox found in immigrants busted yesterday,…
Three kids from El Salvador, held for ransom after their parents paid to have them smuggled into the United States, were released in Phoenix after ICE agents began working the case. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau got wind of the kidnapping on Monday and “worked round-the-clock” to find the children, ages 11…
An “upscale companion escort” beat a valet with her high-heeled shoe on Monday night at the Valley Ho in Scottsdale, leaving the man bloody and shaken, police said. Just after 10 p.m., Jennifer Thomas, 26, exited the lobby of the hotel at 6850 East Main Street, rambling to herself and screaming at…
Two Phoenix women invited a 14-year-old runaway to stay in their apartment, then tried to force the girl into prostitution, police say. After she was rescued on Sunday, the girl told police that the women had made her sleep in a closet. Savoya Mansfield, 18, and Mattique Johnson, 19, both arrested on suspicion of kidnapping…
Jeffrey Otto was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for his role as one of four arsonists involved in last year’s fire at the Young Champions of America headquarters in Phoenix. Otto, 20, had been the last of the three surviving arsonists to plead guilty to the crime that destroyed a building, cost the life…
Nik Richie vows to make the Texas woman who won a lawsuit against him the “face of herpes in America” as retaliation. As mentioned last week, Richie’s finances will be examined at a hearing in the Valley this week following his loss last year of the lawsuit. The woman from La…
The snazziest apartment complex in the Valley, Grigio Tempe Town Lake, has filed for bankruptcy and is seeking an emergency court ruling that will keep residents’ services online. An attorney working for Grigio’s developer, Susan Freeman of Lewis and Roca, says she’s confident the bankruptcy judge will approve continued payments for the many services…
Nik Richie bragged on a radio show recently that his Web site is bringing in big bucks — catching the attention of a Houston lawyer trying to collect on a $1.5 million judgment. As we related last month, Richie lost an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit to a Texas woman after his…
Buz Mills, Republican candidate for governor, praised his staff at the Gunsite Academy in Paulden, Arizona on Thursday for helping the victim of Sunday’s shooting mishap. “We are relieved this client is in good condition thanks to the swift actions of our staff at Gunsite and the dedicated paramedics at…
A man was mistaken for a target and shot at Gunsite Academy, a gun-training facility in Paulden, the Arizona Republic reports today. That happens to be the same 2,000-acre facility owned by Buz Mills, a Republican candidate for governor — not that Repub writer Jolie McCullough mentions it. The man…
Bill Montgomery, the candidate for Maricopa County Attorney backed by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, strongly questions Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s mental fitness and leadership ability in a secret tape made by county officials. New Times broke part of this story yesterday based on second-hand comments from the county official who made the recording, Don…
Tired of traffic? Then lobby your government to add more toll roads, ditch long-range transportation scams, and buy more express buses instead of laying more railways. That’s the educated opinion of Cato Institute scholar Randal O’Toole — and if you want to argue with him, you’d better bring a spreadsheet with hard…
