Peter Steinmetz says he was just trying to make a political point when he brought a fully loaded AR-15 into the airport on July 25, but he won’t repeat the act. Police arrested the Barrow Neurological Institute brain researcher on suspicion of disorderly conduct with a firearm, alleging the muzzle…
Phoenix police arrested twin brothers on Wednesday in connection with a series of Valley bank robberies, including one committed under police surveillance. The arrest appears to solve the case of the so-called “High-Jump Bandit,” whose prolific robberies prompted authorities to seek help from the media in late July. Alan Michael…
Ersula Ore, the assistant professor at Arizona State University whose violent arrest became national news because of a viral video, was sentenced today to nine months’ supervised probation. Ore pleaded guilty earlier this month to one count of passively resisting arrest, a misdemeanor. She’d been charged originally by the Maricopa…
Facebook went down this morning in an apparent worldwide outage, throwing social media users into a panic and boosting the use of rival site Twitter. With no Facebook on which to share thoughts for — what, about 23 minutes? — Twitter was abuzz with various quips and laments about the…
Peter Steinmetz, the brain scientist arrested last week after bringing an AR-15 to the airport, plans to address reporters at a Monday news conference. Steinmetz is scheduled to appear and give a public statement at 3 p.m. Monday at the law office of Marc Victor, 3920 South Alma School Road,…
The Barrow Neurological Institute has put its gun-toting brain scientist, Peter Steinmetz, on leave from his job. Steinmetz made national headlines after he was arrested on Friday for mishandling a fully loaded AR-15 he’d brought with him to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Apparently, the gun-rights advocate was just trying…
The prestigious Barrow Neurological Institute of Phoenix isn’t saying much about the airport arrest on Friday of AR-15 toting top brain scientist Peter Nathan Steinmetz. The institute is, however, erasing Steinmetz from its website in what appears to be a move designed to curb the dreadful PR arising from this…
Dr. Peter Nathan Steinmetz, a brain scientist with Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, was arrested on Friday for mishandling his AR-15 in Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Steinmetz was possibly making a point about his Second Amendment rights, police theorize, when he bought a cup of coffee at Starbucks in…
Alex Spartz, a 17-year-old Glendale high school student, is still in Maui after a July 13 beach accident left him paralyzed. The honor student, swim team captain at Mountain Ridge High School, and soccer player had been doing somersaults on Kaanpali Beach that day while on a family vacation. He…
Police and the victim of a Tempe hit-and-run crash this week made a public appeal on Thursday for information and witnesses in the case. Justin DeValk, 21, a Mesa Community College student, appeared before reporters and TV cameras near the crash site on Broadway Road near College Avenue, his head…
Sam Katz, the longtime mayor of Winnipeg, Canada, has a mansion in Scottsdale that keeps getting him in trouble. Katz has been raked by Canadian media in the past couple of days over reports that he collected two $600 tax credits for the home because it was listed incorrectly in…
Jarrett Maupin, an Arizona Congressional candidate, reverend and community advocate, is taking some of the credit for Shanesha Taylor’s money-for-freedom deal with prosecutors. A controversial figure, Maupin — president of the Phoenix-based Progressive Christian Coalition — nevertheless was seen to be working closely in the highly publicized criminal case of…
New statistics by the Arizona Department of Health Services show that Arizona now has more than 50,000 qualifying, adult patients. As of June 30, the state had 52,638 “active cardholders,” which is a 9.1 percent increase from the last official number published by the agency on March 28 of 48,231…
Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, wants Americans to know that executions are dirty, “savage” business. In his written dissent to a Ninth Circuit ruling on Monday that puts the death penalty on hold for an Arizona killer, Kozinski appears to praise the guillotine…
Arizona’s medical-marijuana law is so vague, the state can’t prosecute patients who sell pot to other patients, a Pima County Superior Court judge has ruled. The offbeat July 2 ruling and dismissal of a criminal case by Judge Richard Fields has the potential to open up all sorts of entrepreneurial…
Ed Moriarity, the Montana lawyer who worked for Lisa Aubuchon, David Hendershott and Joel Fox, has been disbarred in Arizona. A complaint by the State Bar of Arizona, followed by the July 15 disbarment order, explains that Moriarity knew claims by former Maricopa County officials Aubuchon and Hendershott were false,…
A second high-ranking Arizona State University police department official is stepping down unexpectedly following a backlash over the arrest of assistant professor Ersula Ore. Another email that surfaced on a blog by people disgruntled with ASU police confirms that Assistant Chief James Hardina is leaving this week. ASU Police Chief…
John Pickens, campus police chief for Arizona State University, is leaving his position earlier than expected after the video of a professor’s arrest created a firestorm of criticism. As first reported Thursday in the Integrity Report, a blog by an “anonymous coalition of people associated with the ASU Police Department,”…
The three-day disappearance of Eric Fernandes, a Seattle hiker who died on Camelback Mountain in May, attracted national attention — and second-guessing. Fernandes could have done more to avoid a bad situation from the beginning, to be sure. But the quality of the search for him also was criticized —…
Sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder can begin obtaining medical marijuana legally under Arizona law as soon as January. Will Humble, director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, announced the decision today in his blog. PTSD patients and medical-cannabis advocates have been expecting a decision since last month, when state…
Arizona State University police confirmed this afternoon that Officer Stewart Ferrin is still on leave and under investigation despite Ersula Ore’s guilty plea this morning. ASU media-relations director Sharon Keeler still hasn’t returned our morning message, but we just checked with ASU Police Chief John Pickens’ office, and his assistant…
The oven-like heat of the late-May afternoon stunned the young Seattle man when he stepped outside of his car. In the parking lot of the Glendale motel, Eric Fernandes, 23, put his hand near the grill of his red Pontiac Grand Prix. “Dad, I think the car’s overheating,” he blurted…
