Mark Bosworth, a former Valley real-estate maverick who once boasted he owned $50 million in property, claims he was conned into trying to cash a bogus, $4,500 check. The felony forgery charge he’s fighting could result in jail time. It’s an ignominious — though somewhat expected — turn of events…
Chris Martin had an idea for a business in Arizona, where voters passed a law that legalizes medical-marijuana “edibles” under certain conditions. Last year, the Zonka Bar was born, available in flavors including chocolate and sugar-free peanut butter and infused with marijuana extract. Like other edibles, it was perfect for…
LifeLock launched its new persona as a publicly traded company on Wednesday — then watched as its initial stock price fell by several percent. LifeLock, the Tempe-based anti-identity-theft company founded in 2005 by Robert Maynard Jr. and Todd Davis, had expected to sell shares at $9 apiece, but the price…
The FBI has broken up a spy network based in Houston that “enhanced” the capabilities of the Russian military by exporting sensitive, U.S.-made electronics. Alexander Fishenko and 11 others have been charged with falsifying documents and generally fooling the U.S. Department of Commerce in the last few years by running…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, facing what may be the closest election of his long career, tries to rewrite history in a new ad about his office’s poorly done sex-crimes investigations. Arpaio’s campaign ran the ad in a prominent location on the Arizona Republic’s Web site, and the main theme…
Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever had been traveling at 62 mph on a dirt road without his seat belt on when his pickup left the road and rolled, killing him. The new info comes from a report released today by the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office, according to an article by…
When it comes to state Attorney General Tom Horne’s campaign-finance scandal, Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery is taking enforcement action. Meanwhile, Montgomery’s got his 2012 campaign to run. And one of his campaign consultants is Chris Baker, a key figure in another major campaign-finance scandal. –See Also: Tom Horne’s Alleged…
Peoria resident Richard Maloney is upset that a California woman told police he’d threatened her and was in the Hells Angels, so he’s suing her for $100,000. Maloney filed a lawsuit in federal court on Wednesday, acting as his own attorney. In it, he states that Lois Kropp of Oceano,…
Did anyone else get the question to this answer right on Jeopardy on Tuesday evening?…
A guy in Kearny couldn’t fill his prescription for Oxycontin and Xanax at the local pharmacy, cops say, so he called a couple of buddies to work out a deal: They drive him to a Mesa drugstore, he gives them some of the pills, they give him $20 and some…
A traveler at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport shot video last week of TSA employees subjecting passengers to a “freeze drill.” The passengers already had cleared a security checkpoint in Terminal 4 when Transportation Security Administration officials stopped them from proceeding. The video uploader, who captured the last 24 seconds (see below)…
Not all conservatives want to lock up sick grannies and other medical-marijuana patients, a fact proven by the thousands of right-wingers who in 2010 voted “yes” on Arizona’s Prop 203. Yet in polls, Republicans and conservatives do tend to favor penalties for the plant’s growth and use more often than…
Michael Lacey and his business partner, Jim Larkin, acquired the New Times building at 1201 Jefferson Street in 1985. They rescued the historical former Booker T. Washington Elementary School from developers who wanted to tear it down. Lacey’s roomy office in the editorial section of the sprawling structure has wood…
Michael Lacey says he wouldn’t hesitate to put his children in the care of the management team that just bought the newspaper chain he helped start 42 years ago. In fact, he feels like that’s almost what he did. It was announced Sunday night that Village Voice Media had agreed…
Republic Monetary Exchange, a precious-metals firm founded by two ex-cons that’s the subject of a New Times’ feature article this week, is putting some customers at risk, says a Phoenix document preparer. Tim Schubert of Blue Diamond Documents says he’s helped people prepare Individual Retirement Accounts, (a.k.a. IRAs) for about…
Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever wasn’t wearing a seat belt when his body was found on Tuesday night by a deputy following Dever’s fatal rollover crash near Williams. Dever was killed when his 2008 three-quarter-ton Chevrolet pickup slid off a forest road and rolled just after sunset. He’d been on…
Chris Martin had an idea for a business in Arizona, where voters passed a law that legalizes medical-marijuana “edibles” under certain conditions. Last year, the Zonka Bar was born: available in flavors including chocolate and sugar-free peanut butter, and infused with marijuana extract. Like other edibles, it was perfect for…
James D. Clark is delivering his father to the enemy. It’s the afternoon of April 19, the betrayal occurring around a conference table at the Tempe law office of Mark Sahl. Clark’s the son of prominent Arizona gold dealer Jim Clark, owner and CEO of Republic Monetary Exchange in Phoenix…
As a resident and sheriff of a rural Arizona county, driving on dirt roads was second nature to Larry Dever. So how the law enforcement professional end up rolling his three-quarter-ton pickup on one? One possibility: Excessive speed. “That certainly is one school of thought,” says Gerry Blair, spokesman for…
Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever lost control of his truck “for an unknown reason” on a dirt road, leading to a fatal rollover, the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office says. Dever, 60, died at the scene following the one-vehicle crash at about 6:30 p.m. last night on Forest Road 109 about…
Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever, a likeable symbol of the lawless U.S. border with Mexico, died in a one-car crash on a forest road near Williams on Tuesday night. The cause of accident is under investigation; media reports say Dever was on his way to a hunting trip with one…
Phoenix police say they’ve solved a rape case from 2004 with the arrest of a convicted sex offender. That’s the good news, which must bring tremendous relief to the victim, who was 17 when Keith Edward Allen broke into her home and subjected her to a lengthy, horrific attack. But…
