See also: Steven LaMar, Cave Creek Councilman, Dumped as Lawyer for Maricopa County Amid Criticism in Mary Rose Wilcox Claim See also: Mary Rose Wilcox Granted $975,000 Judgment by Federal Judge; Sidesteps County Efforts to Check Payment Maricopa County Treasurer Charles “Hos” Hoskins has been thwarted in his attempt to…
A Phoenix woman was arrested on Tuesday after witnesses at Peter Piper Pizza saw her 2-year-old kid fall out of his chair — possibly because he was drunk.Valerie Topete, 32, was at the pizza parlor in Chandler in the evening when — a witness told police — she poured beer…
See also: Fast and Furious Connection Not Ruled Out in Found Assault Rifles, Says Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada The ATF sent two agents to Santa Cruz County yesterday after the sheriff there said he hadn’t “discounted the possibility” that rusty rifles found in the desert were tied to…
See also: U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow Sets Up Sheriff Arpaio for Knockout in Racial-Profiling Case; Ruling Describes Deputies’ Dirty Tricks See also: Joe Arpaio Admits Racial Profiling, Takes Bigoted Suggestions From Supporters, as MCSO Deputies Pass Racist E-Mails and Racially Profile The highly anticipated trial over accusations that…
In the Fugitive TV series and movie, nobody saw the “one-armed man” commit murder. That wasn’t the case on Sunday in a Mesa parking garage, where a witness told police he saw the one-armed Roderick Deshan Wagoner repeatedly stab a man who then fell three stories. The witness, unidentified in…
The legs of a 46-year-old man were severed after he was run over by a Union Pacific train in Gilbert early this morning. The man later died.Gilbert police got a call around 3:45 a.m. from the train company that a pedestrian had been hit near Gilbert Road and Park Avenue.A…
Aviation officials are having a dogfight over the cost of a new train that will carry passengers through Phoenix International Sky Harbor airport.A U.S. Department of Transportation newsletter dug up by Emily Gersema over at the Repub states the cost of the PHX Skytrain would be about $2.3 billion. This…
Steven Craig Shiflet of Mesa has been charged with three misdemeanor counts in connection with starting the 18,000-acre Sunflower Fire in the Tonto National Forest, records show. The records, first dug up by www.smokinggun.com, reveal that Shiflet managed to start the blaze by firing an “incendiary shotgun shell” from his…
See also: Andrew Thomas’ Total Defeat on Mary Rose Wilcox Case: An Analysis of Judge Leonardo’s Ruling See also: John Leonardo, Obama Nominee for Arizona U.S. Attorney, Said In 2010 Ruling That Sheriff Arpaio “Misused the Power of His Office” The new Arizona U.S. Attorney, John Leonardo, will inherit a…
See also: Arizona Sheriffs Call for Independent Investigation of “Fast and Furious” Gunwalking Scandal and House Republicans Call For Special Counsel to Determine Whether AG Eric Holder Lied During “Fast and Furious” Testimony Even a few rusty guns found in the desert are enough to raise questions about a “Fast…
NextCare, a nationwide urgent-care-center company based in Phoenix, has agreed to pay the feds $10 million for submitting false claims to Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health-care programs. We had no idea turning in corrupt corporations could be so lucrative: The informant in this case, former NextCare employee Lorin Cohen,…
John Brigham, a 45-year-old man whose naked carjacking spree in Scottsdale on Friday ended with multiple crashes, trashed his uncle’s home back in November while dressed in a towel. In Friday’s incident, Brigham stripped naked and danced on top of his car before stealing a Toyota Prius and crashing it…
Also see: Scott Bundgaard’s Attorney: Senator Resigned Because Ethics Hearing Was Unfair and Scott Bundgaard’s Police Report: Bundgaard Invoked Immunity Scott Bundgaard resigned from the state Senate in January, but he just doesn’t know when to quit.The disgraced ex-lawmaker whines that he’s the victim in a diatribe posted on the…
Everyone was watching the big moment this morning, awaiting the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on Obamacare… and CNN blew it. The flub started as veteran newscaster Wolf Blitzer breathlessly announces that reporter Kate Bolduan has some news from the steps of the courthouse. Then Bolduan comes on, saying that CNN “wanted…
Don Kenney, the former “quarterback” of one of Arizona’s most notorious scandals, AzScam, stole his son’s personal info in 1998 to work as a real-estate broker in San Diego.This month, following a brief expose by former Arizona Republic reporter Lily Leung, Kenney’s son agreed to surrender the real-estate license that…
Don’t let those conservative critics mislead you: The Arizona Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Judge is really a big softie. Judge William O’Neil has given Rachel Alexander, the ethics-bending former underling of Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, another chance to appeal the ordered suspension of her law license. O’Neil, after upbraiding former…
Scientology formally opened its new Phoenix Ideal Org facility on Saturday with a celebration attended by hundreds of the religion’s followers. The grand opening near the former home of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard follows a bitter eviction process for the former tenants of the building complex at the northeast…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office blew two chances to prosecute J.T. Ready for pulling guns on illegal immigrants months before the neo-Nazi gunned down four people in Gilbert, records show.The documents were released by Nick Martin of Talking Points Memo (and former Valley reporter), who broke the story about the missed…
About 5 to 10 percent of U.S. high-school boys say they’ve been “physically forced” to have sexual intercourse against their will, according to survey results reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The numbers come from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance report published by the CDC on June…
Town of Buckeye police officer Kevin Rorke has been cleared of wrongdoing in the bloody Black Friday arrest at a Walmart of shoplifting suspect Jerald Newman. No charges were ever filed against Newman, either. And now Newman is suing the town, says Buckeye police spokesman Lieutenant Jared Griffiths. (A Buckeye…
Michael Salman, who’s been squabbling with Phoenix for years over his home-worship services, says he was sent home Saturday night after he showed up at jail to begin his 60-day sentence. Salman’s been fighting the sentence since his September 2010 conviction for violating building codes at his 1.5-acre property near…
At age 93, Julius Elmer Grosso of Scottsdale is one of those senior citizens who doesn’t want to give up his car keys — even after a two-hour drinking binge. Cops say the stubborn nonagenerian gave them a hard time during a DUI investigation over the weekend, resulting in Grosso…
