Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Captain Joel Fox has lost his federal lawsuit against former Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, whom Fox accused of improperly allowing the release of embarrassing e-mails.Last month, U.S. District Judge Neil Wake had already dismissed the part of Fox’s complaint that targeted an investigator and supervisors…
A Surprise resident who runs a home tattooing business illegally gave a tattoo to a 15-year-old, police say.Craig Mooney, 27, now finds himself in a peck of trouble — with an angry dad on his case.The father received a text message on August 9 from his boy, who told him…
Larry Black, Joel Fox and David Hendershott filed a $22 million claim last week against Maricopa County employees, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu and a private investigator over the so-called Munnell Memo probe.The three current and former Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office employees were the main targets of the widely publicized…
Eight doctors who have written nearly half of the state’s 10,000 or so medical marijuana recommendations didn’t check in with a DEA-monitored database as required, state officials allege. Will Humble, director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, says he notified the Arizona Medical Board and Arizona Naturopathic Physicians Medical…
“Extremely low levels” of DNA in a 2009 Buckeye rape case made for a difficult analysis, leading to a long delay for the results, says the state’s crime lab supervisor. Although a 14-year-old victim found the courage to report the rape two days after it occurred in April of 2009,…
A 93-year-old great-grandma from Green Valley reeled in a 16.58-pound fish last Saturday to become queen for a day in Alaska’s famed Valdez Silver Salmon Derby. Lenore Groundwater beat out 797 other competitors to win the women’s one-day Derby, and her catch may yet finish first in the overall Silver Salmon Derby, which…
A Lamborghini Gallardo that cost $260,000 breaks down like a run-of the-mill beater car, a Scottsdale business executive claims in a federal complaint.Kevin Moshir, president and COO of CellTrust, bought the 2008 vehicle brand-new from Lamborghini North Scottsdale in February 2009.Sweet ride, it seems — except for, well, just about everything…
Firearms linked to the scandal-ridden “Fast and Furious” investigation have turned up at 11 U.S. crime scenes, including four in Arizona, Congress was told this month.And that’s in addition to the December incident in which U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was shot near Rio Rico.The new information comes from…
Fry’s Electronics employees discovered child porn on a computer brought to the store for repair last April, leading to the arrest yesterday of a Phoenix man.James Long, 57, reportedly admitted he found the pictures of little kids engaged in sex acts “visually stunning” and that he downloaded them for his…
Republic Monetary Exchange, a Phoenix precious-metals firm, spents tens of thousands of dollars on “reputation management” following a July 2010 New Times article, a company e-mail shows.The e-mail shows up in a counter-suit to a lawsuit filed against Republic Monetary by one of its major investors. Our post from earlier…
Republic Monetary Exchange, a prominent Phoenix gold-selling firm, has been sued by an investor whose role in the firm had originally been kept hidden. The investor, Sherman Unkefer, happens to be an old buddy of Republic Monetary’s ex-con CEO, Jim Clark. The two previously were leaders of North American Coin…
If you’re missing a marijuana-growing business, maybe it’s the one Glendale police found last month.Dozens of pot plants were discovered sprouting in a commercial business space near 57th Avenue and San Miguel Street on July 28, but the owners still haven’t been found, says Glendale police spokesman Sergeant Brent Coombs.”At…
Arizona U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke can’t find any chargeable offenses after a review of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s questionable travel habits and mismanagement of an inmate trust fund.Because the U.S. Attorney is still investigating Arpaio in connection with abuse-of-power allegations, and the sheriff’s office still faces a civil-rights probe,…
An act of criminal chivalry on Saturday resulted in a deputy getting accidentally tased and in a riverboat chase that sounds more like a human safari.The mayhem began at about 3:40 p.m. near the mud cliffs on the lower Salt River, when Maricopa County Sheriff’s Deputy C. Bradshaw attempted to…
A suspected drunk driver speeding north on the Loop 101 slammed his Hyundai into the back of an SUV early Saturday morning, killing the three people inside.Authorities still aren’t sure whether the victims in the SUV died from the impact or resulting explosion and fire Their bodies were severely burned, says…
In an apparent parking-lot-rage incident, a taxi driver and his passenger are accused by police of beating a man to death as the victim’s horrified wife watched.The act of impulsive violence erupted about 5:15 p.m. on Saturday at 1459 North Dysart Road, as the AAA Taxi pulled out of a…
A beer-theft suspect whose attempted escape from police last year resulted in a crash that killed a pharmacy student will spend at least 25 years in prison.Berry Williams, 49, stole several 30-packs of beer from a west-side Circle K back on February 1, 2010, then sped from police who tried…
Police report this morning that 6-year-old Jacob Gibson died on Sunday, not quite a week after the horrific beating he received at the hands of his parents.Benny Gibson, 49, and his wife, Jennifer Edna Paul, 37, remain in jail — now suspected of killing, as opposed to merely brutalizing, their…
Two Valley cities rose to the top of a list of 25 “fun, affordable” cities compiled by a magazine that reviewed median home prices along with proximity to eateries and nightlife.The report from Better Homes and Garden Real Estate, which used data from Onboard Infomatics, reviewed 6,106 ZIP codes to…
Three African refugees who conspired to take a fake bomb through a checkpoint at Sky Harbor airport last week were likely trying to probe weaknesses in airport security, the FBI says in a federal complaint.Luwiza Laku Daman, 51, of Ethiopia, took the device in her carry-on bag through security on…
Governor Jan Brewer called today’s appeals court shoot-down of Obama’s mandatory health care plan a “major triumph.”Arizona was one was 26 states that sued the federal government over the highly contested, Democrat-launched plan to force nearly every American to buy health insurance. The stipulation was crucial to the plan since…
Police arrested a 36-year-old man yesterday after receiving new evidence in the case of a 14-year-old raped two years ago at a Buckeye park.Phonesavanh Nakhokkong of Buckeye was taken to jail after voluntarily driving to the Buckeye Police Department to discuss the allegation. Officer J. Kirby wrote in court records…
