Teabagging state Senator Don Shooter has been charged with three misdemeanors for barging into a charter school while yelling his name and scolding a teacher. A city prosecutor in Yuma charged the senator with disorderly conduct, disruption of an educational institution, and criminal trespassing…
The woman whose body was found naked and beaten in a Tempe neighborhood last week has been identified as 23-year-old Annovedwin Begay-Barakzai, and police believe her live-in boyfriend, 27-year-old Douglas Ray George, killed her.He was arrested on a second-degree murder charge…
Early this morning, someone dumped a naked and beaten body in a quiet Tempe neighborhood and vanished. Police received a call about 4:30 a.m., saying a woman was lying in the street near Baseline Road and McClintock Drive. When they arrived, they found the beaten body of a Hispanic or…
Joe Colter didn’t receive an owner’s manual when he bought his 9mm handgun. If he had, he might have read the part that explains how when you rack the slide to eject a bullet, another bullet takes its place. And he might have prevented the accidental death of a friend…
About 11:20 p.m. Monday, Jose Gonzalez-Esparza called police to report his girlfriend lying unconscious on the floor of their Mesa trailer home. A little while later, police say, Gonzalez-Esparza admitted to beating her to death with a baseball bat. Emergency responders found Maria Gomez, 45, dead in the living room…
A Phoenix couple tossed their meth and kids in the car to go on a ride to a Discount Tire store Friday night, where they stole seven tires. A witness watched as Kristina Francis and her husband, Michael, stole the truck tires from a Discount Tire store near 18th Street…
Cat calling and whistling at passing girls at a Glendale park turned into a fight that led Andrew Aschenbrenner throwing a knife into another man, killing him, police say. Glendale police arrested Aschenbrenner, 23, Thursday for second-degree murder, after Darrick Hendrix Jr., also 23, passed away at a Valley hospital…
Despite a steep decline in border crossings and apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border, immigrant deaths have increased. And over the past 22 years, at least 2,238 migrants died crossing Arizona’s southwestern desert, according to a new study. The study released Wednesday by Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner and…
The cops march down Jefferson Street in black riot gear, lobbing tear-gas canisters that erupt into clouds of violet and lawn-green. Even the bursts of electric-yellow pepper spray they unleash on protesters add to the psychedelic color scheme. Anarchists with black rags over their faces chant slogans. A woman in…
Now that school is out for the summer, teens find themselves with more time on their hands. Apparently two teens living in the border town of Agua Prieta, Sonora, decided to find summer jobs smuggling dope over the border. In two separate and unrelated seizures, U.S. Customs and Border Protection…
After he broke into a Chandler home, police say, Francisco Moreno tried to rape a woman and attacked her with a hatchet, and when that failed, he settled on stealing a Sprite from the refrigerator before fleeing the house. Moreno, 19, admitted to police that on Saturday, just before 9…
At 11 p.m. Wednesday night, bleeding out behind a gas station is probably not what Timothy Simpson thought he’d find himself doing when earlier he visited a woman he’d been sleeping with behind her boyfriend’s back. Mesa Police found Simpson with several stab wounds in his stomach, saying he’d been…
The strains of finding babysitters or daycare reach every mother in every profession — even the world’s oldest. On Tuesday afternoon, while suspected prostitute Ana Perez Garcia was being arrested during an undercover sting, police found her 1-year-old daughter sitting in the woman’s running car. Officers read Perez her rights,…
The ACLU is suing to stop a 2011 Arizona law it says targets Black and Asian or Pacific Islander women for seeking abortions based on the race or sex of their baby.The lawsuit claims the law targets minority groups, and is a violation of the 14th Amendment and its equal…
Outside of Tempe’s House of Tricks restaurant early Monday morning, police shot a man in the hand who allegedly hurled a wine bottle at an officer, the Tempe PD says. Around 3:45 a.m., a Tempe PD sergeant arrived at the restaurant because a man — whose name has not been…
You try to be a good father and visit town for your daughter’s high school graduation, and what happens? The Police bust you, find Meth in your pocket, realize that even though the picture on your ID is you, the name is someone else’s. Finally, the cops dig up all…
Somewhere is an unhappy FedEx customer who will never see his or her packages delivered. The deliveries didn’t fall off the back of the truck, they weren’t sent to the wrong address, and there’s no use calling the local delivery center. Tucson Sector Border Patrol stopped the FedEx truck near…
Phoenix PD released a report that rules the shooting death of 16-year-old Alexander Wilson by a still unnamed DPS officer was justifiable. The police report states that the officer feared for his life when Wilson tried to flee in an SUV and was therefore justified in the shooting. But the…
The Phoenix Police Department’s SWAT team rammed a house Tuesday morning with a giant truck, trying to storm the home after 32-year-old Israel Celis Sr. allegedly kidnapped his own child and beat his wife in a hotel room. An Amber Alert that set off a nearly 12-hour chase and standoff ended Tuesday morning…
Twenty-year-old Caleb Everett plead not guilt Monday for his alleged involvement in a fight with ASU frat boys that involved baseball bats and shots fired into the air. Police arrested four other suspects in the fight last month, which took place just blocks away from the Tempe campus. (Check out the surveillance video at the link…
An angry lover tried to kidnap and kill his ex-boyfriend from a local Jamba Juice, and later shot himself at a hospital. The 28-year-old suspect (police have not released any names) had been arrested last month and was in court earlier that day, Phoenix PD spokesman Trent Crump says. Cops…
Two motorcycle gangs shot it out in the early morning hours Sunday at a party at the Loose Cannons Motorcycle club house in Apache Junction. Four people were injured, and one is in critical condition, according to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office. See also:Devils Disciples Motorcycle Gangster Indicted on Tons of Charges, Including…
