MCSOMohave County found its own version of the feline hurling “Crazy Cat Lady.” Authorities arrested 47-year-old Lana Rennee Meadville Thursday after she allegedly killed a cat and heaved it at her mother, according the Mohave County Sheriff’s office. See also:Helen Flint, 74, Found Out Being the Cat Lady in Bullhead…
The U.S. Department of Treasury placed sanctions on eight Mexican cartel bosses in the north of the country, each of whom controls smuggling routes and cities for the Sinaloa Cartel called “plazas.” The Sinaloa Cartel is the largest and oldest of the Mexican cartels. Throughout the drug war and internecine…
U.S. Marshals working with Tempe PD arrested Mazen Diamond in Atlanta Monday, after the fugitive had been on the lam for more than 10 years for drugging, raping and videotaping Tempe women he and his cousin met at local bars. Authorities found Mazen living with his girlfriend and two young…
Shannon Liska says her pitbull Trax didn’t deserve to be shot by a U.S. Forest Service officer while on a camping trip in March. Shannon Liska’s 2-year-old pitbull still has a bullet shard in its snout. The dog is now toothless on one side of his mouth, and doesn’t have enough jaw…
The Peoria PD arrested Matthew Pape two days ago after he allegedly — and from what witnesses say and what’s indicated in the police report, accidentally — killed his friend while play-fighting at a bar, police say. About 10 p.m. Friday, Pape, 39, and his friend, David Witmer, 45, were…
The family of Alexander Wilson, the 16-year-old boy who was shot in the head by a DPS officer, was buried yesterday at a packed service that was as much a sermon on police killings in poor neighborhoods as it was a funeral. Family members say Wilson aspired to be a football…
Police arrested five suspects after a fight with ASU frat boys — involving baseball bats and shots fired from two handguns — all just blocks away from the Tempe campus. Isaiah Everett, 19; Caleb Everett, 20; Zack Rezendes, 18; Clarissa Casillas, 19; and Michael Reyes, 19; were arrested on Sunday…
Customs and Border Patrol arrested a man who just tossed his cocaine into a duffel bag in the backseat of his car in an attempt to smuggle it across the border. Luis Gonzales Murillo, 33, is a Mexican national from the state of Sonora, and allegedly tried to drive the…
Authorities in Miami working with Tempe PD finally nabbed Antonio Julio Sanchez, a fugitive who has been on the run for 10 years, convicted of slipping Ketamine into women’s drinks and then raping them while filming it. U.S. Marshals working with Tempe PD caught Sanchez Wednesday in Miami, who was living…
It’s drop house season.Federal agents and local law enforcement took 36 suspected undocumented immigrants into custody after serving a search warrant Wednesday on what they believe is a drop house. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Arizona DPS, and the Phoenix PD served the warrant on a house in the 2500 block of…
Last month, Republican State Senator Don Shooter made an unannounced and unwanted appearance at a Yuma charter school. He burst into a classroom after he slipped past the front desk and caused a scene, according to police reports. New Times just received the cell phone video that teacher Danielle Munoz took of the…
Something interesting was happening last Saturday during Country Thunder in Moonshine Willy’s women’s bathroom, because DPS officer Steven Svestka refused to leave it. Pinal County Sheriff’s Department received a call around 10 p.m. saying that Svestka, 41, was “being disorderly and refused to leave the women’s restroom area,” according to a…
A look at court and police records shows a fuller portrait of Alexander Wilson, a kid shot by a DPS officer more than a week ago at a west Phoenix Chevron gas station. A press release sent to Valley media says Wilson was wanted on a warrant for armed robbery,…
Alexander Wilson’s family wants to know why the 16-year-old had to die after a DPS officer stopped him while driving a stolen vehicle. On Thursday, more than 30 people marched at the Capitol and demanded answers. They swarmed the normally quiet hallways wearing shirts that read, “Fuck the Police.” When…
Peoria PD is looking for an arsonist with a grudge against a beauty school. A fire broke out Wednesday night around 11 in the 11000 block of North 99th Avenue and destroyed the school and several other buildings beside it in the strip mall…
Andrew Kent, who police say admitted to his frat friends and to the father of a victim that he threw a bottle of Everclear into a bonfire that burned two women at a party, pleaded not guilty this morning to throwing said booze into fire. The two women burned by…
An Arizona Department of Public Safety officer shot and killed Alexander Wilson at a gas station, who had decided to ram the officer’s vehicle in order to escape, police say. Sunday night around 9:30, the officer ran a license plate on a Chevy Tahoe near 27th Avenue and Camelback Road…
There’s no end to how Sheriff Joe Arpaio can spin anything for a bit of shameless self-promotion. In West Virginia Thursrday, Mingo County Sheriff Eugene Crum was shot while in his car on a lunch break. Moments later, and 1,950 miles away in Phoenix, this sad news is fed through…
After nearly 42 years in prison, Louis Taylor is adjusting to the world as a free man. Taylor cried Wednesday morning when talking about his new found liberation and says he took a hike and even ate some fast food to help him readjust to society. “I’m kind of overwhelmed,” he…
Carson Palmer of the Oakland Raiders is on his way to the desert. The Associated Press reports that the deal includes a swap for this year’s sixth-round pick for Oakland’s seventh-round pick, and a conditional clause that could trade Arizona’s seventh-round 2014 draft choice as well…
It looks like the Arizona Cardinals are getting quarterback Carson Palmer from the Oakland Raiders. The final decision hasn’t been made, but an anonymous source told USA Today that the trade is being worked out, and after the Cardinals released John Skelton, it seems like a sure thing…
One Arizona school may need to hire guards to protect itself — not from gang violence or fear of school shootings, but from Yuma Republican State Senator and advocate of guns in schools, Don Shooter. Yuma PD says that Shooter burst into a charter school for troubled teens that his…
