A Yuma man is in custody after an almost nine-hour standoff with police. Michael McCormick was wanted in connection with several vehicle thefts and burglaries. When police tracked him to a motel, he fled and broke into a trailer home, where the standoff ensued. He eventually surrendered and was taken…
In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries: Feathered Bastard: Terminate All Joe Arpaio’s 287(g) Power, Demands ACLU Joe Arpaio Apparently in Violation of ICE…
Looks like the journos at today’s Joe Arpaio presser practically had to jump out of the way of the spittle flying forth from the sheriff’s kisser. As I suspected it would be, the whole show was an excuse for a tirade on the part of our spoiled lawman, a fit thrown by a…
New Times reported yesterday about the arrest of Jeffrey Graybill, an Arizona man who’s accused of posing as a fertility doctor in LA and posting Craigslist ads soliciting “semen donors” to attract victims he would sexually molest. The Phoenix Police Department says today it’s identified five more of Graybill’s alleged Arizona…
A Prescott Valley woman, who now lives in Maricopa County, was sentenced to two years’ probation and 80 hours of community service after pleading guilty to animal cruelty and disorderly conduct.Boy did Michael Vick pick the wrong lawyer…
A New Times column published last week caused the Arizona Board of Psychologist Examiners to reverse itself — with the board voting unanimously not to work to repeal some newly passed legislation after all.Board member Dr. Cheryl Karp, a psychologist, told members that the New Times article made it clear…
Ramping up the pressure on ICE, the Obama administration and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the American Civil Liberties Union has just issued a press release demanding that Arpaio be stripped of all of his 287(g) authority, including that in the jails. In some ways, this is no surprise, as the ACLU is…
A routine traffic stop resulted in the seizure of what authorities say was nearly $10,000 worth of crystal meth on its way to Phoenix late last week…
The frozen head of Ted Williams made headlines again last week when a new book claims lab technicians at Scottsdale-based Alcor Life Extension Foundation used the Spendid Splinter’s frozen head as a baseball as they hit it with a monkey wrench.Well, Fox Sports is taking a gimmicky approach to predict…
A group of severely disabled Arizonans have filed a class-action lawsuit against the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System for denying payment for adult-incontinence briefs prescribed by a doctor.The lawsuit claims that AHCCCS denied payment for the briefs, which forces caretakers of disabled people to pay for the briefs out…
If you’re like many of us and missed the federal government’s generous “Cash for Clunkers” deadline, you may have been hoping someone would steal your dumpy old Chrysler so you can collect a little insurance money. In the past, parking your car in certain Phoenix neighborhoods overnight would more than likely make those…
If you think the mustache went out with the cheesy bass riffs in ’70s porn, you may be wrong. Clay Zavada, the stache-clad relief pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks, has made it to the finals. No, we don’t mean the baseball postseason (he’s on the Diamondbacks, remember); Zavada has been named a…
Two juveniles were arrested by Phoenix police for allegedly shooting at traffic signs and speed enforcement cameras with BB guns. DPS officers stopped a black Volvo after reports of shots fired on eastbound Interstate 10 and took a male and a female into custody. There were reportedly five juveniles in the…
By kvetching to the Arizona Republic and KTAR 92.3 FM’s Jay Lawrence over the weekend about his brand-spanking new, 287(g) jails contract with ICE, has Arpaio thereby violated his agreements with ICE, both old and new? In Section XVIII, paragraph two of the freshly minted Memorandum of Agreement, the recently released document, signed by Arpaio…
In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries: Feathered Bastard:Joe Arpaio Defiant on 287(g), Vows “Nothing Will Change,” Threatens to Deport Mexicans Himself Up on…
Thousands of people were forced to leave the Phoenix Convention Center this afternoon after a mysterious bag and a bonehead comment sparked a police investigation and an all-out evacuation.Phoenix police say shortly after 1 p.m., a man brought a bag to a Convention Center security guard and said “hope it…
Yet another alleged Arizona scumbag was arrested out of state — this time for molesting grown men. The Los Angeles Police Department says Jeffrey Graybill, 40, was arrested on September 30 for pretending to be a Los Angeles fertility doctor called “Dr. Richardson,” in order to sexually molest patients in…
Phoenix police are looking for the man responsible for the shotgun slaying of a woman in Phoenix early Saturday morning.Police say white 39-year-old Kelley Jaeger and her black friend, 48-year-old Jeffrey Wellmaker, were walking together in Palma Park at 12th Street and Dunlap Avenue when a man began harassing them…
The city of Glendale, in an attempt to rally support for the possibly fleeing Phoenix Coyotes, is kicking off “White Out Week” on Wednesday.City officials are planning to “whitewash” the city leading up to the Coyotes home opener Saturday against the Columbus Blue Jackets at Jobing.com Arena.Good timing in terms of…
A new poll released today claims that Arizona is tied for sixth on the list of states where the U.S. population would like to live.And, to think, we thought we were mostly popular with Mexicans…
Maricopa County Andrew Thomas has authorized three special prosecutors — two from Washington D.C. and a Phoenix attorney — to handle criminal allegations against County Superivor Don Stapley. The move appears to violate the spirit of a promise made by Thomas to the Board of Supervisors a few months ago…
Last week, an 18-year-old Gilbert man was found hogtied naked and beaten in the closet of a home in Farrell, Ohio.Why was an 18-year-old Gilbert man in Farrell, Ohio? Lets just say he wasn’t doing missionary work…
