The Phoenix man who was temporarily cleared of murder and child-abuse charges in a 2-year-old girl’s death was back in jail Thursday, after nearly two months of freedom.Phoenix Police Sergeant Trent Crump tells New Times 27-year-old Ryan Reed was arrested Thursday night on two counts of child molestation…
Assistant House Minority Leader Ruben Gallego, a Phoenix Democrat, announced plans to introduce a marijuana-legalization bill during the upcoming legislative session.Gallego, an Iraq War veteran, said he’s working on a bill “that would regulate and tax marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol.”…
It seems that inmates at Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jails will be going hungry this Thanksgiving, because the Turkey Day menu at gulag de Arpaio sounds absolutely inedible.In years past, Arpaio used to make a song and dance about ponying up an extra six cents an inmate to serve them something…
Well, Arizonans, you can decide on your own what you might be giving thanks for this Thanksgiving, but we can tell you some things you shouldn’t be thankful for.In fact, we found 50 ways in which you can give no thanks this year:…
Pinal County Sheriff’s Office detectives found various explosive devices — some of them homemade — in the house of a domestic-violence suspect.According to a PCSO spokesman, detectives tried to question 51-year-old Wesley Boles about the explosives inside the San Tan Valley home, but he started convulsing and was hospitalized…
Contaminated lettuce is the “probable source” of the E. coli outbreak a few months ago at a Federico’s Mexican Food location, according to the county health department.The Maricopa County Department of Public Health released its report on the investigation of the outbreak, which sickened a total of 94 people, with…
By January 31, Child Protective Services plans to have started (or completed) investigations into the cases that have been ignored over the last three years.The Department of Economic Security, which oversees CPS — or is supposed to, at least — finally released its plan for how the agency’s going to…
In the interest of fairness, we can only follow up a list of Phoenix’s 10 hottest newsmen with a catalog of Phoenix’s hottest newswomen.Now, the following rankings have nothing to do with any supposed journalistic abilities, but rather only their abilities to visually captivate their audiences. Enjoy…
The activists from Citizens for a Better Arizona are all over Child Protective Services and the agency’s failure to investigate 6,000 claims of neglect and abuse.In addition to making frequent made-for-TV trips to the Department of Economic Security (the parent agency of CPS) and Governor Jan Brewer’s office, CBA’s also…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery’s bad advice to County Supervisors on medical marijuana has resulted in less county control of dispensary locations. The county is now prohibited from imposing any of its own restrictions on a planned dispensary for Sun City because the county failed to comply with a previous…
An employee of the Tilted Kilt restaurant in Downtown Phoenix was killed at work this morning.Phoenix Police Sergeant Trent Crump tells New Times the killing is apparently the result of a fight between two members of the kitchen staff…
The Arizona Republic published a TKO of its editorial board this weekend, after the writers declared that the state’s voter-approved medical-marijuana program was “one of the biggest cons around.”Dr. Gina Mecagni, a local emergency physician, simply annihilated the Republic’s assertion that most medical-pot patients probably are fakers…
Phoenix officials and one of our favorite local curmudgeons, gun-law expert Alan Korwin, are scheduled for a courtroom showdown next month over banned firearms-training ads. The case was launched following the city’s move to censor 50 bus-shelter ads that Korwin had purchased in October 2010 for his firearms-training website, trainmeaz.com…
New Times ladies were sitting around engaged in a heated debate about who People magazine should name as 2013’s “Sexiest Man Alive.” Well, turns out that, last week, People handed the honor to Adam Levine, Maroon 5’s frontman and a judge on The Voice We say bah! We’d have given…
Welcome to Courthouse Update, a weekly rundown of goings-on at the Maricopa County Superior Court.This week, Cordell Jude convicted in alleged “self-defense” killing, a sexual encounter gone wrong lands a woman in prison, and more:…
Please see the update at the end of this post. Yep, Chandler attorney Tom Ryan was rarin’ to start writing up subpoenas in his new role as legal counsel for the Arizona Public Integrity Alliance, the group being SLAPP-sued by Attorney General Tom Horne in the world’s dumbest “defamation” case…
Drunk driving is bad.With that out of the way, here’s where police will be setting up “saturation patrols” around the Valley, looking for impaired drivers this weekend:…
Several activists and Democratic lawmakers are demanding that Arizona Department of Economic Security Director Clarence Carter resign amid the revelation that 6,000 allegations of child abuse weren’t investigated.Carter revealed Thursday that investigators for Child Protective Services (a division of the Department of Economic Security) that the allegations — many of…
In the Town of Florence, criminal investigations and public safety have taken a backseat to police department politics.This week, you can read part two of New Times reporters Monica Alonzo and Stephen Lemons’ three-part series, “Florence Exposed.”…
Despite the rain, around a dozen residents of the affluent North Phoenix neighborhood of Moon Valley showed up to protest the grand opening of a Goodwill store in their neighborhood.In addition to some residents believing that the store is not “compatible” with the neighborhood, the picketers are upset that the…
Attorney General Tom Horne, elections law violator, is the walking, talking embodiment of the arrogance of power. For him, the rules simply do not apply. But if you criticize him, laws that have no application in your case, suddenly become relevant. It’s bad enough that our sleazy AG recently filed…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest.This week, our alleged offenders show the ups…
