The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office says the New York man accused of stalking and threatening a pair of TV anchors admitted that he was “on his way” to kill Nancy Grace.However, court documents obtained by New Times reveal MCSO detectives went to New York to interview David Lee Simpson –…
Even though our border is, by all measurements of the word, more secure today than it has been in the past four decades, politicians still argue that it isn’t secure enough. A new study postulates that there is no such thing as a “secure” border, because the definition of what…
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, all of our alleged offenders have…
Arizona Cardinals defensive lineman Darnell Dockett claims he actually bought a tiger.Dockett, who doesn’t always come off as the brightest gentleman on the planet, has been tweeting out pictures of himself with the young tiger, as well as the tiger’s mother, and told Fox Sports Radio that he really did…
Welcome to the latest horror-show vignette of Oz-like violence from our friends at the Arizona Department of Corrections, this time with a female corrections officer as the victim of a brutal beat-down. Wednesday night, CBS 5 reported on the recent attack of ADC Corrections Officer Benavidez (first name not given)…
It’s official — the U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into “Redneck Day,” a day of school-sanctioned festivities at Queen Creek High School that included a student wearing a Confederate flag like a cape. The Reverend Jarrett Maupin, who filed a complaint against the school district over the…
An 8-month-old child died Wednesday after being burned with a cigarette lighter and “violently shaken,” according to Phoenix police.Adrian Ponce, the fiancé of the child’s mother, has been jailed on nine felony child-abuse charges, as police await the results of an autopsy on the child, Sabrina Santos-Vasquez…
Army First Lieutenant Jonam Russell, a 25-year-old from Cornville, was killed in Afghanistan earlier this week along with two others after they were attacked with an improvised explosive device, according to the Defense Department.Russell is the 48th Arizona soldier to die in Afghanistan under “Operation Enduring Freedom.”…
If you pass out in a McDonald’s drive-thru at 1:30 a.m. on a Thursday, things probably aren’t going to end well.William Howard Jr., 35, recently found that out, after pulling into the drive-thru of a McD’s at 43rd Avenue and Thunderbird Road in Glendale, then passing out for a while…
Today in Found at the Border: Meth is now a fashion statement.U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found a duo from southern Arizona wearing a combined total of 10 pounds of meth while trying to cross the border back into the United States on Tuesday…
Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun certainly isn’t the most popular guy in baseball since being suspended for the rest of this season for violating the league’s drug policy.Many Arizona fans have been especially upset, given that Braun dominated the Diamondbacks in the 2011 playoffs. That same month, Braun reportedly failed…
Members of a motorcycle club called the “Sons of Hell” claim in a federal lawsuit that they were treated unfairly by police.The lawsuit contends that cops violated their constitutional rights and treat them as a gang “based solely on their associations and friendships with the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club.”…
So here’s a question for Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his enabler, Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery: After 73 immigration raids on local businesses, why no perp-walks for employers? Granted, Montgomery hasn’t been around for all 73 raids. Nevertheless, he has no problem prosecuting undocumented workers for forgery and ID theft,…
I had a conversation today with an 18-year-old female Mexican co-worker that completely blew me away. She has a 3-month-old baby with her 19-year-old (also Mexican) unemployed boyfriend. They have just found out that she is pregnant again. After listening to her sob about it, I asked her whether she…
There are only so many ways someone can try to avoid being arrested inside a second-story apartment.Judging by the cops’ account, Phoenix resident Keith Parton tried just about every single method possible, albeit unsuccessfully…
A motorcycle club called the “Sons of Hell” is suing several Arizona law enforcement agencies, alleging multiple violations of their constitutional rights.The bikers claim in a federal lawsuit that cops treat them as a gang “based solely on their associations and friendships with the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club.”…
Kevin Ryan Upshaw Jr. of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation has been charged with manslaughter following a Monday crash that killed a 5-year-old girl on a bike. Upshaw Jr., who manages or owns a rodeo-security business on the rural reservation north of Tucson, was drunk when his full-size 4×4…
If the United States passed legislation granting citizenship to the undocumented population, Arizona’s economy would grow by $500 million in the first five years, according to a report by the Morrison Institute for Public Policy. The immigration reform bill passed in the Senate and now in the U.S. House of…
A co-founder of the Granite Mountain Hotshots crew described the events leading up to the deaths of 19 firefighters in the Yarnell Hill Fire from the location where the firefighters deployed their fire shelters as a last resort in an attempt to stay alive.Although official reports are still to be…
Comedian Doug Stanhope, a Bisbee resident, ended up raising more than $125,000 for a woman whose house was destroyed in the Oklahoma tornado in May.Stanhope told New Times that he started raising funds for Rebecca Vitsmun after the widely seen interview on CNN in which anchor Wolf Blitzer asked her…
Matangi Tai, the man who was the subject of a recent viral video showing purported “brutality” by Mesa cops, died Monday at the Fourth Avenue Jail.Tai, 37, collapsed during his daily hour of recreation time, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office…
Yet again, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has saved the world from angry people with keyboards.In this week’s case, it was a New York man obsessed with Jodi Arias who allegedly threatened two TV news personalities, neither of whom live in Arizona, let alone Maricopa County…
