Valley media outlets have started to take in the 10,000 page, $5,000 internal-affairs report from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office on its hundreds of bungled sex crimes.Based on several accounts of the report’s summary, the specific sex-crimes detectives involved weren’t pegged with all the blame. Understaffing is cited as a…
Secret footage obtained by New Times of the last Teabagger meet-up headed by A.J. LaFaro. With friends like these, how could Joe lose? Check out the email below, with a message purportedly from walking PayDay bar and newly-elected chair of the Maricopa County Republican Committee, A.J. “Wild Man” LaFaro. In…
Police arrested a Nimrod — specifically, Cody Nimrod — while he was in the middle of an arson spree in Tempe early Sunday morning.After lighting up five dumpsters, a car, and stuff in an alley around 3 a.m. Sunday, police found Nimrod in the act of setting another fire, according…
Based on multiple reports that a man was pretending his hands were guns, and pointing them at other drivers on State Route 238, police eventually found alleged finger-gunner Josh Bloom.Bloom proceeded to lead police on a car chase that lasted for 40 miles on Friday afternoon, according to court documents…
Despite what you may have heard, cops in the Phoenix area aren’t on an active “manhunt” for former Los Angeles cop Christopher Dorner.Phoenix police Sergeant Trent Crump tells New Times that police have received a couple calls over the past few days, but nothing “anywhere near credible.”…
Protecting the kids? Tell it to those who suffered because the MCSO botched hundreds of sex crime investigations Wanna find out how Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s boys in beige botched investigations into hundreds of sex crime cases in Maricopa County? It’ll cost ya. Five grand, to be exact. And make the…
The pro-gun-control organization headed up by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, released a video ad featuring a plea from Giffords for Congress to act on gun-control proposals.Giffords and Kelly announced the formation of Americans for Responsible Solutions last month, and announced their intentions to get Congress…
A graduate of Red Mountain High School in Mesa is accused of trying to bomb a bank in Oakland, California, but his purportedly Taliban-connected partner was an undercover FBI agent.According to the FBI, 28-year-old Matthew Aaron Llaneza, now a resident of San Jose, California, wanted to make it look like…
If you’re not a fan of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s school-patrol posse, then get a load of what Arpaio kiss-ass Steven Seagal thinks about you.”Anybody who has criticized me or the sheriff for standing up to help the children, in my opinion, is an embarrassment to the human race,” Seagal said…
Putting a propane tank in a campfire turns out to be an even stupider idea than we thought. After Bryan J. Teague of Peoria put a 16-ounce tank in a campfire on August 8 while on an off-roading trip in the Tonto National Forest, the predictable explosion sparked the 5,220-acre…
Days prior to his agency’s immigration raid on a Tempe clothing company, Sheriff Joe Arpaio was meeting with scores of Latino pastors in a get-together brokered by Phoenix City Councilman Michael Nowakowski. See also: -Bill Montgomery Is No Immigration Moderate -Prensa Hispana Blows MCSO Deputy Chief Paul Chagolla in Print…
A jury convicted a former taxi driver of manslaughter today, for beating a 57-year-old man to death in a 2011 parking-lot-rage incident.Former AAA Taxi driver Gary Gene Mayo actually had a fare in his cab when he began swearing at James Fournier, who was out with his wife and grandchild…
Scottsdale police have “exactly nothing” against the Marine accused of stabbing former ASU football player Tyrice Thompson to death, his lawyer claims.In Ian MacDonald’s initial court appearance for his second-degree murder charge, attorney Jeffery Mehrens also spoke about his client’s career as a Marine, in which he claimed MacDonald has…
Just about every 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.You may be familiar with the word-association game — one…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say the last year Border Patrol apprehended fewer people than last year was almost two decades ago.The 124,631 “apprehensions” by Border Patrol in Arizona in 2012 is the lowest number in 19 years, and the agency says that’s how they measure attempted border crossings…
Bond was set at $75,000 for the 26-year-old Tempe man arrested in the murder of former ASU football player Tyrice Thompson, and new information has been released in the case.For starters, according to court documents obtained by New Times, although Ian MacDonald — the man accused of stabbing Thompson to…
Believe it or not, the drama between a Scottsdale doctor and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is still ongoing.Earlier this week, former White House doctor and current Scottsdale resident Connie Mariano gave her medical opinion on Christie, and wouldn’t ya know — the medical community tends to believe being a…
A Phoenix man took a plea agreement today in a federal stalking case, in which he attempted to “reclaim” his ex-wife in time for their 20th anniversary.According to 49-year-old David Richards’ admission, he only started stalking the woman 15 years after their marriage ended.See also:-Moses Shepard Gets Prison Time for…
A 74-year-old Gilbert man moseyed into a Burger King yesterday afternoon, and told the cashier that he was just having a bad day.That man, James Richard Miletta, then proceeded to pull out a handgun and demand the money from the register, according to Gilbert police…
The Arizona Diamondbacks are going to be part of an incredibly strange reality television show, in which old, former college quarterbacks compete to see who can throw the best knuckleball, and earn the chance to pitch for the D-backs in spring training.Imagine one of the contestants, 50-year-old Doug Flutie, wearing…
The woman who told police she was so “dazed” that she drank nail polish before fatally running over an 18-year-old Peoria high school student in 2010 was sentenced today to six years in prison.Joey Romero was walking home from his job at the 99 Cent Store near 83rd Avenue and…
A 26-year-old Tempe man has been arrested in the murder of former ASU football player Tyrice Thompson.Ian MacDonald, an apparent Navy veteran, is accused of stabbing Thompson five times on January 27 while Thompson was working as a bouncer at the Martini Ranch bar in Scottsdale. Thompson died from his…
