The Tempe men who were arrested after driving around completely naked together after allegedly breaking into a man’s car couldn’t seem to get their stories straight when talking to police Monday morning.While Anthony Gammon told a story consistent with Tempe PD’s recollection, his partner Alberto Rosciano told police he really…
Convicted murderer Jimmy Odom’s attempted escape from a Tucson prison today was pretty lame.Odom’s plan, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections, was to beat up a contracted worker who was driving a delivery truck into the prison, steal the truck, and drive to freedom by running down several layers…
The Maricopa County Elections Department says a small number of people received a document that listed the wrong election date — put only in the portion of the document printed in Spanish.The estimate from the elections office is that fewer than 50 people received this document — it’s likely fewer…
ABC 15 and star reporter Dave Biscobing have the scoop again on the civil trial in Pinal County regarding the 2005 wrongful death of diabetic mom Deborah Braillard, who was denied medical treatment while in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s gulags and later died because of that lack of treatment. Earlier this…
Arizona’s anti-immigration laws and policies were center stage during part of the second presidential debate at Hofstra University in New York. President Barack Obama criticized Governor Mitt Romney for pledging to veto the DREAM Act and saying that “self deportation” was his plan to address the millions of undocumented immigrants…
Despite the speculation that Senator John McCain’s daughter, Meghan McCain, consults her vagina before casting votes — speculation we assume never existed — she claims she does not.McCain was in the KTAR booth for her weekly chat with Mac and Gaydos yesterday, and confirmed something that no one really asked,…
Erik Twist, the headmaster of a Phoenix charter school, blasted an e-mail to school parents outlining the reasons to vote against Proposition 204, an initiative estimated to generate about $1 billion a year mostly for education funding — including for charter schools. It’s causing a stir among some parents. Arizona…
A campaign-finance complaint has been filed against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, mostly related to the oodles of cash he’s sent over to his campaign manager Chad Willems’ company, Summit Consulting.While we were adding up how much Arpaio’s forked over to Summit (more than $1.5 million since January), we happened to notice…
President Obama and Mitt Romney engaged in an event last night that was billed as a “debate,” and given the nature of the so-called “debate,” somebody’s got to be the winner.According to the apparent mainstream media consensus, Obama won the debate, to tie the debate record at 1-1…
Paul Penzone’s secret weapon, one not captured by Republican pollsters: Adios Arpaio Before you review the results of two new GOP polls that have Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the lead against his Democratic challenger Paul Penzone, ask yourself this question: Is Arpaio acting like a front-runner way ahead of his…
Anthony Burton is probably the most badass dude in Tempe.Two guys allegedly tried to break into Burton’s car, and they ended up walking away butt naked. Also, Burton keeps a live alligator in his apartment…
Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kevin Kolb didn’t break any bones during Sunday’s loss to the Buffalo Bills, which is probably the only good news the team has today about the quarterback.Kolb does have damage to his rib cartilage, as well as a sprained sternoclavicular joint — more specifically, several of his…
Jesse Miller’s 1-year-old daughter was taken to Phoenix Children’s Hospital yesterday, as Miller explained to a nurse that he “just beat the shit out of [his] baby.”According to court documents obtained by New Times, Miller’s explanation was that he smoked the synthetic chemicals known as “spice,” which caused his soul…
Don Kenney, the former “quarter” back of one of Arizona’s worst corruption scandals, AzScam, was sentenced on Monday to 240 hours of community service for stealing his son’s identity. Kenney was convicted in 1991 of taking a $55,000 bribe, one of several lawmakers caught in a police sting for selling…
What do you do when you’re Sheriff Joe Arpaio and your name is practically a byword for the neglect of sex crime cases involving women and children? You use your political fundraising machine to shill for a national nonprofit that benefits abused kids, sort of like a petroleum company donating…
It’s not every day that a Republican congressional candidate releases an ad that probably requires the consumption of hallucinogenic drugs to get the full effect.Yet, Republican CD9 candidate Vernon Parker has this downright groovy ad out that’s just too awesome to ignore, regardless of the political content.See also:-Can Kyrsten Sinema…
President Obama and Mitt Romney are “dead even” in Arizona, according to a poll of the state’s voters released this week.The thought of Obama winning Arizona — which the president’s campaign contends is possibly — seems to come and go each week, depending on how poll results turn out, but…
The makers of marijuana-infused “Soccer Mom’s Tinctures & Candy” are suing the state in hopes of clarifying what “cannabis” means under the law. Back in March, cops raided the Phoenix home of Doug Arfa and Charise Voss on suspicion that the pair was selling “narcotic” drugs, a search warrant shows…
How much saliva do you have to unleash inside a cop car to make that car unusable for multiple days?That’s probably a question for 42-year-old Gilbert resident Anthony Crespin, who did exactly that over the weekend…
Both men charged in the 2010 murder of Arizona State University student Zachary Marco have now pleaded guilty, after Louis Eugene Harper pleaded guilty today to first-degree murder and armed robbery.Marco was 21 years old when he was gunned down after refusing to give up his belongings in a robbery…
Mesa resident Nicholas Linsk is accused of driving his truck away from the scene of his fatal collision with a bicyclist in Fountain Hills, which was reported by a man driving in the lane next to him at the time.According to court documents obtained by New Times, the initial story…
Pictures from Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever’s fatal September 18 crash and published by a southern Arizona news site show open containers of liquor — and Dever’s lifeless body. Click here to see the report by the Cochise County Record. David Morgan, a semi-retired news blogger and political muckraker from…
