See also: New Times special report: Polygamy in Arizona See also: Mohave County Sheriff’s Office to Patrol Colorado City See also: Colorado City Sued by Justice DepartmentSee also: Someone Buried a Cat Up to Its Head in Concrete on Ex-FLDS Member’s PropertyThe Mohave County Sheriff’s Office will be investigating the…
Over the weekend, the Arizona Republic took a look at Republican U.S. Senate candidate Wil Cardon’s record of being a “job creator,” in which he’s repeatedly claimed that he’s created “hundreds of jobs.”Turns out, the Republic found Immigration and Customs Enforcement records stating that a bunch of the employees of…
When word got out last week that Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Richard Carmona gave some medical advice to a Republican campaign worker with an apparent leg injury, fellow Democrats were loving the feel-good moment.The Arizona Republican Party — or at least, its spokesman — is suspicious of a “hypothetical situation”…
It ain’t no party about off-the-wall statements by Arizona politicians unless Governor Jan’s invited. Last week we took a look at some of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s most puzzling moments of 2012 (so far). Given the infamous embarrassing moments the Guv has did have — such as the brain-fart of the…
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The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office announced yesterday that a gang member was “planning to publicly assassinate Sheriff Joe Arpaio using a high powered rifle.”The problems with Samuel Matta’s alleged plot included the fact that he couldn’t scrape together the $1,800 bond to see the light of day, and he was…
Magdalena has worked for me many years — 15, to be exact. She came over as a mojada with her two little girls when they were 4 and 6. The girls went to school, but only until middle school because they are undocumented; they can’t get a job or a…
TEABAGGIN’ 1070’s living on borrowed time: Stephen Lemons hit it out of the park again with his analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on [Arizona Senate Bill] 1070 (“Pyrrhic Victory,” June 28). The way he made fun of our dunderheaded Governor Jan Brewer was hilarious. She made a moron…
One day after defending himself at a candidates’ forum for keeping his day job as a lieutenant with the Scottsdale Police Department, Mike Stauffer announced that he will resign his post at the end of August to devote himself full time to his bid to replace Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The…
One of the hottest Valley party spots in the mid-2000s was Scottsdale’s CBNC, short for Coyote Bay Night Club. Hip-hop stars and professional athletes flocked there. Rap artist and music producer Kasseem Dean (a.k.a. Swizz Beatz) was a regular and claimed he was one of the owners. Tucked in the…
Three middle-aged women were arrested in a coupon scam so big and elaborate that it involved millions of dollars in cash, guns, and a speedboat. Yes, a coupon scam. Phoenix Police arrested Marilyn Johnson, 61, Robin Ramirez, 40, and Amiko Fountain, 42, for their alleged involvement in the counterfeit coupon…
Sadie Johnson told the cops she didn’t like babysitting her sisters — ages 1, 2, and 4 — a job she often had to do when her mother was going out with her boyfriend.Johnson, then 17, finally got out of it — after she was arrested for binding and gagging…
A Chandler defense lawyer who helped his client beat a serious marijuana charge says he probably will run for Republican Jon Kyl’s soon-to-be vacant U.S. Senate seat, running as a Libertarian. On July 2, attorney Marc J. Victor’s client, 53-year-old, Maria Carillo-Tremillo was found not guilty of knowingly transporting 83 pounds…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office claims a gang member was “planning to publicly assassinate Sheriff Joe Arpaio using a high powered rifle.”The first problem with the plot of gangster Samuel Matta was that he couldn’t come up with the $1,800 to bond out of jail after he stole a car…
It’s been about a year and a half since Tempe pastor Steven Anderson told New Times he believed “the government should put [homosexuals] to death,” but now he’s got a new cause — driving to Border Patrol checkpoints and letting the agents know they’re pretty much Nazis…
Rebecca Larios and her team, Rise of the South Phoenix, spent a few hours on Tuesday night recruiting new neighborhood activists — and several agreed to join the cause. “It’s time to rise,” Larios told the crowd of several dozen people. “It’s time to get up. We need you to…
If David Deal, the father of Ame Deal — the 10-year-old girl who died a year ago after her family members admittedly stuffed the girl in a footlocker — wanted to skip town between his arrests this weekend, he had about three days.If Deal actually tried to leave town, he…
It’s that time of the year, when Arizona Diamondbacks right-fielder Justin Upton — the first overall pick of the MLB draft in 2005 — is the subject of trade rumors.Upton’s been booed by the home crowd at Chase Field quite a bit this year, as he’s not quite up to…
Leslie Lysy tells New Times that the Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Office is refusing to return about $10,000 it impounded along with the Yukon she and her boyfriend were traveling in when he shot himself in the head with a 9-millimeter Glock. That was on April 10, 2011 — a traumatic…
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Dale Hausner, the creepy crawler who, with co-conspirator Sam Dieteman, terrorized the Valley in 2005-06, randomly killing six people and seriously injuring more than two-dozen people and animals, will remain on Arizona’s death row, after the state Supreme Court this morning upheld his convictions and sentences. The high court confirmed…
