Town of Buckeye police officer Kevin Rorke has been cleared of wrongdoing in the bloody Black Friday arrest at a Walmart of shoplifting suspect Jerald Newman. No charges were ever filed against Newman, either. And now Newman is suing the town, says Buckeye police spokesman Lieutenant Jared Griffiths. (A Buckeye…
Welcome to justice in America, where it doesn’t even seem odd that you can admit to police that you committed a crime, then admit it on television, then go before a judge and say, wasn’t me.That’s the route 32-year-old Kristopher Harvey took today, pleading not guilty today to charges related…
Maria Rivera’s 11-month-old daughter, Stormi Rivera, is not expected to survive injuries sustained while with her mother yesterday, which Rivera claims were caused by the girl falling down the stairs.Detectives say hospital staff informed them “the only way to sustain these types of injuries [is] by severely shaking the baby.”That…
Parraz skewers Kunasek like an Easter lambAll I’ve got to say is, “Wow.” Check out this YouTube video from Santiago James Chavez of Citizens for a Better Arizona’s Randy Parraz going mano-a-mano today with Maricopa County Supervisor Andrew Kunasek. This, over a proposal to accept donations to pay for Sheriff…
Charges were dismissed against seven members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club who were accused of being involved in a 2010 shootout with Vagos, a rival gang.The two clubs shot it off in Chino Valley, north of Prescott, in August 2010, as at least 50 shots were fired, although no…
Michael Salman, who’s been squabbling with Phoenix for years over his home-worship services, says he was sent home Saturday night after he showed up at jail to begin his 60-day sentence. Salman’s been fighting the sentence since his September 2010 conviction for violating building codes at his 1.5-acre property near…
Several people have written to ask about the outcome of Pinal County sheriff deputy Louie Puroll’s bid to get his job back from a county Merit Commission. Readers of this paper will remember Louie, a talkative longtime deputy in his mid 50s who claimed to have been shot by a…
The fun begins around 6:55 inWhat in tarnation is wrong with Ken Bennett? Before he drank the birther Kool-Aid, then publicly spat it up, Arizona’s Secretary of State was regarded as a moderate Republican with a lick of common sense.But a month after the flap over Bennett’s asking the state of Hawaii to…
Unlike some people, Ramon Carrillo remembered to put his kids inside his car.The problem is, cops say he passed out drunk in the driver’s seat, leaving his kids — ages 1 and 2 — with nothing but 120-degree heat, a handgun, and a passed-out dad.According to court documents obtained by…
Yesterday, former Chandler City Councilman Martin Sepulveda announced he has the endorsement of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock in his bid for Congress.Brock has been known in more recent days for his family’s sex scandal, as his wife and adult daughter were both convicted of sexually abusing the same kid.Brock…
At age 93, Julius Elmer Grosso of Scottsdale is one of those senior citizens who doesn’t want to give up his car keys — even after a two-hour drinking binge. Cops say the stubborn nonagenerian gave them a hard time during a DUI investigation over the weekend, resulting in Grosso…
Martin Sepulveda — one of seven Republican candidates running to represent Arizona’s Ninth Congressional District — claims he’s “honored” to have the endorsement of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock.Brock’s probably best known for his supporting role in his family’s sex scandal, which included his now-estranged wife, Susan Brock, repeatedly sexually…
Rachel Alexander, the right-wing blogger and ex-prosecutor under former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, has blown her chance to appeal her law-license suspension by failing to file her opening brief on time. The former deputy county attorney had her license suspended in April for six months and a day because…
Another example of how not to be a parent was in a Maricopa County courtroom this morning, as 19-year-old Catalina Clouser pleaded not guilty to driving about 12 miles before realizing she had left her baby on the roof of her car.That incident, which occurred on June 1, came a…
As the Tempe Police Department got verification earlier this month that the five burned bodies found in an SUV in the Vekol Valley were identified as James and Yafit Butwin and their three children, another group of five people was still apparently missing.Pinal County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Tim Gaffney tells…
In a pretty improbable turn of events, the Arizona Wildcats baseball team is but one win away from a berth in the best-of-three NCAA College World Series championship round this weekend. The Wildcats await the winner of tonight’s elimination game in Omaha between the powerful Florida State Seminoles and the…
Ashley Buckman and her boyfriend James Edwards pleaded not guilty this morning to charges related to the death of Buckman’s 4-year-old daughter, who died after horrific alleged abuse.Toryn Buckman was pronounced brain dead when she was brought to Phoenix Children’s Hospital on May 30, after what Edwards told police was…
Anyone, and I mean anyone, who tells you with certainty the precise day that the U.S. Supreme Court will issue its opinion on Arizona’s breathing-while-brown statute Senate Bill 1070, is full of something that rhymes with the word “twit.”I wish I had a dime for every journo, TV talking head…
Congressman David Schweikert, not to be outdone by his primary opponent, Congressman Ben Quayle, introduced his own bill to block the implementation of the Obama administration’s new immigration policy.This move by Schweikert may seem familiar, since Quayle did just about the same thing yesterday too.The bills don’t appear to have…
Like the old saying says, there’s no place like home. Just ask the Arizona Diamondbacks, who returned to Chase Field on Monday night after a six-game roadtrip filled with frustration and kicked the crap out of the Seattle Mariners 7-1 after much-needed explosion of offense. And it was due in…
Congratulations to the New Times reader known as knotanes, you’ve won this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.On Friday, we asked readers to write the caption for the above photo of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, with his cake from Citizens for a Better Arizona’s Randy Parraz.We picked…
It appears Congressman Ben Quayle does not find the Obama administration’s new immigration policy “something that’s intriguing,” as he did with the plan of Senator Marco Rubio.So much so, it seems, that Quayle just introduced the “Prohibiting Back-door Amnesty Act of 2012” to block its implementation.The Obama administration’s policy, announced…
