Crime & Police

Police said Ote-Tee Brooks Nalwood pointed a gun at them from his car. Whether he did is hard to see on body-cam footage.

The man cited Charlie Kirk’s killing as motivation and spouted baseless right-wing claims about transgender school shooters.

Derok Roach admitted to hooking up in his police car, including in church parking lots. His partner claimed she was forced.

Police said Efrain Hidalgo pulled a knife. Body-cam video shows a cop shot him nine times without warning Hidalgo to drop it.

Phoenix police shot and killed 14 people in 2024. Seven people have died after police encounters so far this year.

Records from David Denogean’s murder investigation show police have had a suspect since 2023. Denogean’s family didn’t know.

The controversial conservative media icon, who based his operation in Arizona, was killed during a college event in Utah.

Eric Chapman is facing 20 felonies after he admitted to having sexual encounters with male students in his classroom.

Police shot Rocky Joe Ellis on Aug. 19 as he approached with a hatchet, then watched as he lay motionless on the ground.

A week after a student fatally stabbed another, Lydia and Cassandra Hernandez allegedly tried to “test” school security.

Did Arizona’s police certification board go a little light on ex-Scottsdale cop Derok Roach for on-the-job horniness?

In the fall, a federal appeals court ruled that publishing mugshots of recent arrestees amounted to pretrial punishment.

Tempe cops jailed Jalen Woods, who is Black, for a street racing infraction — even though he was sitting at a red light.

In January, cops hit Turrell Clay in the chest with a stun baton, damaging his heart. He died at the hospital hours later.

Matt Giordano, the new Phoenix police chief, talked about repairing community relations and delivering hard news to his cops.

Phoenix expects the system to cut down on non-emergency call hold times, which are anecdotally atrocious.

Pitched as a safer way to subdue suspects, the less-lethal weapons used by Phoenix police can actually be deadly.

Marcus Freiberger was found dead a month after he went missing. Phoenix police closed his case with little explanation.

A green card applicant got uncomfortably close to deportation after he got clipped on the highway earlier this month.

Chandler police recommended a felony child abuse charge. The county prosecutor said there was no likelihood of conviction.

Ricky Wassenaar confessed to killing three inmates at a state prison months ago.

Trigg Kiser drowned in May after his dad lost sight of him by the pool for a few minutes, Brady Kiser told Chandler police.