Sara Petsinger, 31, is going to need a new job — her meth/topless massage business was shut down yesterday when she was arrested for selling meth and heroin to an undercover Mesa police officer…in a school zone…as an 8-year-old slept in her apartment.Petsinger and her co-defendant, 49-year-old Christine Petsinger, face…
Jasmine Brown — a 29-year-old youth minister at the Family of God Christian Fellowship in Apache Junction — and the 12-year-old boy he’s accused of molesting, have differing accounts of the abuse — Brown doesn’t deny he molested the boy, he just claims it was consensual.Unfortunately for Brown, even if…
Yesterday, Scott Bass was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping and child abuse charges for locking his 14-year-old daughter in a bathroom for more than two months.Per his plea deal, Bass faced up to 17 years in prison — and New Times readers apparently weren’t…
Brian Bizzell is a band teacher with the Buckeye Unified School District — which is unfortunate considering he’s also an alleged pederast.Bizzell, who teaches at Estrella Foothills High School, was arrested early yesterday morning after police found evidence on one of his student’s cell phones that he and the underage…
A Phoenix man who pleaded guilty to charges that he locked his 14-year-old daughter in a bathroom for months, barely fed her, and forced her to exercise until exhaustion, was sentenced to 15 years in prison this morning.Additionally, Scott Bass, 31, was sentenced to lifetime probation by Maricopa County Superior…
“She is definitely dead — I put two to the chest and one to the head.”That’s what Anthony Rinaldi — now a former Department of Corrections officer — told a Department of Public Safety officer last night, less than 30 minutes after fatally shooting his wife, 28-year-old Amanda Rinaldi, at…
An officer with the Arizona Department of Corrections turned himself into authorities last night and confessed to murdering his wife at the Phoenix home the couple shared.The officer’s two young children were in the home at the time of the shooting.Phoenix police say about 6:20 p.m. yesterday, Anthony Rinaldi, 26,…
Sorry, gentlemen, according to her Facebook page, Brandi Farnberg, 23, is in a relationship. According to police, she’s also an alleged car thief with aliases like “Sabrina Angelo,” “Brandy Torres,” and “Kacey Whitmore.”Farnberg was arrested early yesterday morning after she was stopped by police while driving a stolen car. Additionally,…
Taylor Jose Basilio told police earlier this week that he’s done some “stupid things” lately. Specifically, he beat his 7-week-old son so violently that the baby’s skull was fractured in two places.Basilio and his wife, Candace Basilio, each of Phoenix, brought the baby to a pediatrician last week to get…
If 20-year-old William Lowe’s aspiring to become a ruthless serial killer, he may be on the right track. Like Ted Bundy, Jeffery Dahmer, and David Berkowitz before they were cold-blooded killers, Lowe apparently gets his kicks by hurting defenseless animals.According to police, Lowe shot a puppy with a high-powered pellet…
Police say a Scottsdale man got hammered on liquor and beer Saturday afternoon, sexually assaulted his own wife, verbally abused his nephew and daughters, and then tried to stage a fight between a chihuahua and a pit bull.When the two pooches didn’t fight, 48-year-old David Shelburg Jr. slammed their heads…
A 20-year-old surgery assistant at a Sun City hospital was arrested at work last week following a grand-jury indictment on charges of possessing child pornography. Ryan Hazelton was 17 and living with his folks in Chandler when a 2009 Tempe police investigation caught up to him and his family’s home…
Eugene Foster’s girlfriend’s teen daughter will probably think twice before she takes naked pictures of herself on her cell phone. That’s because Foster taught her a “lesson” Wednesday night — by sending naked photos of the girl to dozens of contacts stored in her cell phone.Many of those who received…
According to the medical website drugs.com, some of the side effects of Xanax include decreased sexual desire or ability, diarrhea, dizziness, drowsiness, dry mouth, light-headedness, nausea, tiredness, and weight changes. One of the more severe side effects (as you can see in the mugshot to the right) is red, swollen…
The young woman seemed nervous as she checked in at the airport gate on July 26, and officers could see her hand shake as she held her ticket.Abril Save of Tucson had just flown to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport from New York and was preparing to take a connecting…
“They were going to kill me.”That’s the cryptic message an Arizona City woman — hopped up on bath salts — gave police before leading them on a 30-minute chase Saturday afternoon.The pursuit ended when cops managed to blast her in the face with pepper spray while she was still behind…
Here’s what we know: 38-year-old Jose Jesse Olmos broke into an office at the Mesa apartment complex where he lives, stole a power drill, and looked at porn on a computer in the office — as captured on the office’s surveillance camera.What we — and, more importantly, people who work…
A Mesa woman has been charged with second-degree murder after admitting to police that she fatally shot her boyfriend after he accused her of infidelity.Police say Donna Diaz called police about 11 p.m. yesterday to report that she shot her boyfriend, Thomas Mark Wakeman, three times after he accused her…
Taking a cab from the airport this weekend would have been cheaper — and a whole lot less frightening — for a Florida visitor who was robbed of $5,000.The victim, who wasn’t named in court records, was picked up at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on Saturday at about 3:45…
A year-long child-porn investigation led FBI agents this summer to a Maricopa teenager with a personal stash of 500 videos and pictures of sexually exploited children.The case was outlined in court records filed yesterday by the Arizona U.S. Attorney’s Office, which requests the forfeiture of computer equipment seized from the…
A Hells Angels hanger-on who helped alleged murderous biker Paul Eischeid flee the country in 2004 has been sentenced to prison time for supplying Eischeid with a false passport before he skipped town.Eischeid — a former Charles Schwab stockbroker with a “relatively clean criminal record” — is accused of the…
If you happen to run into the parents of accused murderer Paul Giovante Jones, do him a favor and let them know he’s a killer and he’s “proud of it.”That’s the message Jones, 26, asked Scottsdale police to relay to his parents after he fatally shot his boyfriend, Colton Scharge,…
