Mary Rose Wilcox says she’ll announce plans on Monday to run for re-election as Maricopa County’s District 5 Supervisor.Name recognition shouldn’t be a problem.When voters decide which Supervisors to elect in 2012, (all five seats are up for grabs), it’s a safe bet they’ll know Wilcox is a senior member…
For the second time this month, a Valley teacher is accused of feeling up a student. The latest: Richardo Moreno, a teacher at Basha High School in Chandler.According to Chandler police, a 16-year-old female student told school administrators that Moreno, 51, inappropriately touched her and another girl while the three…
The parents of a 10-year-old girl — who blamed their daughter for getting raped by a group of Liberian boys when she was only 8 — have been granted competency hearings in their child abuse cases.The Liberian girl’s brutal 2009 rape made national headlines — click here for all the…
Oprah-approved “self-help” guru James Arthur Ray will be sentenced today after a jury found him responsible for the deaths of three people during a 2009 sweat lodge ceremony near Sedona.Ray, who in September was convicted of three counts of negligent homicide, faces anything from probation to nine years in prison…
A Mesa woman was kind enough to pay for her 41-year-old alcoholic nephew’s carton of cigarettes. He allegedly expressed his gratitude by brutally beating her to death with a stick.According to court records obtained by New Times, about 1 a.m. Tuesday, Mesa police were dispatched to a home at 5844…
Two people accused of giving their 2-year-old son methadone to relieve a toothache pleaded not guilty today to a collection of child abuse-related charges. Initially, the baby’s mother, Jennifer Campos, was booked on three counts of endangering the life of a minor, and four counts of child abuse. The boy’s…
Convicted “Baseline Killer” Mark Goudeau yesterday addressed the jury that will ultimately decide whether he lives or dies. The killer of nine — who terrorized Phoenix residents for nearly a year — asked for mercy.Goudeau was convicted of 67 felonies last month, including nine murders. He already is serving a…
Cary Dolego, the love-seeking Queen Creek man we wrote about yesterday who’s homeless in the Ukraine, has been rejected by “Yulia,” the surgeon with whom he’d been e-mailing.The former write-in candidate for the 2010 Arizona governor’s race went to the Ukraine in the spring as part of a matchmaking service,…
A Chandler woman went medieval on her husband during a weekend domestic squabble, slicing his arm with a two-and-a-half foot sword. The fight between Louis and Pamela Haas took place on Sunday afternoon at their home near Chandler Boulevard and McClintock Drive, but that’s about all the couple could agree…
Cary Dolego, a former Green Party write-in candidate for the 2010 Arizona governor’s race, was found among homeless people in a Ukrainian town last week following a failed quest for love. A Youtube video (see below) shows Dolego, 53, sitting on a bed in a hospital ward, explaining to an…
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords tonight gave her first interview since being shot “through the brain” during the January 8 Tucson shooting rampage that took the lives of six people, and wounded 13 others.When asked if she was angry at Jared Loughner, the man who shot her and 18 others, Giffords answers…
Detectives from the Peoria Police Department’s Special Victims Unit arrested Jose Sanchez Figueroa, a 37-year-old Colorado man, for allegedly engaging in sexual contact with a minor.The accused perv faces multiple felony counts of luring a minor for sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, sexual conduct with a minor, and molestation.And he apparently…
Jonathan Knight, a children’s Tae Kwon Do instructor in Glendale, was in Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where he pleaded not guilty to charges that he sent photos of his penis to one of his 12-year-old female students.Knight was arrested last month and faces four counts of furnishing obscene material…
Heroin’s not good for anyone — especially an 11-month-old baby, like the one found in a Scottsdale hotel room that her mother baked out with heroin smoke yesterday afternoon.According to court records obtained by New Times, 25-year-old Matthew Nakihei and his baby-mama, Stefanie Bindes, 34, were arrested yesterday after police were called the…
The much anticipated interview with Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords — her first interview since getting shot in the head during the January 8 Tucson shooting — is set to air Monday night on ABC.It remains unclear how much viewers will see of Giffords in her current state — her staff says…
A teacher with the Scottsdale Unified School District was arrested yesterday after two 12-year-old girls accused him of grabbing their breasts.The two girls, who police say are best friends, say the alleged gropings happened while the two were in the school’s library with 60-year-old Thomas Weaver, their teacher at the…
If you lead police on a car chase while high on crystal meth and heroin — trying to run down officers as they shoot at your vehicle — and then try to bodyslam the cop who finally gets his hands on you, don’t be too surprised if your mugshot looks…
Admitted pederast Luis Mejia Ortiz was in Maricopa County Superior Court today, where he was sentenced to 17 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges that he molested his girlfriend’s 9-year-old daughter on several occasions.In all, Ortiz pleaded guilty to one count of child molestation and three counts of…
A Phoenix woman was arrested yesterday after police determined that she knew her husband was abusing her 3-year-old daughter and did nothing to stop it.The baby, Dani Mayo, died from her injuries after suffering months of abuse at the hands of her step-father, 22-year-old Corey Daniels. Daniels is married to…
A Scottsdale man who once was a volunteer with a Valley Big Brothers and Big Sisters organization was in a Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where he pleaded not guilty to charges that he molested/urinated on a 6-year-old boy.Read our initial post on Ali Chitsaz here — pretty sick…
Steven Davis, 28, apparently is a car thief, which a 15-year veteran of the Tucson Police Department learned fairly quickly when Davis stole his police cruiser over the weekend and led cops on a 50-mile chase. That, however, was only after ditching a vehicle he’d (allegedly) previously stolen in the…
The latest addition to New Times’ ongoing series on naked meth-heads is 39-year-old Mark Brian Lockhead, who was found naked — and, of course, hopped up on meth — outside a Phoenix motel Friday night.About 9 p.m. Friday, Phoenix police were called to the Paradise Motel at 2433 East Van…
