A Valley bail-bond company says it has denied an offer to write a bond for Jerice Hunter because her daughter is still missing and the bond amount is too low. The operators of Regulator Bail Bonds, Inc., tweeted and Facebooked their displeasure last night, urging the state’s other bail-bond companies to follow…
Current and former Maricopa County officials have filed new, streamlined complaints against the county and Sheriff Joe Arpaio to comply with a judge’s order. Filing anew are: County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox and her husband, Earl; County Supervisor Don Stapley; retired Superior Court Judges Barbara Mundell and Gary Donahoe; deputy…
Glendale police announced yesterday that they don’t expect to find missing 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley alive, and now we know why: it appears her mother, Jerice Hunter, who was arrested yesterday on child abuse charges “directly related to the disappearance,” beat the girl weeks before she was ever reported missing. She…
Scottsdale defense attorney David Appleton fatally shot a father of three during an apparent road-rage incident earlier this month. Yesterday, we learned that the second-degree murder charge against him has been dropped — for now.”We’ve asked the Scottsdale Police Department for some additional investigation before making a final charging decision,”…
The Glendale Police Department confirmed this afternoon that Jerice Hunter, the mother of missing 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley, has been arrested for child abuse “directly related” to the disappearance of her daughter. Additionally, Glendale Sergeant Brent Coombs says, it’s unlikely the girl will be found alive.”With the information that has come…
Earlier this month, Maricopa County moved at lightning speed to turn over documents to a newspaper about a fired sheriff’s deputy.Now, county officials are taking their sweet time to release records related to the discipline of the fall guy (or gal) who handed over those deputy documents. Part of our…
Picture this: you wake up to find a man with no pants on — wearing nothing but a condom and a tee-shirt — carrying your 4-year-old daughter out of your house at about 6 a.m. That nightmare scenario was a reality for a Phoenix family yesterday morning, compliments of 21-year-old…
Prosecutors have decided not to pursue charges for now against Pamela Haas, the 63-year-old Chandler woman who sliced her husband’s arm with a two-foot-long sword.Both Pamela and her husband, Louis, agree that she took the sword from a wall mounting on November 13 and cut him with it, leaving a…
The mother of a 5-year-old Glendale girl who’s been missing for over a month reportedly has been arrested.Jerice Hunter, the mother of Jhessye Shockley — who was last seen on October 11– was taken into custody this morning, family members have told various news outlets.Glendale Sergeant Brent Coombs did not…
A video of Arizona Department of Public Safety officers chasing a Yorkshire terrier on a Phoenix freeway is making the rounds on the Internet, and seems to be quite popular with the British.”Who let the dog out! Terrier on the run leads police on frantic OJ Simpson-style highway chase,” screams…
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…
