Crime & Police

Alton Tungovia refused to stop for Phoenix police, who shot him with pepper balls before fatally shooting him.

Phoenix police say widower of Allister Adel killed a romantic interest and an 83-year-old before shooting himself on Christmas Eve.

Benjamin Austin, 58, among 18 people who died during encounters with Phoenix police in 2023.

Police said Leonardo Santiago confessed to killing Osvaldo Castillo just days after being charged with killing and mutilating another gay man.

Relatives call attention to the unsolved 2010 killings of Nicole Glass and Melissa Mason, who was pregnant.

Nine Phoenix police officers face a lawsuit for allegedly beating a man so severely that he required hospitalization.

Police say four people played a role in shooting, killing and mutilating 30-year-old Bernardo Pantaleon.

County Attorney Rachel Mitchell, Phoenix police make arrests in several cases, including one that nabbed $2 million in merch from Home Depot.

The two men from the right-wing organization face misdemeanor charges after ambushing the professor in Tempe.

The 22-year-old Tempe woman was shot, beaten and burned alive inside a vehicle on Interstate 10 in April.

The two police agencies – among the largest in Arizona – don’t submit crime stats to the FBI’s annual tracking report.

She now faces 95 charges in a horrifying dog abuse case that’s prompting the city to expand its animal abuse laws.

Jake Kelly officiated the wedding of Cory and Shannon Young, five months before police said their friend Angel Mullooly killed him.

The man wanted a Scottsdale rabbi to help him solve a legal issue in Utah. His strategy? Violent, antisemitic threats.

“We hope a new and modern facility will improve morale.”

Ali Osman was one of 10 people Phoenix police shot and killed in 2022. The city council approved the settlement on Wednesday.

Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell talks tough on “holding abusers accountable” in domestic violence cases.

“It was a good plan until the cops showed up.”

“Nobody at (the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office) has ever said, ‘We have a racial profiling problem.'”

Dive into Arizona’s history of human experiments, from shocking abuses to peculiar ventures done in the name of science. Just in time for Halloween.

“It has grown into a cottage industry that is costing taxpayers millions and millions of dollars.”

Right-wing activists taunt professor with homophobic questions, then shove him to the ground. ASU President Michael Crow called them ‘cowardly bullies.’