If there’s one good thing about getting executed, it’s the food.Eric John King was put to death this morning for the 1989 murders of two men at a Phoenix convenience store — but he didn’t die hungry.According to the Arizona Department of Corrections, King chowed down on catfish, corn bread, and…
On Saturday afternoon, a drunk Phoenix man thought going into his house to urinate would cut into his busy schedule of doing yard work and drinking beer — so he pissed on his lawn and now is charged with three felonies.According to court records obtained by New Times, 59-year-old Timothy George Evans…
A Pinal County man really didn’t want to drive the man who’d just kidnapped him from Eloy to Phoenix early yesterday morning, which prompted him to jump from his own moving vehicle to get away from the gun-wielding suspect.According to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office, the 41-year-old victim was at…
The state finally has put convicted murderer Eric John King to death after sitting on death row for nearly 20 years for the 1989 murders of two men during a convenience store robbery that netted about $72.The Arizona Republic gives the following report: When the curtain opened into the death chamber at…
If you’re reading this after 10 a.m., there’s a pretty good chance that convicted murderer Eric John King will be dead.The United States Supreme Court this morning denied a stay of execution filed by King’s attorneys that would have delayed his execution until the state switches to a one-drug execution…
Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons shot an elephant on a trip to Zimbabwe earlier this month, and, as expected, animal-rights activists are furious.Parsons posted a video on his blog last week with the title “Hunting Problem Elephant, My 2011 Vacation,” which shows him blasting away at an elephant that he…
There’s something about a person smiling ear-to-ear in their mugshot that really irks us here at New Times — take the creepy mugshot of Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner, for example. Regardless of whether the accused is guilty, an overly chipper mugshot suggests they’re not taking the charges against them…
For the second time in as many mugshots, Rachel Brock, daughter of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, showed up for her booking photo after getting arrested last week smiling like an idiot someone who isn’t potentially looking at a lot of prison time for allegedly having sex with an underage…
The Afghan war veteran fatally shot by a Glendale police officer early Saturday morning suffered from post-traumatic-stress disorder and alcoholism, his parents told police after the shooting, and, as an Army man, he apparently wasn’t fond of the Marine Corps.According to the police report, first obtained by KPHO, 24-year-old Jeremiah…
Jeremiah Pulaski, 24, returned to his home in Glendale from Afghanistan — where he served in the United States Army — in February, and it appears he’s had some trouble readjusting to society.According to his latest Facebook status update, he was thinking about doing some traveling.”I think Im gonna Just…
Straight from the seemingly endless saga that is the Brock family sex scandal: Rachel Brock, daughter of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, was re-arrested last week and charged with the same sex-with-a-kid-related charges she faced when she was originally arrested last December. The child Brock is accused of getting busy…
An Avondale man who traded a tattoo for sex with a minor was in Maricopa County Supreme Court this morning where he changed his plea to guilty to various sex-with-a-kid-related charges.Juan Lara, 38, pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted child prostitution and two counts of unlawful tattooing for the…
Kid-killing Minutewoman Shawna Forde’s co-defendant, Jason Eugene Bush, was found guilty this morning in a Pima County Superior Court for the murders of an Arivaca man and his daughter in May 2009.In addition to the two first-degree murder convictions for the murders of Raul “Junior” Flores and his 9-year-old daughter,…
KPHO Cody Bishop (left) died at 18 thanks to Steven Landrum. For a typical Arizonan, “.227” may refer to the box of rifle ammo in their truck, but for Steven Landrum — who was packing a .227 blood-alcohol level while driving his pickup truck when he crashed into and killed…
Julian Titcomb, 21, a volunteer basketball coach at a Valley elementary school, plans to join the Army this May — but that’s probably not going to happen now that he’s been charged eight counts of sexual conduct with a minor for allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old girl.Titcomb was the…
If you’re a female teacher’s aide at a middle school and you send naked pictures of yourself to male, teenage students, there’s a good chance everyone at the school is going to see them. Just ask Gabriela Compton, a teacher’s aide at a Valley middle school, whose ta-tas were seen…
It’s not everyday that we get two separate e-mails from the Phoenix Police Department with the subject “skeletal remains found.” Today is not like every other day.For the second time in less than 24 hours, a skeleton has been found in the city of Phoenix.According to Phoenix police, the latest bones…
A Desert Hills couple has been charged with murder after the dead body of a 51-year-old relative was found emaciated in their backyard last summer.John and Tara Chesser were arrested Monday after a grand jury indictment was returned charging the couple with the murder of 51-year-old James Chesser — the…
When 29-year-old Eric Matthew Papanek allegedly walked defiantly out of a Peoria Circle K holding a 12-pack of Heineken — and the knife he had just used to stab a man — over his head last week, he probably didn’t anticipate hiding in a closet like a coward when police…
The Arizona Court of Appeals has agreed that Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley did not violate any financial disclosure law, ending a tainted criminal case against him. The ruling today is another major blow to former County Attorney Andrew Thomas, who could be disbarred in an upcoming discipline hearing related to his…
Arizona Department of Transportation crews checking a drain near a Valley freeway yesterday afternoon made a pretty gruesome discovery: human skeletal remains.According to the Phoenix Police Department, about 2 p.m. yesterday, ADOT crews were checking a storm drain near the on-ramp to the I-!0 and the Loop-202 just north of…
An exit report given to the Glendale Elementary School District by substitute teacher Tony Hill backs up — in part, anyway — a letter he wrote that criticized his students’ behavior. Hill’s letter created quite a stir since it was sent to State Senator Russell Pearce a couple of weeks ago…
