Here’s a tip: If you’re trying to fly to Mexico to evade a felony warrant, you may want to pony up the extra couple of bucks for a direct flight. Apparently, 37-year-old Norma Vera-Nolasko didn’t heed that advice, as Phoenix police arrested her at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport around…
Tucson shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner has a fan — he’s a thoughtless, 40-year-old GED student in Nevada who threatened to shoot up his classroom “like that guy in Arizona.”Ismael Segura-Hernandez was arrested yesterday afternoon after disrupting his GED class at Western Nevada College by continuously “blurting out” during the…
The search for a missing Tempe man resumed this morning at Tempe Town Lake after dogs searching the lake picked up a scent indicating a human body could be under the water.Rescue teams suspended the search last night after finding nothing in the water related to Willie Jigba, who was…
Divers from the Tempe Fire Department are currently searching Tempe Town Lake for Willie Jigba, the 24-year-old Tempe man reported missing nearly two weeks ago.Tempe police tell New Times that police dogs got a “hit” while scouring the lake in search of Jigba. The “hit,” police say, is not specific…
“Spiritual Warrior”/snake-oil salesman James Arthur Ray — accused of manslaughter in the deaths of three participants in a 2009 sweat-lodge ceremony in Sedona — doesn’t want the jury in his upcoming trial to hear what two experts on cult behavior have to say about his “self-help” retreats.Attorneys for the “self-help guru”…
the Chandler Police Department’s release this morning of details of the relationship between Susan Brock, estranged wife of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, and a teenage boy, the supervisor tells New Times he knew nothing of the sexual encounters before his wife’s arrest in November. “My wife was untruthful to me. She was untruthful to…
Turns out that she, her county supervisor husband, Fulton Brock, and the parents of the victim of her bizarre sexual trysts met with leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in October 2009 to discuss “frustration with Mrs. Brock’s interference in [their] son’s life.” The report goes on…
Doctors treating Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Houston have upgraded the congresswoman’s condition to good, another milestone in her miraculous recovery after being shot “through the brain” less than three weeks ago. Giffords was moved from the Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center Hospital — where she’s been in intensive care since…
Alleged Tucson shooter Jared Loughner’s next court appearance will be in a Phoenix courtroom, not in Tucson, as prosecutors handling the case had requested.Loughner appeared in a Phoenix federal court yesterday where a plea of not-guilty was entered on his behalf for the attempted murders of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and…
As we reported yesterday, Phoenix police still have no suspects in a triple homicide in the west Valley earlier this month, but they have some new leads, including images of two vehicles seen following the Jeep driven by the victims the day police suspect they were murdered.Newly released video recorded…
When we arrived, the memorial was intact: hundreds of bouquets, cards, candles, posters marking the January 8 tragedy, remembering the victims. But not for long. It was Wednesday, January 19. And apparently, it was time for business to go on. The Safeway had opened a few days earlier, but the…
The Surprise teacher arrested yesterday for allegedly grabbing the breast of his 13-year-old niece tried to explain away the alleged boob grab by telling the girl it was just a “wrestling move” he took “too far,” according to court documents obtained by New Times. He also sent the girl text…
Susan Brock, the estranged wife of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock who entered a guilty plea yesterday to charges that she attempted to have sexual relations with a minor, faces a minimum of seven years in prison, court documents obtained by New Times show.”The prison sentence could be as low…
Unreal. The same people responsible for tens of millions in claims being filed against Maricopa County are now drooling after their own pot of gold. Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and David Hendershott, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s former right-hand man have filed a notice of claim along with Thomas’ former lackey, Lisa Aubuchon, for a combined…
A teacher at a Surprise high school was arrested earlier today for allegedly sexually abusing his 13-year-old niece.Marcos Cantu, 39, a teacher at Valley Vista High School is Surprise, has been charged with one count of sexual abuse for allegedly groping his niece as he drove her home from school.The…
Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner was in a Phoenix federal courtroom this morning where he pleaded not guilty to charges that he tried to kill Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and two of her aides.Outside the courthouse, dozens of local and national media outlets awaited information on his plea from court officials…
Tilmon Strickland wants answers.His daughter, Melissa Strickland, was murdered in Phoenix in March 1997. She was bludgeoned to death, and her body was dumped in broad daylight near 21st Street and Corona Avenue. She was 24 years old. “It seems I’ve had to fight every step of the way just to…
The man pictured above is wanted by the Scottsdale Police Department for allegedly smashing a bottle over a guy’s face at a bar on New Year’s Day.According to the SPD, the above-pictured man was at the Devil’s Martini bar in Scottsdale to ring in the new year, and he did…
Sometimes you just don’t have time to call AAA — for example, if you’re in the process of burglarizing a house, someone sees you, and your getaway car won’t start — which is exactly what happened to a pair of thieves in Mesa yesterday morning.According to the Mesa Police Department, two…
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords left the University Medical Center in Tucson this morning en route to a hospital in Houston to begin rehab after she was shot “through the brain” less than two weeks ago.Giffords, recovering in Tucson since the January 8 shooting, left for Houston about 9:20 a.m. today. She is traveling with…
The father of a 24-year-old man last seen at a party in Tempe early Saturday morning says there’s “no way” his son willingly went off the radar from his friends and family. Emmanuel Jigba, a Sierra Leone native now living in the San Jose, California, area, was in Tempe Thursday…
A North Carolina mayor is catching hell for writing on his Facebook page something that millions probably would love to tell Jared Lee Loughner to his face. News that Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others, including a little girl, had been shot by a gun-wielding madman last week brought feelings of sorrow and…
