Crime & Police

Accuser says New Times coverage helped bring attention to former Monocle owner’s flight.

Woman says she was raped by the former co-owner of The Monocle in downtown Phoenix, a restaurant that never opened.

They argue that the principal was aware of possible child abuse by sixth-grade teacher Brittany Zamora and failed to notify the authorities.

A bitcoin trading case concludes with prison time for a Mesa man, and forfeiture for a Tempe brain scientist.

Richard Shepherd, 20, told his grandmother he “beat a girl to death” in Tuba City.

Rather than addressing his involvement in a plea deal for the mosque vandals, the Maricopa County Attorney criticized the Southern Poverty Law Center.

First trial ended after prosecutor inadvertently brought up defendant’s time in prison.

Former Charles Schwab financier fled to Argentina after being charged in the 2001 death of Cynthia Garcia.

A Queen Creek man thought he was chatting with an underage girl online. Instead, he was talking to an undercover officer pretending to be a 14-year-old.

The home care aide regularly drank to the point of drunkenness while on duty at the unlicensed, home-based facility, police said.

It was the same man, witnesses told police, who had been masturbating in front of children in the neighborhood for several months.

Prosecutors trickled out some new details in a filing last week, depicting the horror of 7-year-old Sanaa Cunningham’s final months alive.

“It was that motherfucker right over there,” Jeffery Wellmaker said during his testimony at the trial of accused neo-Nazi killer Travis Ricci

After the bitter divorce and fight over custody of their son, Dr. Connie Jones said that Dwight Jones became her “personal terrorist.”

Chief Ramon Batista announced that several reviews were underway regarding the incidents. He also hired ex-county attorney Rick Romley to help review the latest two incidents.

@ClueHeywood, a popular Phoenix Twitter user, accused a fellow attorney of carrying out the massacre. “I apologize to anyone I’ve hurt,” he said.

Protesters with anti-police signs gathered at police headquarters; “this in no way represents the whole work that is done every day,” chief says.

Dwight Lamon Jones, 56, began tweeting furiously about his divorce on May 25, six days before he shot forensic psychiatrist Steven Pitt.

Batista made statements to the media that were highly critical of the video and his officers.

Dwight Jones, accused of killing six people before taking his own life, posted videos of ex-wife talking with famed forensic psychiatrist.

Dwight Lamon Jones, a 56-year-old man, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot on Monday morning.