Crime & Police

Arizona Department of Transportation says it will have a first-of-its-kind prototype for detecting and stopping wrong-way drivers ready to release this fall

No surprise, most drivers going the wrong way are drunk … or, if they’re over 70, they’re often confused.

The Arizona Attorney General’s Office announced a plea agreement of a woman who plotted to blow up a state prison where her husband is serving life. It’s only the second conviction on state terrorism charges.

The fatal stabbings of two Good Samaritans on a Portland light-rail train last week raise questions about safety on buses and trains in Phoenix. This week, a woman was sexually abused at a Mesa bus stop, and last month, a man was fatally stabbed in a random attack on a Phoenix bus.

Despite a spate or horrible wrecks, a Phoenix New Times analysis of data from 2013 to 2015 shows that Arizona is one of the safest states in the country for fatal head-on-crashes. Maricopa County doesn’t fare so well

Reaction to the death of 10-year-old who was locked in plastic box in July was supposed to spur changes to Arizona’s child protection system. The jury is still out but many say the system has improved.

FBI offers $10,000 reward for arrest of a serial bank robber in Phoenix. They’re calling him the Blues Bandit.

DPS urges drivers to be courteous over Memorial Day, after three bad roadside wrecks in 24 hours

Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery asked the media on Wednesday to warn parents of an alleged online game called “Blue Whale,” which teens “win” by committing suicide. But there’s no evidence that suicides in the United States have been linked to the game, and reports from Russia about a widespread problem have been largely debunked.

One Phoenix man will get his conviction for marijuana possession overturned after the state’s highest court deemed it to be the result of illegal search.

The city will be the first in Arizona to privatize its jail despite protests. “It was shitty, and we knew it was shitty,” one resident said.

Prosecutors charge murder in man who abandoned quadriplegic fiancee and unborn child

The city’s police department is looking to contract with the embattled company now known as CoreCivic, formerly Corrections Corporation of America.

No wonder people here insist on being armed.

Unsealed court documents show that Phoenix police have compiled a mound of evidence against Aaron Saucedo, who is charged with nine murders.

The suspect in March 30 burglaries at mosques in Chandler and the city of Maricopa has now been linked to similar crimes in other states.

A Maricopa Superior Court judge issued a bench warrant last Friday for the re-arrest of Jacob Charles Harris, better known to fans of the Discovery Channel hit as Jake Harris.

With one shooter firing at will on I-10 and another more deadly shooter stalking the streets around the Maryvale neighborhood and occasionally beyond, the city once again found itself terrorized for more than a year

Putting a face on the people who were killed in the crime rampage.