Crime & Police

Few incidents reported as 100,000 or so basketball, baseball, music, and Phoenix Pride fans flock to downtown area on Sunday

Tucson police confirmed they have found the body of Isabel Celis, who disappeared in 2012 at age 6.

A homeless man disabled a radar tower and landing light at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on February 20, police say. That’s five days after he was arrested and subsequently released without bail in a similar incident involving transmission towers at South Mountain.

The homeless man released from jail after being accused of destroying antenna equipment at South Mountain committed a similar crime five days later at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, police say.

Marine and Ex-Hells Angel Andres “Oz” Ospina is the voice and songwiter behind the band Inward Morning; he’s performing in downtown Phoenix this weekend.

The parents of a 9-year-old boy shot in his Phoenix home on Monday failed to call for help as they made “extensive” efforts to hide evidence, police say. Wendy and Kansas Lavarnia of Phoenix are suspected of first-degree murder. Police are still investigating how the shooting happened.

Police teams will be out in force for busy party weekend; DPS will oversee six task forces in East Valley and two on Westside

Police associations are backing SB 1253, but community members have raised concerns.

The charge carries a fine of upward of $200. Tempe police say it is necessary to raise awareness of traffic safety.

Prosecutors can’t decide whether to charge a man accused of disrupting TV and radio signals for about an hour last month by vandalizing equipment on top of South Mountain in Phoenix.

The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Maricopa County did not violate a former employee’s First Amendment rights by firing her after she commented to a newspaper.

A new report based on FBI crime statistics ranks Arizona’s 50 cities with the lowest rates of violent and property crimes. Florence tops the list as safest.

Torres and other BQG members attended Donald Trump rallies i 2016 campaign, ostensibly to keep the peace, and in 2015, they showed up at anti-Islam demonstrations organized by notorious local bigot.

Program has its roots in the 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Bail-bond companies and prosecutors are upset, but supporters say the program will save money and enhance social justice.

Israel Torres, a Three Percenter and leader of a local gun-rights group, was arrested last week on a federal gun charge.