Crime & Police

Drunk driving is bad. That said, here’s where police will be setting up “saturation patrols” around the Valley, looking for impaired drivers this weekend:…

At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, we introduce the 50 best…

Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery announced today that animal cruelty charges will be dropped against the four suspects in the Green Acre dog-death case. One count of fraud remains against Jesse and Maleisa Hughes, owners of the Gilbert boarding facility where at least 23 dogs died overnight in June, Montgomery’s…

At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, we read the inmates’ faces…

A serial Walmart shoplifter was caught this week, and he turned out to be a corrections officer, according to authorities. Hugo Rivera, 34, shoplifted from Walmart stores at least five times, according to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office, and had already been banned from entering any Walmart store when he…

At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, we take a walk on…

A viral video of alleged police brutality by a Mesa police officer doesn’t show the entire encounter between the officer and a teenage girl. The video, which has been shared on Facebook more than 120,000 times at the time of this post, appears to show the officer throwing a blow…

At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, most of our inmates have…

At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, we found the jail’s most…

Thomas “Pregnant Man” Beatie has been arrested in Phoenix on suspicion of stalking his estranged wife with a GPS tracker. Beatie, a woman who underwent a sex change in 1997, became famous a few years ago because of eyebrow-raising pictures of a pregnant body beneath a bearded, male-looking face. “He”…

At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, we found some inmates you’ll…

At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, we’re certain our inmates have…

A judge has allowed two private lawyers to quit representing child-abuse suspect Shanesha Taylor, and has assigned a public defender to her renewed felony case. One of the lawyers says Taylor stiffed him on his fees. The development is the latest in the failed deferred-prosecution deal for Taylor, who raised…

A new defense motion in the Jodi Arias penalty-phase trial claims that pornography files had been deleted from victim Travis Alexander’s computer while it was in police custody. Arias, who was convicted of first-degree murder last year, wants all charges dropped. But even if the allegations in the new motion…

A 20-year-old north Scottsdale man arrested on Thursday is suspected of two brazen, attacks on women in his neighborhood. Scottsdale police arrested Addison John Reyna in his filthy home on Thursday afternoon following an investigation into the attacks, the latest of which occurred on Monday. Court records indicate that the…

A Phoenix man admitted he shot his 1-year-old American bulldog in the hind leg with a .22-caliber rifle on Sunday night because he was “upset” with it, cops say. The wounded dog was reportedly “extremely friendly and in good spirits” when cops arrived at the man’s residence at 401 West…

The judge in the Jodi Arias penalty-phase re-trial can’t prevent the public and news media from watching the show, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled on Monday. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens, who oversaw the lascivious first-degree murder trial that ended in May with Arias’ conviction, kicked members…

Drunk driving is bad. That said, here’s where police will be setting up “saturation patrols” around the Valley, looking for impaired drivers this weekend:…

At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, we have costume suggestions for…

A Phoenix police officer was arrested and booked into jail on Tuesday, accused of pulling a gun on people during an apparent road-rage incident while transporting prisoners. Jeremy Sweet, 51, has worked for the department’s Central Booking Unit for about seven years. On Monday at about noon, he was transporting…

Shanesha Taylor, the Scottsdale mom who left her kids in a hot car in March while on a job interview, has blown today’s deadline to fund trust accounts for her kids. In July, Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery signed off on the deal to keep Taylor out of jail as…

UPDATE October 28, 11:25 a.m.: The above video has been updated to include exclusive video of the incident, plus an interview with one of the people arrested. Phoenix police shot protesters with pepper balls and arrested six people downtown on Saturday night. The 40 to 50 protesters who were demonstrating…