Hopi medicine man Ivan Jackson was sentenced on Tuesday to one year in prison for performing oral sex on a patient who believed she was receiving treatment. The victim, who wasn’t named in federal court records, had sought help from Jackson in the summer of 2012 because she was “seeing…
A Navajo man anally raped his buddy’s 18-year-old girlfriend on a dark road south of Kayenta early Sunday, then either suffocated or strangled her, federal court records allege. The woman’s half-naked body was found in a ditch, a tire track over her chest. Sankey Reid, 30, admitted he drove over…
A fight Sunday night in a Phoenix diner between police officers and a berserk man on a destructive rampage ended when the man fell ill and died after he was tased four times. Police haven’t yet released the name of the 38-year-old white man, pending notification of his family…
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.With this week’s offenders, you may want to…
Seven parents were arrested this weekend on felony child-abuse charges in the Phoenix area, which is an unusually high number of arrests.Based on county booking records, there were 13 child-abuse arrests in the entire month of February, and 18 in March, an average of roughly one child-abuse arrest every other…
The parents of a 1-year-old Phoenix girl have been arrested after police discovered the girl’s father allegedly had bitten her and ripped out her hair.According to court documents obtained by New Times, the girl’s father, 18-year-old Abiezer Zuniga, “began to laugh” while describing to police how he bit the girl…
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, all of our alleged offenders have…
Some people seem to misunderstand the concept of April Fools’ Day.One such person is 27-year-old Phuoc Tran, who police say stole a $25,000 diamond as his April Fools’ Day “prank.”…
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 a gang of inmates…
The 23-year-old Glendale woman we told you about Thursday, Anna Areola-Hernandez (or “Tiny Hernandez,” as she called herself on Facebook), gave a 13-year-old boy an undisclosed STD, and she believes she’s pregnant with his child, a police report says. She’s been in contact with other boys, cops state…
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, all of our alleged offenders get…
A 23-year-old Glendale woman who pretended to be a teen online had sex with at least one boy under 15, police say. Anna Areola-Hernandez, who sports a tattoo of a pair of red lips on her neck, was booked into jail today on suspicion of three counts each of sexual…
A key member of Jodi Arias’ defense team who was banned from the Maricopa County Jail for questionable reasons will be allowed back as early as today, her lawyer says. Dan Raynak, lawyer for mitigation specialist Maria De La Rosa, tells New Times that an agreement was reached between Arias’…
Jodi Arias should not get the death penalty due to “outlandish actions” by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in targeting a member of her defense team, Arias’ lawyers argue. A motion reviewed by New Times — filed in Superior Court Tuesday by Arias’ defense team — goes into detail about…
A Phoenix police officer shot and killed a man Tuesday outside CityScape.According to court documents obtained by New Times, detectives near 21st Avenue and Dunlap ran a records check Tuesday on the license plate of a truck listed as stolen. The detectives started following the truck, occupied by Craig Uran,…
From Friday through St. Patrick’s Day on Monday, DUI task forces around the state made 413 DUI arrests.Although you might expect most of the arrests to have come Monday, the majority of the arrests (233) were made on Friday and Saturday…
The DUI task forces around the state made a total of 233 arrests for driving under the influence this weekend.The task forces were out for the St. Patrick’s Day weekend, and since St. Patrick’s Day is today, the total number of DUI arrests obviously will go up…
Drunk driving is bad.With that out of the way, here’s where police will be setting up “saturation patrols” around the Valley, looking for impaired drivers this weekend, including St. Patrick’s Day:…
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 can only say what it…
A man believed to be high on drugs stole an Orbit bus in Tempe this morning and took it for a dangerous ride through neighborhoods and across railroad tracks before crashing into a backyard fence. The suspect, later identified as James Martin, 26, was taken into custody after he jumped…
A waiter at a Chinese restaurant shot a cook in the head Sunday afternoon, police say.According to court documents obtained by New Times, there were at least 15 people eating in the Good China restaurant, near 67th Avenue and Thomas Road when 33-year-old waiter David Ong shot a cook who…
In a case of life imitating art, methamphetamine with a tint of blue, just like Walter White’s “Blue Sky” product, is turning up routinely on the streets of Phoenix, cops say. Meth dealers tell their customers the blue powder will get them higher, says Phoenix police Sergeant Tommy Thompson, but…
