Crime & Police

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:…

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, our alleged offenders set a bad…

Phoenix police say a man was able to steal three AR-15 rifles from a Walmart store by placing them in a cart and wheeling them out of the store.Daniel Justin Miranda, 46, was arrested yesterday afternoon for stealing the rifles, in part because officers saw him sell one of the…

A Phoenix woman is accused of throwing a kitten off the balcony of her third-floor apartment, killing it.According to court documents obtained by New Times, neighbors heard 49-year-old Patricia Gaffin arguing loudly with her children before tossing the kitten over the balcony…

Once again, deputies from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office have busted someone who went to Craigslist looking for sex with an animal.This time, a 22-year-old Phoenix man went to the “Missed Connections” section of Craigslist seeking a male horse “on which to commit the act of fellatio,” according to the…

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, it seems pretty clear how the…

A local mixed martial arts trainer who once fought in a UFC event was arrested on Monday for his alleged involvement in a 1999 murder in Mesa.Homer “Rock” Moore, 42, was arrested by Tempe police and the U.S. Marshals Service on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of…

Arizona Cardinals linebacker Daryl Washington was sentenced today to a year of supervised probation for aggravated assault.Washington, 27, was arrested in May after getting into a fight with the mother of his child. Washington was accused of choking the woman and breaking her collarbone after an argument at the woman’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 bring your some people that…

It’s just now surfacing that former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was arrested for DUI in December.McNabb’s arrest near the Loop 101 by the Salt River police was kept quiet until today, when his mugshot surfaced, as McNabb had to serve his sentence of one day in jail…

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…