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…
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.People tend to look pretty glum in mugshots…
The Chandler Police Department has released the surveillance video from a fatal shooting that took place inside a Walmart two weeks ago.Kriston Belinte-Chee, 36, was shot and killed by 25-year-old Cyle Quadlin on February 16 after the two got into an argument at the service counter that escalated into a…
A 1-year-old boy spent Friday night in a stranger’s backyard after apparently being abandoned there by his mother, according to police.The residents of the home, near 57th Avenue and Indian School Road, thought there was a stray cat making noise in their backyard all night, police say. When they took…
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 you the museum of…
One man shot another man in the face inside a 7-Eleven store in Chandler Wednesday night, according to police.The man’s injury isn’t life-threatening, but this is the second time in less than two weeks that a customer of a Chandler business shot another customer inside the store…
A caseworker for Child Protective Services is accused of trying to buy heroin through a woman who was part of a CPS case.According to court documents obtained by New Times, 35-year-old Leyla Sadikovic was in charge of the CPS case the woman was involved in, yet she asked the woman…
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 are…
Grand Canyon rangers wrestled an employee of the national park to the ground during an arrest last week after she reportedly refused to cooperate during a stop for speeding. Dina Matlock, a blond woman in her early 20s known to officers as a frequent speeder, appears to have ticked off…
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 people you probably…
Jodi Arias doesn’t want her new jury to know what she thinks of her lawyer, or about a former cellmate who claims Arias wants prosecutor Juan Martinez killed. Two motions filed in Maricopa County Superior Court today ask Judge Sherry Stephens to stop the information from coming out in 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, all of our alleged offenders are…
The Arizona Department of Public Safety is warning of “stepped-up DUI enforcement” around metro Phoenix metro on Super Bowl Sunday.”The Super Bowl DUI Saturation Operation will be highly visible and staffed by additional DPS Highway Patrol Officers along with those officers who are normally scheduled for duty,” according to one…
