Consider this: it hasn’t quite been two years since Jared Loughner opened fire outside a Tucson safeway, killing six people, and injuring 13, including then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.With today’s shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut — which reportedly killed 27 people, including 20 kids — there have…
Just about every 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 featured Fourth Avenue visitors will…
James Naylor — one of the men busted in recent months in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Craigslist bestiality stings — was sentenced this morning to 18 months on probation.An MCSO detective found a post from Naylor on the website seeking some “hung tops,” which also noted he was “willing to try…
The last known picture taken of missing ASU freshman Jack Culolias was given to his twin brother, who posted it on Facebook yesterday.See also:-Search for ASU Freshman Jack Culolias in River Basin Ends-Search for ASU Freshman Jack Culolias Ends, Then Starts Again: “Object” Spotted-One Red Shoe Remains the Only Sign…
What Mesa resident Laurie Kelly told police was “a manic sexual rage inside of her which she cannot control” has landed her a stint in jail, and a few years of probation.That’s because police said she gave beer to some random homeless people in a Mesa park, and told them…
Kenneth Cyrus may not be the sharpest child-pornography-collecting tool in the shed.According to police, the married, 36-year-old Phoenix resident uploaded child pornography to Facebook — ya know, the website where you upload photos for all of your friends to see…
After searching an additional area of the Salt River basin for 19-year-old ASU freshman Jack Culolias, Tempe police finished their search of the area Friday evening, almost one full week after Culolias was last seen at Tempe Marketplace.Investigators had finished the search on Thursday, but were back searching again the…
Isacc Quesada was involved in a simple fender-bender in Phoenix on Saturday night.What ended up happening, though, left one man dead, injured two women and a baby, and additional people were punched and kicked — which has Quesada, 20, in jail on nine felony charges…
UPDATE (3:30 PM): Jack Colulias’ DNA was found in the red shoe found by his mother near Tempe Marketplace, police say. The search continues.The search for 19-year-old ASU freshman Jack Culolias — who hasn’t been seen since Friday — ended last night.The search then started again this morning, as Tempe…
After allegedly shooting his ex-girlfriend to death in Avondale — in front of their 4-year-old daughter — Michael Hall decided to skip town, in favor of Las Vegas.Not some residential suburb of Las Vegas, and not some crime-riddled corridor of the city — Hall was popped last month by Las…
A red shoe that appears to belong to 19-year-old ASU freshman Jack Culolias remains the only sign of the missing fraternity pledge since he was last seen Friday night.See also:-ASU Freshman Jack Culolias Has Been Missing Since Friday Night…
Jack Culolias, a 19-year-old freshman at Arizona State University, has not been heard from since apparently being booted from a Tempe bar/restaurant Friday night…
Richard Stokley was executed today at the state prison in Florence, more than 21 years after he and an accomplice kidnapped, raped, and murdered two 13-year-old girls in Cochise County.While Stokley, 60, got the state’s lethal juice today, his accomplice in those crimes, Randy Brazeal, is currently a free man…
A suspected Mexican Mafia member has been arrested in the shooting death of ex-con Erasmo Ledezma on Thanksgiving, as police say Mexican Mafia members had a “green light” to kill Ledezma because he had previously “snitched” to the cops.The alleged gangster and shooter has been identified as Steven Benavidez, who…
Phoenix police say 22-year-old Andrew Mathieson broke into a 76-year-old woman’s home near 23rd Svenue and Loop 101 around 4 a.m. Saturday, and stole the woman’s car after strangling her unconscious.Mathieson was arrested yesterday, and told police many of the details, according to court documents obtained by New Times, but…
Marion Patterson III, the accomplice of the man who shot and killed Arizona State University senior Zachary Marco, was sentenced today to 17 years in prison. Marco, 21, was robbed of his laptop in October 2010 by Patterson and another local gang-banger, Louis Harper, who wielded a gun. Rather than…
Deputies at the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office have a tough job: they have to take orders from Captain Underpants Sheriff Paul Babeu, they have to wrangle all of those illegals Babeu talks about on TV, and they have to deal with the rest of the stuff reported to PCSO –…
Erasmo Ledezma, a 26-year-old Phoenix scofflaw, might have felt hope on the day he was released from prison last year after having served four years for theft. Though he’d been convicted of theft, Department of Corrections records show he’d been released a couple of years early in a 2004 program…
David Goodrich told police in Tempe that he “accidentally” stepped on his roommate’s dog.The dog was “obviously dead” after this, Goodrich, 25, told the cops, but the fact that Goodrich was still wiping blood off the floor when his roommate got home — among other factors — has police thinking…
Superstition Search and Rescue team members have located the remains of a man in the Superstition Mountains. Volunteers discovered the remains about a half-mile from the spot where Jesse Capen, a gold prospector in search of the Lost Dutchman’s Mine, had set up his campsite back in 2009. Capen, a…
Two brave women, aged 16 and 20, showed up at the Mesa Police Station on October 30 with a shocking tale: They’d been sexually abused by their stepfather, Edgar Garcia, for the past 12 years. They told of a series of rapes and molestations that began when the 20-year-old was…
Phoenix police report that a homicide investigation has begun after a body was found on Thanksgiving Day with obvious “trauma.” The body was found “in the area of 4015 East Madison” in Phoenix, writes Phoenix Officer James Holmes in an e-mail when asked about recent death investigations. “We have not…
