A Mesa woman was arrested last night after police discovered she was using her 13-year-old daughter as a lookout as she attempted to steal an air conditioner from a vacant home.Mesa police got a call about 8:30 last night regarding two people who were seen in the yard of a…
A Scottsdale man is accused of peeing on his girlfriend’s son — but that was only after he forced the boy to perform oral sex on him on multiple occasions. According to court records obtained by New Times, 32-year-old Ali Chitsaz, an employee at Chiropractic Leadership, is being held without…
A Chandler dad who burned his 5-year-old son with a cigarette lighter because he thought the boy was possessed was in Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where he sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to child abuse last month.In addition to the 15 years probation, Maricopa County Superior Court…
We just wanted to make sure y’all had the link to watch Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio testify this morning in the State Bar disciplinary proceeding for his former political ally, County Attorney Andrew Thomas. Click here for the state Supreme Court’s Web site, then hit the either “in progress”…
Eric Coulter, 18, fatally shot his former girlfriend in the face early Saturday morning. According to Coulter, it was an accident, which police find highly unlikely for a number of reasons.For starters, his explanation of how the gun “accidentally” went off makes no sense. Then there’s the fact that the…
If you need a personal trainer, 35-year-old Shahin Nasirinia might be your man…assuming you also want to get felt up and potentially “dry humped.”Two women have accused Nasirinia — who currently lives in Tempe on a foreign work visa — of touching them inappropriately under the guise of stretching them…
A 2-year-old boy is currently brain dead and will likely die following a beating by 20-year-old Gregory Amador.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Amador called police about 10:30 yesterday morning to report that “his son’s” eyes had rolled into the back of his head and he was unresponsive.The…
Tommy McKey Reed was in a Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where Judge Paul McMurdie sentenced him to life in prison for the 2010 murder of a man he met through a gay social networking app for his iPhone.Reed pleaded guilty earlier this year to first-degree murder in the…
The Amber Alert for missing Glendale 5-year-old Jahessye Shockley has been called off more than two days after her disappearance, as investigators move into the second phase of their investigation.Additionally, police are not searching a nearby landfill, as other news outlets have reported (ABC 15, we’re looking at you), Glendale…
Jahessye Shockley, a Glendale 5-year-old, has been missing for what is now over two days.Frankly, as MSNBC holds hourly updates on the search for missing Kansas City baby Lisa Irwin, we figured the disappearance of a 5-year-old Arizona girl might warrant some national ink. But it hasn’t. Locally, however –…
Dave Hendershott, Sheriff Arpaio’s disgraced former chief deputy, struggled to explain his grand conspiracy theories in the Andrew Thomas disciplinary proceedings today. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s ousted chief deputy, Dave Hendershott, wearing a bold red tie and suit jacket, testified today for five to six hours in the Andrew…
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday tossed out the death sentence of convicted murderer Steven James, who was sentenced to die for the brutal 1981 murder of a man he targeted for being gay.The reason: the Court feels James had ineffective counsel during the sentencing phase of his trial.See…
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has tossed out the death sentence of an Arizona death row inmate who was sentenced to die for the brutal 1981 murder of a man he targeted for being gay.Inmate Steven Craig James, 53, who’s been on death row for nearly 20 years, will…
Valley attorney Mark Goldman must have taken a memory pill since we last talked to him. In today’s testimony during discipline proceedings for former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas,, Goldman described how Thomas assigned him to dig up information about County Supervisor Don Stapley in 2007.Goldman, a wealthy lawyer…
Over the past several weeks, the Tempe Police Department says at least two groups of thieves have stolen iPhones and other electronic devices from at least eight Arizona State University students on or near the university’s Tempe campus.The most recent heist happened Monday night.According to the Tempe P.D., the thefts…
Kurtis Palmateer was arrested Saturday night after he called police to let them know that he’d just tried to kill his grandmother. Her offense: she failed to cook his dinner and has an annoying dog.According to court records obtained by New Times, Palmateer called police about 11:30 p.m. Saturday and…
Vito Renee Oliva probably would have been cited for a minor traffic violation when police attempted to pull him over early Saturday morning. But he tried to run from cops — choking a police dog in the process — and is now charged with multiple felony.According to court documents obtained…
A Scottsdale burglary victim used his mobile phone’s tracking app last night to pinpoint the locations of two suspects, who were then arrested by police.A short while before the high-tech bust, two people reported to the cops that a couple of dudes had broken into their home near the Loop…
A 1-year-old is dead after getting shot in the head by one of two masked men who broke into the Mesa apartment where the boy was sleeping this morning.Mesa Sergeant Ed Wessing tells New Times the boy was sleeping with four other children on a pullout sofa in his grandmother’s…
A Buckeye woman came home on Wednesday to a shocking sight: A man she knew was performing oral sex on her mentally disabled, 19-year-old son.Her son is too severely disabled to speak or give consent to sexual activity, court records state. The woman called 9-1-1- after the 26-year-old suspect, Stephen…
d Moriarity, Lisa Aubuchon’s pro-bono lawyer from Montana, has helped represent celebrity clients from Imelda Marcos to the family of Karen Silkwood.According to his former partner, Gerry Spence, Moriarity was born under a mineshaft.Since his opening statement in the State Bar disciplinary hearings for former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas,…
Just looked at an e-mail from Jennifer Liewer, the on-the-spot public information officer for the Arizona Supreme Court:David Hendershott, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s disgraced former chief deputy, is set to testify next week in the disciplinary hearings for former County Attorney Andrew Thomas.That ought to be good. After an…
