A suspicious vehicle has closed a street near the Tucson courtroom where Jared Loughner appeared for a hearing today — and the rumor mill already is churning out unsubstantiated yarns that probably aren’t true.The Tucson Police Department confirms to New Times that the bomb squad was called in to investigate…
A 22-year-old suspect in three armed robberies burst through the glass door of a Phoenix apartment at about 3 a.m. on Monday and shot a man who’d dated his ex-girlfriend. Ryan Foote was armed with a .357 Magnum when he crashed through the door at 3228 West Glendale Avenue, Apartment 122, and was confronted by…
Rosanna Brown, a former teacher at Ed Pastor Elementary School in Phoenix, was sentenced to some pretty lengthy prison time today after pleading guilty to charges that she tricked one of her 14-year-old students into having sex with her back in 2009.As part her plea agreement, Brown pleaded guilty to…
Tom Liddy, a deputy prosecutor who also happens to be son of infamous Watergate villain G. Gordon Liddy, played Deep Throat for a county supervisor under siege by corrupt lawmen.The setting of the crucial tip-off, described at the Andrew Thomas discipline hearings yesterday by Andy Kunasek, chair of the Maricopa…
Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner is back in Arizona today after spending the past several months in a federal prison in Missouri where he’s undergoing psychiatric treatment to hopefully make him mentally fit to stand trial.Loughner has a court hearing in Tucson tomorrow, where U.S. District Judge Larry Burns will…
When a Glendale woman awoke from a vodka and Xanax-inspired nap Thursday night, 56-year-old Michael Thorson was in the town house she’s sharing with a friend — and his fingers were in her vagina.According to court documents obtained by New Times, the 53-year-old victim and her female roommate were at the…
A Federal appeals court today upheld the death sentence for kid-killing rapist Richard Stokley. No execution date has been set, but Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne doesn’t want to see Stokley’s date with death delayed any further.”The date for Stokley’s sentence to be carried out has not been set, but…
One look at convicted sex offender Jamal Mitchell’s most-recent arrest report, and you’d think the guy’s incapable of taking a breath without breaking the law, which wouldn’t be too far from the truth. A convicted sex offender/multiple felon who’s served time in prison, Mitchell’s now charged with a laundry list…
Mesa resident Michael Jared Surgeon had so much kiddie porn on his computer that it caused his hard drive to crash. Apparently not caring that his computer was jam-packed with kiddy porn, he took it to a computer-repair shop — and that’s why he’s currently facing 10 counts of sexual…
man who attacked state Representative Frank Pratt earlier this year — and then bragged about the beating to police — pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of kidnapping.Hillyard Scott, 34, initially was charged with one count each of aggravated assault, kidnapping, robbery, burglary, and theft stemming from the Christmas Day…
Male nurse Richard Sangalang was in a Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where he was sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty to one count of luring a minor for sex via the Internet.The minor, as is often the case with pervs who like to meet kids…
The bizarre deaths of two people at Luke Air Force Base over the weekend has been ruled a murder-suicide, authorities announced this morning.The bodies of Gaudioso Gamilla, 62, and Vilma Gamilla, 61, were found stabbed to death inside the base’s post office Sunday night after their son, who lives on…
Litchfield Park resident Cherish Arroyo, 35, was arrested yesterday after police say she had sex with a 16-year-old boy. The boy, it turns out, is a teammate of Arroyo’s son on the Copper Canyon High School football team. Arroyo currently serves as treasurer of the team’s booster club.According to the…
Mesa thief Anthony Lopez Rios used a samurai sword in an attempt to steal a guy’s bicycle last night. More laughable than using a martial arts weapon to try to rob a bike, the robbery attempt netted precisely zero bikes — and Rios can now add “failed bike robber” to…
Convicted rapist Edward Hartley, by his own account, has a small penis. It’s so small, in fact, that he whipped it out in front of a 13-year-old girl he found at a bus stop to reassure her that if the two were to have sex, he wouldn’t hurt her.He also…
Peter Normann, the Anthem doctor convicted of murder in the deaths of two of his patients, and manslaughter in the death of another, was in a Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where he was sentenced to a total of 25 years in prison.Normann’s sentencing hearing was delayed last week…
Phoenix police have identified the victim in a fatal shooting last night on the I-10 — which forced the highway to be closed until about 8:30 this morning — as 49-year-old Michael Arvallo.Phoenix Sergeant Steve Martos says the shooting happened about 10:30 p.m. yesterday as Arvallo was driving on the…
No good deed goes unpunished — for example, you could let a panhandler borrow your cell phone, only to have him stab your friend in the neck almost immediately afterwards, which is apparently what happened to a Phoenix man last weekend.According to court records obtained by New Times, a woman…
Getting stopped for DUI seems to be all the rage at the Pinal County Assessor’s Office these days — just seven months after County Assessor Paul Larkin got pinched for driving tipsy, Assistant County Assessor Jacqueline Minto was nabbed for extreme DUI.Last night, Minto was involved in a serious injury…
Brian David Mitchell, the Utah street preacher convicted of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart, has begun serving his life sentence in an Arizona prison.Mitchell, who kidnapped Smart — who was then 14 — from her bedroom in 2002, was brought to a prison about 10 miles south of Tucson. The prison is…
If you plan to steal beer from Mike’s Mini Market in Prescott, you better bring a gun — there’s a chance you’ll get shot. Scott LaFonte, 35, learned that lesson the hard way — he only brought a knife when he attempted to steal a 12-pack of beer last night,…
An 18-year-old Phoenix woman was arrested yesterday for molesting a 10-year-old girl who is the daughter of her one-time foster parents. The suspect, Yolanda Silva, was 16 at the time.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Silva was in the custody of Child Protective Services in 2009 and placed…
