Gilbert police received a call yesterday afternoon from a man reporting that his 2-year-old son wasn’t breathing. That man was 25-year-old Jonathan Cole, and the reason his son wasn’t breathing, as police would later discover, is because Cole squeezed the life out of him.According to court records obtained by New…
Admitted pederast Luis Mejia Ortiz was in Maricopa County Superior Court today, where he pleaded guilty to charges that he molested his girlfriend’s 9-year-old daughter on several occasions.In all, Ortiz pleaded guilty to one count of child molestation and three counts of attempted child molestation. Initially, Ortiz was charged with…
Tempe police announced today that they’ve made an arrest in last week’s murder of 64-year-old Bonnie Raudman.Raudman was found dead inside her Tempe home in the 2700 block of West Minton Drive on Friday morning by a friend who’d gone to her house to check on her.According to the Tempe…
Eric Morales, 26, was found murdered and partially buried in the desert North of Gila Bend last month, and yesterday the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office announced it’s arrested a suspect: a man who was living in Morales’ house at the time of his disappearance.Morales was last seen alive by family…
UPDATE: See the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office’s explanation for not charging Balmaceda here.A former Glendale cop accused of sexting several teenage girls, and sexually abusing another, won’t be charged with any crimes.Police recommended that former Glendale Officer Christopher Balmaceda be charged with one count of sexual abuse and four counts…
Phoenix police found the body of a man in the bottom of his pool last night who just happened to be a suspected kid-diddler.Phoenix Sergeant Steve Martos tells New Times that detectives went to the Phoenix home of 58-year-old James Ziarnick about 9 p.m. yesterday to talk to him about…
James Louis Baker, 54, is a bus driver for the Paradise Valley Unified School District. He also seems to think 13-year-old girls are scouring the Internet for 54-year-old bus drivers to have sex with.We hate to break his heart, but they’re not. However, cops posing as 13-year-old girls are another…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s Human Smuggling Unit arrested a U.S. Border Patrol agent last night as he was allegedly speeding down State Route 85 in possession of oxycodone and fake marijuana.According to the MCSO, the HSU was patrolling a known drug-smuggling route when they bumped into Michel Atondo, who…
The only reason we requested the arrest report for Bruce Nicholas Wardell was because we were so impressed/terrified by his epic mullet. What he allegedly did to get arrested is just as horrific as his frizzy “party in the back.”Wardell is accused of watching porn in front of his girlfriend’s…
As if rush hour in Phoenix isn’t miserable enough, about 8 this morning, the southbound State Route 51 was briefly closed by Department of Public Safety officers as they chased a wayward rabbit off the freeway.That’s right — they shut down the highway to rescue a rabbit.DPS spokesman Bart Graves…
To be honest, the only reason we requested the arrest report for Bruce Nicholas Wardell was because we were so impressed/terrified by his epic mullet. What he allegedly did to get arrested is just as horrific as his frizzy “party in the back.”Wardell was arrested Tuesday and is currently charged…
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…
