The victim of a fatal stabbing over the weekend in Tempe has been identified, and the man who police say stabbed him remains on the loose.Tempe police have identified the victim as 47-year-old Fred U. Bustamante. The suspect is 60-year-old Gordon Benson.Police haven’t released a lot of information about the…
If you got shit-canned one night and stole a fire helmet, of course you’re gonna post pictures of yourself wearing it on Facebook. How could you not? Keep in mind, though, it’s a felony. Just ask 23-year-old Daniel Schmidt.Schmidt was arrested earlier this week after someone turned him in to…
A demolition crew tearing down the old Jockey Club building at 2200 East Highland Avenue found human skeletal remains this morning.This is the third skeleton found in Phoenix since March, when two sets of human bones were found in Phoenix in less than 24 hours.According to Phoenix police, a crane…
Transient meth-head Kirk Wise probably made more money than you did last year — and he didn’t even have a job.Wise, 45, is a professional copper thief who steals copper wire to support his $100-a-day meth habit. He’s pretty good at it, too — according to Wise, he’s netted nearly…
Two Phoenix police officers were shot by an armed suspect just after 10 a.m. today.Details are limited, but the shooting occurred 61st and Virginia Avenues.One of the officers was shot in the arm, the other suffered a superficial wound to the head.The suspect was reportedly also shot, but details of…
Bombing around Scottsdale boozed up on “two glasses” of scotch, former Arizona Diamondbacks ballplayer Mark Grace was busted by Scottsdale Police with a BAC of .128, according to court documents obtained by New Times. The famed former ballplayer, who played four seasons with the D-Backs starting in 2000, was arrested…
“Bubble-Butt” Bree Olson, porn star/former Charlie Sheen “goddess,” just wrapped up filming a reality TV show that recently made a stop in Scottsdale. It’s about a rock band comprised of porn stars who apparently just get shit-faced and fight people. It’s described as “a cross between Jersey Shore and Spinal…
A racist, Arizona City “juggalo” — who claims to be studying for a Ph.D in “scratching balls” — was arrested yesterday after admitting to molesting a 16-year-old special needs girl.Timothy Lowe, 22, was booked into Pinal County Jail on three counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and one count…
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was in Washington D.C. today to “support a bipartisan bill to avoid economic crisis,” her office “tweeted” moments ago.”Gabrielle has returned to Washington to support a bipartisan bill to prevent economic crisis. Turn on C-SPAN now: http://t.co/ddhmVMB,” her office posted on her Twitter page…
As predicted, it didn’t take long for police to track down “Bozo,” a member of the 18th Street East Side Posse street gang, who allegedly pulled a gun on a man in Goodyear last month.As you can see in his booking photo, “Bozo,” a.k.a. Leo Rufus Rodriguez Jr., stands out…
A Mesa man who claimed he had no idea what caused his on-again-off-again girlfriend to “turn purple” and die in December of 2009 was sentenced to 22 years in prison, Maricopa County Superior Court officials announced this afternoon.According to court documents obtained by New Times, a family member of Dartanion…
A former teacher at a Mesa elementary school was sentenced to 15 years in prison today after pleading guilty last month to charges that he attempted to molest a 7-year-old girl in the band room of the school where he worked, court officials announced this afternoon. The girl was a…
The father of a 10-year-old Phoenix girl who was tortured and murdered by members of her own family earlier this month is trying to raise money to bail his daughter’s killers out of jail, a source who knows the family tells New Times.The source asked not to be identified out…
With some 1.4 million people, Phoenix is the sixth biggest city in the country — so it only makes (gulp) sense that hunting pigeons within city limits is totally legal.The Arizona Game and Fish Department recently released its 2011-12 Arizona Dove and Band-tailed Pigeon regulations, and has opened up about…
According to a Glendale man, Satan forced him to sexually assault his maid. That’s what he told police, anyway.On June 21, the victim was cleaning 77-year-old Bobby Guyton’s Glendale trailer home when he grabbed her hand and forced her to touch his penis on four separate occasions.. The victim told…
We got our hands on the arrest reports for the four monsters charged with the torture and murder of 10-year-old Ame Deal, who suffocated after she was locked in a footlocker and left overnight by family members earlier this month.If you ever want to smile again, stop reading right now…
The suffocation death of a 10-year-old girl found in a footlocker at her family’s home earlier this month has been ruled a homicide — and members of her own family are believed to be responsible, Phoenix police announced this afternoon.Initially, the July 12, death of Ame Deal was suspected to…
The storm that pummeled the Valley last week delivered a knock-out blow to KO Boxing Gym in South Phoenix.Michelle Rosado, a Valley woman who promotes boxing through Face II Face Events, is hoping that Valley residents and boxing fans will pitch in to help rebuild the gym…
Have you seen this bracelet?It came off one of two men who attacked a woman and her 18-year-old daughter in the driveway of their Peoria home as they unloaded groceries from their car.Peoria police say that on July 23 at about 9 p.m., two men accosted the women, threw them…
Turns out, Erik Grumpelt — the Mesa man accused of murdering his girlfriend and living with her decomposing body in his apartment for more than two months — is a meth head.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Grumpelt tested positive for amphetamine while hospitalized earlier this week, and…
“I don’t care about dogs, I’ve probably hit 1,000 dogs in my life.”That’s what 69-year-old George Guzman told police Monday night after running over two pooches, one of which was his own German Shepherd.According to court records obtained by New Times, about 8 p.m. Monday, Guzman was seen driving his…
Just weeks after Arizona contained an outbreak of horse herpes, a stallion in Maricopa County has tested positive for an STD.According to officials at the Arizona Department of Agriculture, a stallion has tested positive for Contagious Equine Metrititis, resulting in the quarantine of five other horses that were exposed to the…
