Convicted serial rapist Timothy Boles thought petitioning authorities to test his DNA would clear him of one of the four sexual assaults of which he’s been convicted. Not only didn’t the testing clear Boles’ name, his DNA linked him to yet another rape.Oops.Boles was convicted in 1993 of multiple charges…
An Arizona judge has refused to block the death sentence of a man convicted of the 1984 rape and murder of 13-year-old Christy Ann Fornoff.Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Janet Barton ruled today that Donald Beaty’s claims that he didn’t have effective legal counsel in prior court proceedings wasn’t convincing…
One of two men accused of using Craigslist to arrange a sexual tryst with a dog has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bestiality.Maricopa County Superior Court officials tell New Times that 47-year-old Keith Kiefer changed his plea this morning.Kiefer was arrested in February after an investigation by the Maricopa…
When a cop is busted stealing something from an evidence room, it’s often drugs or cash. Not Tempe police Officer Elliot Campbell — he stole a refrigerator, a washing machine, and various other household items.Campbell, an 11-year veteran, was arrested yesterday after an investigation revealed he looted the department’s evidence…
There’s a new candidate for mother of the year: 25-year-old Vanessa Tsinajinnie.With an open bottle of Southern Comfort in the car, Tsinajinnie drove her two daughters — ages 2 and 4 — from Surprise to Mesa and finally to Tempe on Sunday night so she could “have a good time”…
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords continues to make tremendous progress in her recovery after getting shot through the brain during the January 8, Tucson shooting rampage, and her closest friend in Congress, Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, says the wounded congresswoman will return to Congress. “I do think she’s going to come…
A 57-year-old California man convicted of brutally murdering a Phoenix woman was sentenced to death today by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Arthur Anderson.In addition to the death sentence, Anderson added 42 years in prison to Stephen Douglas Reeves’ term for armed robbery, assault, kidnapping, and theft charges stemming from the…
Charges against an Arivaca woman who admitted to violations of the Endangered Species Act for her role in the death of “Macho B,” the nation’s last known wild jaguar, will be dropped — as long as she stays out of jaguar or large-cat studies for a year and does not…
A Phoenix woman apparently wanted a little cuddle time after having sex with a man at the apartment of 19-year-old Paul Katoa over the weekend. The friend, Andrew McConnell, however, just got up and left the room — which caused her to return to the apartment with a friend carrying…
Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas already has ripped through much of the $100,000 he was granted by the Board of Supervisors to fund his defense against an ethics complaint filed against him with the Arizona State Bar Association, which has prompted discussion about whether he should be granted more county…
Following the January 8 Tucson shooting rampage, during which Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot through the brain, her husband, astronaut Mark Kelley, told reporters that the “low point” of the whole ordeal was, naturally, hearing a false report that his wife was dead. Now, one of the reporters responsible for the false report is…
A Phoenix mom who put a newborn baby in the trash was convicted of abuse yesterday. However, she faces retrial on a charge that her actions constitute murder.In January 2010, Williams delivered a baby in her family’s Phoenix home. According to authorities, none of her family members knew she was pregnant. Rather…
We first came upon John Dowd when he represented Major League Baseball in the Pete Rose scandal. Dowd was the consummate Washington D.C. bigtimer who could bloviate with the best (or the worst) of `em. (If you have trouble viewing this clip, try Firefox). At least a few readers may…
A Peoria man was sentenced today for his role in an international kiddie porn racket, and when the judge read his sentence, he cried like a baby.David Dean, a 43-year-old trucker from Peoria, was sentenced today to 15 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised probation after pleading guilty…
David Clark Nelson, a former Jehovah’s Witness elder, pleaded guilty to charges that he played strip poker and had oral sex with a teenage boy in 1980. He was sentenced this morning to six months in county jail and three years’ probation. If that seems like a light sentence, that’s…
A former Jehovah’s Witness preacher who pleaded guilty to charges that he repeatedly played strip poker and felated a 14-year-old member of his congregation more than 30 years ago got a tap on the wrist this morning when he was sentenced by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Karen O’Connor –…
A great way to draw attention to a house in which you just anally raped a child is to set it on fire –, which is exactly what Phoenix police say Dejuan Donaldson, the alleged south Phoenix rapist, did last month.The 18-year-old Donaldson’s been hit with a laundry list of crimes for…
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office announced this morning that a man has been arrested in connection to three sexual assaults dating back to November.Dajuan Donaldson, 18, was nabbed this morning in connection with the attacks on three young girls as they walked to school.The first attack happened on November 22,…
[jump] When police got to the scene, they found Peralta lying face down and completely naked in the empty field. He told cops he wanted his pants, which were in a nearby pile of clothing. The officers were happy to get Peralta his pants, and when they did, they found a…
In a text message he showed police after getting arrested for having a weekend full of sex with a 15-year-old girl, 23-year-old Christopher Bochenek told his victim, “I hope I don’t go to jail.” Good luck, bub.Bochenek was arrested last Friday after the girl told her parents that she’d spent the…
As he was holding his neighbor hostage following a drunken fight with his fiancee, 35-year-old Chad Wisneiwski had an idiotic request: He wanted to have a “fire fight” with the Pinal County sheriff’s deputies who’d surrounded his home and were negotiating with him to come out. It never happened,…
“Buffalo” William Willis, the alleged cross-dressing kiddy-porn connoisseur who removed his court- ordered ankle monitor earlier this week, was not only busted by U.S. Marshals yesterday, he was busted wearing a wig — which is both fitting and terrifying.When Willis was arrested at an apartment complex near 48th Street and…
