The Phoenix Police Department has released a sketch of the man cops believe is responsible for the bizarre February murder of a Phoenix woman.About 2 a.m. on February 27, 22-year-old Alexcia Salsberry and a friend were driving home from a party in west Phoenix. The women got into an argument,…
Good news: 44-year-old Steven Michael DeMarlie, reported missing yesterday by his wife, was found alive and well in the Tonto National Forest near Roosevelt Lake, the Chandler Police Department announced this afternoon.According to Chandler P.D. spokesman Detective Frank Mendoza,several fishermen at Roosevelt Lake called the Gila County Sheriff’s Office after…
A verdict was returned Friday in the case of 39-year-old Daniel Gukeisen, a Tempe attorney accused of fatally stabbing a 22-year-old Arizona State University student in 2008. Gukeisen, however, didn’t bother to show up.The proceedings went on without him, though, and he was found guilty of manslaughter in the death…
The Chandler Police Department is asking the public’s help in tracking down a man with autism last seen yesterday morning.Steven Michael DeMarlie, 44, was last seen about 11:30 a.m. yesterday by his family. He told them he planned to go hiking in the Tonto National Forrest with his dog, a…
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ condition continues to improve after she was shot through the brain during the January 8 rampage in Tucson, and her staff says she’s doing so well that they’re moving forward with plans for her to go to Florida for her astronaut husband’s upcoming shuttle launch.In a statement, Giffords…
It’s alleged female pedophile Friday here in the Valley, and all the buzz about Susan Brock getting hit with a 13-year prison sentence for having a three-year sexual relationship with a teen shouldn’t steal the spotlight from another Valley woman who apparently has a thing for kids.Last month, Gabriela Compton,…
Tempe PD James Homer Ferris March 31 was a crappy day for 58-year-old James Ferris. In fact, crappy is an understatement — with his apartment catching on fire, cops finding 30 binders full of kiddie porn, and having to explain to investigators his penchant for wearing women’s underwear. About 10:30 a.m…
facebook.com Timothy M. Oline Driving drunk is dangerous in general. But when it’s part of a demolition derby through a Mesa neighborhood followed by a standoff with a SWAT officers, you begin to understand what Timothy Oline’s Wednesday night was like. Mesa police got a call that a driver was…
A Mesa pervert already behind bars for sexually abusing a 5-year-old boy has been hit with several other charges for alleged crimes even more perverse than the ones that originally landed him behind bars: sexually abusing a 1-year-old — and others — and videotaping it.Brandon K. Jones originally was arrested January 7, after…
A mentally ill Mesa man allegedly stabbed his stepfather 50 times with a Swiss Army Knife earlier this week. The reason: He was “mean.” The victim’s alive — for now — much to the dismay of the suspect who promised to “finish the job” if he was released from police…
You might think anyone who could kill his own infant child is a monster, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re nuts.Enter 27-year-old Brian Hopf, accused of murdering his 3-week-old daughter in September 2009 and now officially competent to stand trial for first-degree murder.A court-ordered competency hearing for Hopf concluded that the alleged…
Jason Bush, the kid-killing accomplice of Minutewoman Shawna Forde, will join his murderous cohort on death row, a Tucson jury decided today.Bush was found guilty last monthd in the murders of an Arivaca man and his daughter in May 2009.In addition to the two first-degree murder convictions for the murders…
A teenage Virginia murderer was sentenced today for his role in the brutal beating death of an 81-year-old Tempe man last year. However, because the boy is a teen, the “rotten little bastard” will only do about seven years behind bars.After pleading guilty last month to first-degree murder in the…
Glendale police have arrested two men in connection with the death of a high school sophomore who police say was either pushed from or dragged by a moving car during a robbery attempt last week.Lino Chavez and Jose Solis Apodaca, both 18, were arrested for the murder of 16-year-old Anita…
MCSO John Stephen Beaupied: Sotally tober Some people believe in the “use of alternative fuel.” Apparently John Stephen Beaupied believes in the alternative use of fuel, which allegedly includes huffing gasoline and scaring the hell out of people at a Phoenix gas station. According to documents obtained by New Times,…
The Glendale mom who police say intentionally hit her daughter with a car had the recommended aggravated-assault charge against her thrown out by a Maricopa County Superior Court commissioner — but not because there’s no case. Rather, there was an error in how the woman was charged.If you’re unfamiliar with…
Police have yet to recover the body of a Chandler woman who’s been missing since last March, but authorities feel they have enough evidence to charge her ex-boyfriend with murder.The Chandler Police Department announced today that Rick Valentini — a.k.a. Bryan Stewart — has been charged with second-degree murder in the…
A Glendale mom was arrested last week after coming up with a pretty convincing way to win an argument with her 17-year-old daughter: hitting her with a car.Sylvia Aranda, 37, was arrested Friday after witnesses say they watched her hit her daughter with her car near Grand Avenue and Greenway…
Convicted murderer Daniel Wayne Cook was scheduled to be put to death this morning for the brutal 1987 murders of two men in Lake Havasu City. However, the United States Supreme Court granted Cook a last-minute stay delaying — or potentially reversing — his death sentence.During the murders of his…
Since our previous post about a search warrant conducted by Chandler police to obtain a handwriting sample from Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, the county supervisor’s spokesman sent New Times a statement from Brock, in which he denies he ever helped his wife conspire to have sex with a teenage…
Once again, just when we though the uber-bizarre sex scandal involving both the wife and daughter of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock and a teenage boy couldn’t possibly get any more bizarre, it did.The Chandler Police Department confirms to New Times that it has conducted a search warrant to obtain…
On Sunday, Gary Maitha found himself in a nightmare situation for any married man: he lost his wedding ring. Luckily, the ring was found by 41-year-old Gary Barnett, who offered to return it to Maitha — as long as he agreed to pay a $100 “finder’s fee,” which aside from…
