For the second time in as many mugshots, Rachel Brock, daughter of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, showed up for her booking photo after getting arrested last week smiling like an idiot someone who isn’t potentially looking at a lot of prison time for allegedly having sex with an underage…
The Afghan war veteran fatally shot by a Glendale police officer early Saturday morning suffered from post-traumatic-stress disorder and alcoholism, his parents told police after the shooting, and, as an Army man, he apparently wasn’t fond of the Marine Corps.According to the police report, first obtained by KPHO, 24-year-old Jeremiah…
Jeremiah Pulaski, 24, returned to his home in Glendale from Afghanistan — where he served in the United States Army — in February, and it appears he’s had some trouble readjusting to society.According to his latest Facebook status update, he was thinking about doing some traveling.”I think Im gonna Just…
Straight from the seemingly endless saga that is the Brock family sex scandal: Rachel Brock, daughter of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, was re-arrested last week and charged with the same sex-with-a-kid-related charges she faced when she was originally arrested last December. The child Brock is accused of getting busy…
An Avondale man who traded a tattoo for sex with a minor was in Maricopa County Supreme Court this morning where he changed his plea to guilty to various sex-with-a-kid-related charges.Juan Lara, 38, pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted child prostitution and two counts of unlawful tattooing for the…
Kid-killing Minutewoman Shawna Forde’s co-defendant, Jason Eugene Bush, was found guilty this morning in a Pima County Superior Court for the murders of an Arivaca man and his daughter in May 2009.In addition to the two first-degree murder convictions for the murders of Raul “Junior” Flores and his 9-year-old daughter,…
KPHO Cody Bishop (left) died at 18 thanks to Steven Landrum. For a typical Arizonan, “.227” may refer to the box of rifle ammo in their truck, but for Steven Landrum — who was packing a .227 blood-alcohol level while driving his pickup truck when he crashed into and killed…
Julian Titcomb, 21, a volunteer basketball coach at a Valley elementary school, plans to join the Army this May — but that’s probably not going to happen now that he’s been charged eight counts of sexual conduct with a minor for allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old girl.Titcomb was the…
If you’re a female teacher’s aide at a middle school and you send naked pictures of yourself to male, teenage students, there’s a good chance everyone at the school is going to see them. Just ask Gabriela Compton, a teacher’s aide at a Valley middle school, whose ta-tas were seen…
It’s not everyday that we get two separate e-mails from the Phoenix Police Department with the subject “skeletal remains found.” Today is not like every other day.For the second time in less than 24 hours, a skeleton has been found in the city of Phoenix.According to Phoenix police, the latest bones…
A Desert Hills couple has been charged with murder after the dead body of a 51-year-old relative was found emaciated in their backyard last summer.John and Tara Chesser were arrested Monday after a grand jury indictment was returned charging the couple with the murder of 51-year-old James Chesser — the…
When 29-year-old Eric Matthew Papanek allegedly walked defiantly out of a Peoria Circle K holding a 12-pack of Heineken — and the knife he had just used to stab a man — over his head last week, he probably didn’t anticipate hiding in a closet like a coward when police…
The Arizona Court of Appeals has agreed that Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley did not violate any financial disclosure law, ending a tainted criminal case against him. The ruling today is another major blow to former County Attorney Andrew Thomas, who could be disbarred in an upcoming discipline hearing related to his…
Arizona Department of Transportation crews checking a drain near a Valley freeway yesterday afternoon made a pretty gruesome discovery: human skeletal remains.According to the Phoenix Police Department, about 2 p.m. yesterday, ADOT crews were checking a storm drain near the on-ramp to the I-!0 and the Loop-202 just north of…
An exit report given to the Glendale Elementary School District by substitute teacher Tony Hill backs up — in part, anyway — a letter he wrote that criticized his students’ behavior. Hill’s letter created quite a stir since it was sent to State Senator Russell Pearce a couple of weeks ago…
A Utah woman nearly became a movie star earlier this month — the only problem with that is she didn’t know she was being recorded, the movie was being filmed in a shopping mall dressing room, and the (ahem) director was a convicted sex offender from Arizona.On March 9, a…
The execution of convicted murder Daniel Wayne Cook, who has been sitting on death row for more than two decades, will go forward after a last-ditch petition filed by his lawyer was denied by the state Supreme Court yesterday.Earlier this month, Cook’s attorneys filed a petition to review his death…
A track coach at a Chino Valley high school was arrested yesterday after a cop caught him having sex with a teenage student in his car as it sat parked at a local park.According to Prescott police, an officer on routine patrol saw a car parked at Heritage Park in…
An alleged meth head was arrested on Friday after trying to sell some weed to a group of kids at the Pinal County Fair. The suspect didn’t actually have any weed, but he did have a pocket full of crystal meth, an assault rifle, and a shotgun.About 10 p.m. Friday,…
For the second time in just over a month, a Marine stationed in Yuma has been reported missing.The Naval Criminal Investigation Service and local police are investigating the disappearance of Corporal Joshua Barron, a Marine from Standish, Maine.Barron, 22, who is stationed at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma…
A Chandler man convicted of second-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter was in court this morning where he was sentenced to prison time and a probation.Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Robert Gottsfield sentenced 21-year-old Jeremias Joel Aguilar to 25 years in prison…
The Tucson girl reported missing Monday has been found alive and well in Texas with a 19-year-old Utah man — who apparently has an obsession with shirtless dudes — whom she met online.Ashley Kingsbury, 14, was found in Galveston, Texas, this morning with 19-year-old Jordan Anthony after a bank teller…
