A Valley high school teacher was arrested yesterday for an alleged pattern of teen touching dating back to 2008.Otis Magee, 54, a teacher at Precision High School in Phoenix, got a little grabby with one of his students last December. According to court documents obtained by New Times, he had…
The mother of a Phoenix man senselessly shot by Phoenix police Officer Richard Chrisman last year has filed a $30 million notice of claim against the officer, the city of Phoenix, and the Phoenix Police Department for the wrongful death of her son.Daniel Rodriguez — and his dog — were…
Peoria police detectives are still on the hunt for a man who reportedly robbed a gas station convenience store near 83rd Avenue and Bell Road with a rock last week.The suspect threatened to bash the clerk’s head in with the rock, which was described by the clerk as being “the…
The Phoenix Police Department is asking the public’s help in tracking down a guy who’s robbed six Circle K convenience stores in just over a week.According to the Phoenix Police Department, between March 4, and March 13, the suspect hit six stores in Phoenix, Mesa, Chandler, and Tempe…
Since our earlier post about Tiberias Foster, the 25-year-old alleged public masturbator/flasher extraordinaire who managed to get away from Tempe police officers three times yesterday before he was found hiding in a bush at an apartment complex by a police K-9, the Tempe Police Department provided New Times with his…
Tiberias Foster, a 22-year-old Tempe man, is a slippery character — he managed to get away from Tempe police officers three times yesterday before he was found hiding in a bush at an apartment complex by a police K-9.What did Foster allegedly do to warrant so much attention from police?…
A nurse at a Valley hospital who’s alleged to have tried to have sex with a child he believed to be a 15-year-old girl has pleaded not guilty to charges that he tried to lure a minor for sexual exploitation — despite having already admitted to police that’s what he…
A Pima County girl is missing and authorities believe she was taken to Utah by a 19-year-old man she met online.Ashley Kingsbury, 13, was reported missing Monday, and is believed to have been taken to Utah by 19-year-old Jordan Anthony, with whom she’s reportedly been chatting on social networking websites…
Thursday is St. Patrick’s Day, which means one thing: people are gonna get wasted. Stupid people are gonna get wasted and then try to drive home. Aside from potentially killing someone, cops are going to be everywhere looking for idiots driving drunk, so don’t do it — call AAA Arizona.Not…
A family fight in Phoenix turned deadly last night when an 18-year-old man visiting the Valley from Detroit fatally shot a woman and wounded two others, including his stepfather.About 10 p.m. yesterday, the unidentified suspect and his 63-year-old stepfather got into an argument in their apartment near 12th Street and…
The Peoria Police Department needs the public’s help in tracking down a man they say stole a few Heinekens from a Circle K convenience store last night.According to police, the thief stole two 12-packs of Heineken from a Circle K near 87th Avenue and Bell Road. During the heist, a…
Two things you may want to consider if you know Qui Tu Truong, the man living in Phoenix who allegedly attacked two people with a meat cleaver over the weekend: don’t talk about him at work, and don’t get him fired.Truong was arrested on Saturday after breaking into the home…
A Phoenix music teacher was in Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where he pleaded not guilty to charges that he used Craigslist to solicit sex with a dog.Patrick Trejo, a 25-year-old music teacher at Raul H. Castro Middle School in Phoenix, was arrested last month after an investigation by…
The Chandler man convicted of stabbing his roommate with the hopes of sucking his blood as part of a “vampire” ritual has been sentenced to three years probation.Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Warren Granville spared 24-year-old Aaron Homer any jail time for the bizarre incident, during which Homer and his…
The man pictured is 49-year-old Michael Alan Jenks, of Mesa, and he allegedly likes to give little girls drugs and alcohol, and then feel them up.Jenks got popped on Tuesday for allegedly molesting three young girls, two of whom were blood relatives of his living in his home.According to court…
Police say a man broke into a Mesa apartment Thursday morning, only to have his burglary plan hampered by getting caught in a clothes hamper. Mesa police Detective Mike Melendez tells New Times that a 45-year-old man was in the bathroom of his apartment, on the 300 block of North…
For the first time in about seven weeks, doctors treating Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords held a news conference to update the public on the congresswoman’s condition after she was shot through the brain during the January 8 shooting rampage in Tucson.Things are looking good for Giffords.According to her doctors, Giffords is…
It’s only been about two months since Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot “through the brain” during the January 8, shooting rampage in Tucson, but her staff confirms today that she plans to attend her astronaut husband, Mark Kelly’s, April shuttle launch.Kelly is pegged to serve as the mission commander aboard…
Photo by Matthew Hendley In a DUI even Governor Jan Brewer probably couldn’t get away with, police say an allegedly drunk 56-year-old man crashed his truck straight into Phoenix police headquarters early Thursday. Phoenix police Sergeant Tommy Thompson tells New Times the man was driving his 2003 half-ton Chevrolet truck…
Phoenix resident Mike Aley is the proud owner of a 4-year-old Staffordshire Terrier named Lexy, who happens to be one of the worst guard dogs in the world.On February 24, Aley’s house near 64th and Voltaire streets was burglarized. The thieves, Aley tells New Times, stole a watch, a laptop…and…
The man fatally shot by Phoenix police officers early yesterday morning has been identified as 26-year-old Ernesto Lopez. And Lopez, it appears, left two women in charge of the getaway car as he attempted (and failed morbidly) to rob a 7-11 convenience store.Those women, Lopez’s girlfriend, 26-year-old Jennathea Nozie, and…
Give it up, bub…After sitting on death row for more than two decades, Daniel Wayne Cook is still fighting to avoid his date with the executioner’s needle, which happens to be less than a month away.Cook’s attorneys filed a petition to review his death sentence, claiming he suffers from post-traumatic…
