The chief of staff for Maricopa County Supervissor Fulton Brock plans to resign to take a job with a company owned by Texas oil big-wig T. Boone Pickens.Eric Latto has worked for the county supervisor — whose wife has been convicted of having a sexual relationship with the same underage…
A strange shooting in west Phoenix over the weekend has left a 22-year-old woman dead and police scratching their heads.About 2 a.m. yesterday, two women were driving home from a party in west Phoenix. The women got into an argument, Phoenix police say, and stopped the car at a tire…
You’d think it doesn’t get much more disgusting, depraved, and evil than someone sexually abusing their own children — but that’s because you’ve probably never met 29-year-old Juan Vidal Torres, who was arrested this morning on charges that he not only sexually abused his own kids, but injected them with…
Apparently for two men arrested Thursday, “doing it doggy style” meant finding people on the internet who would let them have sex with their dogs. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced the arrests of Keith Kiefer, 47, and Patrick Trejo, 25, after an ongoing investigation revealed the men were using…
The residents of a north Phoenix home may want to consider moving — early this morning, for the third time in two years, a vehicle crashed into their property, this time into their pool.According to the Phoenix Police Department, about 1:40 a.m. today, a man described by police only as…
The judge overseeing the case of Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner ordered yesterday that his trial is to take place by September 20.So far, Loughner’s been charged with two counts of attempted murder, and one count of attempted assassination for the January 8, shooting rampage outside of a Tucson Safeway…
The jurors deciding the fate of convicted murderer Jonathan Burns have hit a snag.The Maricopa County Superior Court announced this afternoon that the jury was having “issues” in agreeing on a sentence for Burns, who was convicted in December for the 2007 murder of Jackie Hartman, and could be sentenced…
What do a little girl, a workout bench, nylon restraints, and a tan Labrador Retriever have in common? They were all featured in images of kiddy porn found on the computer of a Mesa pervert yesterday.Police arrested 60-year-old Frank Morgan Foster, an old pro in the world of pervs, after…
Debra Kastner, 31, of Phoenix, wanted to show her baby-daddy and local police that she’s untouchable — so she called her 11-year old son over and punched him in the lower-back. According to police records, Kastner and the baby-daddy had an argument, which led her to hit the child and…
A Phoenix man has two problems: his neighbor, and throwing like a girl.According to court records obtained by New Times, 51-year-old Bruce Mueller had a dispute with his neighbor at an apartment complex at 1625 East Glendale Avenue in Phoenix. He responded by trying to set burn the neighbor’s house…
Attention Valley residents: Stop driving around shitfaced with your kids in the car.For the second time this morning, we’ve been hit with a story about a person driving drunk with a child in the car. The latest: 34-year-old Carla Flanagan.Flanagan was arrested Saturday after drunkenly crashing her car near 45th…
A story about a Mesa man getting a DUI Monday night probably wouldn’t be news worthy… unless at the time he had three kids in the trunk of his car, which he did.Robert Soto, 23, was stopped by police Monday night after a police helicopter responding to a road rage…
According to a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Deputy, Isabel Beltran is one of the more-honest meth heads in the valley — even though she was using an ex-girlfriend’s ID and a forged prescription to buy drugs for a mysterious woman at Walgreens pharmacy last night.About 8 p.m., Beltran showed up at…
The U.S. Marshals Service released today another mugshot of Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner. In it, as you can see below, he looks far-less maniacal than he does in the now-infamous photo taken by the Pima County sheriff’s deputies shortly after the shooting.Loughner’s attorneys had fought to keep the unreleased…
Police found two dead bodies in Phoenix over the weekend, and today announced the deaths have been ruled a murder/suicide.About 2 a.m. Saturday, Phoenix police responded to a shooting near 26th Street and Clarendon Avenue in Phoenix.Witnesses told the officers they’d heard people arguing and then gunshots…
Some people are better at getting themselves out of trouble than others. Salma Rafik Hourieh is not one of those people. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office was called to the 6600 block of West Laurel Avenue yesterday to deal with a fight between Hourieh and her sister. The sisters had…
A Pima County jury decided this morning that Shawna Forde, the kid-killing minutewoman responsible for the deaths of a 9-year-old Arivaca girl and her father in May of 2009, will pay for the murders with her life.Earlier this month, Forde was convicted of murdering 29-year-old Raul Flores, and his 9-year-old…
A man killed during a shootout at a Phoenix bar early yesterday morning has been identified as 27-year-old Pedro Sanchez Galvan. The man who shot him, however, remains on the loose.Phoenix police spokesman Sergeant Trent Crump says the investigation into the shooting is ongoing, but, at the moment, there aren’t…
Serial stabber Jeff Hausner’s hope for leaving prison early has just been thwarted by the state Court of Appeals. This morning, the court upheld the conviction of Hausner on attempted murder and aggravated assault charges for a 2006 stabbing he committed with serial shooters Dale Hausner (his brother) and Samuel Dieteman. Among Jeff Hausner’s…
A Chandler woman insists that she’s not a meth dealer — she just arranges, buys, and is paid with either cash or meth, and she often conducts business with her infant daughter under the same roof.Last week, police arrested 29-year-old Carol Stephen following several meth deals at the home at…
If any good came from the shooting rampage in Tucson last month, it’s an institution opening today at the University of Arizona with the goal of getting politicos to tone down the rhetoric.The National Institute for Civil Discourse opens today in Tucson. The organization is described as a “center for…
A couple of Chandler gangsters kept things extra gangsta this morning, when police say one thug shot another.Chandler Detective Frank Mendoza tells New Times that about 10:20 a.m. today, an 18-year-old male was shot at a home at 449 West Ray Road in Chandler. He took bullets to both his…
