After weeks of consideration, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ astronaut husband has decided he’ll head to space in April on the space shuttle Endeavor’s final mission.Mark Kelly took a leave from training after Giffords was shot “through the brain” during the Tucson shooting rampage on January 8. Giffords was among 19 people…
Valley cop shops are asking the public’s help in tracking down a pair of thieves they say scammed numerous retailers out of about $27,000.One of the suspects has been identified as Ramon Angel Leon-Baron. His accomplice has not been identified.Cops say,starting in August 2009, the pair would go to Valley…
A member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, who authorities believe is responsible for “one of the most grisly” murders in recent American criminal history, has been captured in Argentina, the U.S. Marshals Service announced today. Paul Merle Eischeid, one of the U.S. Marshals 15 Most Wanted Fugitives, was captured…
The three dogs that attacked an Arizona City boy last month have been euthanized, Pinal County officials confirm to New Times.The dogs had been in mandatory quarantine after mauling the 10-year-old victim so badly he needed to be medevaced to a Phoenix hospital for treatment on January 19…
Arizona is home to many, many crappy drivers, and a 14-year-old kid police say was driving a stolen car drunk through Phoenix Wednesday night is only the latest.Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Bart Graves tells New Times a highway patrolman spotted a white Ford Focus “driving erratically” northbound on…
A Pinal County pervert admitted to police that he can’t stop molesting little girls and he needs to go to jail — that was only after police suspected him of molesting a 9-year-old family friend.The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office got information that 72-year-old Salvador Valentin had molested the 9-year-old daughter…
When the Gilbert Police Department parked a “bait car” near 950 North Gilbert Road Sunday night, they probably thought they’d nab someone trying to steal a stereo, or maybe even the car itself. But 18-year-old Anthony Rubio upped the ante: he burned the car to a crisp.According to court records,…
A peaceful February afternoon was disrupted for a Phoenix family yesterday when a completely naked man hopped a fence and strutted around their backyard. After being taken into custody, the man had an interesting plan, which he described to police in way (way) too much detail.Cops got a call about…
The Arizona prison escapee who planned to commit suicide-by-bear while a fugitive last summer has pleaded not guilty to two murders he allegedly committed while on the run in New Mexico.Tracy Province was in federal court in Albuquerque this morning, where he pleaded not guilty to the murders of Linda…
The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club and this newspaper have an (ahem) interesting relationship. Every time we write about the gang (literally every time), the comment section of each blog post erupts with comments from people accusing the group of molesting children, cooking meth, and various other crimes. Members of the…
Admittedly against the better advice of her attorneys, Elizabeth Johnson, the mother of a Tempe baby who’s been missing for over a year, wrote a handwritten, two-page letter to the judge handling her kidnapping case apparently just to ramble about how unfair the justice system is, how much she hates…
Attention drug dealers: when your weed gets ripped off by a 14-year-old kid, the cops are the absolute last people you want to tell about it. A Surprise man apparently didn’t get the memo.Police arrested 35-year-old Sean Corwin earlier this week after they found him pounding on the front door…
For every problem, there’s a solution. For a Phoenix man, the solution to a mold problem in a hotel in which he was staying was to set the building on fire, according to court documents obtained by New Times.About 7:45 a.m. Saturday, 40-year-old Richard Arlin Goodwin called 9-1-1 to report…
When Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner appears before a judge on March 9, he will do so in a federal courtroom in Tucson, the judge handling Loughner’s case ruled this morning.Loughner appeared in a Phoenix federal court last week where a plea of not-guilty was entered on his behalf for…
One of the three inmates who escaped from an Arizona prison last summer has been extradited to New Mexico where he will face murder charges in the deaths of a husband and wife from Oklahoma.Tracy Province, who along with John McCluskey and Daniel Renwick escaped from the Kingman prison in…
The American Kennel Club released its list of “the most popular dogs in the U.S.A.,” and Valley residents, it turns out, have a thing for Labrador Retrievers, German Shepherds, and Golden Retrievers. Those are just the most popular dogs registered with the AKC — in other words, Pit-Bull eating out…
A Phoenix man convicted of murdering his wife because he believed she was trying to poison him was sentenced in a Maricopa County Superior Court this morning.Judge Karen O’Conner sentenced 46-year-old Primitivo Almonte to 16 years in prison for the 2009 murder of his wife…
The Tempe Police Department just announced that divers searching Tempe Town Lake have recovered a body. Whether the body is that of missing Tempe man Willie Jigba is unclear.The Tempe Fire Department’s Search and Rescue divers have been combing the lake since Wednesday after a search dog picked up the…
Any faith we had in the creativity of sex offenders is now gone thanks to a Mesa perv who’s still using the promise of puppies to lure children into cars. The scary part is that it actually worked.Jeffrey Van Wagoner — a convicted sex offender who’s already served 13 years…
Authorities are asking the public’s help in tracking down the person responsible for the deaths of two Glendale women whose decomposing bodies were found near Cordes Junction nearly 15 years ago.The two women, 19-year-old Jennifer Lueth and 20-year-old Diana Shawcroft, were last seen leaving a mini-mart near the intersection of…
Most people don’t do meth. Most people don’t let their 9-month-old kid die from a meth overdose. Most people don’t then give birth to another child with a circulatory system full of meth. By those standards, Veronica Marie Linares allegedly doesn’t qualify as “most people.” Glendale police say Linares, 23,…
Here’s a tip: If you’re trying to fly to Mexico to evade a felony warrant, you may want to pony up the extra couple of bucks for a direct flight. Apparently, 37-year-old Norma Vera-Nolasko didn’t heed that advice, as Phoenix police arrested her at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport around…
