A Mesa man’s been charged with murder in the beating death of his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son.According to the Mesa Police Department, 23-year-old Jorge Busso was watching the boy Friday afternoon while the mother was at work.By 4 p.m. that same afternoon, the kid was being airlifted from Banner Baywood hospital…
A Mesa couple was arrested yesterday for allegedly pointing a loaded gun at a school bus full of students with special needs.The bus was taking the students home from Palm Lane Elementary School about 2:45 p.m. yesterday when it approached three people — two women and a man.Inexplicably, one of…
A Mesa high school could have been short one laptop after it was discovered a student at the school tried to steal it right out of a classroom — in the middle of the school day.Currently on probation, 19-year-old Ismael Pesqueira was arrested yesterday after school officials at Career High…
The search for missing senior Wendell Workman has been suspended for a good reason: he was found alive and well early this morning.Workman, 71, was reported missing yesterday. The last time he was seen was about 5 a.m., when his son, who was taking care of him, went to work…
The Mesa Police Department is asking for the public’s help in tracking down a 71-year-old man reported missing this morning.Wendell Lee Workman’s son had been taking care of him at his Mesa home in the 500 block of West Del Oro Drive. Today, at 5 a.m., Workman’s son went to…
“There’s candy in the van, little girl…muahahahaha.”Could a pervert’s (ahem) pickup line be any more cliche?That age-old ploy was basically what a guy in Tempe reportedly used to try and lure a 10-year-old girl into his truck this morning…
See the man to the right? That’s 39-year-old David Myhre. Now, imagine walking back to your house from a gas station, and just as you open the door to your garage, that guy’s standing directly behind you.If it happened to us, we’d scream bloody murder and just assume the end…
Be careful on the roads this holiday season, Arizona motorists. Aside from the terror of knowing Governor Jan Brewer might be driving home from a Christmas party, there’s also the increased risk of getting stopped for a DUI (unless of course you’re Jan Brewer, in which case you’re apparently free…
Some people have it all together. Like the guy who robbed a Wells Fargo bank today near Power and Broadway roads in Mesa. He keeps organized with a zip-up black binder. Yep, that’s his little, black revolver in there. Mesa cops say the man pulled a note out of the binder…
Claudia Washburn will serve between six months and two-and-a-half years in prison for providing money to her infamous escapee son, John McCluskey. The sentencing range is part of the plea deal the Payson resident accepted today in court, says the state Attorney General’s office. In August, authorities say, Washburn, 68, sent cash…
When Chandler police served a warrant at the home of 47-year-old Teresa Ramirez, an alleged meth dealer now charged with — among other things — child abuse, the stench coming from the refrigerator in the home was so revolting it “nearly caused involuntary vomiting to all serving the warrant.” That…
The Arizona Game and Fish Department is asking the public’s help in finding the person responsible for putting a shark in a Yuma canal.As you probably know, no shark species are native to Arizona, so when one’s found in a freshwater irrigation canal it tends to raise a few eyebrows.The…
Court orders for DNA samples of more than two dozen Phoenix police officers were served on Monday in regards to the death of Phoenix Sergeant Sean Drenth. The officers ordered to turn over their DNA are the same cops believed to be involved in a fraud scheme that resulted in…
A Phoenix man, with a long history of domestic violence, was arrested Sunday after he allegedly beat his wife with a weed-whacker and tried to set his house on fire with Molotov cocktails — all over some spilled champagne.According to court documents obtained by New Times, 49-year-old Roy Rodriguez and…
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office will “definitely” still pursue a 22-year-old, $7.5 million restitution case against former gold mogul Sherman Unkefer, an official told us last week. Since our last update about Unkefer in August, the Arizona Court of Appeals remanded the case back to the trial courts. In other…
If the story of a 14-year-old mentally disabled girl is accurate, there are some real dirtbags roaming the streets right now, who need to be brought to justice.The girl told police she was raped and beaten by a gang of at least three thugs at gunpoint.The girl claims the rape…
Good news, you can all off the search — an officer from the Department of Public Safety has found an 84-year-old man reported missing yesterday.The officer found Edward Reed, who served in the Merchant Marines during World War II, on Hunt Highway last night. Reed left his house in Phoenix…
Not that we have any experience in the matter, but it seems a robbery suspect in Mesa broke one of the cardinal rules of robbing someone at gunpoint — after stealing some of the victim’s stuff, he left his gun behind as he made his getaway.This morning, 29-year-old Ruben Tellez…
The Department of Public Safety, and the Phoenix Police Department, needs the public’s help in tracking down an 84-year-old man who’s been missing since yesterday afternoon.Edward Reed, who served in the Merchant Marines during World War II, left his house in Phoenix yesterday around 3 p.m. He left in his…
In honor of Thanksgiving, officers from the Phoenix Police Department’s most scandalous precinct will be giving away Turkeys to some needy families tonight, and they really (really) want you to know about it. The South Mountain Precinct has been home to some of the worst cops the city has to…
The Phoenix woman accused of murdering a cab driving on Friday morning hid evidence — including the alleged murder weapon and a plastic bag full of underwear — in a dishwasher in her apartment, court documents obtained by New Times show.Corletha Sherie Davis, 33, told officers she had nothing to…
A former Phoenix police officer accused of shakin’ down drug dealers pled guilty to theft charges in a Maricopa County Superior Court this morning.Former Officer James Wren pled guilty to solicitation to commit theft, which is a hell of a deal considering the crimes with which he’d initially been charged.Initially,…
