A failed crime spree came to an abrupt end yesterday, when a Tucson man crashed a police cruiser he’d stolen into a bus. He died.The unidentified 34-year-old man began his trail of mayhem around 3:50 p.m. yesterday, when police say he tried to steal a car with several people in…
The man to the left is 19-year-old Christopher Cravey. You’re probably wondering what has him so happy that he’s willing to flash those shockingly-present chompers of his. Apparently, it’s the aggravated assault and shoplifting charges he’s facing following a liquor-theft-gone-wrong.According to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Department, Cravey, a Queen Creek…
An Arizona State University student was shot last night and has since died from his injuries. Police haven’t identified a suspect in the case and are asking the public’s help in tracking down the person, or people, responsible.Tempe police aren’t releasing too many details about the shooting, and calls to…
Of the all the cockamamie things we’ve heard Lisa Aubuchon did while at the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, this has to be the weirdest. And yet, it seems so — Lisa. Five years ago, the story goes, while building the case against the disgraced, defrocked priest, Dale Fushek, Aubuchon wanted to use…
Partnership for a Drug Free America A good way to get caught moving drugs around is to have them in your car while you’re driving. As most cops will tell you (off the record, of course) if they want to pull someone over, it’s not hard to find some minor…
As one of our colleagues pointed out yesterday, you should never bring a stun-gun to a real-gun fight — or an armored-car robbery, for that matter.Yesterday, we told you about an attempted armored-car robbery in Phoenix. It was reported that the suspect in the robbery was shot by the courier…
Two arrests have been made in connection with a body dumped at a truck stop in the far West Valley earlier this week.Around 12:30 p.m. Monday, police got a call about two men who were seen dumping a human body at the Travel Center of America Truck Stop at 339th…
Robbing an armored-car is serious business in the criminal world. Armored-car companies take a lot of precautions because they know they’re targets for robbery attempts. That’s why the driver and other guards carry guns.In other words, robbing an armored-car takes planning — and probably an actual gun, too.A Valley robber…
A Phoenix resident found a stinkier-than-usual trash can in his neighborhood last night and when he looked inside he found a decomposing human body.Cops got a call about 10:30 p.m. yesterday after a neighbor was walking in an alley near 47th Avenue and McDowell Road.The neighbor passed a dumpster and…
Dennis Wilenchik’s ties to his former employee, failed political candidate and former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, has brought him lots of dough. But in raking in his taxpayer-assisted fortune, he’s more than earned his reputation as a shady lawyer. We remember him well as the disgraced special prosecutor whose…
Last week, we told you about a couple of Chandler residents, who happen to think they’re vampires. How do we know this? Because one of them allegedly stabbed their roommate when he wouldn’t let them suck his blood.Today, police released tapes that further confirm the two actually think they’re vampires.If…
The suspect in the robbery of a Phoenix convenience store apparently forgot that his body would still require oxygen while robbing the store, which might explain why he used a plastic bag as a mask.According to the Phoenix Police Department, on September 19, the unidentified suspect went into the Circle…
An 82-year-old man caught last year for a 1987 murder — and the central character of a feature article this week in New Times — was sentenced today to seven years in prison. As detailed in the article, Richard Rodgers gunned down 23-year-old Terry Keenan in a parking lot for doing nothing more than…
A fist-fight gone wrong has left a 5-year-old boy in critical condition after one of the men involved in the fight shot up the house in which the boy was sleeping.According to the Phoenix Police Department, last night, an 18-year-old man, who was also shot, was in a fight with…
For the second time this week, and the third time in a week, a man is dead after being shot by police.This shooting sounds a little more justified than the one that happened on Tuesday. In other words, this guy presented a threat to police and no dogs were shot…
For the second time this month, a Valley senior has gone missing, and police need your help to find her.Theresa Zynda, 79, went out in the rain last night, and she never came home.She left her house in a the 2005 Buick LeSabre about 8:30 last night, at the height…
We can understand the benefit of having most pets. Dogs make you feel like a rock star every time you walk in the door, fish are fun to look at, and cats…well, people seem to like ’em.What we can’t figure out, however, is why a Pinal County man would keep…
It’s hard for any kid to warm up to a parent’s love interest when that person isn’t the child’s mother or father. The resentment tends to fade by the time you’re 42 years old, though. Unless you’re name is Guy Neal O’Connor, Jr. O’Connor was arrested over the weekend after…
Phoenix police shot and killed a suspect in a domestic violence dispute in south Phoenix this afternoon.According to police, the mother of the suspect called 9-1-1 around noon today to report an argument between she and her son at their trailer home near Baseline Road and Central Avenue.Two officers responded…
A wanted sex offender was arrested last week doing exactly what you might expect a wanted sex offender to be doing: hangin’ out near an elementary school.The U.S. Marshal’s Office got a tip last week that Michael Jack Owl, a 37-year-old fugitive, who failed to register as a sex offender,…
After hearing that Lisa Aubuchon had hung up a shingle on the Internet, advertising her services as a lawyer in Tempe, we gave the former prosecutor a call.Despite all the grief we’ve given the fired Maricopa deputy county attorney about her losing ways, including a recent zinger about her Internet defender– a…
Last week, Mesa Police Detective Steve Berry told us the man shot by police after threatening them with a machete was expected to survive.That didn’t happen.We got word yesterday that after undergoing surgery, 35-year-old Cole Ravel died.Ravel was shot by police Thursday afternoon after he lunged at an officer while…
