Just in time for happy hour, we got our hands on a copy of the Department of Public Safety report filed after Governor Jan Brewer rear-ended a mini-van in 1988. Jan admits having two scotches before the accident but says she wasn’t impaired — despite failing four different field-sobriety tests.Not to…
our previous post about allegations that the wife of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock carried out a sexual relationship with a teenage boy, we contacted Brock’s office for comment. Brock wasn’t available but we were told we’d receive his statement this afternoon.A few minutes ago, Brock’s spokesman, Jason Rose, sent…
A woman was shot in front of an apartment complex in Mesa last night, and one of the two suspects police say was involved was found swimming in a nearby canal shortly after.About 8:30 last night, police got a call that there were shots fired in front of an apartment…
Straight from the you can’t make this shit up files, we’d like to congratulate Max Wilson, who now stands alone as the only member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors without some sort of scandal attached to his name.Until today, Wilson shared that honor with fellow Republican Supervisor Fulton Brock…
A week before the November election, the Arizona Republic was given by Terry Goddard’s campaign has stumbled upon Department of Public Safety records detailing a 1988 car wreck, where Governor Jan Brewer rear-ended a mini-van after throwin’ back at least two scotches.The case was never pursued, and Brewer gave three different…
What some see as the last remaining obstacle for State Bar action against former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and former Deputy County Attorney Lisa Aubuchon has come down. John Gleason, a Colorado lawyer assigned to probe allegations of prosecutorial abuse by Thomas and Aubuchon, has been working on the case…
A Mesa woman was drinking on Friday night and apparently thought it would be a good idea to intentionally slam her head into a wall — right before beating the crap out of her girlfriend and forgetting she had weed in her pocket while talking with police.According to the Mesa…
A man was found shot to death in a Phoenix hotel room yesterday morning and police don’t have a whole lot to go on in terms of finding out who did it.Around 3 a.m. yesterday, people heard gun shots in the Premier Inns near I-17 and Peoria Avenue.Security at the…
Phoenix police released the names of the three people found dead in a Phoenix home yesterday afternoon, and it appears to them that this is a double homicide/suicide — with a side of dog-icide.Police got a call about 2:30 p.m. yesterday from a neighbor of 81-year-old Richard Schmalenbach saying she saw…
A 14-year-old Chandler girl’s been missing since Monday and the Chandler Police Department wants you to help find her.Gabrielle Lacy was last seen on Monday afternoon in the 600 block of West Oakland Street in Chandler.Lacy also goes by the name “Keyshia” and police believe she is a runaway.Chandler Detective…
Allegedly murdering a homeless guy wasn’t the only activity in which 14-year-old Javon Wilson participated on September 28 — he also was interviewed by ABC 15 for a story about the economy.It’s creepy. The interview was reportedly conducted just hours before police say Wilson, and another homeless man, 23-year-old Ronald…
Under heavy criticism over several unsolved murders, the Tempe Police Department arrested two people — including a 14-year-old boy — in connection with the September stabbing death of a homeless man. Police arrested Ronald Therman-Lamar Alewine, 23, and Javon Desmond Wilson, 14 — each homeless — in connection with the…
Nationally recognized mediator Kenneth Feinberg won’t handle the politically delicate claims by Maricopa County officials against the county after all. Feinberg tells us this morning that the plan to have him mediate the claims “never got beyond the discussion phase. We never finalized anything.” Nor was he paid anything, he added. In…
Following the second highly publicized, unsolved murder of an Arizona State University student in six months, the Tempe Police Department has come under fire for its handling of violent crimes. The department responded to media inquiries about crime statistics by issuing a press release yesterday touting how violent crime has…
A homeless Mesa man got knifed by a woman — who also happened to be a Mesa transient — yesterday morning and then denied that the woman had anything to do with the stabbing.Police got a call about 10 a.m. yesterday about a stabbing at 418 South Macdonald Road. When they…
Perhaps it was seeing Justin Draper’s 1-year-old boy scream for his daddy in the courtroom. Or that four years have gone by. Or maybe even that “angels were in the room.” Whatever it was, something changed in Jane Draycott’s heart on Friday during Draper’s sentencing hearing. And it happened right in the middle…
They say pimpin’ aint easy. Sometimes it’s so hard that a pimp is forced to take drastic measures to keep his pimp hand strong — like throwing a McDonald’s cheeseburger at a prostitute because his milkshake wasn’t included with his order.Seems (ahem) rational.That’s what ultimately led to the arrest of…
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…
