MCSO Joshua Larsen a.k.a. “Cowboy Cowboy.” There’s good news and bad news from the front lines of the war on perverts. The bad news: they’re out there. The good news: a lot of them are idiots willing to believe that a child they met in an Internet chat room is…
Last year’s sweep of Maricopa County offices for hidden bugs had nothing to do with the feud between county officials and the tag-team of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and then-County Attorney Andy Thomas, says County Manager David Smith. Instead, the two sweeps costing taxpayers $14,600 were conducted out of concern about…
Last Wednesday, someone described by witnesses as an old lady robbed a Pima County bank with a handgun.According to the Pima County Sheriff’s Office, a woman believed to be between the ages of 60 and 70 went into the Bank of the West in the 3,000 block of South Kinney…
Everybody loves a good cold-case file, and the Phoenix Police Department is happy to oblige whenever it can.Yesterday afternoon, Phoenix cops arrested a man in connection with the 2005 murder of 24-year-old Vester Freeman.Freeman’s body was found stabbed to death on May 3, 2005, in front of a business at…
A Mesa man was arrested Tuesday after authorities say he molested his 6-year-old step-granddaughter on several occasions at her Chandler home. In at least one case, police say he used pieces of pool equipment.According to court documents obtained by New Times, on July 20, the girl’s mother reported to police…
Once you hit a certain age, it’s important to stay active. While many of those in the twilight of their lives often opt for things like BINGO, bird watching, and knitting, a Pima County woman has taken up a different hobby: armed bank robbery.According to the Pima County Sheriff’s Office,…
Kerby Young Having pictures of your nude, female neighbor isn’t the strangest thing in the world — assuming she gave them to you. However, when you get the images by sneakin’ around outside her bathroom window with a camera — without her knowing — not only is it super-creepy, it’s…
While Andrew Thomas won’t stoop so low as to take our call, his debate-loving spokesman, Barnett Lotstein, nearly always calls us back. We just heard from him on our question, posed in an earlier blog post: If Thomas, who’s running for state Attorney General, can praise Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon for…
The Phoenix Police Department is asking the public’s help in tracking down the person who stabbed a man to death yesterday morning.Sergeant Steve Martos of the Phoenix PD tells New Times that, just before noon, cops responded to a call saying someone was hurt at 8822 North 1st Street in…
If you’re wanted on a felony warrant, hanging out at a county jail that’s swarming with cops seems like a great place to get yourself caught.That didn’t stop a Phoenix man, though, who paid a visit to a friend in the county clink. The visit resulted in a high-speed chase…
Seriously, who steals cows?Aside from the obvious physical challenges such a task presents, the legal ramifications don’t decrease based on difficulty of theft.In other words, you’re better off stealing a diamond — or just about anything that doesn’t weigh as much as a small car and that doesn’t require you…
Another day, another murder here in the Valley, and the latest victim seems to have died under circumstances similar to that of a Tempe man who was found shot to death in a canal last month.Fire crews pulled the body of an unidentified man out of a Phoenix canal near…
Pets need more than just food and exercise in the summer — they need some damned shade, too. Xavier Montes, 30, didn’t catch on to this part of dog ownership, court records show. At about 10 a.m. on Friday, police were called to Montes’ home at 10407 West Montecito Avenue to check…
The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club sent us an e-mail over the weekend saying that “if [we] have the balls,” we should give them a call to discuss — among other things — a former member arrested for murder last week. We were feelin’ a little ballsy, so we did, and…
Police in Prescott Valley arrested 27-year-old Mathew James Noble yesterday after some naked pictures of him found their way onto the cell phone of a 13-year-old-girl.Police got a call from the girl’s mother about 1 a.m. Sunday; she said she found nude photos of a grown man on her daughter’s…
A lawyer for Maricopa County Supervisor Andy Kunasek chides a sheriff’s official to put up or shut up on a new, vague accusation of wrongdoing made last week. The letter by attorney David Derickson also suggests that the allegation by Chief Deputy David Hendershott of a theft of public funds…
The story about the Glendale man who apparently dug a tunnel leading to a secret, underground room in his backyard just got even creepier.The guy, 45-year-old William Willis, apparently is a cross-dresser with a porn addiction, too.So, of course, we cued up the infamous Buffalo Bill dance scene from Silence of…
A New Mexico man seems to have thought to himself “hmm, how can I make my meth lab even more dangerous than it already is.” That might be why police say he packed it into a stolen pickup truck and took his meth-making show on the road. Police in Kingman stopped a Ford…
Are the Hells Angels still scary?Sure, there’s the occasional murder or bar fight — and once in a while you’ll find a few slangin’ meth to hillbillies — but it seems the Sonny Barger/ Altamont days of busting up bars and running amok wherever they see fit have come to an…
Well, the sun came up yesterday, which seems to mean one thing lately here in Sand Land: somebody robbed a bank — or at least tried to. For those in the news biz, you’ve probably noticed lately that about once a day a cop from some Valley city wants your help in finding someone…
There’s a bank robber on the loose, and unlike the vast majority of bank robbery suspects, this one’s a chick.Phoenix police Detective Mike Fischer tells New Times that the robbery occurred yesterday at the Chase Bank at 6000 North 19th Avenue in Phoenix around 2:30 p.m.Fischer says the suspect (that’s…
County officials say they aren’t sure what the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is talking about when it comes to yesterday’s serious, but vague, allegation against a County Supervisor. But Jim Bloom, executive assistant for Supervisor Andrew Kunasek, says he “categorically denies” the allegation that Kunasek swiped $15,000 in public funds…
