Michael TurneyMichael Turney, the stepfather of a girl missing since 2001, was sentenced today to 10 years in a federal prison for possessing a large cache of fully functional, homemade bombs.He pleaded guilty back in April.Federal agents who raided Turney’s home at 17218 North 34th Street in December of 2008…
A Mesa man shouldn’t be expecting that stereotypical $5 birthday check from his grandmother this year. That’s because he allegedly beat her up and stole her wallet last week. According to the Mesa Police Department, 19-year-old Robert Grazioso was arrested Friday after he punched and kicked his live-in girlfriend.Shortly after…
DUIs happen everyday, usually without any of the newsworthy flare needed to make headlines. A Phoenix man apparently decided to go big or go home because, in the course of his alleged DUI, he managed to break just about every drinking-related law on the books.According to court records obtained by…
A Phoenix woman was arrested Tuesday after a quick, crack-fueled game of baseball with a cat. They weren’t on the same team — the woman was at bat and the kitten was the ball.According to court records obtained by New Times, cops got a call at 9 a.m. Tuesday about…
If you know either of these guys call the cops. Looks like a local thief needs a quick refresher course in Armed Robbery 101: when committing armed robbery, you’re not limited in what you can steal. You’re already committing a crime that will probably land you in prison, so you…
Burglary’s not easy. It can be a real pain in the ass — especially if that’s where the guy whose house you’re trying burglarize shoots you after you bust down his door.Yesterday, it seems shotgun justice prevailed after a 19-year-old suspect and one of his buddies tried to break into…
www.davidnasser.blogspot.com A Mesa woman went a little nuts-o outside of her apartment building this morning after she was asked politely by cops to turn down her stereo. Rather than simply turning down the music — and probably avoiding any serious criminal charges — she threw a beer bottle, screamed at…
Maricopa County Supervisors Don Stapley and Mary Rose Wilcox have asked the feds to consider taking control of the Sheriff’s Office in light of allegations revealed in a top deputy’s memo. The supervisors, two chief targets of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s politically motivated attacks, addressed the memo by Deputy Chief Frank Munnell…
We hear stories about bank robberies almost every day in the Valley, but it’s not too often that the suspect in the robberies is a former bank teller. Almost as infrequently is the suspect a woman.Danyelle Gerrie, 25, allegedly is the exception to the apparent rule.Gerrie was arrested yesterday for a string of…
Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley filed an amended claim against the county for wrongful prosecution last week while waiting for a decision by the state Court of Appeals on his 2008 criminal prosecution. Oral arguments in what’s known as Stapley One (on account of there being a Stapley Two case)…
The Phoenix Police Department received a call the other day. It was a Gaylord Barnes, a 22-year-old Phoenix resident, who alerted cops that he’d just gotten done masturbating in front of a 2-year-old girl.Officers responded to the house where Barnes did the deed — which belonged to his neighbor, who…
The Mesa Police Department needs the public’s help in tracking down a missing man with mental-health problems.Mesa Police Detective Steve Berry tells New Times that 42-year-old Carlos Polanco was dropped off by his sister at his doctor’s office on Monday morning. When the sister returned to pick him up, he…
If you’ve never heard of animal “crush” videos, you’re lucky. They’re sick, cruel, and depraved. Yet people watch them — legally.”Crush” films are videos of people stepping on animals — usually larger and arguably more pain-susceptible animals — until they crush them to death.Again, we’re not card-carrying members of PETA,…
Trying to tell your parents the cocaine they found in your room is baking soda might work. Trying to pass that cocaine off as baking soda to cops is another story.A Pinal County man learned that lesson the hard way after cops found him in possession of the (ahem) baking…
The game of “he started it” has come to an end, and it turns out that the Hells Angels are the ones who started a gunfight with a rival motorcycle gang last month. The gunfight netted precisely zero deaths, despite more than 50 shots fired.A recently released police report about the shootout…
A Phoenix woman who sent her daughter and other teens to rough up her ex-boyfriend has been sentenced to 1.75 years in prison. Katherine Faye White supplied her daughter, the daughter’s 20-year-old friend and three minor teens with a Taser, crowbar, duct tape and other supplies needed for the job. Her instructions,…
Police are still looking for leads in a robbery at the Hyatt Place Hotel in downtown Scottsdale early Tuesday, in which a man wearing a wig helped himself to cash in the front-desk register. Not an unusual crime. But we find the man’s actions just following the unarmed robbery a…
A former Valley soccer coach pleaded guilty today to attempted sexual conduct with a minor and charges related to possessing nude pictures of his roommate’s little boys. Before his November 2008 arrest, Daniel Cope worked for two years for the American Youth Soccer Organization, coaching games in Phoenix, Tempe,…
We would never encourage anyone to rob a bank. But if recent history tells us anything, it’s not hard to do — unless you’re an idiot.It seems that nearly every day we get a press release from a Valley police agency telling the story of some thief who robbed a…
As the saying goes: “goodnight, sleep tight, and don’t let the bed bugs bite.” For a Phoenix man, he may have included “or set your apartment on fire” to the end of that bedtime rhyme because he’s blaming bedbugs for a blaze at his Phoenix apartment.He’s not saying the tiny…
A Chandler homeowner opened fire on suspected gang members who had infiltrated his party early Sunday and attacked him while trying to steal a keg of beer.Two of the suspects were killed at the scene in a neighborhood near Ray Road and Arizona Avenue. Cops have arrested eight other gang…
Police on Tuesday released a sketch of the woman suspected of throwing acid on another woman in Mesa last week. Mesa police released a sketch of the woman suspected of throwing acid on another woman last week. The attack left the victim with burns on her face and chest, and…
