Since Andrew Thomas quit his gig as Maricopa County attorney to run for attorney general, his sinister smirk hasn’t been plastered all over the New Times Web site nearly as often as when he was launching baseless investigations into judges and his — and Joe Arpaio’s — other political rivals.With…
There’s a new candidate for the world’s dumbest, alleged criminal: 37-year-old Honandez Simmons.Simmons was arrested early this morning after he was found in the parking lot of a Mesa shopping center picking up change.Picking up change in a parking lot is not illegal, as far as we know, but the…
What happened when a shamelessly ambitious zealot (Andrew Peyton Thomas, a timelessly paranoid publicity-seeker (Joe Arpaio), a meglomaniac with a heart of coal (David Hendershott), and a person whose interpretation of the rule of law differs from ours (Lisa Aubuchon) conspire to violate their oaths? This is what happened–The Case(s) of…
The now-infamous tale of the Jet Blue flight attendant who quit his job in grand fashion earlier this week didn’t occur in Phoenix, or even in Arizona, but that hasn’t stopped some area news outlets from trying to turn it into a local story.We figured we’d follow suit.If you’re unfamiliar…
The “Overtime Bandit” is at it again — for the second time in three months he’s robbed the same Mesa bank.The bandit, dubbed the “Overtime Bandit” because he tends to strike on weekends or at the end of the work day, robbed the Desert Schools Federal Credit Union at 2355…
A Prescott Valley man was caught on camera with his hand in the cookie jar. Only it wasn’t an actual cookie jar — it was a coffee can collecting donations for the family of 2-year-old Emmett Trapp, the boy found dead last week after going missing from his home two…
There’s an argument to be made that violence on TV leads to violence in the real world. A Glendale man may have contributed to this argument.Police say 32-year-old Kemonte Tremayne Wesson was arrested early Sunday morning for shooting a 37-year-old man with whom he had an argument.The argument, as dumb…
Tempe Police Department If you know this guy, call the cops. Today is a day that ends in the word “day,” which tends to mean one thing here in the Valley: police need help finding someone who robbed a bank.As Valley crooks have proven recently, there’s no shortage of banks…
A former superintendent at the Gadsden Elementary School District near Tucson was sentenced to some prison time today for a vacation he planned last year and some photos cops found at his house.The vacation 52-year-old Albert Thomas Rogers planned wasn’t to an exotic beach — it was to a Mexican…
The Tempe Police Department has identified the body of a girl who was murdered 40 years ago.Tempe police say the victim, Surette Clark, was murdered by her step-father, Wayne Clifford Roberts, in November 1970. Surette was 4 years old at the time.The body was found buried in a shallow grave in…
It isn’t uncommon for police to release details about certain physical characteristics of a suspect involved in a crime. A tattoo, a scar — things along those lines.According to the Phoenix Police Department, one of the characteristics that might help track down the guy who robbed a bank in Phoenix…
If you have any plans on robbing a bank with a note, at least make your demands legible.Perhaps the suspect in a failed bank robbery in Phoenix this morning would have been better served e-mailing his demand note to the bank because the words he scratched onto a piece of…
Back in November, we heard that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office had Governor Jan Brewer under investigation, and passed that rumor to you. It didn’t seem a stretch to believe our source on the shocking piece of gossip. After all, Arpaio’s office investigates its political enemies, perceived or real, at…
A pig named “Porkchop” (the name’s a bit on the presumptive side, if you ask us) was apparently pig-napped in downtown Phoenix on Monday. At least that’s what signs being distributed around 7th Street and McDowell would suggest.A colleague brought this to our attention yesterday and after several attempts to…
When we hear about large amounts of cocaine and Cuban guys we’re instantly compelled to make some lame reference to saying hello to “my little friend.” The story of two Cuban nationals who tried to buy 22 pounds of cocaine near Tucson last year isn’t nearly as sexy as the…
The photo to the left is the original booking photo for 24-year-old Andrew Cushman. Cushman’s been charged with raping a 16-year-old girl during a weed-deal-gone-wrong last weekend.A few readers commented on yesterday’s story saying they were unimpressed with the face Cushman made during his mugshot. Specifically, one reader commented “What…
If you’re going to all the trouble of committing armed robbery — even if you’re really only looking for prescription pills — you might as well take some cash, too.You see, pill-poppers, once you polish off the pharmies you rob, you can often use money to buy more — kind…
The disappearance of Town Lake is only one of the problems Tempe’s facing these days. The other: armed robberies — lots of them — happening in roughly the same area, each with a similar M.O.Since April 11, nine people have been robbed at gunpoint in the northwest section of the city.Tempe Police…
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…
