Andy Kunasek released one page of a transcript to New Times today that he believes shows the attempt by a prosecutor to “extort” him as part of a political power play. Kunasek says he’s not ready to release the entire transcript of the “free talk” he had earlier this year…
An argument at a Phoenix apartment complex turned deadly this morning when one of the men involved pulled out a gun and shot the 20-year-old victim.Just after midnight today, Arlandis West was standing with some friends in front of an apartment building at 6805 North 27th Avenue.He got in an…
There’s no disputing that driving drunk is stupid. You could kill someone, hurt someone, or, at the very least, get stopped by a cop, pay a hefty fine, and possibly spend some time in the tents at Joe Arpaio’s jails. Nobody wants that.You could also get away scot-free, which is…
Maricopa County Supervisor Andy Kunasek says in a letter released today that prosecutors working for former County Attorney Andrew Thomas tried to extort a political deal from him in return for dropping a criminal matter. The letter addressed to “fellow Arizonans,” Kunasek explains, is to help people understand the full story behind…
Yesterday — a relatively slow news day — us New Times staffers were (ahem) blessed with two meth-related baby stories in roughly an hour.The first: a woman gave birth to a baby with crystal meth and weed in its system. The mother was arrested and charged with neglect thanks to…
A Mesa man was arrested yesterday for allegedly masturbating in his car, which was parked across the street from an elementary school in Chandler.According to court documents obtained by New Times, 52-year-old Jamey Mark Flatt was beatin’ off in his car as it sat parked across the street from Knox…
A 1-year-old “acting like a junkie.” A 3-week-old girl choking and turning “bluish gray,” but not receiving medical attention from their meth-smoking parents. These are some of the chilling allegations in court paperwork against Jeremiah and Adrienne Outland, a Phoenix couple arrested at their home yesterday following a months-long police investigation…
If you ask us, doing meth probably isn’t the best idea. Doing meth when you’re pregnant, in our humble opinion, is just disgusting.A Sierra Vista woman might disagree.Police in Sierra Vista say a woman gave birth to a baby over the weekend, which would have been good news had doctors…
The law firm representing Lisa Aubuchon in the probe of actions by her and her former boss, Andrew Thomas, billed the county $177,876 in four months, the Arizona Republic reports this morning. After reporters Michael Kiefer (formerly of New Times fame) and Yvonne Wingett published their article yesterday afternoon about…
The county-funded lawyer for Lisa Aubuchon submitted a $966 bill to the county for hiring private investigators to tail the lawyer appointed to investigate Aubuchon and former Maricopa County Andrew Thomas. An expense sheet submitted to the County Attorney’s office contains the entry for the amount and the company…
Can you believe this nonsense? First, former County Attorney Andrew Thomas and his deputy, Lisa Aubuchon, claim that county officials misused public funds by sweeping their offices for hidden listening devices. Then, last month, a high-ranking sheriff’s official publicly accuses county officials of a felony related to the sweeps, despite the fact…
Well, the sun came out today, which, here in the Valley, often means a local law enforcement agency needs the public’s help in tracking down some bozo who robbed a bank.The latest bank heist is brought to you by the Phoenix Police Department, which announced today that it’s looking for…
Richard Burke is a soldier currently serving in Iraq. Up until a few days ago, he was also renting an apartment in Mesa, and was in the process of buying a new truck. Sort of.It turns out one of Burke’s high school buddies saw his deployment less as a noble…
Average folks struck back at criminals recently in two separate incidents. In the most dramatic of the cases, two men rescued a baby who was being threatened by a suspected armed robber inside an east Phoenix laundromat. The disturbing crime began at about 3:15 a.m. Monday morning at the laundromat at…
It seems nearly every other day we get a press release from a Valley law enforcement agency asking for the public’s help in tracking down someone who robbed a bank. It’s rare that we hear any news of one of those robbers being caught or convicted.Today is one of the…
Andrew Thomas tries to spin damning grand-jury testimony in a new blog column published today — but he fails miserably. Staying on a tack he began last week, after the release of grand-jury transcripts that showed the weakness of the former Maricopa County Attorney’s case against county officials, Thomas repeats the ludicrous claim that…
They’re back.It’s that special time of year in Tempe again: when traffic near University and Mill Avenues becomes unbearable, lines — everywhere — get longer, and the stench of stale Milwaukee’s Best and overindulgent students fills the streets.Arizona State University students are coming back to town and the Tempe Police…
Former (if not already former, likely, soon-to-be former. Read about the confusion here) deputy county attorney Lisa Aubuchon filed a $10 million lawsuit against the county last weekThe suit is in response to County Attorney Rick Romley’s bombshell announcement that he was releasing documents, including transcripts of grand jury proceedings,…
The deputy county attorney who helped former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas with his most controversial cases has filed a claim against the county for $10 million. Lisa Aubuchon states in a lengthy claim letter that her reputation has been damaged and future earnings prospects in doubt after smears by…
The man charged in the 2008 beating death of two Phoenix boys was found incompetent to stand trial today and will be sent to a mental health facilityJoe Sauceda Gallegos, 38, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder after he allegedly beat two young boys to death with a…
We’ll spare you a cliche lede about “getting caught with your pants down” — KPHO beat us to that — we’ll just say it: a Valley couple got caught doin’ it in a Scottsdale parking garage last week.The couple, a 38-year-old Scottsdale man and a 26-year-old Phoenix woman, were reportedly…
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…
