A Mesa man got a smooch on the wrist from a Maricopa County Superior Court judge on Friday when the judge sentenced him to only three years’ probation after the man pleaded guilty to one count of animal cruelty. Jeremy Tuffly, 28, entered the guilty plea to animal cruelty in May after…
We got word on Friday that a Mesa man who killed a kitten after trying to feed it to a python was sentenced after pleading guilty to one count of animal cruelty. In one of the more despicable crimes against an animal we can remember, 28-year-old Jeremy Tuffly tried to…
We just got word from the Phoenix Police Department that it’s arrested one of its own. We don’t have too many of the details at the moment, but PPD spokesman Trent Crump says he plans to address the media soon. …
A Gilbert man was arrested Wednesday after police say he and a friend posted an ad on Craigslist hoping to trade an iPod Touch and some weed for an iPad. Based on what we’ve heard about the iPad, 20-year-old Jacob Walker probably would have had more fun with the weed,…
There’s a new bank robber on the loose who bares a striking resemblance to one of our favorite, horribly-named bank-robbing “bandits.”You may recall the “First-Aid Bandit,” later re-named the “Band-Aid Bandit,” who was arrested in January after a string of robberies stretching from Gilbert to Queen Creek…
Yesterday, we posted a story about a Phoenix man who shot and killed his wife on Friday, failed to die after shooting himself in the head, and then lived in his house — with his wife dead on the floor — for four days before he called police.Today, the suspect has…
Mesa police arrested a man who they believe beat his 4-year-old daughter with a power cord so severely that investigators say it was “the worst case of child abuse [they’ve] seen where the child survives.”Mesa police Sergeant Ed Wessing tells New Times that on Sunday morning the suspect’s girlfriend went to…
Last week, Maricopa County cut an extra $2 million worth of checks — money owed to detention officers as part of a settlement with the Department of Labor after its investigation into allegations that the Sheriff’s Office routinely required detention officers to check in for meetings before they’d clocked in.But,…
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled this morning that, to collect blood from a person suspected of DUI, police must get specific consent from the suspect or get a search warrant.In other words, if you get stopped driving drunk and cops take your blood without permission, it can’t be used against you in…
Tempe police believe they have found the body of a man who went missing earlier this week after going for a walk on a canal path near his Tempe. According to the Tempe Police Department, Salt River Project workers found a body yesterday in the Western Canal near Kyrene and Baseline in…
The last of the three surviving karate instructors who burned down the Phoenix headquarters of a youth-instruction firm has been sentenced to four years in prison. Moniza Murillo, 20, received the lightest sentence of the three, apparently as reward for providing the most help to authorities following the June 14 blaze. As New Times reported in January’s…
Susan Schuerman, a 23-year employee of Maricopa County and secretary to Supervisor Don Stapley, has filed a notice of claim with the county, the first step to a lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former County Attorney Andrew Thomas.The claim, filed by attorney Michael Manning, details how Schuerman was personally…
Tempe police are asking the public’s help in tracking down a 47-year-old man who was last seen yesterday morning before going for a walk on a canal path. Jeff Allen Ahlers, 47, of Tempe, was last seen around 6 a.m. yesterday as he left his house in the 4800 block…
Here’s a new one.Deputy County Manager Sandi Wilson has filed a notice of claim against Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former County Attorney Andrew Thomas. But she’s not asking for big bucks.She simply wants a written apology.Wilson, a 17-year county employee who supervises the budgeting process, was named in the sheriff…
The Chandler Police Department is looking for a Chandler woman who they believe has been missing for more than two months. On Friday, the estranged father of 32-year-old Jamie Jean Laiaddee, who lives in California, called police after speaking to Laiaddee’s boyfriend who says he hasn’t seen Laiaddee in about 10…
You can file this one under “WTF??!?!”Turns out Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s favorite law firm, which specializes in employment law, was brought in to help with both the crappy racketeering lawsuit Arpaio and then-County Attorney Andrew Thomas filed against county officials last year — and the federal grand jury…
The lawsuits just keep coming.Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox and her husband, Earl, today filed a notice of claim against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Chief Deputy David Hendershott, former County Attorney Andrew Thomas, Deputy County Attorney Lisa Aubuchon, and both the Sheriff’s Office and the County Attorney’s Office. The Wilcoxes…
Tempe police need the public’s help in tracking down a guy they say tried to steal the purse of an Arizona State University student and ended up dragging her with his car as she clung to the handbag. About 2 a.m. today, Tempe police responded to a call that a…
The battle for control of Maricopa County — pitting Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas against the Board of Supervisors, judges, and county administrators — has been costly to both taxpayers and the parties involved.But it’s been a major boon to one local law firm. Ogletree Deakins, a…
A Prescott Valley man was arrested on Monday after stabbing a guinea pig to death following a fight with his girlfriend.He probably would have gotten away with it, too, had he not called the police on himself to report that he’d stabbed “someone.”…
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Gary Donahoe filed a $4.75 million claim against the county for alleged abuse of power by former County Attorney Andrew Thomas and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. As our post about Thomas and Donahoe from yesterday explained, the abuse appears to be quite real. Donahoe was…
Police are looking for a man they say robbed a Country Bank in Prescott Valley yesterday afternoon by basically walking into the bank and asking for cash.The FBI’s bandit-naming department hasn’t dreamed up some crappy “bandit” moniker for this guy yet — we checked. But the “I-can’t-believe-it’s-that-easy bandit” has a…
