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…
Phoenix police this afternoon arrested a woman they believe is responsible for stealing an 80-year-old woman’s wedding ring off her finger on Sunday, after the victim generously offered to give the suspect money to buy gas.Phoenix police Officer Luis Samudio tells New Times that 28-year-old Jenny White was arrested about noon today for the…
Drugs and immigrants get most of the ink when it comes to Arizona’s criminal exports, but an Arizona man, who police in a small town in Wyoming believe murdered one guy and nearly murdered another, is dominating the news in Diamondville, Wyoming, these days.Police in Diamondville tell New Times that…
Phoenix police are looking for a teenage girl whom they say stole an elderly Phoenix woman’s wedding ring after meeting her at a grocery store on Sunday afternoon, after the woman offered to buy the suspect gas.About 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, the 80-year-old victim was in the shampoo aisle of…
Tucson police announced last night that they arrested a teacher at a Tucson high school for allegedly having sex with one of her male students. Police say 25-year-old Christie Elliot, an English teacher and cheerleading coach at Empire High School, had an inappropriate, sexual relationship with a minor student at the…
Saying that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former County Attorney Andrew Thomas illegally searched their offices and otherwise targeted them in an attempt to “retaliate against and humiliate” County Supervisor Don Stapley, East Valley developer Conley Wolfswinkel and his sons have filed a notice of claim with the county.The…
Last week, a biologist working for the Borderlands Jaguar Detection Project admitted that, in February 2009, he illegally placed a jaguar scat in the Atascosa Mountains near Ruby and directed a woman to place jaguar scats at sites that were authorized to snare only mountain lions and bears. Those scats led…
The man who captured an endangered jaguar, whose controversial death sparked outrage from animal-rights groups, pleaded guilty in federal court today to prohibited “take” of an animal.Emil McCain, a biologist working for the Borderlands Jaguar Detection Project, admitted that in February of 2009 he had illegally placed a jaguar scat…
Will the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors “contempt hearing” planned for May 24 really be the first step in the jailing of Sheriff Joe Arpaio? It’s hard to imagine that scenario will actually occur, but heck, the Arizona Republic says it might happen. Forget the possibility of a federal indictment…
