Phoenix Police Roll Out Anti-DUI Memes Along with Patrols for Cinco de Mayo Weekend

The Phoenix Police Department is launching a series of anti-DUI memes to go along with a Cinco de Mayo enforcement effort this weekend. Using photographs well-known for their meme-making potential, the department’s “web ‘guru,'” Officer T. “Chad” Amos, created a series of 14 public-service announcements that will launch at 5 p.m. on the PPD’s…

Flagstaff Arson Suspect Arrested in Area of Suspicious Mount Elden Fires

Federal authorities arrested an arson suspect last week in the same area where a string of suspicious fires worried residents of a neighborhood on Mount Elden in Flagstaff. Court records filed on Monday detail how Officer Charles Emerson of the U.S. Forest Service and another officer nabbed Shawn Patrick Farnham,…

Phoenix Man Sets Girlfriend On Fire

The argument was getting heated so police allege that 28-year-old Rafael Arredondo decided to set his girlfriend on fire.  Well, first, Arredondo, who lived with his girlfriend near 21st Avenue and Indian School Road in Phoenix, allegedly bound and gagged her with clear packing tape. Then, he doused her shorts…

Mesa “Furry” Enthusiast Charged with Sexual Exploitation of Minor

A Mesa man, who according to police went by the online alter ego “Zel the Wolf”on the digital art-sharing site DeviantArt.com, was arrested this week for alleged online sexual contact with two 12-year-old girls and for bestiality.  Mesa police say Aaron Thomas Usery, 21, engaged in virtual sexual relationships with…

Arizona Asks Federal Judge to Lift Execution Ban

Attorneys representing the state of Arizona called on a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the way the state carries out the death penalty. If U.S. District Judge Neil Wake rules in its favor, the Arizona Department of Corrections would be free to resume lethal injections, which were put…

Hells Angels Movie Screening On Saturday has Tempe Police on Edge

Tempe police are on alert for possible trouble on Saturday at a theater where Hells Angels’ members are scheduled to screen a movie about the club. The 1983 film “Hells Angels Forever” will be shown at noon at Pollack Tempe Cinemas, theater representatives confirm. Police have taken notice and will…

Taiwanese Man Busted for Huge Ammo Buy at Phoenix Gun Show

A Taiwanese national has been indicted in Arizona for buying and possessing more than 17,000 rounds of 9-millimeter ammunition last month at a Phoenix gun show. Jian Kia Chen was stopped on Interstate 10 on February 20 after buying the rounds at the Crossroads of the West Gun Show at…

St. Patrick’s Day DUI Checkpoints In Metro Phoenix

What’s better than dressing like a leprechaun, using your (terrible) Irish accent, and drinking Guinness, green beer, or Jameson with your friends on St. Patrick’s Day? Not getting busted for drunk driving, that’s what!  But jokes aside, Arizona, in the age of Uber and Lyft, there’s no excuse for being…

University of Arizona Minority Students Demand Free Tampons, Condoms, and More

Free tampons, menstrual pads, and condoms in university restrooms —  and free testing for sexually transmitted diseases. Faculty race quotas in place by 2020. Hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, in new funding for building renovations, access to free computers, paid tutors, reduced-price or free healthy food, and…

Horrific Details Emerge About Alleged Phoenix Child-Abuse Situation

New details have emerged in a case against Phoenix resident Alejandrina Angel Flores, 27, who was arrested last week and charged with six counts of child abuse. According to court documents, the Phoenix Police Department received a call from Flores’ sister last Thursday about a domestic violence situation at Flores’…