Crime & Police

Surveillance footage shows Marion Joyner entering with a rifle and ordering everyone out before a standoff with cops.

You’d think it goes without saying to not fire bullets into the sky indiscriminately. Apparently not in Arizona.

Phoenix police said the Christmas night shooting stemmed from a domestic dispute and that no suspects are outstanding.

Under U.S. Justice Department scrutiny, Phoenix police have killed more people in 2024 than they did in 2023.

Charles Smith told cops that stunts like the one that put him in jail could make him up to $10,000 a month on social media.

No, it’s not from some dystopian future. At least not yet.

The Valley is full of characters, and many made headlines this year that tapped into the essential quirkiness of Phoenix.

A Phoenix cop shot a man who police said raised a gun at him. But body-cam footage from the incident shows next to nothing.

Just before an independent investigator was set to release a damning report on Arizona executions, Gov. Katie Hobbs axed him.

Bissonnette was attacked by at least six men inside the Scottsdale restaurant Houston’s on Nov. 24.

Arizona’s police standards board revoked the law enforcement license of Michael Uyehara, who cuffed an elderly woman in 2022.

The attack occurred at the restaurant Houston’s and spilled into the parking lot. Six men were arrested.

Police say Rey David Martinez pointed a gun at officers in an alley, although it was later determined to be a replica.

Police killed Carlos Fregoso, who allegedly pointed a gun at officers, after a car and foot chase earlier this month.

Body camera footage shows Essex Jackson grabbing and using an officer’s taser before police shot him six times.

Arizona’s police disciplinary board had a busy October meeting, suspending five cops and pulling the licenses of two others.

At the end of a community meeting, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s second-in-command was fed up with people berating her boss.

Jeffery Michael Kelly is accused of shooting at the office, which is in a Tempe strip mall, three times.

Tyron McAlpin had been charged with resisting arrest and assaulting officers. Body-cam footage showed police attacking him.

“Now, it’s going to be nice and calm,” one neighbor said after the FBI seized the hotel Tuesday morning.

Five years after Yazzie went missing – and a year after James was found guilty – Yazzie’s family finally gets closure.

The Arizona Police Officer Standards and Training Board also suspended cops accused of domestic abuse and driving drunk.