The price-tag for beating a 3-year-old girl to death is 22 years in prison for Phoenix resident Martwane Mackey.Perhaps not surprisingly, given the odd circumstances regarding the girl’s death, Mackey, 19, was also sentenced to a lifetime of probation with mental-health terms.See also:-Police: Phoenix Man Bit/Beat 3-Year-Old Girl to Death…
A young man in Tempe goes out drinking one night, and once he leaves his friends that night, he’s not seen for about two weeks — when his body’s found floating in water in or around Tempe Town Lake.Those are the main details that have come out in the recent…
Just about every week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest.This week, several of our alleged criminals look like real…
If you’re a fan of the football program at Arizona State University, you may have heard during the television broadcast of ASU’s bowl victory this weekend over the Naval Academy that ASU running back Marion Grice’s brother had been murdered over a pair of sneakers a week before the game.According…
Despite cops around the state probably hearing the phrase “just two beers” quite often during DUI stops this holiday season, the state government’s statistics show that Arizonans tend to be fairly slammed when they were caught driving drunk.For the second year in a row, drivers busted for DUI during specific…
Authorities have taken at least two children from a west Phoenix home after arresting 40-year-old Joseph Godinez for burning his 6-year-old stepson’s arm with a cigarette. Godinez burned the kid back on May 22 at their home near 81st and West Indianoloa avenues, court records state. At school the next…
The man shot dead in a Phoenix apartment gunfight on December 20 apparently started the trouble when he tried to rob the men selling him 150 pounds of marijuana, records show. Phoenix police are seeking the public’s help in finding two suspects still outstanding from the incident, Julio Gonzalez Valenzuela,…
“A home for fleas A hive for bees A nest for birds There ain’t no words For the beauty, the splendor, the wonder Of my…” Hair! That’s the theme of today’s check on Maricopa mugshots, which seems to be the basis for this week’s votes by Internet users on MCSO’s…
Todd Borowksy, owner of the Skin Cabaret in Scottsdale, was cited last week in connection with leaving the scene of an accident. Borowsky, driving a red 1971 Chevy Chevelle, rear-ended an SUV at the intersection of Scottsdale and Camelback roads at about 4:30 p.m. on December 15, just after the…
Mesa police are looking for the public’s help in apprehending a panhandler who attacked an officer. Cops say the man and woman in the picture at right are known to hang out in the vicinity of Alma School Road and Main Street. The woman isn’t suspected of any crime, but…
Tashawn Cheatham, the 19-year-old charged with strangling a 13-year-old girl in Phoenix, pleaded not guilty today to charges of murder, arson and theft. This looks like more of a procedural “not guilty:” Police say Cheatham has already admitted to strangling Briana Naylor with a sheet before setting her home near…
Police are seeking the public’s help in finding out who shot and killed 23-year-old Nathan Dewitt just before midnight on Christmas Day. The 1997 Ford Explorer driven by Dewitt, a national yo-yo champion, crashed into a tree off 28th Street, just south of Union Hills Drive, and rolled onto its…
Lawrence Lanier Jr. of Glendale admitted to an agent in 2009 that he had purchased hawk feathers the year before, and the feds are finally getting around to prosecuting him. A complaint was filed against Lanier Jr. on December 21st in Arizona U.S. District Court, alleging that he’d bought several…
Sofi Collis, the 19-year-old girl from Scottsdale reported missing on Christmas Eve, returned home safely late Tuesday night, Scottsdale police say. See also: – Valley Fever’s 12 Most Popular Arizona News Stories of 2012 Collis had been reported missing after being last seen about 1 p.m., possibly on Rollerblades. She…
Just about every week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest.Do you ever see a guy with a terrible face…
In June, a woman told Phoenix police that she was pretty sure Samuel Nelson put his penis on her foot while she was sleeping at a relative’s house — which is the second time she believed he’d done this.Turns out, two other women and a 12-year-old girl told police very…
According to the court of public opinion, last week’s shooting at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school isn’t viewed as an “isolated act,” unlike the shootings carried out by Jared Loughner and James Holmes.Although the public’s just about split on the issue, a Pew Research Center survey shows more people think…
The medical examiner has identified the body found in the river north of Tempe Marketplace on Sunday as ASU freshman Jack Culolias.Tempe police expected the body to be identified as Culolias, who was last seen around the time he got kicked out of the Cadillac Ranch restaurant/bar the night of…
Scottsdale’s most famous — or only — naked, PCP-fueled carjacker pleaded guilty to six charges related to his June episode.John Brigham, a former realtor and Chandler high school teacher, pleaded guilty to robbery, transportation theft, aggravated assault, and three counts of endangerment.See also:John Brigham Charged in PCP-Fueled Naked Carjacking Spree-John…
Three Phoenix residents are facing child-abuse charges after spending nearly four days treating a 3-year-old girl’s severe burns with gauze, antiseptic spray, and ibuprofen.To give you an idea as to the extent of this burn, the girl’s skin was peeling off, and she was hospitalized in the Arizona Burn Center…
David Luellen wanted to slash the tires on a bartender’s car, after getting upset with that bartender in the course of some Monday night drinking in Old Town Scottsdale.Luellen did not know exactly which car belonged to this bartender, so 21 people who parked in Old Town on Monday night…
Kevin Skinner, the Phoenix man accused of murdering his mother in March by suffocating her with a grocery bag, is again facing charges in his mother’s death, although the charges were previously dropped.Skinner, 22, was jailed on a first-degree murder charge on March 3, but was later found incompetent and…
