The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office says a 6-year-old was whipped with a hose and dropped on his head by his father, who then tried to hide to hide from the cops.The 6-year-old’s crime that earned an alleged beating from his father: drinking from an irrigation system.YCSO says deputies got the…
Let’s hope this isn’t becoming a trend, but today marked the second time in as many weeks that a school bus driver pleaded guilty to doing something sexual with a kid.On July 6, it was the former Legacy Charter School bus driver who liked to be called “Mr. Bill” who…
See also: New Times special report: Polygamy in Arizona See also: Mohave County Sheriff’s Office to Patrol Colorado City See also: Colorado City Sued by Justice DepartmentSee also: Someone Buried a Cat Up to Its Head in Concrete on Ex-FLDS Member’s PropertyPETA’s kind of in an awkward spot right now,…
A Phoenix man was arrested on felony animal-cruelty charges for the mistreatment and neglect of his two horses, marking the second time in just more than a week that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has nabbed somebody over abused horses. MCSO deputies arrested Jesse Noriega, 33, for alleged neglect of…
See also: New Times special report: Polygamy in Arizona See also: Mohave County Sheriff’s Office to Patrol Colorado City See also: Colorado City Sued by Justice DepartmentSee also: Someone Buried a Cat Up to Its Head in Concrete on Ex-FLDS Member’s PropertyThe Mohave County Sheriff’s Office will be investigating the…
Sadie Johnson told the cops she didn’t like babysitting her sisters — ages 1, 2, and 4 — a job she often had to do when her mother was going out with her boyfriend.Johnson, then 17, finally got out of it — after she was arrested for binding and gagging…
If David Deal, the father of Ame Deal — the 10-year-old girl who died a year ago after her family members admittedly stuffed the girl in a footlocker — wanted to skip town between his arrests this weekend, he had about three days.If Deal actually tried to leave town, he…
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The former charter school bus driver who liked to be called “Mr. Bill” pleaded guilty this morning to charges related to luring a 9-year-old girl to his car and molesting her.”Mr. Bill,” known to the court system as Billy Bryant, pleaded guilty this morning to three counts child molestation and…
A Phoenix woman was arrested on Tuesday after witnesses at Peter Piper Pizza saw her 2-year-old kid fall out of his chair — possibly because he was drunk.Valerie Topete, 32, was at the pizza parlor in Chandler in the evening when — a witness told police — she poured beer…
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If you watch Fox News, you may have been led to believe that drugs known as “bath salts” are causing people in Arizona to get naked and steal cars, like in the case of John Brigham’s alleged carjacking/car-crashing spree last week.If you’re trusting the cops on this one, it was…
In the Fugitive TV series and movie, nobody saw the “one-armed man” commit murder. That wasn’t the case on Sunday in a Mesa parking garage, where a witness told police he saw the one-armed Roderick Deshan Wagoner repeatedly stab a man who then fell three stories. The witness, unidentified in…
The legs of a 46-year-old man were severed after he was run over by a Union Pacific train in Gilbert early this morning. The man later died.Gilbert police got a call around 3:45 a.m. from the train company that a pedestrian had been hit near Gilbert Road and Park Avenue.A…
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John Brigham, a 45-year-old man whose naked carjacking spree in Scottsdale on Friday ended with multiple crashes, trashed his uncle’s home back in November while dressed in a towel. In Friday’s incident, Brigham stripped naked and danced on top of his car before stealing a Toyota Prius and crashing it…
Dominic Chagolla will be spending the rest of his life in prison for murdering his mother in December 2010.A jury convicted Chagolla of first-degree murder in late April for stabbing Maria Chagolla to death, and Judge Sherry Stephens sentenced him this morning to natural life in prison.Maria Chagolla’s body was…
Maria Rivera, the 21-year-old woman accused of shaking her 11-month-old daughter Stormi to near-death, had two prior run-ins with Child Protective Services involving allegations of abuse against the girl.Rivera claims she only shook Stormi because she fell unconscious after falling down some stairs, although Phoenix police detectives say hospital staff…
We’re not at the Maricopa County Superior Court, but a court spokesman tells New Times that “Burning Man” Michael Marin collapsed after his guilty verdict was announced.The Arizona Republic’s Michael Kiefer was in the courtroom, and is saying Marin had a seizure after the verdict was read — as Marin…
UPDATE: Michael Marin has been transported to a hospital. He collapsed shortly after the verdict was read.A jury found “Burning Man” Michael Marin guilty of arson of an occupied structure today for burning down his Biltmore Estates mansion in July 2009. Marin gave his explanation to New Times writer Paul…
