If Phoenix police are right on this one, then just about nothing was appropriate inside the sedan that crashed head-on into a Chevrolet truck Monday morning.Police say a 5-year-old boy in the sedan died in the crash, as cops believe the boy not only was not restrained by a car…
Dominic Chagolla was described as a bit of a mama’s boy in court documents obtained by New Times detailing the death of his mother, Maria Chagolla, in December 2010.Turns out, he wasn’t that much of a mama’s boy, as a jury found Dominic Chagolla guilty today of first-degree murder in…
Believe it or not, sneaking into a house and stripping down to your underwear to hop in bed with a random 14-year-old girl could lead to prison time.Four-and-a-half years in prison, in Jacob Nelson’s case.In July, Phoenix police said that Nelson, 35, waited for a father of two to leave…
In 2002, Scottsdale resident Steven Dyer was to face charges of molesting two boys. He said no thanks and went to Canada instead.While he was gone, a court convicted him on a dozen counts of sexual conduct with a minor, which didn’t mean much until he was caught in Canada…
If Warren Jeffs — pedophile/leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — had any marbles left when he was sent to prison, he just lost the rest of them.Jeffs, who’s in prison for sexually assaulting two underage “brides,” wrote a petition to the Texas Court…
Added to the running list of places not to keep babies — the camper to a truck parked outside a Peoria McDonald’s.Peoria police say an anonymous tipster led them to an “extremely unhealthy” 3-month-old yougnster in the back of the truck, at the McD’s near Thunderbird and Loop 101.If you…
Twenty-seven years ago, a 40-year-old named Luis Gonzales, was struck and killed by a train near Central Avenue.The man had no identification except for a workplace time card that contained his name and the wrong date of birth, which pegged him as a 53-year-old.Another Luis Gonzales with that birthdate was…
Lawyers for Maricopa County and Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox have agreed on a schedule to present their court arguments for why the county should pay Wilcox a $975,000 settlement. As one of the targets of failed investigations by Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former County Attorney Andrew Thomas, Wilcox is suing the sheriff…
Here’s a quick rundown on Maricopa County news today:* Andrew Peyton Thomas, former Maricopa County Attorney, failed politician and author of right-wing books, won’t appeal a state Supreme Court Disciplinary Panel’s decision to cancel his law license. We’ve cut-and-pasted his wussyish comments about being railroaded below. As Thomas explained in…
Jonathan Knight — who taught Tae Kwon Do to children in Gilbert — pleaded guilty today to charges related to sending pictures of his penis to a 12-year-old former student of his.Knight pleaded guilty to two counts of furnishing obscene or harmful items to a minor, as well as luring…
A Peoria man is accused of driving off in a police car this morning, after being handcuffed behind his back and placed in the back of the car.Peoria police spokesman Jay Davies tells New Times that today’s events started around 6:30 a.m., as 24-year-old Nicholas Wade Fields allegedly broke into…
Albert Arias pleaded not guilty today to the murder of his father — a killing police discovered after Arias allegedly went to the police station and told several people he’d done it.Arias is actually the second person to allegedly pull this move in just over a month — Kevin Skinner,…
Believe it or not, living with two ex-boyfriends at the same time didn’t work out well for Phoenix woman Daytona Johnson.After punching one ex-boyfriend/baby-daddy, then throwing a can of Febreeze at her other ex-boyfriend/baby-daddy — and later slicing his throat with a meat cleaver — Johnson’s getting a trip to…
The death of 88-year-old Mesa resident Lola Pershall has been ruled a homicide, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.MCSO spokesman Jeff Sprong tells New Times the details of Pershall’s death are not being released at this time.The sheriff’s office called it a “suspicious death investigation” when her body was…
Rachel Alexander, the lawyer who worked with former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas to attack his political enemies, will appeal the suspension of her law license.Alexander received a suspension of six months and a day by the state Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Panel for her role in working on a nonsensical…
Robert Fisher, one of the FBI’s and Scottsdale Police Department’s “most wanted” fugitives, may still be in Arizona, according to information relayed from the FBI.Fisher’s accused of killing his wife and two young kids, then blowing up their Scottsdale home in April 2001.According to various media reports, including the Payson…
The body of an 88-year-old woman was found in her Mesa home, her car was found in Texas, and her 43-year-old grandson has yet to be found.Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office detectives haven’t ruled the case a homicide — yet, at least — but it has been given “suspicious death investigation”…
Australian professional golfer Matthew Giles took a drive into a Gilbert house on Monday, according to police.According to the “extreme DUI” charge Giles was booked into jail on, police are thinking alcohol may have had something to do with it.A little before 10 p.m. Monday, Giles “was traveling at a…
Disgraced former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas has until Tuesday at 5 p.m. to file an appeal to his disbarment order. The failed politician lost his law license after a disciplinary panel of the state Supreme Court found he had committed perjury, filed charges he knew were outside of the…
If you’re “desperate and humiliated” because you’re 35 years old and living with your mother, getting caught stealing more than $45,000 worth of merchandise from 25 different Walmart stores probably won’t remedy that.Still, that’s what police are saying Jason Dee Draper did to land him in jail on 28 felony…
The bill to defend a gang of rogue prosecutors in Maricopa County: $1.5 million.At least former County Attorney Andrew Thomas and his bad-girl deputies, Lisa Aubuchon and Rachel Alexander, now all disbarred or suspended, won’t be getting any more of their lawyers’ bills paid for by county taxpayers. Yesterday, the…
James Peters, the Scottsdale police officer who made headlines in February for shooting and killing the sixth person of his 12-year stint with the department, is applying for retirement.According to a meeting agenda for Scottsdale’s police board for the Public Safety Personnel Retirement System, Peters has submitted an “accidental disability…
