Corletha Sherie Davis was sentenced today to 22 years in prison for fatally shooting 37-year-old Discount Cab driver Brian Mann in November 2010.Despite initially telling the cops she had nothing to do with Mann’s murder, Davis didn’t make it extremely difficult for the cops by hiding the evidence — including…
David Ybarra found out yesterday that throwing chunks of concrete at Gilbert police officers is an awful idea.Ybarra, 36, was shot by two officers yesterday after he tossed concrete their way and a responding Taser blast didn’t work.Gilbert police Sergeant Bill Balafas tells New Times that Ybarra’s family phoned up…
Wendy Rogel-Pagasa* pleaded not guilty today to charges of second-degree murder and child abuse in the death of her 2-year-old son, Jorge Zamora-Rogel.Phoenix police say the 18-year-old mother called 9-1-1 more than three hours after the boy went unconscious due to being badly beaten by her boyfriend Juan Garcia –…
Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley announced today that he won’t be running for Congress, after all.Stapley, who has seen his share of ups and downs in his 15-year run on the five-member Board of Supervisors, filed paperwork last month to run for Arizona’s newly created Ninth Congressional District.The East Valley…
Police have arrested the seventh person in connection with the murders of Paradise Valley couple Glenna and Lawrence Shapiro or Phoenix man Bruce Gaudet.Maricela Sanchez has been arrested on a warrant for Gaudet’s murder — and related robbery and kidnapping charges — Maricopa County Attorney’s Office spokesman Jerry Cobb confirms…
Ralph Moreno, an unemployed ex-con on food stamps, is fighting with the federal government to keep $76,000 in cash seized at his west Phoenix home by FBI agents.State records show that Moreno and his wife, Wilma, of Phoenix, haven’t earned wages for at least 10 years, and that Moreno received…
Flying injured hikers from mountaintops twice in three days tested the skills of veteran rescue pilot Hunter French.This dude gets an A-plus.On March 2, the Arizona Department of Public Safety chopper pilot helped rescue a Washington hiker who’d fallen into a crevice in the Superstition Mountains.Three days earlier, French was…
A Phoenix woman who called the cops this morning reporting a “prowler” outside her apartment ended up being shot by an officer when she went at him with a butcher knife, police say.Phoenix Police Sergeant Trent Crump tells New Times the woman phoned in around 4:30 a.m. today about the…
Mesa police arrested 18-year-old Walmart employee Christopher Brown last night, after allegedly sexually assaulting his 17-year-old ex-girlfriend at a children’s amusement park.Not only is the girl Brown’s ex-girlfriend, she’s also his cousin, police say.According to court documents obtained by New Times, the girl met her younger siblings at the indoor…
Kevin Skinner’s mom told her son she was leaving his apartment on Saturday night.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Skinner’s response was to murder his mother by suffocating her with a grocery bag.After going outside and laying on the grass for a while, Skinner decided to call 9-1-1…
Forcibly medicating Tucson mass-shooting suspect Jared Loughner got the approval from an appeals court yesterday, as two of the three judges on the panel approved of continuing Loughner’s drug regimen.This issue has been in the courts for a while, as doctors are trying to “restore his competency” to stand trial…
Three members of an Iraqi family living in Phoenix pleaded not guilty today to assault charges, stemming from allegedly beating another family member for reasons such as refusing an arranged marriage, or because she was talking to a boy.Yusra Farhan, 50, and Mohammed Altameemi, 45, both pleaded not guilty to…
About a month ago, police arrested a sixth suspect in connection with the murders of Paradise Valley couple Glenna and Lawrence Shapiro, as well as Phoenix man Bruce Gaudet, and with those arrests came a heavily redacted police report.Now, Jerry Cobb, spokesman for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, tells New…
According to a Glendale police officer, he found 10 grams of meth in a car being driven by the gentleman to our right.In court documents obtained by New Times, the officer says he was driving the opposite direction of a car on 59th Avenue being driven by 31-year-old Moses Ulloa.Police…
Sex offender Devon Anderson allegedly told police he “fights the urge” to molest kids by meditation.He apparently forgets to meditate quite often, as Phoenix police say he molested two 4-year-old girls at a public library — his third and fourth alleged molestation victims.According to court documents obtained by New Times,…
Robert Moorman, who sat on Arizona’s death row for nearly three decades, was executed yesterday for chopping up his adoptive mother.Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne responded by saying there was “no rational reason” for it to take that long.”We have been working hard to help reform a system in which…
Eleven members of Vagos, a rival motorcycle gang of the Hells Angels, were arrested today by an Arizona Department of Public Safety gang task force in connection with several violent crimes around Bullhead City.Six of the 11 arrested during “Operation Catch 22” are repeat customers to the DPS task force,…
Phoenix cops have been working since Saturday to find Juan Garcia — who’s accused of killing his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son late Friday night — and police say the leads have been scarce as of yet.”We’re going to track him down — it’s just a matter of when,” Phoenix Sergeant Trent…
Attorney General Tom Horne acknowledges “[j]ustice was carried out” today against Brian Moorman, who was executed this morning for chopping up his adoptive mother.He’s also wondering why exactly it took until 2012 to execute a guy who hacked up mom in 1984.As we’ve previously noted, Arizona spent an estimated $586,000…
Robert Moorman, who sat on Arizona’s death row for nearly three decades, was executed today at the state prison in Florence.Moorman, 63, was originally in prison for a kidnapping conviction out of Coconino County in 1972.During that prison stint, Moorman was granted a 72-hour “compassionate furlough” from the prison so…
A ruling on potential punishment for former Maricopa Attorney Andrew Thomas may be put off until April 2.Citing the extensive filings and thousands of pages of exhibits in the ethics case, Arizona State Bar Disciplinary Judge William O’Neil decided to extend the time to make the ruling by 30 days. O’Neil…
The decision between not wearing clothes or hitting a woman and a cop must be a difficult one, because cops say 21-year-old Kyle Seaman went with both.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Chandler police got a call Saturday night from Seaman’s neighbors about the gentleman wandering around the…
