With the current state and federal prison system spitting out even harder criminals due to overcrowding and gang activity allowed to a certain degree by the “system,” while considering the small percentage of inmates who actually make it out and live a positive life, why are some legislators, government officials,…
Lewis Pizer is shopping. He’s been at it since dawn, driving from one end of town to the other, whipping through tiny secondhand shops and hangar-like thrift stores, pawing piles of other people’s junk, hoping to unearth an unusual treasure. At one scuzzy hole in the wall where the proprietor…
Editor’s Note: In honor of this week’s edition of Best of Phoenix, we bring you the Worst of the Best — the political edition. Enjoy. See this year’s Best of Phoenix. Best Head-in-Sand Politician Tom Horne, Arizona Attorney General When Tom Horne bested former Maricopa County Attorney Andy Thomas in…
The accused killer of Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office jail guard is just 15 years old.Phoenix Police Chief Daniel Garcia announced the arrest this afternoon, saying Leonard Moreno, a 15-year-old, drug-dealing gangster, is the one accused of shooting Officer Jorge Vargas outside his home last month…
The MCSO has released its report on an August 17 incident, during which Glendale resident Richard Malley allegedly pointed an AR-15 at one of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s deputies in the desert near Gila Bend. Following his run-in with MCSO Deputy P. Arend, which could have easily ended in bloodshed, Malley,…
Police in Flagstaff will no longer be arresting people for the “crime” of begging.Thanks to a lawsuit filed against the city earlier this year by the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, begging will no longer be a crime…
Not only did the Arizona Cardinals lose by 24 points this weekend to the New Orleans Saints — safety Rashad Johnson also lost about a quarter of the middle finger on his left hand.In Johnson’s honor, the team is working on a special foam finger, on a hand with approximately…
Phoenix native Eric Harroun is back in the Valley after taking a plea deal on weapons charges, although he’d been facing a possible sentence of life in prison after the Justice Department accused him of fighting in Syria on behalf of Al-Qaeda.After the sudden plea deal that called for hardly…
Arizona State University is back in Playboy magazine’s top-10 party-school list.Last year, ASU didn’t make Playboy’s cut — which appears to be the first time ASU wasn’t a top-10 party school in the history of Playboy’s rankings…
Last week, Austin Del Castillo died after being shot by a Tempe police officer.Police allege Del Castillo was armed with a box cutter…
The investigative report on the deaths of the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots in the Yarnell Hill Fire will be released on Saturday.An investigative team, led by a state forester in Florida, has been completing the long-awaited report, which is meant to be a “factual and management report for accident prevention.”…
Although the estimated number of unauthorized immigrants into the United States dropped off after 2007, researchers think that number may be on the rise again.After estimating a peak of 12.2 million unauthorized immigrants in the country in 2007, the Pew Research Center estimated that number dropped to 11.3 million by…
Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters has joined an exclusive club of Arizona officials whose spouses are convicted child molesters. The club has at least one other member: Former Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock…
The 1-year-old boy who was left in a car in Scottsdale this weekend while his father went to work died Monday night, police say.A police spokesman says the department is now seeking a second-degree murder charge against 28-year-old Brokale Lytte Marques, in addition to other charges…
Makeshift memorials for Austin Del Castillo are set up at the corner of Mill Avenue and University Drive in Tempe, where Del Castillo was shot by Tempe police earlier this month.”Don’t believe what the news says[,] the police definitely have a choice,” read signs posted at that corner.After a week…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio seems to have an obsession with trying to get the public to believe that his life is in constant danger.Such was the case yesterday, when Arpaio’s office issued a press release to describe the latest “death threat” against the elderly sheriff. The “threat” was an e-mail from…
Congressman Trent Franks stopped spinning his abortion broken-record last week to talk about a new subject: war.Franks announced that he plans to introduce a resolution authorizing the use of military force against Iran…
In the future, you may have to clarify what you’re talking about when you say “Tempe.”Are you talking about the Arizona city that’s home to Arizona State University, or are you talking about the penis-spray that was developed to combat premature ejaculation?…
Arizona Congressman Ron Barber, shot twice during the 2011 Tucson massacre that wounded his former boss, Gabrielle Giffords, won’t let a phoned-in threat bother him. Details are still murky concerning last week’s arrest of a man from Arkansas who phoned in a threat to the Democratic Congressman’s Sierra Vista office…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced that a 16-year-old Canadian boy might be facing criminal charges for threatening to murder Arpaio, who’s a “massive dickhead,” according to the boy’s alleged e-mail threat.Adding to the long list of non-credible “death threats” Arpaio has publicized, the boy e-mailed the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office saying…
Welcome to Courthouse Update, a weekly rundown of goings-on at the Maricopa County Superior Court.This week, a cancer-faker pleads guilty to molesting a boy, a former youth pastor gets prison for molesting a boy, two more child abusers have their day in court, and more:…
Scottsdale police say a man left his 1-year-old child in his car while he went to work at the Scottsdale Quarter.Coincidentally, the Scottsdale Quarter is less than a mile from the shopping center where a 3-month-old boy died last month after his father allegedly went to work and forgot he’d…
