A local news station has reported that while Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu was headmaster for the now-defunct DeSisto School in Stockbridge, Massachusetts from 1999 to 2001, the Massachusetts Office of Child Care Services launched an investigation into repeated claims of physical and sexual abuse from students at the private…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio — the man who says, “I don’t have press conferences just to get my name on television” — held a press conference today outside Tent City to talk about a sign on the fence.It’s the early 19th-anniversary present for the jail — a sign displaying…
An interesting story by JJ Hensley in the Arizona Republic yesterday mentions how the number of outstanding warrants in Maricopa County has dropped by 20 percent since 2008.For years, critics have been juxtaposing the number of warrants with Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s priorities, questioning why his deputies seem to have so…
See the latest update on the police hunt for Juan Garcia. Phoenix police are looking for 18-year-old Juan Garcia, who allegedly went over to his girlfriend’s house on Friday night, beat her 2-year-old son to death, and left.The boy’s 18-year-old mother, Wendy Rogel-Pagas, was jailed on Saturday, after telling police…
The freedom to grow marijuana granted by the state’s 2010 medical-pot law is blossoming along with the plants in an El Mirage warehouse.Bill Hayes, founder of the Arizona Cannabis Society, invited New Times inside last week for a peek at their operation. (See our slideshow of the tour here.) A…
Tent City is turning 19 later this year, but Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is getting started early for the jail’s annual birthday publicity stunt.This time, Arpaio’s putting up a sign outside the jail, displaying the total “Number of Inmates ‘Served'” — an idea stolen from what the sheriff’s office…
Michael Crane — who’s facing first-degree murder charges for the deaths of Paradise Valley couple Glenna and Lawrence Shapiro, as well as Phoenix man Bruce Gaudet — made it to his arraignment today without causing a scene.Crane was scheduled to be in court on Tuesday his arraignment, but court officials…
Last week, we asked readers to write the caption for the above photo of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio shaking a carrot at things.The photo comes from a Fox 10 segment that was based around a horse eating a carrot out of Arpaio’s hand in the middle of an interview,…
A bank-robbery suspect the FBI’s calling the “Bearded Bandit” has struck again, as has the FBI’s bank-robber-naming department.The “Bearded Bandit” may have robbed five Valley banks, but whether he actually has a beard is up for debate.According to the FBI — and the pictures it has provided — there’s definitely…
After releasing two not-so-scathing statements through his campaign last week about Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s Mexican ex-lover problems, Congressman Paul Gosar now sounds pretty peeved off with Babeu (he is one of his Republican primary opponents in the congressional race, after all).Instead of the tone last week — where…
New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer sent a letter to Governor Jan Brewer yesterday, asking her to give testimony before his Senate Subcommittee on Immigration about Senate Bill 1070.According to a release from Schumer’s office, the point of Brewer’s testimony would be “to hear whether she still believes the law…
Ammandea Stoltzmann, a cousin of Ame Deal — the 10-year-old girl who died after her family members admittedly stuffed the girl in a footlocker for taking a Popsicle — has now become the fifth member of the family arrested for horrifically abusing the girl before her death.Read the tragic detail’s…
Cab driver Joseph Goldmeer was convicted by a jury yesterday on three counts of aggravated assault, stemming from a July incident in which Goldmeer ended an argument at a Phoenix gas station by running a guy over in his cab, according to a court spokesperson.Police weren’t even sure the 45-year-old…
We didn’t go by the Wells Fargo Arena last night for Arizona State’s 66-57 loss to UCLA, but we know a few diehards who tells us that the announced attendance of 5,477 was exaggerated by a whole lot. The game itself was a microcosm of ASU’s lost season–a nice effort…
Late last week, Fox 10 put out a story based on the fact that a horse ate a carrot out of the hand of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the middle of an interview.The rest of the segment just involves the anchors talking over video of Arpaio shaking a…
If you’ve ever wanted to start an argument based off nothing but the opinions of 743 random Arizona voters, we’ve got some material for you.Public Policy Polling often releases “Odds and Ends” surveys along with its political polls, asking voters about some off-the-wall things like whether they approve of God’s…
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), but a Valley teacher is accused with having sex with a student.In fact, with 23-year-old Andrew Islas — a Tempe High School assistant band director — being arrested yesterday after admitting to sexing…
Nogales charter school teacher Ricardo Siqueiros took a ride on Interstate 10 toward Phoenix Tuesday evening.According to the Arizona Department of Public Safety, he took his 19.5 pounds of meth and 12 pounds of cocaine along for the ride.Siqueiros, 32, was stopped by the cops around 7 p.m. while driving…
The results show for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “birther” investigation into President Obama’s eligibility is apparently so important that it’s going to be steamed live on a conspiracy-theory website.That’s right — World Net Daily, which has been the mouthpiece for the latest inquiry into the repeatedly debunked conspiracy theory,…
Specifically, Babeu claims that Jose Orozco stole his identity and hacked into the sheriff’s web accounts — accounts that Babeu had asked his longtime flame to maintain. Indeed, A.D. Horan, an attorney representing Orozco, said his client was a campaign volunteer and an “authorized administrator who … created and maintained websites for…
UPDATE: The Marine Corps Air Station-Miramar now says one of the Marines killed was based out of Yuma.A collision of two helicopters during training exercises last night along the Arizona/California border killed seven Marines, according to a Marine Corps spokeswoman.Lieutenant Maureen Dooley tells New Times that as of now, the…
The Phoenix Suns were a bit like Rick Santorum at the Republican debate in Mesa last night: They started terribly, got way behind, made a late comeback, but faded at the end in a stinging 106-104 home loss last night to the Golden State Warriors. The last game before the…
