Remember last year when a guy was arrested after Glendale police found what appeared to be the beginning stages of an underground, Silence of the Lambs-esque sex-dungeon being built in his back yard? Well, he’s going to prison…for a long time.William Willis, 46, pleaded guilty earlier this year to one…
A 19-year-old Phoenix man is in “extremely critical condition” after reportedly getting shot in the head while driving through a Phoenix park last night.Phoenix Sergeant Steve Martos says the victim and a 17-year-old friend were driving through a park at 3100 West Morten Avenue in Phoenix about 8:15 p.m. yesterday…
Congratulations to the New Times reader who goes by the handle shadeaux14, you are the proud winner of this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.On Friday, we asked readers to provide what they think would be an appropriate caption for the above photo of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe…
As we reported yesterday, a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office detention officer is sans one toe after getting shot in the foot by a DUI suspect — who was in handcuffs at the time — while he was assisting in a holiday DUI task force over the weekend.The officer is expected to…
A man is dead — and a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office detention officer is missing a toe — following a shootout on a Phoenix freeway over the weekend.According to the MCSO, the detention officer — a drug recognition expert — was part of a Holiday DUI task force patrolling Valley…
As you probably know by now, North Korea’s communist dictator, Kim Jong Il, is dead. In addition to being dead, the “Dear Leader” is also in a “warm corner of hell” with the likes of Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden.That’s according to Arizona Senator John McCain, who reacted to…
A Mesa woman was found safe over the weekend after being missing for nearly a week.Mesa police say Sophia Vargas, 28, contacted her family on Saturday. She’s apparently OK, according to Mesa Detective Steve Berry. Vargas left her house about 8 p.m. Monday night, when she told her cousin she…
After a 1-6 start, the Arizona Cardinals still have an outside chance of making the playoffs thanks to a Tebow-esque fourth quarter in the team’s 20-17 overtime win over the Cleveland Browns yesterday.The W is the Cards’ third overtime win in seven games.”We have a flair for dramatics,” wide receiver…
Last week, in honor of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s comeuppance ( Department of Justice investigations, botched sex-crime investigations, etc.), we submitted the above photo of the sheriff and his PR puppy for this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.If you missed our post on the sheriff shamelessly…
Luis Alberto Ochoa has a fairly extensive porn collection, which would be fine if it wasn’t made up of hundreds of videos and images of children.Ochoa was arrested yesterday morning after police tracked a kiddy-porn video to the IP address on the computer in his Phoenix home.According to court records…
“No sir it wasn’t me, sir — I swear it wasn’t!”That’s what Jermaine “Huggy” Hopkins, the fat kid in the film Lean on Me, famously told his prickly principal (played by Morgan Freeman) to get out of a jam in the 1989 classic.The line apparently didn’t work as well on…
The hits keep coming for the folks at Arizona Child Protective Services — the latest child killed by a person the agency has investigated in the past is 1-year-old Aleigh Torres, who police say was murdered by her mother’s boyfriend, 22-year-old Miguel “Angel” Garcia.According to court records obtained by New…
A Mesa woman has been missing since Monday, when she told family members she was going out to meet some friends she met on the Internet.According to the Mesa Police Department, Sophia Vargas, 28, left her house about 8 p.m. Monday night, when she told her cousin she was going…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s having a rough week — Department of Justice investigations, botched sex-crime investigations, etc.To celebrate Arpaio’s comeuppance, we’re goin’ with the above photo of America’s self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff” cozyin’ up to his PR puppy for this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.If you missed…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s had a pretty rough week — aside from the Department of Justice determining that he’s guilty of the worst racial-profiling practices in U.S. history, the sheriff is still dealing with the fallout from the Associated Press’ decision to pull the old El Mirage botched sex-crime…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio — flanked by two attorneys and MCSO Deputy Chief Jack MacIntyre — held a press conference this afternoon to address the Department of Justice’s findings that his office is on the hook for the worst-racial profiling practices in U.S. history.In short, the four men came…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu says he hasn’t had a chance to read the U.S. Department of Justice’s report on Joe Arpaio’s committing some of the worst acts of racial profiling in U.S. history, but that isn’t stopping him from chiming in and bashing the feds.Somehow, Babeu’s using Arpaio’s bad…
Sara Petsinger, 31, is going to need a new job — her meth/topless massage business was shut down yesterday when she was arrested for selling meth and heroin to an undercover Mesa police officer…in a school zone…as an 8-year-old slept in her apartment.Petsinger and her co-defendant, 49-year-old Christine Petsinger, face…
Jasmine Brown — a 29-year-old youth minister at the Family of God Christian Fellowship in Apache Junction — and the 12-year-old boy he’s accused of molesting, have differing accounts of the abuse — Brown doesn’t deny he molested the boy, he just claims it was consensual.Unfortunately for Brown, even if…
We’re not typically in the business of shameless self-promotion here at New Times, but we’ll make an exception to toot our own horn over recent accolades for our “Best of” smartphone app, which apparently is pretty friggin’ awesome.In fact, our new app has been listed in the iTunes’ year-end “Rewind”…
Yesterday, Scott Bass was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping and child abuse charges for locking his 14-year-old daughter in a bathroom for more than two months.Per his plea deal, Bass faced up to 17 years in prison — and New Times readers apparently weren’t…
Brian Bizzell is a band teacher with the Buckeye Unified School District — which is unfortunate considering he’s also an alleged pederast.Bizzell, who teaches at Estrella Foothills High School, was arrested early yesterday morning after police found evidence on one of his student’s cell phones that he and the underage…
