For the second time in less than a week, a Valley doctor has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing one of his patients.While it’s not the same doctor at the center of last week’s allegations, the circumstances — as far as we can tell — are fairly similar.Phoenix police say…
The attorney for Dr. Gabriel Ogbonnaya, the Mesa physician arrested last week and accused of sexually abusing two female patients, continues to attack the investigation conducted by the Mesa Police Department before Ogbonnaya’s arrest. Ogbonnaya was arrested last Wednesday after two female patients at his Healing Touch clinic claimed he…
The president of a national association of guide-dog users that gave Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio the boot from its July conference tells us today she’s not exactly upset that her group fouled up the sheriff’s 78th birthday. “It’s too bad,” Guide Dog Users Inc. President Becky Barton allows. ” But I didn’t know…
As vehemently as he defended his anti-gay comments last week — in one case even referencing George Washington and Abraham Lincoln — we figured it would only be a matter of time before Yuma Mayor Al Krieger broke down and apologized.We were right…
It’s Sheriff Joe’s party, and he’ll cry if he wants to.Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s 78th birthday was “ruined” over the weekend after he received word he would no longer be the keynote speaker at a convention for guide dog users that’s to be held in Phoenix this July.The National…
A Mesa man got a smooch on the wrist from a Maricopa County Superior Court judge on Friday when the judge sentenced him to only three years’ probation after the man pleaded guilty to one count of animal cruelty. Jeremy Tuffly, 28, entered the guilty plea to animal cruelty in May after…
We got word on Friday that a Mesa man who killed a kitten after trying to feed it to a python was sentenced after pleading guilty to one count of animal cruelty. In one of the more despicable crimes against an animal we can remember, 28-year-old Jeremy Tuffly tried to…
You may have heard about the airplane that crashed into a central Arizona high school this afternoon, and it turns out that Arizona Treasurer and gubernatorial candidate Dean Martin was at the school at the time of the crash.Martin’s campaign manager, Renee Roebuck, tells New Times the treasurer was at the…
Phoenix Suns big-man Amar’e Stoudemire continues to chirp about his future in the Valley and now says that remaining in Sand Land is his first choice, despite saying on Tuesday there was “no chance” that he’d pick up his $17.7 million contract option to stay with the team.The problem for…
As we reported earlier today, a Phoenix police officer has been arrested on multiple felony charges, and we now have the details of the case, which include the officer allegedly stealing thousands of dollars from drug dealers dating back to 2008.The Avondale Police Department contacted the Phoenix PD last week to…
It’s been more than two weeks since ASU student Kyleigh Ann Sousa was killed during a robbery attempt in Tempe, and police still haven’t arrested anybody — which sparked Silent Witness today to offer an $11,000 reward for information leading to the arrest or indictment of Sousa’s killer or killers.Tempe police Sergeant Steve Carbajal…
We just got word from the Phoenix Police Department that it’s arrested one of its own. We don’t have too many of the details at the moment, but PPD spokesman Trent Crump says he plans to address the media soon. …
A Gilbert man was arrested Wednesday after police say he and a friend posted an ad on Craigslist hoping to trade an iPod Touch and some weed for an iPad. Based on what we’ve heard about the iPad, 20-year-old Jacob Walker probably would have had more fun with the weed,…
On Wednesday, both the Chicago City Council and the San Jose City Council approved resolutions that call for a quasi-boycott Arizona. Unlike other cities that have opted to boycott Arizona in retaliation for SB 1070, the San Jose and Chicago boycotts don’t end any current contracts the cities have with…
The attorney for the Mesa-based doctor who was arrested and charged with sexual abuse yesterday claims the charges are baseless and that police failed to complete a full investigation before charging her client.Among other claims, Jan M. Buescher, the attorney for Doctor Gabriel Ogbonnaya, tells New Times she believes the…
There’s a new bank robber on the loose who bares a striking resemblance to one of our favorite, horribly-named bank-robbing “bandits.”You may recall the “First-Aid Bandit,” later re-named the “Band-Aid Bandit,” who was arrested in January after a string of robberies stretching from Gilbert to Queen Creek…
A Mesa-based primary-care physician with the Healing Touch Internal Medicine group was arrested yesterday after police say he sexually abused two of his patients.Victims say Gabriel Ogbonnaya, a doctor with the Healing Touch group, made sexual advances toward them — including patting their vaginas and insisting they “have more sex”…
AshleyMadison.com, a dating Web site for people who are already married, reportedly has offered $25 million for naming rights of the new Meadowlands football stadium — the home of the New York Giants and Jets — in East Rutherford, New Jersey. And it wouldn’t be the first time the company tried to…
Guidettes across the country have a new ally in the war against a new tax on tanning, and it happens to be a guy who developed skin cancer after spending five years with the sun beating down on him in a Vietnamese prison camp.Senator John McCain and “Snooki,” of Jersey…
We didn’t think a story about a 94-year-old man roaming around a trailer park allegedly feelin’ up kids could get any more bizarre, but (guess what?) it just did. We spoke to Payson police Chief Donald Engler yesterday who told us about 94-year-old Dale Warren Graham…
Yesterday, disgraced, former Washington D.C. lobbyist Jack Abramoff was released from the Maryland prison he’s called home since 2006. Simultaneously, Senator John McCain and his opponent in the GOP Senate primary, J.D. Hayworth, are bickering over which of the two is more of a lobbyist. As you’re probably aware — and…
Yesterday, we posted a story about a Phoenix man who shot and killed his wife on Friday, failed to die after shooting himself in the head, and then lived in his house — with his wife dead on the floor — for four days before he called police.Today, the suspect has…
