Frank Tanori Gonzalez, the Marana man who gave thousands of viewers of the 2009 Super Bowl a 37-second dose of porn, pleaded guilty in Pima County Superior Court this morning to two counts of computer tampering, the Arizona Attorney General’s Office confirms to New Times. See the video of a…
Regardless of political affiliation, people across the country are pissed off about one thing or another, but there are only a few cities that — as a whole — are more pissed off than Phoenix, according to a recent ranking of pissed off cities.The Daily Beast website has ranked Phoenix one…
Ten years after murdering Mesa resident Cynthia Garcia, one of several members of the Hells Angels initially charged in her death has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.Kevin J. Augustiniak entered his plea last week, nearly eight years after his 2003 indictment, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office tells New Times.According to…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, America’s self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff,” is all about holding people accountable for their actions — so it was a little suspicious when he testified at the Arizona Bar’s ethics hearing for shamed former County Attorney Andrew Thomas and couldn’t remember a friggin’ thing.As we pointed out…
Jahessey Shockley’s been missing for nearly nine days, and there hasn’t been a peep about her disappearance in the national media — and her family wants to know why.We’ve been a little curious ourselves, considering that cable news channels have been dwelling on the disappearance of Lisa Irwin, a 10-month-old…
Alleged baby-beater Gregory Amador now faces a likely murder rap after the 2-year-old boy he beat up last week died over the weekend.The boy, who’d been brain dead and in the hospital since last week, died Saturday, authorities say.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Amador called police about…
Jason Alistair Lowery, 34, is a deportation officer with U.S. Immigration and customs enforcement. He’s also allegedly a weed smuggler who led authorities on a 45-minute chase — in his government-owned vehicle — after getting busted in a marijuana smuggling sting.Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Carrick Cook tells New…
Juan Guillen, who was a priest at the Immaculate Conception Church for over 20 years before heading to prison for attempted child molestation, is a wanted man just days after getting released from prison.Guillen was released from an Arizona prison on October 6. He checked in with the Yuma County…
A robbery suspects crime spree — which includes threatening a 4-year-old with a gun — came to an end last night after he crashed the stolen car he was driving into a wall and was shot by a Phoenix police officer.According to the Phoenix Police Department, just before 10 p.m…
A Mesa woman was arrested last night after police discovered she was using her 13-year-old daughter as a lookout as she attempted to steal an air conditioner from a vacant home.Mesa police got a call about 8:30 last night regarding two people who were seen in the yard of a…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio testified — under oath — yesterday during the state Bar disciplinary hearing for disgraced former County Attorney Andrew Thomas.As our colleague Stephen Lemons points out in his story on the hearing, it was a performance “worthy of a Mafia don.”See Lemons’ story here.Arpaio claims he…
A Scottsdale man is accused of peeing on his girlfriend’s son — but that was only after he forced the boy to perform oral sex on him on multiple occasions. According to court records obtained by New Times, 32-year-old Ali Chitsaz, an employee at Chiropractic Leadership, is being held without…
A man wearing a gas mask was involved in a shooting in Mesa early this morning during what appears to be a botched weed robbery.According to Mesa police, about 1 a.m. today, a Mesa cop made a traffic stop in the 600 block of South Mesa Drive. The driver, whose…
A Chandler dad who burned his 5-year-old son with a cigarette lighter because he thought the boy was possessed was in Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where he sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to child abuse last month.In addition to the 15 years probation, Maricopa County Superior Court…
Yesterday, we watched as GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain told reporters that comments he made about his plan to install an electrified fence on the U.S./Mexico border capable of killing immigrants trying to come into the country illegally was just a joke.Then we watched him say he might seriously be…
Vice President Jan Brewer?If you just spit out your coffee, you can thank the Arizona Republic, which recently suggested the aforementioned absurd prophecy in one of its “Political Insider” posts.Check it out here.From the Republic:…
Presidential candidate Herman Cain met with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio this afternoon, but he was late to the meeting because of an unknown security threat.”We received some information that caused us to improve our security on the way over here, and I would like to leave it at that,”…
Eric Coulter, 18, fatally shot his former girlfriend in the face early Saturday morning. According to Coulter, it was an accident, which police find highly unlikely for a number of reasons.For starters, his explanation of how the gun “accidentally” went off makes no sense. Then there’s the fact that the…
Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann was in Phoenix this morning, where she met with local politicos at the State Capitol to talk about illegal immigration and, to quote Senator John McCain, completing “the dang fence.”Aside from blowing a few kisses at the asses of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Arizona…
The “Occupy Phoenix” protest against corporate greed, the Fed, the government, the banks, politicians, lobbyists, “the corporations” (etc., etc., etc.), has come to an end.(Ahem) Shockingly, nothing’s really changed — the Fed still exists, lobbyists still are lobbying, and “the corporations” are still in the business of making money.A few things changed…
Today, Republican presidential candidates Herman Cain and Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann both will be in Phoenix to kiss a little GOP ass/talk about immigration issues.Bachmann will be puckering up for Senate President Russell Pearce at 10:30 a.m., and former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain will take a knee at the derriere…
Last week, we asked our readers to let us know what they would say to state Senate President Russell Pearce’s sham “candidate,” Olivia Cortes, if they bumped into her somewhere and got to tell her to her face what they think of her — and Pearce’s — sleazy attempt to manipulate Democracy…
