The National Football League announced yesterday that it’s selected Arizona to host the 2015 Super Bowl.Landing the big game is definitely good for the state — the last time the Super Bowl was in Arizona, in 2008, it generated about $500 million in revenue for Valley businesses.But can the Super…
Kurtis Palmateer was arrested Saturday night after he called police to let them know that he’d just tried to kill his grandmother. Her offense: she failed to cook his dinner and has an annoying dog.According to court records obtained by New Times, Palmateer called police about 11:30 p.m. Saturday and…
If you know what’s good for you, don’t use the word “nigger” around anyone — but especially not around Carlos Gross, who allegedly beat a Mesa man with a baseball bat after he claims the man dropped an N-bomb while the two were chatting in the parking lot of a…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio met with leaders from the Methodist Border Mission Network at his Phoenix office this afternoon to discuss — amongst other things — some issues the group has with the sheriff’s policies towards illegal immigration.But that’s not the big news — the big news is that…
Convicted sex offender/multiple felon Jamal Mitchell was in court this morning where he pleaded not guilty to his latest alleged crimes, which include murder.Mitchell was arrested last month and booked into jail on a laundry list of crimes, including child molestation, and armed robbery in addition to the murder rap.For…
Vito Renee Oliva probably would have been cited for a minor traffic violation when police attempted to pull him over early Saturday morning. But he tried to run from cops — choking a police dog in the process — and is now charged with multiple felony.According to court documents obtained…
Congratulations to the New Times reader who goes by the handle Painful Rectal Itch, you are the proud winner of this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest (and you gave us an excuse to use the term “painful rectal itch” in a headline). On Friday, we asked readers…
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is in some hot water over operation “Fast and Furious,” the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives botched gun trafficking sting.Last week, U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith wrote a letter to President Barack Obama asking that he appoint a special counsel to…
The last time Under Siege star Steven Seagal was in town, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office took some heat when it used a tank to apprehend a suspected cockfighter. The criticism went further when allegations surfaced that Seagal murdered a puppy.The allegations that Seagal killed a puppy haven’t been proven,…
The “Dream” came true for illegal immigrants in California over the weekend — Governor Jerry Brown signed a version of the controversial Dream Act into California law Saturday. Now, local TV news station KPHO is suggesting the “Dream” may be coming to Arizona (insert Wayne Campbell’s “Shyeah…and monkeys might fly…
A 1-year-old is dead after getting shot in the head by one of two masked men who broke into the Mesa apartment where the boy was sleeping this morning.Mesa Sergeant Ed Wessing tells New Times the boy was sleeping with four other children on a pullout sofa in his grandmother’s…
Two skydivers — one of whom appeared as a “flying Elvis” alongside Nicholas Cage in the film Honeymoon in Vegas — died yesterday when their parachute failed to open during a jump near the Arizona/Nevada border.The two skydivers have been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office as 60-year-old Jim…
The Arizona Cardinals got crushed 34-10 by the winless (until yesterday) Minnesota Vikings yesterday, which tends to happen when a team gives up 28 points in the first 13 minutes of the game.The first quarter for the Cards couldn’t have gone any worse.After having to punt on the first two…
Last week, we asked our readers to offer suggestions for an appropriate caption for the above photo of Maricopa County Joe Arpaio’s aging goon squad for this week’s New Times’ You Write the Caption contest..We had 80 responses in the comment section of the post, which you can see by…
Dyan Castorena, the Arizona prison inmate who escaped custody by stealing a car last week, was taken back into custody yesterday, the Arizona Department of Corrections says.Castorena, who left a work crew at a car auction in a car she stole, was arrested just after 3p.m. yesterday at Casino Arizona…
At 11 a.m. today, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, and nine other Arizona sheriffs, will hold a press conference at the Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza at the State Capitol to discuss the federal government’s bungled gun trafficking sting, “Operation Fast and Furious.”Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will not be in…
In honor of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s 20th “crime suppression” sweep, we’ve chosen the above photo of the sheriff’s youthfully challenged goon squad we snapped yesterday as the sheriff announced his raid on southwest Phoenix.To be fair, not all of the henchmen Arpaio picked for his sweep were of…
There’s good news and bad news following sham state Senate candidate Olivia Cortes’ announcement that she’s withdrawing from the LD18 Russell Pearce recall race.For starters she’s no longer a candidate (not that she was ever an actual candidate). The bad news: she hung in there long enough to keep her…
When asked this afternoon why he spends so much time putzin’ around Maricopa County in search of illegal immigrants and petty criminals during his “crime suppression sweeps,” as opposed to focusing the resources of the sheriff’s office on more dangerous criminal activity, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the following:”I’m…
Gilbert police received a call yesterday afternoon from a man reporting that his 2-year-old son wasn’t breathing. That man was 25-year-old Jonathan Cole, and the reason his son wasn’t breathing, as police would later discover, is because Cole squeezed the life out of him.According to court records obtained by New…
Admitted pederast Luis Mejia Ortiz was in Maricopa County Superior Court today, where he pleaded guilty to charges that he molested his girlfriend’s 9-year-old daughter on several occasions.In all, Ortiz pleaded guilty to one count of child molestation and three counts of attempted child molestation. Initially, Ortiz was charged with…
Tempe police announced today that they’ve made an arrest in last week’s murder of 64-year-old Bonnie Raudman.Raudman was found dead inside her Tempe home in the 2700 block of West Minton Drive on Friday morning by a friend who’d gone to her house to check on her.According to the Tempe…
