For the second time in just over a year, an Arizona prison inmate has stolen a car and escaped custody.The latest con to escape the clutches of the Arizona Department of Corrections: 40-year-old Dyan Castorena.According to the DOC, Castorena was was working at the Manheim Auto Auction in Tolleson this…
James Louis Baker, 54, is a bus driver for the Paradise Valley Unified School District. He also seems to think 13-year-old girls are scouring the Internet for 54-year-old bus drivers to have sex with.We hate to break his heart, but they’re not. However, cops posing as 13-year-old girls are another…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer announced yesterday that CNN will produce a “major” debate in Arizona between GOP presidential candidates.Jan’s “thrilled.””I’ve been in politics a long time, but I can’t remember a more critical election than this,” she says. “When it comes to some of the hallmark issues facing our country…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s Human Smuggling Unit arrested a U.S. Border Patrol agent last night as he was allegedly speeding down State Route 85 in possession of oxycodone and fake marijuana.According to the MCSO, the HSU was patrolling a known drug-smuggling route when they bumped into Michel Atondo, who…
The only reason we requested the arrest report for Bruce Nicholas Wardell was because we were so impressed/terrified by his epic mullet. What he allegedly did to get arrested is just as horrific as his frizzy “party in the back.”Wardell is accused of watching porn in front of his girlfriend’s…
The U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau — which, as we noted earlier this week, is the same agency that lets drug cartel members buy guns — is warning firearms dealers not to sell guns to medical marijuana users.The ATF wrote a letter to firearms dealers earlier this week warning…
As if rush hour in Phoenix isn’t miserable enough, about 8 this morning, the southbound State Route 51 was briefly closed by Department of Public Safety officers as they chased a wayward rabbit off the freeway.That’s right — they shut down the highway to rescue a rabbit.DPS spokesman Bart Graves…
Arizona kids have about a 15-percent success rate when trying to buy cigarettes and other tobacco products from retail outlets across the state — and Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne is pissed.”For every 20 minors that walk into a store in Arizona to buy cigarettes, three of them — without…
The overall ineffectiveness of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s illegal immigrant roundups aside, one of our biggest criticisms recently has been that they’re conducted under the guise of “employer sanctions” operations, despite the MCSO’s having never arrested a single employer — only employees (all of whom tend to have brown…
To be honest, the only reason we requested the arrest report for Bruce Nicholas Wardell was because we were so impressed/terrified by his epic mullet. What he allegedly did to get arrested is just as horrific as his frizzy “party in the back.”Wardell was arrested Tuesday and is currently charged…
Did you hear the one about 79-year-old Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio considering a run for the United States Senate?That’s not a joke — Arpaio, at 79, really claims to be considering running for the Senate seat getting vacated by Senator Jon Kyl.Anyone who knows anything about America’s self-proclaimed “toughest…
President Barack Obama today told a representative of a national Latino group that Arizona’s is not the model the rest of the country should mirror when it comes to handling illegal immigration.Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio responded by issuing a press release saying that not only are his methods of…
A 16-year-old Mohave County boy died Sunday after shooting himself while playing Russian Roulette.Several of his friends witnessed the shooting, police say.According to the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office, the teen, Kevin Jervey Hudgens, and several other kids were in a travel trailer in Hudgens’ backyard when he fatally shot himself…
Despite having a samurai sword in his possession at the time, convicted felon Albert Tejada, 31, lost a fight with a dog Monday morning.In all fairness to Tejada, it was a police K-9 dog, and he was running from authorities at the time, but the guy still brought a friggin’…
A suspicious vehicle has closed a street near the Tucson courtroom where Jared Loughner appeared for a hearing today — and the rumor mill already is churning out unsubstantiated yarns that probably aren’t true.The Tucson Police Department confirms to New Times that the bomb squad was called in to investigate…
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he’s not ruling out running for the Senate seat getting vacated by retiring Senator Jon Kyl — which, if history tells us anything, is complete bullshit just another one of the sheriff’s feeble cries for…
Following yesterday’s gang shakeup in south Phoenix, authorities are now well-equipped to make one hell of a rap video — they seized cocaine, dozens of fancy cars, and enough cash to make it rain for days.The Phoenix Police Department, as well as several other law enforcement agencies, carried out “Operation…
Former United States Congressman Matt Salmon and former Arizona House Speaker Kirk Adams are both eying the Congressional seat getting vacated by Congressman Jeff Flake, who is running for the Senate seat getting vacated by Senator Jon Kyl.The two are both Republicans, both Mormon, and both have some big names…
According to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the man responsible for the hit-and-run death of Daniel Pollack, the son of Valley real estate mogul Michael Pollack, is an illegal immigrant.Arpaio says Cristino Torres Romero was arrested in Tempe by Scottsdale police on Friday in connection with the September 11 hit-and-run.Torres…
Rosanna Brown, a former teacher at Ed Pastor Elementary School in Phoenix, was sentenced to some pretty lengthy prison time today after pleading guilty to charges that she tricked one of her 14-year-old students into having sex with her back in 2009.As part her plea agreement, Brown pleaded guilty to…
A massive gang/drug bust called “Operation OGSTYLE” went down in south Phoenix this morning, resulting in the arrests of dozens of gang members, the Phoenix Police Department announced today.”Operation OGSTYLE” was headed by the Phoenix P.D. but included law enforcement agents from several other agencies, including the Drug Enforcement Administration…
Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner is back in Arizona today after spending the past several months in a federal prison in Missouri where he’s undergoing psychiatric treatment to hopefully make him mentally fit to stand trial.Loughner has a court hearing in Tucson tomorrow, where U.S. District Judge Larry Burns will…
