Oprah-approved snake-oil salesman James Arthur Ray says he won’t be hosting sweat lodge events anymore, which is a great decision considering the last time he did, three people died and dozens were injured.Ray is currently awaiting sentencing after being found guilty of three counts of negligent homicide in the deaths…
Litchfield Park resident Cherish Arroyo, 35, was arrested yesterday after police say she had sex with a 16-year-old boy. The boy, it turns out, is a teammate of Arroyo’s son on the Copper Canyon High School football team. Arroyo currently serves as treasurer of the team’s booster club.According to the…
Bath salts, a designer drug that causes people to trip out, can apparently take average criminals and turn them into super-powered criminals with a penchant for violence.According to the Mesa Police Department, bath salts seem to be giving criminals “unusual strength,” particularly when they are confronted by cops.In fact, in…
An off-duty Department of Public Safety helicopter pilot, as well as two others, were killed in a head-on car wreck last night on the U.S. 93 north of Wickenberg.According to the DPS, Matthew Uhl, a 46-year-old civilian helicopter pilot with the DPS assigned to Kingman Air Rescue, was driving a…
About three weeks after failing to starve himself to death while rotting in a Texas prison, child-raping cult leader Warren Jeffs has been released from the hospital and taken back to the big house.Jeffs, the former leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, is serving…
Mark Zuckerberg officially has the ability to piss off the entire world.Facebook (yet again) has made some unpopular changes — the degree to which we cannot even begin to explain (the computer geeks techies at ZDNet seem to have a grasp of what’s been changed and explain it all here)..In…
Mesa thief Anthony Lopez Rios used a samurai sword in an attempt to steal a guy’s bicycle last night. More laughable than using a martial arts weapon to try to rob a bike, the robbery attempt netted precisely zero bikes — and Rios can now add “failed bike robber” to…
Convicted rapist Edward Hartley, by his own account, has a small penis. It’s so small, in fact, that he whipped it out in front of a 13-year-old girl he found at a bus stop to reassure her that if the two were to have sex, he wouldn’t hurt her.He also…
Jonah Shacknai, the CEO of Scottsdale-based Medicis pharmaceutical company, has asked the California attorney general to review the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department’s finding that the death of his girlfriend was a suicide.Rebecca Zahau’s body was found naked, bound, and hanging from a balcony in the courtyard at Shacknai’s Coronado…
The skull of a human child that, until yesterday, was for sale on Craigslist has been turned over to authorities, Phoenix police confirm to New Times.Phoenix Sergeant Trent Crump told New Times yesterday that there is nothing illegal about possessing a human skull “unless you kill the person to get it.”A further…
Peter Normann, the Anthem doctor convicted of murder in the deaths of two of his patients, and manslaughter in the death of another, was in a Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where he was sentenced to a total of 25 years in prison.Normann’s sentencing hearing was delayed last week…
Valley resident George Lindell was driving to a Boston Market in north Phoenix to grab some grub last week, when he was rear-ended by an SUV. The SUV then swerved to avoid hitting another vehicle, causing the driver to lose control and crash into a utility poll, bringing down power…
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 Minnesota Congresswoman Michele…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office confirmed to New Times yesterday that he’s assigned an “elite posse” to look into President Barack Obama’s “fake birth certificate” before allowing his name on the presidential ballot in Arizona next year.No…seriously…you’re not reading The Onion — Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has assembled…
If you’re interested in doing your part to put an end to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s tyrannical reign over Maricopa County, here is your chance.Arpaio’s opponent in next year’s GOP primary for sheriff, Scottsdale Lieutenant Mike Stauffer, is holding a meeting tomorrow night for anyone who wants to lend their time…
If you’re in need of the skull of a human child, you’re in luck; one is currently for sale on Craigslist.According to the Craigslist post, the skull is “missin’ most teeth,” and likely is that of a 12 to 14-year-old child…
If you ask 37-year-old Tony Stromsness, people should be allowed to masturbate wherever they want, and in front of whomever they want — for example, on top of a picnic table in a busy public park, in front of children, which is where Stromsness was arrested yesterday afternoon.According to court…
Congressman Jeff Flake has picked his horse in the GOP presidential primary — and it’s not Michele Bachman.Former Massachusettes Governor Mitt Romney announced today that Flake — who is running for the Senate seat getting vacated by Senator Jon Kyl — has endorsed his candidacy. “This election will be an…
There’s good news and bad news following the Arizona Cardinals 22-21 loss to the Washington Redskins last night.The good news: after two games, Kevin Kolb seems like a legitimate quarterback. The bad news: the Cards’ defense is embarrassing.The Cardinals defense gave up 455 yards in the loss, bringing its total…
Last week, we asked our readers to offer suggestions for a caption for the above photo of Minnesota congresswoman/presidential candidate Michele Bachmann kissing Joe Arpaio’s ass as she begs like a dog for Arpaio to endorse her candidacy for this week’s New Times’ You Write the Caption contest.Once again, you…
Phoenix police have identified the victim in a fatal shooting last night on the I-10 — which forced the highway to be closed until about 8:30 this morning — as 49-year-old Michael Arvallo.Phoenix Sergeant Steve Martos says the shooting happened about 10:30 p.m. yesterday as Arvallo was driving on the…
No good deed goes unpunished — for example, you could let a panhandler borrow your cell phone, only to have him stab your friend in the neck almost immediately afterwards, which is apparently what happened to a Phoenix man last weekend.According to court records obtained by New Times, a woman…
