As we mentioned earlier this week, law enforcement agencies across the Valley are checking out the sleazy, Scottsdale-based porn website Backroom Casting Couch — and now it’s short its best “talent” recruiter.Antonio Adrian Gonzalez, 28, was arrested yesterday on kiddy-porn charges following a multi-jurisdictional investigation into his web-based “modeling” and…
Despite having a well-publicized lead foot, being “creepy around women,” simulating a blowjob while dressed as a super hero, allegedly using a state voter-registration list to get a woman’s address, getting accused of charging a political candidate $2,000 for Joe Arpaio’s endorsement, and currently being unemployed, former Arizona Republican Party…
Selling nearly 200 pounds of amphetamine in the United States probably won’t land you on the FBI’s Most Wanted List, but it apparently will in Sweden, which is where Predrag Stojanovic is one of the country’s “most wanted” criminals for allegedly slangin’ some speed.Stojanovic, 44, was busted by U.S. Immigration…
Steer clear of Mesa if you don’t want to see the junk of a child — a teenage serial flasher is on the loose.The Mesa Police Department says a kid between the ages of 14 and 18 has exposed himself to at least six women since February.Mesa Detective Michael Melendez…
Tempe’s mayor, whom New Times persuaded to use the word “sucks” 11 times during a Tempe City Council meeting after he ruthlessly censored the word the week before, will not seek re-election.Mayor Hugh Hallman announced at a City Council meeting last night that he is not planning to run for…
Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal came to the conclusion earlier this week that the Tucson Unified School District’s ethnic-studies course is illegal.Huppenthal cited an audit of the course by the Cambium Learning Group as the basis for his claim.He may have been under the impression that nobody was…
A “three or four second” boob grab could land a 20-year-old Surprise man in the slammer — which tends to be the breaks when the boob grabbed belongs to a 12-year-old.Patrick Michael McKnight, a Pizza Hut employee, was arrested on charges that he fondeled the breast of a 12-year-old family…
Former Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Chris Snyder is on the disabled list after surgery last week to repair a herniated disc in his back — which might be why he did nothing to defend his wife from a shoe-throwing maniac during a road-rage incident yesterday afternoon.Snyder, now with the Pittsburgh Pirates,…
A Phoenix man is suing the City of Phoenix, former Phoenix police Chief Jack Harris, and several others over a beating he says he received from two Phoenix police officers who initially mistook him for a drug dealer they’d previously arrested.According to the suit, filed in Maricopa County Superior Court…
A morning of family drinking turned deadly yesterday when police say a Phoenix man got hammered, punched a woman in the face, and then fatally shot his own nephew.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Antonio Lawrence Bracamonte II, 26, was arrested early yesterday morning after police found his…
Frank Morris, 19, of Casa Grande, managed to escape a police pursuit early Tuesday morning. He would have gotten away scot free, but unfortunately for Morris, he didn’t manage to avoid hitting a pole once police called off the pursuit.About 4:30 Tuesday morning, a Pinal County sheriff’s deputy tried to pull…
Phoenix Suns star Steve Nash isn’t the prime minister of Canada (yet), but he still did his part to get hooligans to stop trashing a Canadian city following the Vancouver Canucks’ game-seven loss in the Stanley Cup Finals last night.The Canucks were crushed by the Boston Bruins 4-0 to conclude…
The Pima County Attorney’s Office on Tuesday cleared members of the county’s SWAT Team for shooting at an ex-Marine 71 times during a drug investigation that netted a total of one bag of marijuana.The ex-Marine, 26-year-old Jose Guerena, was holding an AR-15 assault rifle when the SWAT Team busted down…
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has left the Houston hospital where she’s been recovering for the last several months after getting shot in the face during the January 8, Tucson shooting rampage.She will be living in her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly’s, League City, Texas, home, about 26 miles from Houston.Giffords will continue…
A Phoenix man who claims he learned to kill while a member of the Cuban military was sentenced in Maricopa County Superior Court today to 22 years in prison for fatally snapping his girlfriend’s neck during an argument. Hermenegildo Cardenes Morffah pleaded guilty in April to second-degree murder for the September 2010 killing…
A Nogales-based Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent was arrested yesterday for allegedly handing over sensitive government documents to family members with “strong” ties to drug cartels.According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Jovana Samaniego Deas, 33, a special agent with the agency’s Homeland Security Investigations unit, illegally accessed, stole, and…
Alleged pimp Chad Walker had an issue with one of his gals not getting the money from a client upfront. As is often the case when a pimp needs to show the strength of his pimp-hand, he beat up the prostitute — who happens to be a 15-year-old runaway from…
Sorry, ladies — if you were hoping to star in one of Valley-based Backroom Casting Couch’s “reality” porn flicks, we’ve got some bad news: the website’s star — who’s seen on video having unprotected sex with dozens of local women — has herpes. And he may be in a little…
A four-hour standoff with cops ended last night when a Phoenix police sniper shot a woman in the face.Details of shooting are sketchy, but the woman survived — for now — and another woman was taken into custody.Phoenix police were contacted about 7:30 p.m. yesterday by a bail bondsman who told…
Yesterday marked Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s 79th birthday. L’chaim. Yet the aging law dog swears he plans to run for another four-year term as sheriff — laughably, he’s also not ruled out a run for the presidency.As a reader pointed out in the comment section of New Times’ official…
Firing more than 70 shots at anyone might seem like overkill, but the Pima County Attorney’s Office determined that the 71 shots the county’s SWAT Team fired at 26-year-old Jose Guerena were justified.Guerena, an Iraq War veteran, was hit 22 times and killed in the hail of bullets, according to the…
Gary Allen Bahns told Mesa police yesterday that he planned to sell the stolen van in which he was found sleeping and use the proceeds to buy crystal meth.You might be thinking “it’s 2011 — who would buy a minivan?” If you ask Bahns, the answer’s “a Mexican,” that’s who.Bahns…
