Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio recently unveiled a controversial contest on his website asking the general public to vote for their favorite mugshot of an alleged criminal who’s been booked into one of the sheriff’s jails — the winner earning the coveted “Mugshot of the Day” honors.As we’ve mentioned, the…
A man convicted of fatally running down a Mesa bicyclist in Tempe last summer has been sentenced to a year in jail, and three years probation, after pleading guilty to charges that he left the scene of a fatal accident.Cody Ryan Davis, 23, was arrested last July at his home…
A Mohave County man was arrested last week after two kids saw him pissing on the side of a building — and he may have to register as a sex offender as a result.Mohave County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Trish Carter tells New Times 38-year-old Norman James Havatone was spotted at…
Donald Trump must have flipped what is obviously his wig this morning when President Barack Obama shockingly unveiled his long-form Hawaiian birth certificate — thus putting an end to the conspiracy based controversy over his citizenship (for anyone with half a brain, that is).Why did the president finally release the…
The air conditioning at Arizona’s Republican Party headquarters is broken, it’s been broken, and it may be a while until it’s fixed. But it’s not just the temperature that’s heating up within the state’s Grand Old Party.Sources tell New Times several groups within the party aren’t thrilled with recently elected…
Governor Jan Brewer was on CNN Monday night where she told host John King that the “Birther” issue was “leading our country down a path of destruction.”Frankly, we don’t think the “Birthers” are capable of constructing their own tin-foil helmets, let alone destroying the entire country, so to make the…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s boys in beige raided a Valley business this morning in search of illegal immigrants using fake IDs in order to work — again. The result: a whopping four arrests.About 9:30 a.m., sheriff’s deputies “swarmed” the Allied Tube Company near 27th Avenue and Thomas Road in…
If you have eyes, and were in downtown Phoenix this afternoon, you may have noticed the enormous plume of smoke that overtook the skyline. Obviously, there was a fire.Details of the blaze are limited, but Phoenix fire officials tell New Times the fire started just before 2 p.m. at the…
Since our earlier post about a Pinal County jail inmate who beat up a detention officer so he could remain in custody and hopefully avoid a “hit” put out on him by a Mexican drug cartel, we got our hands on some video of the attack. It’s pretty wild.Last week,…
Just when you give Governor Jan Brewer a little credit, she takes it way, way too far… Not only does Brewer find the debate over President Barack Obama’s citizenship to be a “distraction,” but she also thinks it’s leading America down a doomsday-ish “path of destruction.”The Birther movement is stupid,…
Forde was sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison for each of the counts, all but one to be run consecutively.
*UPDATE* Click here to see video of the attack.On Sunday, April 17, 26-year-old Alexandro Guerrero was scheduled to be released from a Pinal County jail where he’d been serving time for a failure-to-comply warrant out of Yuma. But Guerrero wasn’t ready to leave, so he punched a detention officer in…
Governor Jan Brewer went against the far-right-wing-nuts in her party last week and vetoed several bills — including the humiliating “Birther Bill” — the Republican majority in the Legislature desperately wanted. The Arizona Republic seems to think Democrats owe Jan a thank you.In a piece written by the Republic’s editorial…
Arizona is well-known as a corridor for smuggling marijuana, and out-of-towners often like to take home a souvenir. Weed, however, is not allowed on airplanes, so stoners are occasionally forced to mail their cannabinoid keepsakes to their out of state homes (click here and here for a couple examples). When…
A Phoenix man who claims he learned to kill while a member of the Cuban military was in a Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where he pleaded guilty to charges that he fatally snapped his girlfriend’s neck during an argument. Hermenegildo Cardenes Morffah agreed to a second-degree murder charge today for…
Usually, common sense and rational decision making is expected from elected officials — unless you’re the Arizona Republic’s editorial board. If that’s the case, gratitude apparently is required for someone who is simply not a lunatic in a position of power.Given the number of nut-jobs running the asylum in Arizona, perhaps the Republic’s…
On his Facebook page, 54-year-old Lonnie Hendricks lists his employment as “house dad.” According to Hendricks, he “could not ask for a more rewarding position” — which might have something to do with some of the duties that apparently come with the gig, notably kissing the breasts of his 13-year-old step-daughter.But…
Goldwater Institute wants nothing more than to protect your right to have hundreds of small fish suck dead skin off of your feet. Later this week, the Arizona Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear a lawsuit filed by Goldwater on behalf of a Gilbert spa owner told by the state…
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was cleared over the weekend to leave rehab in Texas and fly to Florida to watch her astronaut husband Mark Kelly’s shuttle launch less than four months after getting shot “through the brain” during the January 8 Tucson shooting rampage.Coincidentally, Arizona has a Senate seat opening up with the retirement…
A bill allowing the creation of license plates featuring the Gadsden Flag, the adopted symbol of the Tea party movement, is awaiting the signature of Governor Jan Brewer, and people — a New York congressman, in particular — aren’t happy about it.Anyone who wants a Gadsden Flag plate would have…
Governor Jan Brewer recently pissed off her far-right-wing-nut base by vetoing three bills it desperately wanted, and today she’s trying to make amends by bringing up the issue that got her elected: Arizona Senate Bill1070.The bills Brewer vetoed include the ridiculous “Birther Bill,” which could have required presidential candidates to provide…
The Chandler Police Department executed a search warrant at a Valley church yesterday in search of evidence that the church’s minister tried to lure a 14-year-old girl for sex over the Internet.The alleged pederast, 52-year-old Nicholas Minerva, responded by fatally shooting himself…
