Valley cop shops are asking the public’s help in tracking down a pair of thieves they say scammed numerous retailers out of about $27,000.One of the suspects has been identified as Ramon Angel Leon-Baron. His accomplice has not been identified.Cops say,starting in August 2009, the pair would go to Valley…
A member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, who authorities believe is responsible for “one of the most grisly” murders in recent American criminal history, has been captured in Argentina, the U.S. Marshals Service announced today. Paul Merle Eischeid, one of the U.S. Marshals 15 Most Wanted Fugitives, was captured…
The three dogs that attacked an Arizona City boy last month have been euthanized, Pinal County officials confirm to New Times.The dogs had been in mandatory quarantine after mauling the 10-year-old victim so badly he needed to be medevaced to a Phoenix hospital for treatment on January 19…
“The Mav” says he’s sittin’ this one out.Arizona Senator John McCain said this week that he has no plans to endorse any candidate in the 2012 GOP presidential primary, which may not sit well with some GOPers who stumped for him during his brutal primary with former TV pitchman J.D…
Lawyers for snake-oil salesman/”spiritual warrior” James Arthur Ray want the Oprah-approved “self-help” guru’s manslaughter trial moved from Yavapai County to a court in the Phoenix area.Ray’s attorneys don’t believe it’s possible for their client to get a fair trial in Yavapai County because of extensive media coverage of the case…
A Pinal County man has been charged with murder after police say he kidnapped and then drowned his own cousin.Humberto Hernandez-Hernandez, 18, was arrested last week for the drowning murder of his cousin, 21-year-old Mauricio Gonzalez.According to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office, on January 22, deputies received a call from…
Trying to identify the most annoying lovebirds in Scottsdale is no easy task, but the folks at American Idol appear to have done it.Last night, a Scottsdale couple — who’re already billed as Idol’s first “power couple” — appeared on the show. They hold hands, finish each other’s sentences, and make…
A Pinal County pervert admitted to police that he can’t stop molesting little girls and he needs to go to jail — that was only after police suspected him of molesting a 9-year-old family friend.The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office got information that 72-year-old Salvador Valentin had molested the 9-year-old daughter…
Several members of the Arizona State Legislature want to force doctors to offer to show women seeking an abortion ultrasound images of the fetus before they end their pregnancy.Supporters of the bill, introduced by Republican Representative Kimberly Yee of Phoenix, say it’s designed to give women more information about abortion,…
The sexual relationship between Susan Brock, the now-estranged wife of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, and a teenage boy didn’t start with a kiss. It started with a handjob in the backseat of Brock’s Lexus as it sat parked in a partially developed neighborhood near the Chandler airport in October…
The Green Bay Packers are headed to the Super Bowl this Sunday, which means one thing for those of us in civilized society (a.k.a. anywhere but Wisconsin): we’re gonna have sit back and listen to the Midwestern drivel coming from the mouths of Packer fans for roughly the next week.Packer…
The Arizona Cattleman’s Association is not impressed with a speech given by Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano this week, in which, the group says, she “abandoned her mantra of the past year that the U.S. Mexican Border…’is more secure than ever.'” During a speech at the University of Texas’ El…
When the Gilbert Police Department parked a “bait car” near 950 North Gilbert Road Sunday night, they probably thought they’d nab someone trying to steal a stereo, or maybe even the car itself. But 18-year-old Anthony Rubio upped the ante: he burned the car to a crisp.According to court records,…
A peaceful February afternoon was disrupted for a Phoenix family yesterday when a completely naked man hopped a fence and strutted around their backyard. After being taken into custody, the man had an interesting plan, which he described to police in way (way) too much detail.Cops got a call about…
The Arizona prison escapee who planned to commit suicide-by-bear while a fugitive last summer has pleaded not guilty to two murders he allegedly committed while on the run in New Mexico.Tracy Province was in federal court in Albuquerque this morning, where he pleaded not guilty to the murders of Linda…
State Representative Steve Montenegro seems to think he represents a district in China — where aborting babies based on sex or race might actually be a problem.Montenegro’s introduced two bizarre bills into the legislature — one that would require women getting an abortion to sign a document promising they aren’t…
The Tempe Police Department announced last night that the body found in Tempe Town Lake last week has been positively identified as Willie Jigba, a Tempe man reported missing more than two weeks ago.On Monday, authorities tentatively identified the body as Jigba’s. Yesterday, the medical examiner confirmed through fingerprint analysis…
The egg is on the face of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee this morning for calling Arizona Congressman Ben Quayle a “hypocrite” for accepting government funded health care. The problem being Quayle never actually accepted it.The DCCC put out a press release yesterday with the headline “Health care hypocrite Ben…
The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club and this newspaper have an (ahem) interesting relationship. Every time we write about the gang (literally every time), the comment section of each blog post erupts with comments from people accusing the group of molesting children, cooking meth, and various other crimes. Members of the…
Has your spouse made your life a living hell? Want out of the marriage as quickly as possible? There’s an alternative to homicide called divorce, and the morality cops over at the Arizona State Legislature want to make it as hard, drawn-out, and painful as humanly possible.For the second time…
Admittedly against the better advice of her attorneys, Elizabeth Johnson, the mother of a Tempe baby who’s been missing for over a year, wrote a handwritten, two-page letter to the judge handling her kidnapping case apparently just to ramble about how unfair the justice system is, how much she hates…
Officers from the Department of Public Safety’s Vehicle Theft Task Force apprehended 18 people crammed into two pickup trucks early this morning. The 18 people taken into custody are suspected of being illegal immigrants.About 5:15 a.m. today, DPS officers conducted a routine traffic stop on two vehicles they say were…
