A Glendale man was taken into custody yesterday after running two red lights and crashing into three cars. When asked about the wreck, the man told police “Spice” is to blame.As you may know, “Spice” is a brand of synthetic marijuana, and after (ahem) extensive research, was determined by New…
If you were expecting to learn the fate Prop. 203 — Arizona’s medical marijuana initiative — tomorrow, don’t hold your breath. Election officials don’t expect to be done counting ballots until next week, which violates election statute, but, as we just found out, is not that big a deal.From the…
We’ve been following the shooting death of 47-year-old Jeff Ahlers, of Tempe, fairly closely, and five months after he was shot, we still have no answer as to what happened.Ahlers was first reported missing on June 1, and was found shot to death in a canal a few days later.By…
For anyone out there who may think otherwise, substitute teaching at an elementary school is not a good way to meet chicks.Be that as it may, a substitute teacher at a Yuma elementary school is behind bars after police say he inappropriately touched a female student during class. David Remmy,…
If you see a toilet in Chandler’s new City Hall, fight the urge and don’t drink from it. Seems fairly obvious, but if you forget, the city’s been kind enough to post signs as a reminder.In almost every bathroom in the new, uber-“green” facility are signs saying “Urinals and Toilets…
On October 29, 18-year-old Joey Romero was walking home from his job at the 99 Cent Store near 83rd Avenue and Thunderbird Road, when a car jumped the curb, went up onto the sidewalk, and hit him before fleeing the scene. Romero was killed, and today, the woman police believe…
A Prescott man has been sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to sending naked pictures of himself to a 13-year-old girl.Mathew James Noble, 27, accepted a plea deal that dropped more serious charges against him, but he pled guilty to attempted aggravated luring of a minor for sexual exploitation. He’s…
We can’t help but feel bad for Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock. Sure, his religious family-man persona can be obnoxious at times, but nobody should have to deal with the fact that their wife of 28 years allegedly had sex with a teenager. But Brock is dealing with it, and…
It looks like the Phoenix police officer accused of murdering an unarmed domestic violence suspect — and his dog — as well as planting a crack pipe on a mentally ill homeless woman, will not be getting the boot from the department. A judge granted an injunction today that prevents…
We heard a little rumor the other day that Wes Gullett, a deputy campaign manager for Senator John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign and a long-time operative within Arizona’s GOP, planned on running for mayor of Phoenix. Today, Gullett confirmed the rumor — sort of.Gullett tells New Times he’s strongly considering a…
The ex-fiance of Kumari Fulbright, the former “beauty” queen/University of Arizona law student, most famous for terrifying us all with her Gremlin-esque mugshot, was convicted yesterday for his role in the 2007 kidnapping of one of Fulbright’s ex-boyfriends.The jury found 47-year-old Robert Ergonis guilty of kidnapping, aggravated assault with a…
MSNBC host Keith Olbermann was reinstated as the network’s fear-monger-in-residence and was as smug as ever last night in his first appearance since he was suspended for violating the network’s ethics policy last week.If you weren’t expecting a fast-paced rant and a jab at his competitors, you should have been –…
Time for a game of which is more disturbing — starring 26-year-old Michael Barham, of Buckeye.Barham was arrested yesterday after Phoenix police got word that he may have some kiddy-porn on his computer. After searching his home and computer, kiddy-porn was the least disturbing stuff cops dug up — as hard…
The charade that was former Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner’s appearance on Dancing With the Stars has come to an end. And rather than joining the likes of the other has-beens who didn’t make the DWS cut — including Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino and David Hasselhoff — we will be…
When we first heard there was a guy found sitting in an orange grove next to a Mesa airport, huffing paint, and throwing oranges at planes, we thought, “We gotta see what this guy looks like.”Sadly, at the time we published our story yesterday afternoon, which you can see here,…
In a hearing held yesterday for the Phoenix police officer accused of killing an unarmed suspect last month, two officers who responded to the shooting scene minutes after it happened painted a different picture of the incident than that of the officer who actually saw the shooting go down.The hearing…
What’s the big deal?That’s what a man cops found huffin’ spray paint in an orange grove next to the Falcon Field Municipal Airport in Mesa asked police when they politely told him he needed to stop throwing oranges at the airplanes.According to the Mesa Police Department, 33-year-old Brian Henio was…
Just about every high school kid in America looks forward to the day when petty differences between two students culminate into a good ol’ fashion after-school brawl (except for the standard, buzz kill lone girl standing nearby screaming “oh my god, oh my god, stop it,” of course). Thanks to…
The unsatisfactory conditions of the road leading into a remote town in Yavapai County caused a Phoenix man to leave some constructive criticism stuck to roadsigns in the area. The suggestions weren’t well received by local law enforcement, though, and the man was arrested for vandalism.According to the Yavapai County…
One man is dead and another is injured after a shootout in west Phoenix last night.According to the Phoenix Police Department, the double shooting happened around 7 p.m. yesterday, when two men exchanged gunfire in the area of 71st Avenue and Thomas Road in Phoenix…
Do yourself a favor: if you own a white conversion van, don’t drive it near Nogales — especially if you’re carting around more than a ton of marijuana.According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, last week, ICE agents saw a white conversion van sitting in a parking lot near a…
Don’t panic, or anything, but for the second time in about a year, a sex offender escaped from the state mental hospital.The escape happened about two weeks ago, when a sex offender in the hospital’s minimal security transitional reintegration program scaled a fence and escaped into downtown Phoenix. Unlike the…
