Just about every week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest.This week, our alleged criminals look like they deserve awards…
After the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office pulled off its 70th “employer sanctions operation” (which MCSO now refers to as a “criminal employment operation”), we pointed out yet again that no employers were arrested, or sanctioned, in the operation.Arpaio now says that’s probably a job for the Obama administration.See also:-Joe Arpaio…
Although we heard a couple weeks ago that Pastor Warren Stewart was going to run for Phoenix City Council, he’s made it official today.Stewart is now one of two African-Americans who are running for the Phoenix City Council seat in District 8 — which is currently held by Vice Mayor…
Indianapolis Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians has been hired as the man to lead the Arizona Cardinals to victory, which ranks somewhere between walking on water and healing a blind man, as far as miracles are concerned.Arians got his first head-coaching experience this year, when Colts head coach Chuck Pagano…
(Regular New Times readers, feel free to skip to the bottom of this post and cast your vote immediately.)Local Republican blogger Political Mafioso was already questioning whether disbarred and disgraced former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas was delusional after Thomas said he was considering a run for governor, but get…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office does not conduct “raids,” according to Sheriff Joe Arpaio.Although we’ve provided evidence to the contrary of Arpaio’s new claim, the Sheriff’s public-relations staff sent out an e-mail this afternoon, with a press release touting MCSO’s 70th “employer sanctions operation.” The subject line on that e-mail:…
After waiting around in prison for nine years, death-row inmate Richard Glassel died from “apparent natural causes” at the age of 74, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections.Glassel killed two people and injured three when he opened fire at a board of directors meeting for a retirement community in…
In one of the less-thought-out attempts to smuggle meth into the United States, Customs and Border protection officers busted a Washington woman with a couple pounds of meth taped to her belly.Believe it or not, an officer got suspicious when he spotted 28-year-old Laura Ivanez-Ramirez in the pedestrian lane at…
For whatever reason, many of us enjoy watching rich people buy cars for one week every year, at the Barrett-Jackson collector car auction in Scottsdale.For most people around the country, that experience is given to you through the boob tube, but the in-person experience is a bit more than watching…
Former Democratic Congressman and Tempe Mayor Harry Mitchell has taken an interesting route in supporting ex-state Representative and recently admitted felon Ben Arredondo.While prosecutors are looking to lock up Arredondo for as much as three years on a pair of mail fraud charges, Mitchell was one of a couple dozen…
Yesterday, President Obama released his plan to curb gun violence, a plan that consists of both executive orders and recommendations for Congress.As the “Colt Single Action Army Revolver” state, Arizona’s probably got a lot of folks who are concerned about changing gun laws…
The 16-year-old girl who had a plan that Sheriff Joe Arpaio declared “almost meets the profile of what happened in [Newtown], Connecticut” has been released from custody. Maricopa County Superior Court spokesman Vincent Funari tells New Times that a judge ordered the girl to be released on an electronic-monitoring a…
If you have four warrants for your arrest, and you’re in a stolen car, we suppose carrying around a box labeled “Meth Time” isn’t outside the realm of possibility.According to information provided by the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office, the man doing the aforementioned things was 20-year-old Richard Prunty, a Kingman…
The race for the Phoenix City Council seat in District 8 — a seat that has been held by African-Americans for the past 46 years — has been further complicated for those who are determined to keep that streak alive.Phoenix School of Law professor and Roosevelt school district board member…
Although the meaningless online petition begging the federal government to let Arizona secede didn’t even get enough signatures to warrant a response, eight other states’ petitions did.To paraphrase the White House employee who responded to the petitions, “No.”See also:-Arizona Secession Movement Can’t Even Gather Enough Support on Meaningless Online Petition-Obama…
UPDATE: Hallman’s folks respond, at the bottom of this post.Although New Times called out then-Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman for touting an apparently fake endorsement from the city’s firemen and cops, we have not called out potential gubernatorial candidate Hugh Hallman for using an apparently fake endorsement from Tempe’s firemen and…
For what it’s worth, New York Jets quarterback/God’s favorite son Tim Tebow was spotted working out at Paradise Valley Community College yesterday.To make the baseless trade speculation very easy, there’s a guy who claims he can throw footballs, near an NFL team that made it very clear this year that…
A 12-year-old girl in Mohave Valley pointed a gun at her father this weekend, as she tried to help her mother escape an allegedly abusive situation.According to information provided by the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office, 34-year-old Gregory Correa ended up punching the 12-year-old girl, but his wife was able to…
Lawyers for Sheriff Joe Arpaio filed a response to the Justice Department’s racial-discrimination lawsuit, which mostly just denies each of the 188 allegations in the DoJ’s suit.The denial also contains some very interesting claims from Arpaio, including repeated claims that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office does not conduct “sweeps” or…
The court process for Jerice Hunter — the woman accused of murdering her 5-year-old daughter, Jhessye Shockley, before tossing her body in the garbage — may take a bit longer now, since Hunter is short an attorney.The public-information office at the Maricopa County Superior Court says Hunter’s case has been…
A man with five felony convictions already on his record is facing 17 new felony charges, after police found out how he stole four cars in a little more than a month.Phoenix police say 45-year-old Richard Barker would follow men into the locker room at their gyms, wait until they…
For those of you who like to talk about the weather, here’s your conversation fodder for the day — Anchorage, Alaska has been warmer than Phoenix…
