Reginald Gardner Jr., who happened to disappear around the time his 88-year-old grandmother was found dead in her Mesa home, was arrested while strolling around Miami Beach on Friday, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.Gardner, 43, faces a second-degree murder charge in his grandmother’s death.Lola Pershall’s body — which…
A pit bull went on a biting spree in a Phoenix neighborhood Tuesday after the dog’s owner allegedly ordered the pooch to attack her neighbor during an argument.The pit bull didn’t go after the neighbor, instead attacking five people on the street, one as young as 12 years old.The owner’s…
The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it’s investigating allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault around Missoula, Montana, including the University of Montana.According to the Justice Department, “This investigation will focus on allegations that [the Montana agencies] are failing to adequately investigate and prosecute alleged sexual assaults against women in…
As our colleague Ray Stern reported yesterday, former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas may have to fork over $554,000 for the disciplinary proceeding that ended with him losing his law license.Thomas, as you may recall, was disbarred by a Supreme Court disciplinary panel that found he and some of his…
On April 22, Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies went to the Sun City home of Lancelot Lipe after receiving anonymous calls about a fire burning at his place.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Lipe, 29, didn’t want the cops there, as he gave deputies a good ol’ “fuck you”…
People apparently are gambling on pigeon races in Arizona, and there’s actually a group that cares about it. Of course, that group’s called PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals).PETA says it’s just completed a “15-month undercover investigation” over five states, including Arizona, into pigeon-racing operations.See, pigeons — which…
If Phoenix police are right on this one, then just about nothing was appropriate inside the sedan that crashed head-on into a Chevrolet truck Monday morning.Police say a 5-year-old boy in the sedan died in the crash, as cops believe the boy not only was not restrained by a car…
Arizona’s House Bill 2549 — which was derailed after a critic’s view that it was a “bill to censor electronic speech” caught on — has been approved by some legislators after changes were made to address those concerns.There were a lot of misconceptions about this bill, especially from the Kremlin…
Congratulations to the New Times reader known as Dynohmike, you’ve won this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.On Friday, we asked readers to write the caption for the above photo of Governor Jan Brewer, in honor of her trip to Washington for SB 1070’s day before the Supreme…
Dominic Chagolla was described as a bit of a mama’s boy in court documents obtained by New Times detailing the death of his mother, Maria Chagolla, in December 2010.Turns out, he wasn’t that much of a mama’s boy, as a jury found Dominic Chagolla guilty today of first-degree murder in…
Believe it or not, sneaking into a house and stripping down to your underwear to hop in bed with a random 14-year-old girl could lead to prison time.Four-and-a-half years in prison, in Jacob Nelson’s case.In July, Phoenix police said that Nelson, 35, waited for a father of two to leave…
At this point, the Phoenix Coyotes’ playoff run doesn’t appear to be a fluke.The Coyotes, fresh off their first playoff-series win since moving to Phoenix, are now up 2-0 in the team’s second-round series against the Nashville Predators after a 5-3 win last night in Glendale.In the team’s first seven…
For those who are struggling to find differences between Congressmen David Schweikert and Ben Quayle in their impending primary election in CD6, House activity late last week brought another division between the two.Despite the popular belief, there actually are differences in the House records of Schweikert and Quayle, and the…
Two main things can be taken away from the first three games of a four-game series for the Arizona Diamondbacks against the Miami Marlins: The Marlins’ new park in Little Havana is hideous, and being a relief pitcher is the worst job in Major League Baseball.The color scheme around the…
On Friday, we asked readers to write the caption for the above photo of Governor Jan Brewer, in honor of her trip to Washington for SB 1070’s day before the Supreme Court.After sifting through all the responses — as usual, some of them more politically correct than others — we’ve…
In 2002, Scottsdale resident Steven Dyer was to face charges of molesting two boys. He said no thanks and went to Canada instead.While he was gone, a court convicted him on a dozen counts of sexual conduct with a minor, which didn’t mean much until he was caught in Canada…
U.S. Senate candidate Wil Cardon is liked by thousands of people.Unfortunately, most of those people are in Bangladesh, according to the campaign of his primary opponent Jeff Flake, which is thinking Cardon’s the latest politician to fudge the numbers on a social media website in the name of popularity.Similar to…
If Warren Jeffs — pedophile/leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — had any marbles left when he was sent to prison, he just lost the rest of them.Jeffs, who’s in prison for sexually assaulting two underage “brides,” wrote a petition to the Texas Court…
If you trust public-opinion polling, then Arizonans aren’t the hard-asses about illegal immigration that they’re portrayed to be.According to a new poll from the Merrill/Morrison Institute — which found earlier in the week that the race between President Obama and eventual GOP nominee Mitt Romney is a “toss up” in…
Back in 1993, Mark Mitchell — who’s running for mayor of Tempe — was involved in an incident with police at a Mill Avenue bar.Mitchell’s opponent in the mayoral race, Michael Monti, is now making it a campaign issue (in 2012), claiming Mitchell’s “distort[ing] the truth” about what happened.It boils…
Governor Jan Brewer was in Washington this week to defend the controversial immigration law known as SB 1070 — or as Brewer called it, a trip to “defend our state against President Obama, Eric Holder and the Justice Department.”Brewer’s been taking full advantage of 1070’s date with the Supreme Court,…
With the 13th overall pick in the 2012 NFL draft, the Arizona Cardinals selected Notre Dame wide receiver Michael Floyd.Now that we presume everyone’s done bitching about Peyton Manning, the Valley can scrutinize its new wide receiver for the annual way-before-the-season football banter.Floyd was the second receiver taken in the…
