It looks like the feds don’t really trust their “trusted travelers.”U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found a Mexican woman in the trunk of a “trusted traveler’s” car while he was trying to re-enter the United States through Nogales…
CBS 5 — the local news station that claims to be “telling it like it is” — isn’t stopping its anti-medical-marijuana crusade.Take this “investigative” report from a few weeks ago, for example. “Investigative reporter” Morgan Loew claims doctors “are seeing a dramatic increase in the number of young children overdosing…
A Phoenix man was hospitalized earlier this week after his wife allegedly yanked on his testicles during an apparent argument, causing his scrotum to tear open.Sylvia Yazzie, 39, faces two felony charges for the alleged attack…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office says the New York man accused of stalking and threatening a pair of TV anchors admitted that he was “on his way” to kill Nancy Grace.However, court documents obtained by New Times reveal MCSO detectives went to New York to interview David Lee Simpson –…
At the end of the 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, all of our alleged offenders have…
Arizona Cardinals defensive lineman Darnell Dockett claims he actually bought a tiger.Dockett, who doesn’t always come off as the brightest gentleman on the planet, has been tweeting out pictures of himself with the young tiger, as well as the tiger’s mother, and told Fox Sports Radio that he really did…
An 8-month-old child died Wednesday after being burned with a cigarette lighter and “violently shaken,” according to Phoenix police.Adrian Ponce, the fiancé of the child’s mother, has been jailed on nine felony child-abuse charges, as police await the results of an autopsy on the child, Sabrina Santos-Vasquez…
Army First Lieutenant Jonam Russell, a 25-year-old from Cornville, was killed in Afghanistan earlier this week along with two others after they were attacked with an improvised explosive device, according to the Defense Department.Russell is the 48th Arizona soldier to die in Afghanistan under “Operation Enduring Freedom.”…
If you pass out in a McDonald’s drive-thru at 1:30 a.m. on a Thursday, things probably aren’t going to end well.William Howard Jr., 35, recently found that out, after pulling into the drive-thru of a McD’s at 43rd Avenue and Thunderbird Road in Glendale, then passing out for a while…
Today in Found at the Border: Meth is now a fashion statement.U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found a duo from southern Arizona wearing a combined total of 10 pounds of meth while trying to cross the border back into the United States on Tuesday…
Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun certainly isn’t the most popular guy in baseball since being suspended for the rest of this season for violating the league’s drug policy.Many Arizona fans have been especially upset, given that Braun dominated the Diamondbacks in the 2011 playoffs. That same month, Braun reportedly failed…
Members of a motorcycle club called the “Sons of Hell” claim in a federal lawsuit that they were treated unfairly by police.The lawsuit contends that cops violated their constitutional rights and treat them as a gang “based solely on their associations and friendships with the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club.”…
There are only so many ways someone can try to avoid being arrested inside a second-story apartment.Judging by the cops’ account, Phoenix resident Keith Parton tried just about every single method possible, albeit unsuccessfully…
A motorcycle club called the “Sons of Hell” is suing several Arizona law enforcement agencies, alleging multiple violations of their constitutional rights.The bikers claim in a federal lawsuit that cops treat them as a gang “based solely on their associations and friendships with the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club.”…
A co-founder of the Granite Mountain Hotshots crew described the events leading up to the deaths of 19 firefighters in the Yarnell Hill Fire from the location where the firefighters deployed their fire shelters as a last resort in an attempt to stay alive.Although official reports are still to be…
Comedian Doug Stanhope, a Bisbee resident, ended up raising more than $125,000 for a woman whose house was destroyed in the Oklahoma tornado in May.Stanhope told New Times that he started raising funds for Rebecca Vitsmun after the widely seen interview on CNN in which anchor Wolf Blitzer asked her…
Matangi Tai, the man who was the subject of a recent viral video showing purported “brutality” by Mesa cops, died Monday at the Fourth Avenue Jail.Tai, 37, collapsed during his daily hour of recreation time, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office…
Yet again, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has saved the world from angry people with keyboards.In this week’s case, it was a New York man obsessed with Jodi Arias who allegedly threatened two TV news personalities, neither of whom live in Arizona, let alone Maricopa County…
Joseph Nicholas Aguilera told police he did not remember punching an elderly homeless man to death in Phoenix on July 11.Aguilera, a 30-year-old Army veteran, did not deny being the man captured on surveillance footage at a nearby gas station but told police he “did not remember assaulting anyone at…
A New York man who apparently is obsessed with Jodi Arias was arrested by Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies for allegedly threatening two nationally known TV anchors over the Internet.David Lee Simpson, 48 — who used multiple Twitter handles, including “DaveLovesJodi” — allegedly made comments about slitting the throats of the…
If you’ve noticed that there seem to be more wildfires every year in the western United States, your observation is correct.The wildfires are costly to fight and can be deadly for firefighters, as was the case with the Yarnell Hill Fire. The risk of wildfires in the western United States…
If you’re an employee at a Chevrolet dealership, you really ought to know that a stolen car can be tracked down to a precise location if that vehicle is equipped with OnStar.Somehow, that point didn’t register with a now-former employee of Courtesy Chevrolet, as police were able to locate a…
