Yesterday, we posted a video billed as supposed police “brutality” during a physical arrest in Mesa that doesn’t appear to be very brutal.The video, which has thousands of hits on YouTube, does include a pretty physical arrest, as well as a cop getting in a crash on his way to…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio suddenly no longer is an anti-immigrant tough guy, at least according to his newest press release, which is extraordinarily politically correct.Usually, a press release from Arpaio will describe how many “illegals” were arrested by the MCSO’s Human Smuggling Unit, with their names, photos, and sometimes even a…
A video of supposed police “brutality” during a physical arrest in Mesa looks more like a blooper reel, including one officer slamming what appears to be his personal vehicle into another car on his way to help fellow officers subdue a suspect.Mesa Police Sergeant Tony Landato tells New Times that…
Out of all the police reports we’ve read this year from agencies across the Valley, we’ve found the saddest reason someone was jailed on felony charges.Kenneth Melton, a 33-year-old Phoenix resident, got caught only because he walked head-first into a tree…
The case of Goodyear mother Yanira Maldonado is a good reminder that when you’re going to Mexico, you might never know when the federales are going to pin a crime on you, and take you to jail.Since it took Maldonado more than a week to get out of jail for…
Glendale police serving a search warrant recently at the home of a suspected meth dealer found a whole lot more than meth — including Scottsdale Police Department uniforms and a badge.The alleged meth dealer, 30-year-old Colt Weber, who’s also the owner of a pawn business, told police that he took…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will not be recalled from office. At least, not anytime soon.Respect Arizona didn’t reveal how many petition signatures they gathered in their recall effort after the clock ran out last week, and Arpaio tried to claim that the group didn’t reveal the number of signatures…
The Gilbert mother who shoved feces in her 10-year-old son’s mouth and shoved his toothbrush in his anus in 2011, among other horrific abuses, will be spending some time in prison.A judge sentenced 41-year-old Jennifer Barnes today to more than 13 years in prison, which will be followed be a…
Two small planes collided in midair this morning near New River in the north Valley.Four people, two in each plane, were killed in the crash, Phoenix Fire Department Captain Larry Nunez tells New Times…
Yanira Maldonado, the mother from Goodyear who was jailed last week on likely bogus marijuana-smuggling charges in Nogales, Sonora, was released from custody, and photographs show her crossing the border back in the United States.With that, New Times checked with the U.S. Department of State, to see if they thought…
A Phoenix woman trying to fight random people at a high school graduation ceremony tried to convince police that she was actually her brother, and dared the cops to prove her wrong.According to court documents obtained by New Times, 31-year-old J’Shon Youyetewa “specifically demanded officers check to verify she had…
After three very good starts in a row, Brandon McCarthy brought back the crap yesterday in Arlington against the Texas Rangers.McCarthy, who didn’t get his earned-run average under seven until the sixth game of the season — but allowed just one earned run in his last three starts — gave…
Well, Maricopa County, you’re kind of pathetic.The group trying to recall Sheriff Joe Arpaio fell short of the signatures it needed to force a recall election against the guy who’s been the top of a department that bungled hundreds of sex-crimes investigations, was found guilty of racially profiling Latinos, and…
A Phoenix woman who stepped outside of her apartment to have a smoke Tuesday evening found her neighbor’s infant children sitting outside and eating pills — both prescription and over-the-counter — from six different bottles, police say.According to court documents obtained by New Times, the woman ran into the apartment…
Thomas Warner, a former fourth-grade teacher in the Paradise Valley Unified School District and avid child-porn collector, pleaded guilty to a few charges today related to that child-porn stash.Warner, 55, told police that he “use[d] his position as a teacher to compensate for the guilt he feels about viewing the…
Arizona is still one of a handful of states where more people die from being shot than die in motor-vehicle accidents.Arizona was one of only 10 states with more deaths-by-gun than deaths-by-car in 2009, and is only one of 12 states in 2010, now the most recent data available. As…
That guy who thought politics makes strange bedfellows was really on to something.Especially in the case of Phoenix African-American activist Jarrett Maupin, who sent New Times a copy of a letter he sent to Republican State Representative Steve Smith, asking him not to apologize for his recent retaliatory prayer against…
A member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in Phoenix stole a car from a guy he believed owed him money, then turned around and tried to sell it to an undercover cop, police say.According to court documents obtained by New Times, James Day, a 47-year-old Hells Angels biker with…
May has been quite the month for poor smuggling attempts at the U.S./Mexico border.Some have been gross, like the guy who stuffed a sack of heroin in his belly button, while others have been creative, like the fellow who stuffed thousands of pounds of weed inside 2,000 cans of jalapeños…
Arizona had the largest decrease of teenagers giving birth over the last few years than any other state, according to numbers released by the National Center for Health Statistics.That’s important, since teenagers have a higher risk of low birthweight, premature birth, babies dying in infancy, passing on high costs to…
Comedian Doug Stanhope, a Bisbee resident, has helped raise more than $100,000 for a woman whose house was destroyed in the Oklahoma tornado last week.Stanhope tells New Times that he started raising funds for Rebecca Vitsmun after her widely-seen interview on CNN, in which anchor Wolf Blitzer asked her if…
Most Arizonans chose not to drive drunk over Memorial Day weekend, but those who did were pretty loaded.According to statistics from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, the average blood-alcohol level of people caught in statewide DUI enforcement this weekend was .153 — nearly twice the legal limit of .08,…
