Police have identified the owner of the SUV that hit and killed Phoenix Police Officer Daryl Raetz on Sunday.The problem is, at the time of this post, neither the owner of that SUV, 24-year-old Jesus Cabrera Molina, nor anyone else has been charged in Raetz’s death.See also:-Phoenix Cop Daryl Raetz…
Arizona Cardinals Pro Bowl linebacker Daryl Washington pleaded not guilty this morning to charges related to allegedly choking and breaking the collarbone of his baby’s mother.Washington was arrested on May 3, two days after he got in a fight with the child’s mother, Ciera MacDonald, while Washington visited his child…
Rushing to the defense of CBS 5’s severely flawed “investigation” of the state’s medical-marijuana program is Pinal County Attorney Lando Voyles, who wants to add to the disinformation campaign.In fact, Voyles sent out a press release including a public thank-you note to CBS 5, thanking them for the “investigation” and…
This gun-buyback program in Phoenix appears to be pretty popular.After taking in almost 1,000 guns in exchange for grocery-store gift cards in the first two weeks, the program’s $100,000 donation ran dry, but another anonymous $100,000 donation came in, and it was exhausted again this weekend.See also:-Phoenix Gun-Buyback Program Lives,…
Is Republican Congresxsman Trent Franks addressing the issues most important to this country?Of the eight bills he’s proposed this session, three are abortion-related, one prevents the Tohono O’odham Nation from building a casino, one would “celebrat[e] the life of President Ronald Wilson Reagan on the anniversary of his birth,” and…
Anti-abortion fanatic/Republican Congressman Trent Franks has yet another abortion proposal, but this one’s quite a bit more restrictive than his many other proposals.Franks, who is trying again to ban abortions past 20 weeks of pregnancy in Washington, D.C., now wants that proposed 20-week ban to extend nationwide.See also:-Trent Franks Does…
Believe it or not, Amy’s Baking Company may not be the biggest “kitchen nightmare” in the Valley.That honor goes to Phoenix Vietnamese restaurant Pho 35, where the owner allegedly stabbed two of the restaurant’s co-owners to death in the dining room Thursday…
The supposed Air Force One airplane up for auction at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport definitely did act as Air Force One, according to an Air Force historian.The General Services Administration is a couple of days into the two-week online auction, which had zero bids at the time of this post,…
A Valley mom whose son was killed last year in the movie-theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, slams Senator Jeff Flake in an advertisement that’s about to hit Phoenix airwaves, thanks to Flake’s vote against a proposal for more background checks on gun purchases.Caren Teves recently made news after showing that…
A Phoenix mother tried to give away her 6-month-old baby to four random people at a gas station before just giving up and calling 911 on herself, in hopes that she’d be jailed, and her child would be taken away, police say.Rozeanna Luna, 36, actually has several older children, including…
CBS 5 — the local news station that claims to be “telling it like it is” — ran one of the stranger “investigations” we’ve seen from a local TV station.In the report, “investigative reporter” Morgan Loew told the state health department it was true that he had severe and chronic…
CBS 5 — the local news station that claims to be “telling it like it is” — prominently displayed a made-up statistic during its recent anti-medical marijuana propaganda piece “investigation.”In the report, in which “investigative reporter” Morgan Loew told the state health department it was true that he had severe…
A volunteer dance teacher who’s worked with kids at several Valley high schools and a private dance studio is accused of having sex with a then-underage boy who was a student at Mountain Pointe High School in Ahwatukee.David Trujillo, 26, is accused of having sex with the boy beginning when…
Hopefully you missed CBS 5’s “investigation” into the state’s medical-marijuana program, in which they claim that “young, healthy” people are getting medical-marijuana cards.To prove it, reporter Morgan Loew, acting undercover, tells a doctor he’s had back pain for months — pain he said was “distracting.” He couldn’t tell the doctor…
For the second time this year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized hundreds of pounds of cheese from someone trying to drive a cheese-load into the United States from Mexico.Federal authorities say not only was this cheese undeclared, but it also was unpasteurized.See also:-230 Pounds of Cheese Seized at U.S./Mexico…
Here’s the kind of Christmas that nobody celebrates — an ex-girlfriend named Christmas who shows up to your house with a friend who’s pointing a gun at your head and demanding money.Indeed, police say 21-year-old Christmas Snow Pringle — a real name, according to several court filings — did this…
We’re sure the frat boys at Arizona State University make poor decisions on an hourly basis, but there have been some extraordinarily poor decisions made recently by the bros.One might imagine that a fraternity member’s accidental death late last year might be a bit of a wake-up call for the…
Kristen Suggs, a 25-year-old Phoenix resident, ran over and killed a pedestrian and drove away, police say.According to court documents obtained by New Times, she called 911 an hour later to report that “something was thrown at her vehicle,” damaging it, but police thought Suggs may have been lying when…
Phoenix civil-rights leader Reverend Jarrett Maupin is moving forward with a complaint to the Department of Education about Queen Creek High School’s “Redneck Day.”Maupin has shared with New Times some of the correspdonance he’s had with the Department of Education, and the department’s Office of Civil Rights will at least…
A 20-year-old Arizona State University student in the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity was dumped at a hospital by his “friends” after a tequila-drinking contest, which nearly killed the student, who had a .47 blood-alcohol level.Tempe Police Sergeant Michael Pooley tells New Times that the student, who was interviewed the next…
Finally, Justin Upton sucking is a good thing.Upton went 0-for-2 last night for the Atlanta Braves, although he did draw two walks, as Patrick Corbin and the Diamondbacks bullpen shutout the Braves for a 2-0 victory last night at Chase Field.See also:-Justin Upton Returns to Chase Field to Punish the…
Phoenix police and Mayor Greg Stanton have announced that another $100,000 from an anonymous donor will keep the gun-buyback program going.The funds for the program ran dry in the middle of the second of three scheduled dates for the buyback, which started with an initial $100,000 donation. An additional 72…
