Former Republican legislator David Burnell Smith, a birther and DUI attorney recently arrested for alleged DUI, is doing Larry Klayman’s bidding in the fight against the recall of Sheriff Joe Arpaio.As many people pointed out as Klayman continued to claim that he’d try to get the recall effort shut down,…
Down in Tucson, some folks will soon be getting free shotguns.A group called the Armed Citizen Project, funded by donations, plans to give away shotguns to people in certain areas of Tucson — “for free!” — in what’s being touted as a crime-fighting measure.See also:-Tucson Group Giving Out Free Shotguns…
Kevin Towers poses the question that baseball fans have asked for months. “What’s the method to his madness?” the Arizona Diamondbacks general manager asks of himself before a recent spring training game at Salt River Fields in Scottsdale. After the D-backs finished a perfectly mediocre season last year — 81…
Jared Loughner’s mom told Pima County Sheriff’s Department investigators that she thought her son was on “meth or something,” when she was interviewed the day her son went on a murder rampage, killing six people and injuring 13.In perhaps another sign that Loughner’s parents didn’t recognize a potential sign of…
Alan Champagne, the man Phoenix police believe is responsible for the deaths of two people found in a homemade coffin in a backyard earlier this month, apparently had some help in the murders and burial of the victims’ bodies.Champagne’s girlfriend, 22-year-old Elise Garcia, was arrested on Monday on charges related…
How could you forget Senator John McCain’s “complete the danged fence” ad?”It’ll work this time,” assures underwear model/Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu.Well, today, while McCain took a tour of the border, he watched a woman climb over an 18-foot border fence in Nogales…
Thousands of pages of records have been released from Pima County Sheriff’s Department’s investigation of Jared Loughner’s 2011 shooting that killed six people and injured 13, including former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, perhaps giving more insight into Loughner’s life.Interviews with Loughner’s parents show they had their concerns about Loughner’s mental health,…
If you live in Tucson and don’t have a shotgun to blast anyone who comes into your house uninvited, you’re in luck.A Tucson group called the Armed Citizen Project, funded by donations, plans to give away shotguns to people in certain areas of Tucson — “for free!”…
In a battle of gun-related publicity stunts, neither Gabrielle Giffords’ husband Mark Kelly nor Tucson gun shop Diamondback Police Supply really proved their point.Kelly bought an AR-15 rifle, claiming that he was just experiencing the process of buying one, but now the gun shop says it’s actually not going to…
Filing petitions to recall politicians is officially “in,” now that yet another petition has been filed with the Secretary of State’s Office, this one to recall Republican Representative John Kavanagh.Kavanagh’s “bathroom birther” proposal is what sparked this one, according to a press release sent to us by Raise the Bar…
Don’t let the map of Texas on top of his head fool you, Daniel Landreth’s been locked up in Arizona since 2006.Upon Landreth’s release from prison Monday morning, he was picked up by deputies from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, who arrested Landreth on a warrant…
Tucson gun store Diamondback Police Supply found out how to beat the Mark Kelly’s anti-assault-rifle publicity stunt — an anti-anti-assault-rifle publicity stunt.Kelly bought the rifle, claiming that he was just experiencing the process of buying one, but now the gun shop says it’s actually not going to give it to…
Toilet policeman and Republican Representative John Kavanagh has dumped his “bathroom birther” bill, which would have criminalized the use of a public restroom if the sex on someone’s birth certificate doesn’t match the sign on the door.Still, Kavanagh’s not giving up — he’s got another proposal to regulate toilet usage…
Former Paradise Valley High School teacher Jordan Doneskey, who was having sex with a 17-year-old student — with approval from the girl’s mother — pleaded guilty to three charges related to his arrest.As part of a plea deal, Doneskey, who was 26 at the time of his arrest in August,…
Going back just about a week, there seems to be quite a few people who (allegedly) committed some very scummy crimes in the Phoenix area.From running over a person with a car, murdering a man with a hammer, being a creepy child-porn collector, and more, there’s just some plain freaky…
“Birther” attorney and Sheriff Joe Arpaio fan Larry Klayman has filed a federal lawsuit against New Times and our Minneapolis sister paper, City Pages, claiming “defamation.”Klayman’s lawsuit points to New Times and City Pages blog posts that cite an appellate court ruling from Ohio, a public record, affirming a magistrate…
Rather than face the consequences for charges related to the brutal rape of a woman in Tempe, it looks like 23-year-old Lane Halona killed himself this weekend.Halona was arrested on March 17, the morning after he punched a woman in the back of the head, pulled her behind some bushes,…
A Phoenix woman is accused of shoving a vibrator into her 2-year-old son’s anus, and doctors told police that surgery will be required to remove it.According to court documents obtained by New Times, 21-year-old Rickesha Burns called police Sunday, reporting that her son was bleeding from his anus…
A Valley attorney and former Maricopa County medical examiner is accused of running over and killing a woman lying in a roadway while driving drunk, then driving away.Aimee Lorine Butel, listed in court documents obtained by New Times as an attorney for the Phoenix law firm Knapp & Roberts, is…
Saying that Genaro Silva was upset after finding out that his girlfriend had another guy in her Mesa apartment is an understatement.According to police, Silva’s girlfriend was still trying to clean up the man’s blood from her apartment two days after Silva beat the man to death with a hammer,…
Due to the fact that “birther” attorney Larry Klayman isn’t the best at using electronic mail, and asked if the chairman of the organization trying to recall Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a “homo” who “want[s] my nuts.”See, Klayman wanted to forward an e-mail from Respect Arizona chairman William James Fisher,…
If you happened to leave about 4,000 pounds of weed in southern Maricopa County, you’re about to be very disappointed.The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office says deputies in a helicopter spotted two trucks covered in camouflage tarps in a desert area near Gila Bend, which were “stuffed so tightly with marijuana…
