Hundreds of Phoenix residents living with what they deem insufferable airplane noise pollution are planning to join thousands of other furious people around the country in “No Fly Day,” a national day of protest against the Federal Aviation Administration this Saturday. Phoenix, like at least a dozen other cities, had it’s…
MCSO Detective Brian Mackiewicz occupies a unique position within Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s organization. Not only is he a favorite of both Arpaio and Chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan, his assignments investigating “threats” against the sheriff, as well as his involvement in various special MCSO missions, have allowed him to travel to…
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has rejected a plea from the Navajo Nation for assistance in dealing with the fallout of August 5 Gold King Mine spill that sent more than three million gallons of toxic wastewater downstream into critical Navajo waterways. In a letter containing almost no details or…
The parents of a teenager — who recently was sentenced to five years in prison after trying to hide her pregnancy by throwing her newborn out of a window — say they’ve been denied custody of their granddaughter because they’re undocumented. Samantha Perez was 15 years old when she was…
A Glendale police detective started getting a “hand job” from a suspected prostitute while engaging in a sting operation at a massage parlor, according to court records. After the Arizona Attorney General’s Office announced the raids and arrests of five Chinese suspects in the case, AG Mark Brnovich’s spokeswoman, Mia…
The Northern Arizona University Police Department released video footage and documents this week that help illuminate what happened right before and right after Steven Jones, the freshman charged with the October 9 shooting at NAU that killed one student and injured three others, opened fire. Jones, who pleaded “not guilty”…
A new report from the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office says that all five members of the Baxter family drowned after their car plunged into the Tempe Town Lake earlier this week. The Tempe Police Department is investigating the situation as a murder-suicide because authorities say that video-surveillance footage shows…
When Lily Gallego began attending Carl Hayden Community High School as a freshman, she struggled to keep up with schoolwork and didn’t feel that teachers paid much attention to her. “It was really fast-paced,” she said. “If you didn’t get it, oh well. You moved on to the next lesson…
Federal inspectors charged with investigating allegations of abuse in immigrant detention centers appear to be helping to perpetuate it, a new report states. The report released Wednesday by the National Immigrant Justice Center and the Detention Watch Network, follows months of protests from immigrant-rights activists over the death of 31-year-old Mexican…
Jessica Burlew, a Glendale teen accused of killing 43-year-old Jason Ash during a sex-act gone wrong, was sentenced to 10 years in state prison today. Burlew had accepted the state’s plea bargain last month — pleading guilty to second-degree murder in exchange for a 10-year sentence — and today, Judge Scott…
The lawyer for a Phoenix man accused of helping plan the botched, May 3rd terrorist attack in Garland, Texas, says computer evidence against his client should be ignored because it was obtained unlawfully by police. Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, 44, is being held in Arizona on a four-count indictment charging…
An Arizona nonprofit dedicated to protecting a herd of horses that runs free along the Salt River has dropped a lawsuit that aimed to block the U.S. Forest Service from rounding up and auctioning off the animals. Simone Netherlands, president of the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group, said it…
Local Muslim woman Sumayyah Dawud says a civil rights organization defending her in a religious-discrimination case against the Phoenix Police Department dropped her as a client after learning she is transgender. The Council on American and Islamic Relations, the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the country, offered to represent…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s version of G. Gordon Liddy, Cold Case Posse Commander Mike Zullo, is trying to take the 5th, at least partially. Zullo, a former car dealer who along with Sheriff Joe has embraced the nutty crusade to invalidate President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, is a key witness in…
A new billboard in Phoenix promoting a ballot initiative that would legalize marijuana for adults in Arizona is receiving mixed reviews on social media by cannabis supporters, some of whom declare it conveys the wrong message.. The advertisement near 7th and Lincoln streets is meant to poke fun at pot prohibitionists,…
If MCSO big shots thought they were bringing in a ringer by hiring private investigator Don Vogel to look into the agency’s disobedience of a federal judge’s order, boy were they wrong. Vogel, a former detective with the Mesa Police Department, testified last week in the ongoing contempt trial of Sheriff…
History got a little too real in Tombstone, when a man reenacting a gunfight fired live bullets, shooting a fellow actor in the thigh and spraying shrapnel into the crowd. The actors, who perform with The Tombstone Vigilantes, a troupe that recreates Old West shootouts several times a month in…
The Tempe Police Department says it now believes Glenn Edward Baxter, the driver of a vehicle that crashed into Tempe Town Lake early Sunday morning and killed his entire family, was a murder-suicide. “Detectives have been working around the clock on this investigation,” Tempe Police Lieutenant Michael Pooley writes in a…
Arizona Department of Economic Security Director Tim Jeffries doubled down on his blunt comments about 72 employees fired from the agency in the past three months, taking to New Times’ website comments section to answer readers’ points personally. But under criticism from some readers, he attempted to clarify: “I have referred…
What would you call a guy who claims there’s a recall effort against him just so he can score donations off elderly, out-of-state supporters? A sleazy prevaricator? A political con artist? A creep of the highest order? Well, yes, all those things. But specifically, in Maricopa County, we call him…
A mother, father, and their three young children are dead after their vehicle crashed into Tempe Town Lake near the Scottsdale Bridge. According to Tempe Police, four witnesses say they saw a silver SUV drive into the lake just after midnight on Sunday morning, though it remains unclear why the…
It’s hard to say why U.S. Senator John McCain is so frequently the butt of late night TV jokes. Maybe it’s his relentless willingness to say or do anything for votes? Maybe it’s his “maverick” unpredictability and love of the spotlight? Or maybe it’s just that he’s such a good…
