Monty’s head nearly explodes as he’s challenged by Carlos Garcia of Puente Kudos to Carlos Garcia and his fellow activists at Puente for again confronting Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery on his policy of overcharging undocumented workers so as to make them ineligible for bail, coercing a guilty plea that…
A Phoenix woman is facing a felony charge for allegedly squeezing a cop’s scrotum — and not in an attempted-bribery kind of way.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Colleen Fellin, 30, was standing in the middle of Indian School Road near 20th Avenue around 4 p.m. last Friday,…
In case you’re wondering what kind of people think that the government orchestrated the Boston bombing, it appears that they’re the same people who believe that Sheriff Joe Arpaio has discovered fraud in President Obama’s birth certificate.One such person is New Hampshire Republican State Representative Stella Tremblay, who claims that…
Arizona Cardinals Pro Bowl linebacker Daryl Washington was arrested on two felony charges for allegedly choking and breaking the collarbone of his baby’s mother.According to court documents obtained by New Times, an argument started between the two when Washington, 26, took off with the baby after visiting the woman’s Phoenix…
I’m beginning to think Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery should enroll in some remedial law classes. That’s because now a superior court judge has agreed with an administrative law judge that Montgomery’s office messed up the campaign finance case against Attorney General Tom Horne and his outreach director Kathleen Winn…
Senator Jeff Flake is doing a pretty darn good job in office, according to very, very few people.Flake wasn’t exactly a big fan of the recent poll that showed his approval rating was just 32 percent, and he probably won’t like the poll released today, in which just 18 percent…
A 24-year-old Phoenix man beat his 2-year-old son to death with a belt while the child’s mother failed to act before her child’s death, police say.Darnell Alvarez, and Davieanna Blake, the child’s parents, left their child to die instead of getting medical attention, fearing that Child Protective Services would be…
Students at Queen Creek High School, with the apparent blessing of the school’s administrators, had a “Redneck Day” at school this week for the purposes of “school spirit.”As you can probably imagine, things went a little sour when one student showed up draped in a Confederate flag.See also:-“Redneck Day,” Complete…
In only a handful of states are middle-aged people killing themselves at a higher rate than Arizona.The Centers for Disease Control and prevention released a report today on Americans between the ages of 35 and 64 committing suicide, Arizona’s 24 suicides per 100,000 residents in 2010 was well above the…
Gee, what could possibly go wrong with Queen Creek High School having a “Redneck Day,” including one student draped in a Confederate flag?It turns out that African-American students, parents, and community leaders, as well as people of any race with cultural sensitivities have figured out exactly where it can go…
Longtime Arizona Division of Occupational Safety Health director Darin Perkins has stepped down and is being replaced by risk manager Bill Warren. The Industrial Commission of Arizona, which oversees the Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health, (known by its friendly acronym, ADOSH), voted during its April 19 meeting to…
A Mesa man is accused in a series of drive-by masturbations, in which police say he’d pull over his truck, open the doors, and masturbate in front of children, before speeding away.Police arrested 28-year-old Brett Saltus after detectives followed his truck, and caught him in the act, according to court…
The man accused of shooting and killing two Phoenix bail bondsmen, as well as the man accused of suggesting that he shoot them, have pleaded not guilty to all the charges against them.Police said Anthony Giunta got a little scraped up when he was picked up by a pair of…
Bill Montgomery’s victims speak… Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery must feel really proud of himself. After more than three months in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s dirty, dangerous and sometimes deadly jails, 14 of the 23 undocumented workers being prosecuted in the MCSO’s February 8 raid of Sportex Apparel cut plea deals…
A national anti-abortion group shot an undercover video “exposing” a “late-term abortion doctor” in Phoenix.The group, Live Action, does this by having a woman say she’s 23 weeks pregnant, and go in this facility with a camera, apparently “exposing” the fact that the abortion process isn’t the prettiest thing in…
The family of Alexander Wilson, the 16-year-old boy who was shot in the head by a DPS officer, was buried yesterday at a packed service that was as much a sermon on police killings in poor neighborhoods as it was a funeral. Family members say Wilson aspired to be a football…
For the millions of people who now use marijuana legally under their states’ laws, driving in Arizona is technically a crime. Motorists with pot metabolites in their bloodstreams who want to avoid a marijuana DUI — which comes with nasty fines and a one-year suspension of driving privileges, instead of…
The Arizona Diamondbacks have been living and dying by their bullpen this season, moreso the latter than the former as of late. And last night’s 9-6 thumping by the San Francisco Giants at Chase Field was a pretty agonizing demise. “This will probably be one of the toughest defeats to…
Remember the e-mail sent by then-PCSO Captain Jeffrey Karns lambasting Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu? Silly question. Who could possibly forget the scathing, sarcasm-riddled message Karns blasted to every PCSO employee on January 8 over Babeu’s plan to strip Karns and PCSO lieutenants of their employee protections. See also: Paul…
If you smoked a joint a couple days ago, you are too stoned to drive right now in Arizona.The state’s zero-tolerance law on the combination of marijuana-smoking and driving is the subject of this week’s cover story by our colleague Ray Stern, a law that’s even worse considering the state…
Although I’m familiar with your column, I don’t read it regularly. But today, I was struck by something you said in a recent column about how Mexicans can make Americans like Mexicans. So I quote: “We called ourselves Spanish, we considered ourselves white.” I’m Mexican, and I consider myself “white” because…
A couple of large mason jars full of green buds sit on the coffee table inside Tad Zaccard’s west Mesa mobile home as he talks about his marijuana-DUI ticket. “I’m a grower,” admits Zaccard, a 46-year-old nutrition adviser who works for a local hospital. As one of the state’s 38,000…
