Sure enough, Phoenix police believe Alan Champagne — the convicted murderer who happened to be a former resident of the house where human remains were found yesterday — is responsible for those remains.Additionally, Phoenix police say there were actually two bodies in the coffin, which was unearthed yesterday by landscapers,…
Phoenix police arrested a man suspected of murder, after he and his partner – who eventually died from his wounds – were shot during a drug deal in June.Daniel Albert Alvarado, 29, has been charged with murder and two counts of intent to sell marijuana. According to a police report,…
With Sheriff Joe Arpaio still out of commission from his “broken arm,” and with Respect Arizona’s announcement today that they have 120,000 valid signatures demanding his recall, Arpaio’s best career move at this point would be to resign from office for health reasons. See also: -Why Sheriff Joe Actually Is…
Assuming Michael Anthony Beltran doesn’t have three hands, he’s received a little help from authorities to make sure his mugshot came out right. Beltran was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of driving with a suspended or revoked license, a misdemeanor, and booked into the Maricopa County Jail, records show. We…
Perhaps it’s a coincidence, but landscapers in Phoenix dug up a coffin containing what used to be a person at the former residence of a convicted murderer.Alan Champagne, 42, just happened to live in this home near 16th Street and Indian School Road home after he served 13 years in…
The nativist movement is in its “death throes,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.The organization’s new report has documented three such groups in Arizona, which is a low number, considering 21 were documented in 2009.See Also:Ready to Kill: The Evilution of neo-Nazi J.T. Ready…
Marine Donald Linville’s career as a pornographer has not been very successful.Phoenix police arrested him and seized his computers in October after discovering that he’d broken into a woman’s apartment and set up a hidden camera. Now, Phoenix police say found not only child pornography on the computer, but secretly…
Ian MacDonald, the man accused of fatally stabbing former ASU wide receiver Tyrice Thompson outside a Scottsdale bar in late January, was “pissed” and “acting like a dick” before the stabbing, a witness tells New Times.That source, who was at the Martini Ranch bar with MacDonald’s group that night, agreed…
Oops, Governor Jan Brewer has did it again — she made speaking the English language look like rocket science during a TV appearance.This time around, Brewer brain-farted twice in around five seconds, while making up the phrase “another . . . (pause) . . . notch in their . …
As Governor Jan Brewer says about the feds, “This is just another . . . (pause) . . . notch in their . . . (pause) . . . belt bucket, if you will.”See also:-Jan Brewer Blunders that Feds’ National Release of Illegal Immigrants Is Payback, Punishment for Arizona…
If you get pulled over with 1,000 pounds of weed in your vehicle, it’s probably going to be pretty hard to come up with an excuse.Case in point: Authorities say 31-year-old Efrain Nunez was pulled over in Glendale yesterday while driving a van with nearly 1,000 pounds of marijuana in…
Oh, boy, you know things are bad for publicity-hound Sheriff Joe Arpaio when he’s not even well enough to appear on television.The public-relations team for the self-proclaimed “toughest” sheriff in America sent out a memo to media this morning, and it kind of reads like one of those melancholy Christmas…
Former Democratic state Representative Daniel Patterson, who resigned from the House last year before a vote on his expulsion could take place, already is talking about getting back into office.Patterson’s not talking about a 2014 run but rather filling a potential vacancy in the near future.See also:-Daniel Patterson Calls it…
Senator John McCain’s still calling for President Obama to pardon former boxing great Jack Johnson, who died almost 67 years ago.McCain and New York Congressman Peter King have tried several times to get Johnson, who was black, pardoned for a 1913 conviction he earned after being prosecuted under the Mann…
Yesterday, we reported two incredibly dumb decisions made by people trying fly out of Valley airports.One person decided to pack a grenade in their luggage at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, while another, at Sky Harbor International Airport, told TSA agents that his soda cans would detonate.See also:-Grenades Aren’t the Best Thing…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer told Fox News that the recent release of illegal immigrants by federal immigration officials from the Pinal County jails was “payback” because of the state’s “strong” position on securing the border. When the host asked whether Washington was picking on Arizona, Brewer responded: “I think it’s…
Todd Fries, also known as Todd Burns — the owner of Burns Power Washing in Tucson — was shorted $200 for a power-washing job four years ago, because his customers didn’t think Fries’ employees did such a great job.Fries’ response to this non-payment has earned him more than 12 years…
For the second time in less than six months, hundreds of inmates brawled at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Tucson.The 400-inmate fight on Sunday — which landed 17 inmates in the hospital — appears to have been race-related, as did a 200-inmate fight that occurred in September.See also:-Tucson Prison…
The 26-year-old Tempe man arrested in the murder of former ASU wide receiver Tyrice Thompson has been released from jail.Ian MacDonald, a former Marine who had a “top security clearance” — at least, according to his lawyer — is accused of stabbing Thompson outside the Martini Ranch bar in Scottsdale,…
Believe it or not, grenades are not allowed on airplanes in this country.That fact was apparently discovered by someone Sunday as they tried to bring a grenade in their luggage at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport…
Univision came out on top in the Valley, and according to numbers crunched after February sweep, the Spanish-language station emerged the most watched among 18- to 49-year-olds during all time slots — even when compared to its English-language competitors. Nationwide, it ranked fourth — for the first time beating out…
Self-described tough guy Sheriff Joe Arpaio was finally released from the hospital after spending two days there for treatment of a broken arm.Our readers made several comments on Arpaio’s injury — for example, “Did his Depends slip, since they were so full of shit, and trip him?” — and that…
