David Walker flew into town from Chicago early yesterday morning, and was in Phoenix for about an hour before he beat his ex-wife’s boyfriend to death with a baseball bat, according to police.Phoenix police say Walker, 29, got in around 12:30 a.m., and went straight to his ex-wife’s house, near…
A man from Scottsboro, Alabama is apparently so obsessed with Gila monsters and rattlesnakes that he made trips to Arizona to steal them, and brought them back to Alabama with him.That’s a federal offense, and 43-year-old David Langella will be on probation for the next three years because of it…
Following in the footsteps of our sister papers of South Florida, Miami New Times and Broward-Palm Beach New Times, we bring you the weekly roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail.Between being passed out, dressed up, inked up, or just plain messy, our alleged law-violators this week…
Yesterday, the Glendale Police Department sent out a reminder that exactly one year ago, police were called to a south Glendale apartment complex for a report of a missing 5-year-old girl, Jhessye Shockley.Jhessye’s still missing a year later, but police presume she’s dead, and her mother, Jerice Hunter, has recently…
Above is the ad we referenced yesterday, in which Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s campaign pals introduce their own artistic interpretation of what happened between Arpaio-challenger Paul Penzone and his wife in a 2003 altercation.See also:-Joe Arpaio Creates His Own Version of What Happened in 2003 Altercation Between Paul Penzone and His…
For once, two men argued on television, and national media outlets didn’t choose the winner for everyone (well, fewer than usual).We’re talking about the vice-presidential debate between current VP Joe Biden, and VP-hopeful Paul Ryan, who had their lone debate last night…
Karl “Jack” Frost pleaded no contest to a charge of disorderly conduct today stemming from his May 17 “citizen’s arrest” of a man jogging in a bicycle lane. The 47-year-old former British cop had been out for a morning bike ride in Gilbert that day when he became enraged at…
Sadly, I am away till Monday on a trip planned long ago, and will not be able to blog regularly till I’m back in town. For continuing coverage of Paul Penzone’s bid to replace our octogenarian autocrat, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, please consult my colleague Matt Hendley’s reports on New Times’…
Former Phoenix Police Department Sergeant Paul Penzone once again explained the 2003 altercation with his ex-wife, after Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s campaign released an ad on the matter, which says there’s no excuse for “hitting a woman.”The incident the Arpaio ad is attempting to reference was explained by our colleague Stephen…
Chandler couple Vu Tran and Siobhan Grogan told police they often kept their 8-year-old son — who has mental and physical disabilities — locked in a bathroom. According to Tran, it’s because they “have a life too.”Tran and Groghan only ended up talking to police on Tuesday because while they…
The libertarian Cato Institute has not been taking it easy on Arizona — it has consistently said the state’s immigration laws are no good for the economy, and now it’s giving Governor Jan Brewer a “D” in fiscal policy.The idea behind the grade is simple: “governors who have cut taxes…
Embattled Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu teamed up with state Senator/New Times’ “Best Raving Loon” Sylvia Allen yesterday to announce that armed volunteers now be combating drug-smuggling in the county.Babeu’s unpaid “Anti-Smuggling Posse” will be the junior-varsity squad for PCSO’s SWAT team when it comes to smuggling operations.See also:-Sylvia Allen’s…
Arizona State University is proud to announce that it’s banning tobacco from all of its property starting August 1, 2013.Not just smoking, mind you — no tobacco products will be allowed at all “on university property, facilities, grounds, parking structures, university-owned vehicles and structures owned or leased by the university.”…
My fiancé is trying to learn Spanish so he can speak to my grandmother when we get married next month. Lately, he’s been listening to CNN en español to get an ear for the language. A couple of days ago, he told me that, after several weeks of seeing the…
Hundreds of artists and art fans made their way to downtown’s Legend City Studios on a cool Friday night in October for Randy Slack’s 13th annual art exhibition known as Chaos Theory. In years past, the event was as much about the after-hours party in the parking lot as the…
A year ago, Citizens for Tax Justice, a Washington nonprofit, studied the tax returns of 280 corporations. What it found was a Beltway version of a mafia protection scheme. From 2008 to 2010, at least 30 Fortune 500 companies — including PepsiCo, Verizon, Wells Fargo, and DuPont — paid more…
Despite the bad juju ordinarily associated with the number 13, the 13th time truly turned out to be a charm for downtown Phoenix’s annual Chaos Theory exhibition. The one-weekend-only annual invitational show — started by an art consortium then known as 3CarPileUp, consisting of artists Randy Slack, James Angel, and…
Not too long ago, I ran across a line in a letter signed by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, one recently obtained through a standard public-records request. It’s highly unlikely Arpaio actually wrote it, but this sentence stuck in my mind all the same: “The investigation of a homicide is one of…
President Bill Clinton was on his game Wednesday night in Tempe as he stumped for Arizona’s Senate candidate Rich Carmona. More than 5,500 people turned out to Arizona State University’s Sun Devil Performance Lawn for a Get Out The Vote rally for Carmona — and more would’ve packed in…
A Flagstaff woman’s puppy was killed this weekend, which she discovered after she returned home and saw the pup hanging from a noose in her backyard.Flagstaff police Sergeant James Jackson tells New Times that the 4-month-old puppy was found hanging from a rafter in a shed that was being used…
Elias Johnson wasn’t a sworn officer — but he apparently played one while off duty. Johnson was a mouthpiece for Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu. New Times has learned details about the July incident that led to Johnson’s resignation on Friday. Sources tells us that Johnson, a former television reporter, apparently…
Jeffrey Higgins, a now-former detention officer with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, was sentenced to probation for a January incident in which Higgins pointed a loaded handgun at his 19-year-old son.According to court documents previously obtained by New Times, Higgins pointed the gun at his son’s face as the teenager…
