Magdalena has worked for me many years — 15, to be exact. She came over as a mojada with her two little girls when they were 4 and 6. The girls went to school, but only until middle school because they are undocumented; they can’t get a job or a…
TEABAGGIN’ 1070’s living on borrowed time: Stephen Lemons hit it out of the park again with his analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on [Arizona Senate Bill] 1070 (“Pyrrhic Victory,” June 28). The way he made fun of our dunderheaded Governor Jan Brewer was hilarious. She made a moron…
One day after defending himself at a candidates’ forum for keeping his day job as a lieutenant with the Scottsdale Police Department, Mike Stauffer announced that he will resign his post at the end of August to devote himself full time to his bid to replace Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The…
One of the hottest Valley party spots in the mid-2000s was Scottsdale’s CBNC, short for Coyote Bay Night Club. Hip-hop stars and professional athletes flocked there. Rap artist and music producer Kasseem Dean (a.k.a. Swizz Beatz) was a regular and claimed he was one of the owners. Tucked in the…
Three middle-aged women were arrested in a coupon scam so big and elaborate that it involved millions of dollars in cash, guns, and a speedboat. Yes, a coupon scam. Phoenix Police arrested Marilyn Johnson, 61, Robin Ramirez, 40, and Amiko Fountain, 42, for their alleged involvement in the counterfeit coupon…
Sadie Johnson told the cops she didn’t like babysitting her sisters — ages 1, 2, and 4 — a job she often had to do when her mother was going out with her boyfriend.Johnson, then 17, finally got out of it — after she was arrested for binding and gagging…
A Chandler defense lawyer who helped his client beat a serious marijuana charge says he probably will run for Republican Jon Kyl’s soon-to-be vacant U.S. Senate seat, running as a Libertarian. On July 2, attorney Marc J. Victor’s client, 53-year-old, Maria Carillo-Tremillo was found not guilty of knowingly transporting 83 pounds…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office claims a gang member was “planning to publicly assassinate Sheriff Joe Arpaio using a high powered rifle.”The first problem with the plot of gangster Samuel Matta was that he couldn’t come up with the $1,800 to bond out of jail after he stole a car…
It’s been about a year and a half since Tempe pastor Steven Anderson told New Times he believed “the government should put [homosexuals] to death,” but now he’s got a new cause — driving to Border Patrol checkpoints and letting the agents know they’re pretty much Nazis…
Rebecca Larios and her team, Rise of the South Phoenix, spent a few hours on Tuesday night recruiting new neighborhood activists — and several agreed to join the cause. “It’s time to rise,” Larios told the crowd of several dozen people. “It’s time to get up. We need you to…
If David Deal, the father of Ame Deal — the 10-year-old girl who died a year ago after her family members admittedly stuffed the girl in a footlocker — wanted to skip town between his arrests this weekend, he had about three days.If Deal actually tried to leave town, he…
It’s that time of the year, when Arizona Diamondbacks right-fielder Justin Upton — the first overall pick of the MLB draft in 2005 — is the subject of trade rumors.Upton’s been booed by the home crowd at Chase Field quite a bit this year, as he’s not quite up to…
Leslie Lysy tells New Times that the Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Office is refusing to return about $10,000 it impounded along with the Yukon she and her boyfriend were traveling in when he shot himself in the head with a 9-millimeter Glock. That was on April 10, 2011 — a traumatic…
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Dale Hausner, the creepy crawler who, with co-conspirator Sam Dieteman, terrorized the Valley in 2005-06, randomly killing six people and seriously injuring more than two-dozen people and animals, will remain on Arizona’s death row, after the state Supreme Court this morning upheld his convictions and sentences. The high court confirmed…
We’re not cops over here at New Times, but we do know one important thing about undercover police work: the undercover part.That’s apparently what Scottsdale police were trying to explain to an Arizona Republic reporter, who posted pretty much everything but the address of the PD’s new building that will…
Andre “Bad Moon” Rison is a former NFL wide receiver who made the Pro Bowl five times, and had his mansion burned down by the late TLC singer Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes in 1994.Rison also made child-support payments precisely zero times, which he was ordered to start paying in 1999.Since…
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Stop us if you’ve heard this before, but Congressman Ben Quayle thinks Barack Obama is the “worst president in history.”Quayle’s got a new TV ad out in Arizona’s Sixth Congressional District ahead of his August primary with fellow Republican Congressman David Schweikert, and sure enough, Quayle’s going with his old…
Yesterday, we told you about someone burying a cat, still alive — at the time — up to its head in concrete in Colorado City.The cat was left on the property of Isaac Wyler, a former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints who left…
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