I knew Gilbert massacre shooter J.T. Ready was from Polk County, Florida, and I had contacted some relatives of his over the weekend seeking comment. (No luck, alas.) But until today, I could find no mention of him in his hometown newspaper, The Ledger, located in Lakeland, Florida.Thankfully, Ledger reporter…
If about two-thirds of the signatures Mike Stauffer hands over to the county elections office tomorrow are legit, he’ll be on the ballot for Maricopa County Sheriff come November.Stauffer, a Scottsdale police lieutenant, is running as an Independent, which — as the Feathered Bastard previously pointed out — requires 19,410…
A $500,000 loan to a Colorado company intended for a medical-marijuana facility doesn’t have to be paid back because pot is illegal under federal law, a county judge has ruled.The bombshell ruling, (tip of the hat to lawyer Richard Keyt’s medical-marijuana blog), has major implications for the budding dispensary industry…
Jeff Huelster, a teacher at Cortez High School — and the school’s head football coach — is accused of sex crimes against children, including live-streaming video of his penis over the Internet to a person he thought was a minor.In classic To Catch a Predator style, Huelster met the minor…
Gilbert police released the recordings of the 9-1-1 calls yesterday made before and after neo-Nazi J.T. Ready allegedly murdered four people before icing himself last week, and not surprisingly, local news outlets weren’t too hip to the idea of playing the entire recordings.Since we’re not in the business of sugarcoating,…
Update: Gabriela Compton Sentencing: Lawyer Weighs in on the ControversyWelcome to the wide world of teacher sex-scandal sentencing, as former middle school teacher’s aide Gabriela Compton was sentenced this morning to a life on probation.Compton, now 21, was arrested in March 2011 after principals at Phoenix’s Western Valley Middle School…
In 2006, police searched nationwide for a Queen Creek man accused of a machete attack on his estranged wife and her boyfriend. The manhunt ended within days after Chandler cops arrested 33-year-old Armando Lopez Jr., who was accused of assaulting the pair inside the woman’s home in Magma Ranch, a…
How many pitchers does it take to give up nine runs — including five home runs — to the St. Louis Cardinals? For the Arizona Diamondbacks last night, the answer was half of them. There are 12 pitchers on the D’Backs active roster, and six of them pitched last night…
It’s been almost two years since Valley sports fans got the opportunity to use their favorite playoff-time refrain: Beat L.A.It’s not the Phoenix Suns this time, though. It’s the Phoenix Coyotes who are slated for a series against the Los Angeles Kings.The Coyotes defeated the Nashville Predators 2-1 last night…
Former proseuctor Lisa Aubuchon and her husband, Peter Pestalozzi, owe $40,721 in federal taxes, records show.The federal tax lien listed on the Maricopa County Recorder’s website includes $3,388 in unpaid taxes for 2009 and $37,332 for 2010.Aubuchon, who was disbarred on April 10 along with her former County Attorney boss,…
The book co-authored by one of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s purported “special deputies”/ex-Sheriff’s Posse member is “all wrong,” according to the sheriff.Between “no comment” and “it’s all wrong,” Arpaio tells New Times that he didn’t actually read the book apparently slamming his investigation into President Obama’s birth certificate and…
One of the easiest ways to piss off Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio — aside from being in the country illegally or writing for New Times — is to mess with a puppy. Or probably it’s just that Joe realizes animals get his mug on TV easily. Animal abuse is…
As of Thursday, Andrew Thomas, Lisa Aubuchon, and Rachel Alexander no longer will be able to practice law in Arizona.A disciplinary panel of the Arizona Supreme Court ordered the trio’s disbarment on April 10, and court officials stated that the order would become effective on May 10. The former Maricopa…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio put the 60th notch in his illegal-immigrant roundup/”employer sanctions operation” belt today, as deputies nabbed four people at a Tempe office furniture store.Running off another “tip,” deputies went to Interior Solutions in Tempe this morning, arresting four people believed to be in the country illegally on…
Abortion still seems to be a top priority for Governor Jan Brewer and the Legislature, as the governor announced the signing of yet another bill that’s not making Planned Parenthood happy at all.Late last week, the governor signed into law House Bill 2800, which, as described in the broadest sense…
Update: We spoke with AJ News editor Ed Barker and Steve Kizer, director of Pinal County Elections Department. “Paul Babeu is going to run for a second term as sheriff,” AJ News Editor Ed Barker wrote in a column this week. “Yep, he’s fallen from grace in the Congressional race…
The Phoenix Coyotes are now one win away from the Western Conference finals after a 1-0 victory over the Nashville Predators in Tennessee on Friday.Coyotes captain Shane Doan scored the game’s lone goal in the first period, and goalie Mike Smith was phenomenal yet again.Smith doesn’t quite get all the…
Attorney General Tom Horne’s efforts to replace the police force in Colorado City with deputies from the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office was killed in the state House last week, as the legislative session ended.Colorado City, for those joining late, is the city on the Utah/Arizona border that child rapist Warren…
We’ve previously mentioned some of the stranger aspects of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “birther” investigation — parts not related to Arpaio and company thinking President Obama’s from Africa — including tidbits of information that would lead a reasonable person to believe the “investigation” isn’t really about exposing some massive…
Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready could be quite lucid and genial. Sometimes, he came off as an autodidact, widely read if not highly educated. That impression would last only so long, however. Inevitably, he would make some anti-Semitic or racist comment, or go off on some related tangent involving eugenics or the supposed superiority…
Paul Chapa says he “does a lot of stupid shit when he is drunk.”According to what police say he did to a girl beginning when she was 3 or 4 years old, that’s an understatement.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Chapa, a 49-year-old truck driver, is accused of…
Chuck Norris — the actor who rose to fame after getting his ass kicked by Bruce Lee in Way of the Dragon — just loves Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.So much, in fact, that Norris recently penned a column praising the sheriff and condemning the typical members of the far-right-wing…
