The young woman seemed nervous as she checked in at the airport gate on July 26, and officers could see her hand shake as she held her ticket.Abril Save of Tucson had just flown to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport from New York and was preparing to take a connecting…
Three men being sought by the Arizona Department of Public Safety are suspected of helping to smuggle tons of pot for various Mexican cartels.Christian Palacios, a Valley resident and the only U.S. citizen in the trio, and two Mexican nationals, Julio Cesar Alavarado Yanez and Osvaldo Moreno Herrera, were higher-ups…
A missing New Mexico couple — last seen in Chandler last week — lived in their car for five days to avoid storms that pounded eastern Arizona over the weekend after they got lost in a remote area east of GlobeChandler Detective Seth Tyler says Dana Davis, 86, and his…
Newly released records show a top Arpaio official was convinced her superiors had bugged her office.County observers may recall that Arpaio and his go-to guy, former Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott, wanted County Supervisor Andy Kunasek prosecuted for sweeping county offices for listening devices, claiming Kunasek had wasted taxapayer money.Yet these…
Contrary to popular belief, former CNN talk show host Larry King isn’t a cryogenically frozen corpse…yet.In a recent CNN special, King says that when he finally does kick the bucket he wants his body to be frozen, which — with the help of Scottsdale-based Alcor Life Extentions, best-known for allegedly…
Rachel Brock, the daughter of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, was in court this morning, where she was sentenced to 10 years supervised probation after pleading guilty to charges that she sexually abused the same boy her mother, Susan Brock, was convicted of molesting.Additionally, Pinal County Superior Court Judge Henry…
See any “screaming kids” chained to the state Capitol? Obviously, there’s limited room in New Times’ print edition to attack all the lies, myths, falsehoods, and half-truths promulgated by Governor Jan Brewer in her ghost-written memoir Scorpions for Breakfast. So there was no way for me to catalog and rebut them…
Congratulations to the New Times reader who goes by the handle Ross, you are the proud winner of this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.On Friday, we asked readers to provide what they think would be an appropriate caption for the above photo of the Scottsdale Gun Club’s…
The Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office today will issue its official ruling in the October 2010 shooting death of Phoenix Sergeant Sean Drenth.As we reported last night, the ME’s Office has ruled that the death was a suicide — despite multiple lingering questions about the shooting.The Phoenix Police Department doesn’t…
Tomorrow, the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office officially will rule that the bizarre shooting death of Phoenix Sergeant Sean Drenth was a suicide — more than a year after Drenth’s body was found fatally shot in a parking lot near the State Capitol in October 2010.The Phoenix Police Department, however, still is calling the…
The Arizona Court of Appeal is weighing whether to overturn a ruling that protected from public release Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon’s security-detail log.It’s unknown when the judges who heard arguments in the case on Tuesday will make their ruling.The log maintained by Gordon’s security detail — sworn Phoenix police officers…
“They were going to kill me.”That’s the cryptic message an Arizona City woman — hopped up on bath salts — gave police before leading them on a 30-minute chase Saturday afternoon.The pursuit ended when cops managed to blast her in the face with pepper spray while she was still behind…
First Lady Michelle Obama apparently is in a “panic” over Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s probe into whether her husband, President Barack Obama, is a U.S. citizen — if you believe the supermarket tabloid The Globe’s “inside” White House sources, that is.Arpaio, who applauds supermarket tabloids as having “the best…
Mary Giovagnoli, the director of the Immigration Policy Center, posted a new blog about the “dramatic reversal in the definition” of the term “anchor baby.”In their initial definition, executives for American Heritage Dictionary didn’t include any notation that the phrase was offensive or disparaging. But they have since corrected their…
The National Hockey League announced yesterday its plan to divide the league into four conferences rather than six divisions, as the league is currently arranged.Under the new organization, the Stanley Cup Playoffs will begin inside each conference, with the top four teams squaring off in divisional playoffs (see how the…
There’s good news and bad news about the transformer that caught fire in Phoenix last night.The good news: the enormous plume of smoke that is currently drifting West over downtown Phoenix is non-toxic.The bad news: the smoke could be here for a while — Phoenix fire crews are going to…
Last week, in honor of the Scottsdale Gun Club’s celebrating the holidays by giving people the chance to have holiday photos taken of their children holding machine guns, we asked our readers to offer suggestions for an appropriate caption for the above photo for this week’s New Times’ You Write…
Maricopa County Sheriff is again under fire over hundreds of admittedly botched investigations into sex crimes over a three-year period ending in 2007.One of his biggest critics: Congressman Raul Grijalva, who is calling for Arpaio to resign over the bungled investigations.See our story on Arpaio’s oopsies here.Grijalva, whose Congressional district…
Here’s what we know: 38-year-old Jose Jesse Olmos broke into an office at the Mesa apartment complex where he lives, stole a power drill, and looked at porn on a computer in the office — as captured on the office’s surveillance camera.What we — and, more importantly, people who work…
A Mesa woman has been charged with second-degree murder after admitting to police that she fatally shot her boyfriend after he accused her of infidelity.Police say Donna Diaz called police about 11 p.m. yesterday to report that she shot her boyfriend, Thomas Mark Wakeman, three times after he accused her…
Taking a cab from the airport this weekend would have been cheaper — and a whole lot less frightening — for a Florida visitor who was robbed of $5,000.The victim, who wasn’t named in court records, was picked up at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on Saturday at about 3:45…
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney will be in the Valley tomorrow, where he’s likely to announce that former Vice President Dan Quayle is endorsing his bid for the presidency.Romney, as you may recall, is one of several GOPers who planted his lips on the arse of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe…
