As communities across Arizona — across the country — are desperately trying to attract new businesses and corporations to boost local economies, El Mirage is creating a headache for the city’s only gas station.We recently wrote about El Mirage city officials yanking their business from the Shell gas station on…
It’s day six of the “Occupy Phoenix” demonstration in Cesar Chavez Plaza, and there are now officially more protest signs than there are actual protesters.We dropped by this afternoon to see how the occupation was going — we weren’t shocked to find the crowd dwindled from about 1,000 when the occupation…
The Arizona Capitol Times’ Yellow Sheet costs $250 per month? Crikey, that equals my liquor store tab for September. Well, almost.Which is why I won’t be subscribing anytime soon to YS, the daily report lobbyists and lawyers pony up a quarter of a grand 12 times a year (or $500 bi-monthly, or…
Rachel Alexander, one of former Maricopa County Attorney Andy Thomas’ key insiders during his six years in office, is on the stand trying to explain how she got put “in charge” of an ill-conceived and politically motivated civil racketeering case against county supervisors, judges, and others. …
Frank Tanori Gonzalez, the Marana man who gave thousands of viewers of the 2009 Super Bowl a 37-second dose of porn, pleaded guilty in Pima County Superior Court this morning to two counts of computer tampering, the Arizona Attorney General’s Office confirms to New Times. See the video of a…
Regardless of political affiliation, people across the country are pissed off about one thing or another, but there are only a few cities that — as a whole — are more pissed off than Phoenix, according to a recent ranking of pissed off cities.The Daily Beast website has ranked Phoenix one…
Ten years after murdering Mesa resident Cynthia Garcia, one of several members of the Hells Angels initially charged in her death has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.Kevin J. Augustiniak entered his plea last week, nearly eight years after his 2003 indictment, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office tells New Times.According to…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, America’s self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff,” is all about holding people accountable for their actions — so it was a little suspicious when he testified at the Arizona Bar’s ethics hearing for shamed former County Attorney Andrew Thomas and couldn’t remember a friggin’ thing.As we pointed out…
Testimony continues this morning at the Thomas/Aubuchon/Alexander disciplinary hearings at the Arizona Supreme Court in downtown Phoenix. Lisa Aubuchon, a onetime top assistant to former Maricopa County Attorney, is expected to take the stand at the hearing in an attempt to save her legal skin. She and Thomas are…
Jahessey Shockley’s been missing for nearly nine days, and there hasn’t been a peep about her disappearance in the national media — and her family wants to know why.We’ve been a little curious ourselves, considering that cable news channels have been dwelling on the disappearance of Lisa Irwin, a 10-month-old…
Really? You answered “When Should You Use Usted Instead of Tú?” recently over my “Why Won’t My Gardener Fuck Me Again If I Demand an HIV Test?” Any sad gabacho can Google for grammar tips (no offense to Yo Quiero Hablar). Meanwhile, we clueless gabachas need to know how to…
PRESIDENT PERRY? Governor Rick Perry’s a fraud: It’s not as if Texas hasn’t had lying morons [as] governor before, now is it (Miracle Faker,” Jim Schutze, October 6)? Leslie Seth Hammond, Phoenix Excellent story misses mark: Jim Shutze’s article on Governor Rick Perry — while interesting, informative, and worthwhile —…
The Pooles and the Canfields met up under the stars one night last month, but not like they used to. For years, a typical Friday evening found Scott and Eva Poole and Jesse and Jill Canfield at the drive-in movies. The 40-something Pooles went almost every weekend for decades, often…
On a warm October afternoon, Wes Gullett climbs the steps of Phillips Memorial CME Church, a weathered red-brick building tucked away in a South Phoenix neighborhood. He walks through a small foyer and into a larger gathering room where about two dozen people sit- in folding chairs. A couple of…
The new federal crackdown on medical marijuana announced on October 7 by California’s four U.S. Attorneys sent chills through the industry. It was a stunning reversal by the Obama administration. Only two years ago, Deputy U.S. Attorney General David Ogden wrote his infamous “Ogden Memo,” announcing that the feds wouldn’t…
Alleged baby-beater Gregory Amador now faces a likely murder rap after the 2-year-old boy he beat up last week died over the weekend.The boy, who’d been brain dead and in the hospital since last week, died Saturday, authorities say.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Amador called police about…
Jason Alistair Lowery, 34, is a deportation officer with U.S. Immigration and customs enforcement. He’s also allegedly a weed smuggler who led authorities on a 45-minute chase — in his government-owned vehicle — after getting busted in a marijuana smuggling sting.Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Carrick Cook tells New…
Juan Guillen, who was a priest at the Immaculate Conception Church for over 20 years before heading to prison for attempted child molestation, is a wanted man just days after getting released from prison.Guillen was released from an Arizona prison on October 6. He checked in with the Yuma County…
A robbery suspects crime spree — which includes threatening a 4-year-old with a gun — came to an end last night after he crashed the stolen car he was driving into a wall and was shot by a Phoenix police officer.According to the Phoenix Police Department, just before 10 p.m…
A Mesa woman was arrested last night after police discovered she was using her 13-year-old daughter as a lookout as she attempted to steal an air conditioner from a vacant home.Mesa police got a call about 8:30 last night regarding two people who were seen in the yard of a…
Mark Goueeau’s fate officially is in the hands of a Maricopa County jury as of 10 a.m. …
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio testified — under oath — yesterday during the state Bar disciplinary hearing for disgraced former County Attorney Andrew Thomas.As our colleague Stephen Lemons points out in his story on the hearing, it was a performance “worthy of a Mafia don.”See Lemons’ story here.Arpaio claims he…
