If you need a personal trainer, 35-year-old Shahin Nasirinia might be your man…assuming you also want to get felt up and potentially “dry humped.”Two women have accused Nasirinia — who currently lives in Tempe on a foreign work visa — of touching them inappropriately under the guise of stretching them…
A 2-year-old boy is currently brain dead and will likely die following a beating by 20-year-old Gregory Amador.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Amador called police about 10:30 yesterday morning to report that “his son’s” eyes had rolled into the back of his head and he was unresponsive.The…
According to minutes from the infamous September 15 GOP Legislative District 19 meeting, where an effort by supporters of state Senate President Russell Pearce to place sham candidate Olivia Cortes on the LD 18 recall ballot was exposed, Justice of the Peace Lester Pearce stumped for his brother and opposed…
Before Wednesday’s raid of a marijuana promoter Al Sobol’s compassion club, Phoenix police officials discussed a pending court case on the legality, in general, of such clubs. Cops then decided to move forward with the raid based on the same, thorny legal questions now before a Maricopa Superior Court judge…
Tommy McKey Reed was in a Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where Judge Paul McMurdie sentenced him to life in prison for the 2010 murder of a man he met through a gay social networking app for his iPhone.Reed pleaded guilty earlier this year to first-degree murder in the…
The Amber Alert for missing Glendale 5-year-old Jahessye Shockley has been called off more than two days after her disappearance, as investigators move into the second phase of their investigation.Additionally, police are not searching a nearby landfill, as other news outlets have reported (ABC 15, we’re looking at you), Glendale…
If you want to hear Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office detectives describe the “blatant” corruption they saw under the leadership of Joe Arpaio, tune in now to the State Bar’s disciplinary hearing for former County Attorney Andrew Thomas. (If that direct link doesn’t work, click here and then click on the…
Every Friday, we give our readers an opportunity to sound off about current events in the form of a contest we call You Write the Caption.In honor of sham Russell Pearce recall election “candidate” Olivia Cortes abandoning her “candidacy,” we’ve decided to change things up a little bit.This week, we’re…
Jahessye Shockley, a Glendale 5-year-old, has been missing for what is now over two days.Frankly, as MSNBC holds hourly updates on the search for missing Kansas City baby Lisa Irwin, we figured the disappearance of a 5-year-old Arizona girl might warrant some national ink. But it hasn’t. Locally, however –…
Pearce’s smear of Lewis is one big bag of bullDo self-described “patriots” have a problem with the truth? They do when they’re working for state Senate President Russell Pearce.This attack ad from the group “Patriots for Pearce,” run by Jesse Hernandez, a staffer for Republican Arizona Congressman David Schweikert, picks…
Dave Hendershott, Sheriff Arpaio’s disgraced former chief deputy, struggled to explain his grand conspiracy theories in the Andrew Thomas disciplinary proceedings today. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s ousted chief deputy, Dave Hendershott, wearing a bold red tie and suit jacket, testified today for five to six hours in the Andrew…
If you didn’t catch last night’s South Park, you missed out. Not only did it touch on Arizona’s focal issue, illegal immigration, and introduce the world to the term “Mexi-Jew,” it featured the show’s portly, pissed-off star, Cartman, portraying a hillbilly sheriff bearing a striking resemblance to Maricopa County’s corrupt top-cop, Joe…
A former Arizona State University swimmer drowned in a university-owned swimming pool early Monday morning, and authorities suspect alcohol was involved.James Rigg and Andrew Schneller, both 22 and former members of the ASU swim team, sneaked into the Mona Plummer Aquatic Complex in Tempe about 1:30 a.m. Monday by hopping…
A 7-year-old boy is dead and a 5-year-old girl was taken to a hospital with serious injuries after their father drove the car they were in over a 40-foot embankment yesterday afternoon.According to the Mesa Police Department, the children’s father, 42-year-old Bradley Patrick, may have been under the influence of…
The first thing you need to know about Greg Patterson of the right-wing Espresso Pundit blog is that he is a lobbyist. According to the Arizona Secretary of State’s website, he has been a registered lobbyist since 1997. To be fair, he doesn’t hide this fact in his online bio. Still, it…
Last time Minnesota Congresswoman/presidential candidate Michele Bachmann was in Phoenix, she told reporters she plans to target Arizona in her bid to become the Republican nominee for president.It appears she wasn’t kidding — Bachmann will be back in the Grand Canyon State on Monday to meet with members of the…
On the same day our cover story about the Church of Scientology’s new Phoenix “Ideal Org” hit newsstands, our sister paper in New York, the Village Voice, reports that the Church is now probing our parent company, Village Voice Media.See our cover story on what Scientology is up to in…
Jahessye Shockley, the missing 5-year-old Glendale girl, has now been missing for roughly 40 hours, and investigators continue to search for the young girl. Authorities have expanded the search for Shockley, who it now appears could have potentially been abducted. According to the Glendale P.D., Shockley wandered away from siblings…
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday tossed out the death sentence of convicted murderer Steven James, who was sentenced to die for the brutal 1981 murder of a man he targeted for being gay.The reason: the Court feels James had ineffective counsel during the sentencing phase of his trial.See…
Dear Readers: The Mexican doesn’t want to take this week off but has to because it’s his mother periódico’s Best Of issue and the Mexican is tasked with eating a thousand tacos in the search for the best one in Orange. I’ll return next week, more panzón than ever —…
HIZZ(DIS)ONER Phil = nothing short of pathetic: Your story on Phoenix Mayor Gordon’s legacy was right on (“Phil Unveiled,” Monica Alonzo, September 29). The guy had so much promise in the beginning, only to squander it by being a DiNO [Democrat in Name Only]. You may not believe it, with…
Scott Ruth has heard the stories about Xenu the Galactic Overlord and the ghost-like “body thetans” that supposedly infest human souls. But all he knows for sure about the Church of Scientology is that it’s invaded his life. The church, which plans to turn its newly acquired property at 3845…
