A 6-year-old boy is on the verge of death after a severe beating by his parents, Phoenix police say. The parents, Benny Gibson, 49 and Jennifer Paul, 37, were arrested in connection with possible child abuse charges. Police and paramedics raced to the home near 7100 North 19th Avenue just…
U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton let Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne file his extra-long response in Governor Jan Brewer’s federal marijuana lawsuit after all.So much for Horne’s quip that the response, made to refute the defendants’ motion to dismiss the lawsuit, would get better if it got shorter.The ruling…
The $102,000 bill for the job of rooting out high-level corruption at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office included $351 for a five-and-a-half-hour meeting in January between an investigator and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. But New Times has learned that a transcript of the interview is nowhere to be found among more…
The two people who admitted to locking 10-year-old Ame Deal in a tiny footlocker — where she ultimately died last month — have been formally indicted on first-degree murder charges.In addition to the murder charges, Sammantha Allen — Ame’s cousin — and her husband, John Allen have been indicted on…
If I didn’t know that his fundraising appeals are written by the usual political hacks, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s latest e-mail blast would make me doubt the man’s sanity.Not that there isn’t plenty of reason to doubt it otherwise, but an e-mail blast sent out yesterday signed by Joe rails about…
Police put out an all-points correction this morning on incorrect news reports that Kiowa Gordon of Twilight series fame was arrested for suspicion of DUI.He wasn’t even driving. But he was busted on Monday — for an outstanding warrant.Mesa police, in a news release this morning, blamed Channel 12 News…
We hadn’t attended an Arizona Diamondbacks game in weeks, and when the lowly Houston Astros ran up a 7-1 lead at Chase Field last night, we headed home in disgust. After all, the D-Backs had lost 9-1 to the ‘Stros the night before, and it looked like more of the…
While bringing a bomb to an airport is one of the stupider things a person can do. Bringing a fake bomb to an airport might be one of the stupidest — but it certainly raises the question: why would someone do it?Three African refugees were arrested after one of them,…
As you may have heard, the son of Dave Hendershott, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s shamed former chief deputy, was stopped over the weekend for his second (alleged) DUI in two weeks.The DUI stop was made about 10 a.m. Sunday.Jeffrey Hendershott, 29, is yet to be charged — charging, Phoenix…
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Art “El Tudy” Olivas hates New Times.He’s picketed in front of our building, scolded us for our coverage of former TV pitchman J.D. Hayworth’s unsuccessful candidacy in last year’s U.S. Senate primary, and called us communists. That said, and despite Art’s inability to successfully spell “communist” on his protest signs,…
Rick Valentini — a.k.a. Bryan Stewart was in a Maricopa County Superior Court this afternoon, where he was found guilty of 29 counts of forgery, four counts of identity theft, four counts of misconduct involving a weapon, two counts of money laundering, and one count of posession of a forged…
Give me the short version, a federal judge told Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne today in a ruling on the state’s lawsuit against medical marijuana.Yesterday, Horne had asked U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton if he could exceed the 17-page limit for his arguments on why the lawsuit shouldn’t be dismissed…
The Arizona Department of Corrections has released Danny Carbajal, who served 3 1/2 years behind bars for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in retirement and property accounts from his estranged (and then murdered) wife, Sally. Danny also allegedly ripped off his younger brother Michael–Phoenix’s greatest pugilist–of millions of…
Phoenix police confirm to New Times that for the second time in two weeks, Jeffrey Hendershott, the son of ousted former MCSO Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott, was arrested for DUI.The kicker: the DUI happened at 10:30 in the morning.According to the Phoenix Police Department, the younger Hendershott was stopped Sunday…
Warren Jeffs, the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was in a Texas courtroom today, where he was sentenced to life in prison today for sexually assaulting two underage followers of his breakaway sect of the Mormon Church.See former New Times staffer John Dougherty’s…
The man police say fatally stabbed Tempe resident Fred U. Bustamante was arrested yesterday in Mesa, the Tempe Police Department announced last night.The suspect, 60-year-old Gordon Benson, was arrested in Mesa about 6:15 p.m. yesterday, Tempe Sergeant Steve Carbajal says. …
The product of some right-wing wag or the latest example of dirty pool from the camp of state Senator Russell Pearce? I’ll opt for a little of both, as the phony Twitter account under the name of Legislative District 18 recall candidate Jerry Lewis is just the sort of sophomoric…
Embarrassing doesn’t even begin to describe the Arizona Diamondbacks’ 9-1 loss to the Houston Astros last night. The D-Backs, currently one of the better squads in baseball, got their assess handed to them in grand fashion by the ‘Stros, who are presently one of the worst in the bigs. Lopsided losses…
Congratulations to the New Times reader who goes by the handle Mikey1969, 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. We picked the five…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio yesterday announced that it was “about time” immigration activist Sal Reza be convicted of a crime for protests held in opposition to SB 1070 last year.He also had the gall to say the whole protest was a publicity stunt.”The protest was staged to receive national…
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