Since our prior post about the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s “ass-beating” detective/reality TV star Detective Deb Moyer, we’ve got some new information about a recent domestic-violence situation between her and her husband. First: Moyer’s husband also is one of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s boys in beige. In fact, he’s…
White House Obama was all hat, no cattle in Texas this afternoon. Barack Obama delivered a speech on immigration this afternoon in Texas, focusing on what comprehensive immigration reform must look like if it ever passes. Then, as if aiming to prove the entire address a charade, Obama called on…
[jump] When police got to the scene, they found Peralta lying face down and completely naked in the empty field. He told cops he wanted his pants, which were in a nearby pile of clothing. The officers were happy to get Peralta his pants, and when they did, they found a…
stwnewspress.com Almost-mayor and still-convict Christopher LinderWe’re not sure which bit of news is worse for the townspeople of Pawnee, Oklahoma — the fact that the state of Arizona effectively banned their newly elected mayor from taking office or that voters there picked a marijuana-transporting, drive-by-shooting convict as their mayor in the first…
CNN Preview Wednesday evening at the Cronkite School. CNN is profiling a Valley high school as part of its Education in America series Sunday at 5 p.m. The Cronkite School of Journalism is hosting a special screening tomorrow at 7 p.m. downtown. The program focuses on the experiences of three different…
In February, possessing “Spice,” a synthetic form of marijuana, became illegal in Arizona — and some cops apparently are actually enforcing the new law. Just ask Glendale’s Matthew Keller, 27, who was hit with a felony after admitting to cops he had some of the fake weed in his car.Keller…
A new Arizona law that limits the ability of labor unions to harass employers with picketing and defamation has drawn a federal complaint by two local unions. The United Food and Commerical Workers Local 99 and the Local Union No. 469 of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting…
Manny Pacquiao is the undisputed best pound-for-pound boxer in the world at the moment, an unofficial honor that is a first for a Filipino. He is a transcendent figure, a living myth, who combines what seems to be true humility and dignity with amazing pugilistic skills and power. We joined…
In a text message he showed police after getting arrested for having a weekend full of sex with a 15-year-old girl, 23-year-old Christopher Bochenek told his victim, “I hope I don’t go to jail.” Good luck, bub.Bochenek was arrested last Friday after the girl told her parents that she’d spent the…
We’re thrilled sad to report that Deb Moyer, a Maricopa County sheriff’s deputy who starred (abused power) in the TLC network reality TV show Police Women of Maricopa County is in some trouble. Moyer was arrested over the weekend in connection with a domestic-violence incident with her husband Peoria police…
Governor Jan Brewer announced yesterday that she and Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne plan to ask the Supreme Court to lift an injunction that has prevented several parts of Senate Bill 1070, Arizona’s controversial immigration law, from taking effect.Last month, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reverse a federal…
In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries:…
As he was holding his neighbor hostage following a drunken fight with his fiancee, 35-year-old Chad Wisneiwski had an idiotic request: He wanted to have a “fire fight” with the Pinal County sheriff’s deputies who’d surrounded his home and were negotiating with him to come out. It never happened,…
The party’s over for a Tennessee crook who spent some of her embezzled millions on a spectacular Sweet 15 party for her daughter. Leslie Janous, who also goes by Leslie Gibbs, pleaded guilty in February to stealing at least $4.5 million from her employer, Scancarbon, Inc., a precious metals firm in Knoxville. She was…
Michael Salman can’t seem to beat City Hall, and now hopes to be elected to it. The Phoenix pastor has been fighting the city of Phoenix for three years over the right to hold worship services under a backyard structure he and his parishioners built. His home has been raided twice…
Councilman Claude Mattox called out two of his opponents in the Phoenix mayor’s race for “quitting” the City Council before the end of their terms.Former Councilwoman Peggy Neely resigned her District 2 seat in April to run for mayor — as required by Arizona’s resign-to-run law. Former Councilman Greg Stanton…
ost people, when they get mad, take a deep breath, count to 10, or even punch the occasional wall. Not 33-year-old Anthony Gray — he sets things on fire.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Gray’s been charged with five counts of arson for a series of dumpster fires in…
The upshot of the piece came in what we call the “nut graf,” a sentence or two that tells the reader why he or she may want to spend the time getting through one of our monsters. Fenske wrote: “A growing number of probate court observers worry that Grant Goodman…
Add another name to the list of Phoenix politicos who want to run the town: Jennifer Wright.Wright, a Phoenix attorney and longtime member of the Tea Party, joins Lobbyists Wes Gullett, Councilman Claude Mattox, Libertarian Thane Eichenauer, and former Phoenix City Council members Peggy Neely and Greg Stanton.Wright plans to…
Governor Jan Brewer announced this morning that she and Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne plan to ask the Supreme Court to lift an injunction that has prevented several parts of Senate Bill 1070, Arizona’s controversial immigration law, from taking effect — and that’s just fine with Arizona’s Democratic Party.”We agree…
Want to make sure the whole world finds out about your drug-dealing past? Run for political office. If Ben Bethel, owner of the Clarendon Hotel, hadn’t filed paperwork to run for the Phoenix City Council’s District 7 seat, we’d never have known or cared about his past convictions. Now, having discovered his secret during a quickie background search…
Salon Memo to legislators: son niños. They’re children. The Department of Justice mailed out a gentle reminder to school districts across the country over the weekend advising that undocumented students are, in fact, entitled to attend primary and secondary schools in America without getting hassled. It comes in the…
