The Chandler man convicted of stabbing his roommate with the hopes of sucking his blood as part of a “vampire” ritual has been sentenced to three years probation.Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Warren Granville spared 24-year-old Aaron Homer any jail time for the bizarre incident, during which Homer and his…
We settled in yesterday for an annual ritual–watching the NCAA March Madness Selection Show at a Scottsdale bar, Zipps Sports Grill up on East Greenway Parkway. It’s always a hoot to see guys armed with schooners of brewskies trying to keep up with the match-ups as they flash on the…
Arizona’s 77-75 overtime loss to Washington in the Pac-10 tournament finals on Saturday afternoon was intensely fought, and ended dramatically when tough little guard Isaiah Thomas hit a fadeaway jumper at the buzzer that was one of ESPN’s top ten plays of the day. The Wildcats seemingly had the game…
Somebody’s seen Psycho one too many times…A Tombstone horror film producer was arrested last week after his mother’s skeletal remains were found in her home — where they’d sat for about a year, despite the man knowing she was dead the entire time.Timothy Fattig, 34, was arrested Wednesday after his…
The Phoenix Suns didn’t stand a chance against the Orlando Magic yesterday, not with Steve Nash out with “pelvic instability,” and not with their magically disappearing offense. Orlando whomped on the Suns in a 111-88 rout. Magic Coach Stan Van Gundy commented on Nash’s absence after the game. “I thought…
As we noted last week, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was more pissed off at New Times than usual after we prematurely published information about Friday’s Tent City jail shakedown (billed to be starring Under Seige II star Steven Seagal) after his office had asked the media to wait until…
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:…
Straight from Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio: calling a press conference about a jail shakedown — when Hard to Kill star Steven Seagal just happens to be in town filming his new cop-u-drama Steven Seagal: Lawman at Joe’s infamous Tent City — was not a publicity stunt.Only it was.While we…
As Sheriff Joe Arpaio tosses cots in Tent City with Steven Seagal, a woman in Guadalupe, Arizona is looking forward to a check cut by the county for $30,000. This, due to her false arrest and imprisonment at the hands of Sheriff Joe’s boys in beige.You may recall the name…
A Rocky Point, Mexico man was murdered in a local hospital at the start of Spring Break last Saturday, after gunmen failed to kill him in a high-speed chase through the streets, sources confirm to New Times. Javier Celaya Vega, 21, was driving a white 2004 GMC Sierra through…
The man pictured is 49-year-old Michael Alan Jenks, of Mesa, and he allegedly likes to give little girls drugs and alcohol, and then feel them up.Jenks got popped on Tuesday for allegedly molesting three young girls, two of whom were blood relatives of his living in his home.According to court…
Police say a man broke into a Mesa apartment Thursday morning, only to have his burglary plan hampered by getting caught in a clothes hamper. Mesa police Detective Mike Melendez tells New Times that a 45-year-old man was in the bathroom of his apartment, on the 300 block of North…
Say what you will about Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman, but he’s a man of his word — at least when it comes to the word “suck.”In an apparent attempt to make up for his ruthless censorship of New Times” work, the mayor said the word “sucks” 11 times at last…
So it’s Friday –traditionally a slow news day — which means time for another Sheriff Joe Arpaio media stunt, this one to help his buddy Steven Seagal’s A&E reality series Steven Seagal: Lawman. (Please see updates below.)Although the media has been told to “embargo” this one for “jail security” till…
After allegedly slamming into a school bus full of 28 elementary-school children and driving away, Jonathan Carillo-Rubio tried to tell the cops he was just a scared kid — until they found out he wasn’t a kid, but a well-known human smuggler. The Arizona Department of Public Safety says Carillo-Rubio,…
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, we learned earlier this week, is rumored to be planning to base her hypothetical presidential campaign in Scottsdale, but GOP sources tell New Times the one-time darling of the Conservative movement might be coming to the Grand Canyon State for a different reason: to run…
A Chandler woman escaped certain death a lousy breakfast yesterday morning — when she noticed her toast was burning, she panicked and jumped off the balcony of her apartment.Chandler fire officials say fire units responded to the “fire” at 800 North Federal Street near Ray Road and Loop 101 about…
While reporting our recent story, “Good Neighbor,” (here it is), we requested the personnel file from the City of Peoria for fire captain Robert Brewster, the un-charged alleged mastermind of the December 2003 fire that destroyed the nearly completed residence of Peoria residents Mike and Betty Johnson. So, yesterday, a…
Local lawyer Mark Goldman’s alleged actions in the investigation of Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley have become evidence against former County Attorney Andrew Thomas and Thomas’ political go-to girl, Lisa Aubuchon. Goldman also helped Aubuchon fight her State Bar complaint. Now bad-boyfriend and state senator Scott Bundgaard is counting on…
For the first time in about seven weeks, doctors treating Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords held a news conference to update the public on the congresswoman’s condition after she was shot through the brain during the January 8 shooting rampage in Tucson.Things are looking good for Giffords.According to her doctors, Giffords is…
We just saw some of the video footage trickling in from the epic disaster that hit Japan last night. Unbelievable. Gut-wrenching. Scary as hell. Nice to be safe here in the deep desert. Just called a friend who lives near Half Moon Bay — he says they’ve reported an eight-inch…
This edition of the Arizona Wildcats is unlikely to get too deep into the upcoming NCAA tournament–inexperience at the point guard position and other shortcomings surely will spell their doom, hopefully in the second weekend, not the first. But it’s an interesting and very watchable team, with all manner of…
