Things could have been much worse for a 9-year-old Glendale boy who was the victim of a flasher Friday night. For starters, the flasher could have had a penis.That wasn’t the case, though. The alleged flasher was a 24-year-old chick who — as far as flashers go — is a…
While Tampa Bay Rays all-star third baseman Evan Longoria is swinging away in Florida as his team prepares for the upcoming season, thieves back in Arizona took off with his $75,000 Chevy Camaro. Longoria’s 1967 Chevrolet Camaro RS was one of two cars stolen out of the parking lot of…
State Senate Majority Leader Scott Bundgaard will remain the second-most powerful person in the Senate following a closed-door meeting with members of the Republican caucus this morning, at which GOP lawmakers discussed the senator’s February domestic violence incident, and reportedly have decided to take no action to remove him from…
State Senator Scott Bundgaard’s roadside domestic violence debacle on February 25 continues to dust up the many blemishes in the majority leader’s past. And today, the tale of another jilted love affair involving Bundgaard and a woman are making headlines. The skeletons in the Peoria Republican’s closet are enough to…
The only “first-aid”45-year-old Samuel Cresante will be receiving for the next several years will be at a prison infirmary. Cresante was sentenced in federal court this morning to 19 years in prison for a string of at least 12 bank robberies lamely dubbed by the FBI’s bandit-naming department as the…
A Maricopa teen really (really) wants to be a mom.According to authorities in Maricopa, Kassandra Toruga concocted a plan to obtain a baby — her 9-month pregnant friend’s baby, that is — by killing the girl and stealing the fetus.On February 16, Toruga went to her friend’s home armed with…
We first heard about the Lisa Randall case about six months before we broke the story of her unfortunate prosecution here in “Phantom Murder,” published last July.It took awhile to wrap our head around the unusually tragic and complex facts that had landed the Peoria grandmother and veteran day-care operator…
David Nelson, the former Jehovah’s Witness elder arrested last year for playing strip poker (among other things) with a 14-year-old boy, pleaded guilty this morning to two counts of sexual conduct with a minor stemming from incidents dating back to 1980.Nelson, the former leader of the Madison Park Congregation Church…
A detective from the Phoenix Police Department was arrested yesterday for allegedly stealing drugs from the department’s evidence room.The unidentified detective is a 12-year veteran of the force.According to police, the detective would steal Oxycontin that was scheduled to be destroyed. As if nobody would notice, the detective would replace…
The black eye state Senate Majority Leader Scott Bundgaard allegedly suffered as the result of a right hook from his now-ex-girlfriend, Aubry “Highway Heavyweight Champion” Ballard, is probably the least of the senator’s concerns this morning.See New Times’ story on the Rumble Next to the Carpool Lane here.Yesterday, Senate Democrats…
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I’ve been meaning to do a follow-up of my recent post on Senate Bill 1495/House Bill 2070, which would give the Arizona governor — Jan Brewer and beyond — the power to call up a “state guard” for any reason the governor deems necessary.Currently, the governor can create a state…
We regret to inform you that we nearly let Governor Jan Brewer get away with one.Since our earlier post about the governor’s vacation to Alaska, which she claims is her “first vacation in over two years as Governor,” we were reminded of a story we published last May. That story,…
The goal of Elizabeth Johnson, mother of missing baby Gabriel Johnson, apparently is to make the boy’s father, Logan McQueary, as miserable as possible — a plan that now includes sending him “poetry” that quotes lyrics from a musician nobody’s cared about since 1998.In a bizarre “poem” Johnson sent to her baby-daddy, McQueary,…
Phoenix Suns star Channing Frye will be out for the next two to three weeks with a dislocated right shoulder, confirmed by an MRI this morning. Frye has been a rock for the Suns this season, averaging 12.3 points and 6.6 rebounds a game. He’s played in all of their…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s in Alaska at the moment, and the only bad news is that she’s not staying…forever.For what she claims is the first time in more than two years as Arizona’s governor, Brewer is taking a vacation.The gaffe-prone gov announced via-Twitter last week that she would be in “Alaska…
“Defense” will be a “key” factor in determining who will play first base for the Arizona Diamondbacks this season, which means the Diamondbacks are asking the wrong question of their candidates. The open first base position has been a major question mark for the organization throughout the spring. The candidates…
A Phoenix man who drunkenly crashed into a Department of Public Safety patrol car while driving the wrong way on the westbound Loop 101 last year was in a Maricopa County Superior Court this morning, where he was sentenced to five years in prison.Michael Chicharello, 31, pleaded guilty to aggravated…
Illegal immigrants about to step over the line back into Mexico are increasingly pulled back for a short time so they can be arrested and tagged by U.S. authorities. “We don’t wave them through anymore,” Brian Levin, an Arizona spokesman for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, tells New Times…
In a recent column, I discussed how a gang of disgraced law enforcement officers and prosecutors are looking to bleed Maricopa County dry with threats of bloodsucking lawsuits seeking tens of millions in payouts. This, essentially, because they’ve been called on the carpet by others and now fume from the…
The man pictured is 44-year-old Ronald Slavin, and he sucks at crime.On Friday, Slavin was arrested for trying to burglarize a car and assaulting the officers who arrested him. He was treated at Arizona Regional Hospital for injuries suffered during his arrest, but he checked himself out. That’s when he headed to…
Republicans in the Arizona state Senate pissed away their time and your tax dollars last week when they passed a resolution backing Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker in his budget battle with labor unions and his efforts to put restrictions on collective bargaining for public employees.Say what you will about what’s…
