Phoenix police released the names of the three people found dead in a Phoenix home yesterday afternoon, and it appears to them that this is a double homicide/suicide — with a side of dog-icide.Police got a call about 2:30 p.m. yesterday from a neighbor of 81-year-old Richard Schmalenbach saying she saw…
A 14-year-old Chandler girl’s been missing since Monday and the Chandler Police Department wants you to help find her.Gabrielle Lacy was last seen on Monday afternoon in the 600 block of West Oakland Street in Chandler.Lacy also goes by the name “Keyshia” and police believe she is a runaway.Chandler Detective…
Allegedly murdering a homeless guy wasn’t the only activity in which 14-year-old Javon Wilson participated on September 28 — he also was interviewed by ABC 15 for a story about the economy.It’s creepy. The interview was reportedly conducted just hours before police say Wilson, and another homeless man, 23-year-old Ronald…
Under heavy criticism over several unsolved murders, the Tempe Police Department arrested two people — including a 14-year-old boy — in connection with the September stabbing death of a homeless man. Police arrested Ronald Therman-Lamar Alewine, 23, and Javon Desmond Wilson, 14 — each homeless — in connection with the…
Nationally recognized mediator Kenneth Feinberg won’t handle the politically delicate claims by Maricopa County officials against the county after all. Feinberg tells us this morning that the plan to have him mediate the claims “never got beyond the discussion phase. We never finalized anything.” Nor was he paid anything, he added. In…
Following the second highly publicized, unsolved murder of an Arizona State University student in six months, the Tempe Police Department has come under fire for its handling of violent crimes. The department responded to media inquiries about crime statistics by issuing a press release yesterday touting how violent crime has…
A homeless Mesa man got knifed by a woman — who also happened to be a Mesa transient — yesterday morning and then denied that the woman had anything to do with the stabbing.Police got a call about 10 a.m. yesterday about a stabbing at 418 South Macdonald Road. When they…
Perhaps it was seeing Justin Draper’s 1-year-old boy scream for his daddy in the courtroom. Or that four years have gone by. Or maybe even that “angels were in the room.” Whatever it was, something changed in Jane Draycott’s heart on Friday during Draper’s sentencing hearing. And it happened right in the middle…
They say pimpin’ aint easy. Sometimes it’s so hard that a pimp is forced to take drastic measures to keep his pimp hand strong — like throwing a McDonald’s cheeseburger at a prostitute because his milkshake wasn’t included with his order.Seems (ahem) rational.That’s what ultimately led to the arrest of…
A failed crime spree came to an abrupt end yesterday, when a Tucson man crashed a police cruiser he’d stolen into a bus. He died.The unidentified 34-year-old man began his trail of mayhem around 3:50 p.m. yesterday, when police say he tried to steal a car with several people in…
The man to the left is 19-year-old Christopher Cravey. You’re probably wondering what has him so happy that he’s willing to flash those shockingly-present chompers of his. Apparently, it’s the aggravated assault and shoplifting charges he’s facing following a liquor-theft-gone-wrong.According to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Department, Cravey, a Queen Creek…
An Arizona State University student was shot last night and has since died from his injuries. Police haven’t identified a suspect in the case and are asking the public’s help in tracking down the person, or people, responsible.Tempe police aren’t releasing too many details about the shooting, and calls to…
Of the all the cockamamie things we’ve heard Lisa Aubuchon did while at the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, this has to be the weirdest. And yet, it seems so — Lisa. Five years ago, the story goes, while building the case against the disgraced, defrocked priest, Dale Fushek, Aubuchon wanted to use…
Partnership for a Drug Free America A good way to get caught moving drugs around is to have them in your car while you’re driving. As most cops will tell you (off the record, of course) if they want to pull someone over, it’s not hard to find some minor…
As one of our colleagues pointed out yesterday, you should never bring a stun-gun to a real-gun fight — or an armored-car robbery, for that matter.Yesterday, we told you about an attempted armored-car robbery in Phoenix. It was reported that the suspect in the robbery was shot by the courier…
Two arrests have been made in connection with a body dumped at a truck stop in the far West Valley earlier this week.Around 12:30 p.m. Monday, police got a call about two men who were seen dumping a human body at the Travel Center of America Truck Stop at 339th…
Robbing an armored-car is serious business in the criminal world. Armored-car companies take a lot of precautions because they know they’re targets for robbery attempts. That’s why the driver and other guards carry guns.In other words, robbing an armored-car takes planning — and probably an actual gun, too.A Valley robber…
A Phoenix resident found a stinkier-than-usual trash can in his neighborhood last night and when he looked inside he found a decomposing human body.Cops got a call about 10:30 p.m. yesterday after a neighbor was walking in an alley near 47th Avenue and McDowell Road.The neighbor passed a dumpster and…
Dennis Wilenchik’s ties to his former employee, failed political candidate and former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, has brought him lots of dough. But in raking in his taxpayer-assisted fortune, he’s more than earned his reputation as a shady lawyer. We remember him well as the disgraced special prosecutor whose…
Last week, we told you about a couple of Chandler residents, who happen to think they’re vampires. How do we know this? Because one of them allegedly stabbed their roommate when he wouldn’t let them suck his blood.Today, police released tapes that further confirm the two actually think they’re vampires.If…
The suspect in the robbery of a Phoenix convenience store apparently forgot that his body would still require oxygen while robbing the store, which might explain why he used a plastic bag as a mask.According to the Phoenix Police Department, on September 19, the unidentified suspect went into the Circle…
An 82-year-old man caught last year for a 1987 murder — and the central character of a feature article this week in New Times — was sentenced today to seven years in prison. As detailed in the article, Richard Rodgers gunned down 23-year-old Terry Keenan in a parking lot for doing nothing more than…
