Gilbert police arrested a man on Tuesday after they were led to the suspect by the rims on his car. The “dubs” the suspect, 38-year-old John McCombs Wilcox (pictured), was rollin’ on probably won’t find their way into a Dr. Dre video anytime soon, though. The rims didn’t have any tires…
A Coconino County sheriff’s deputy busted a cap in the ass of a vicious pit bull near Flagstaff after the dog attacked a stroller being pushed by a neighbor of the dog’s owner.According to the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office, about 8:40 a.m. yesterday, dispatchers got a call from a woman who…
One of two people police believe are responsible for systematically stealing thousands of pieces of luggage from baggage carousels at Sky Harbor International Airport last year has pleaded guilty to theft and other charges.Stacy King, 39, admitted to two counts of theft, trafficking in stolen property, and a dangerous drug violation in…
An early-morning party at a west Phoenix apartment complex resulted in the shooting death of an unidentified man after an argument with another party-goer. Police are not identifying the victim yet, as investigators are still on the scene trying to piece together what happened. …
UPDATE: the Mohave County Attorney’s Office will not seek the death penalty for alleged baby-rapers. Click here for details.A Bullhead City couple was arrested yesterday after their 1-month-old baby died as a result of what police are calling a “brutal sexual assault.”Bullhead City police spokeswoman Emily Montague tells New Times…
Nearly a year after a group of four Liberian boys raped an 8-year-old Liberian girl in a shed in the apartment complex where she lived, a bench warrant has been issued for the parents of the victim after they failed to show up for a court hearing yesterday morning.Judge Susan…
An alleged serial bank robber, responsible for at least three heists across the Valley, was busted in Peoria last week thanks to the keen eye of a police officer, the Peoria Police Department announced this morning. Peoria police spokesman Mike Tellef tells New Times that Timothy John Kestle is the man…
Two Phoenix men are believed to be responsible for one of the most poorly thought out bank robbery attempts we can remember — including fake machine-guns, a dog, and the suspects using a cab as a getaway vehicle.This brazen act of stupidity has made the media rounds today, but we…
The president of a national association of guide-dog users that gave Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio the boot from its July conference tells us today she’s not exactly upset that her group fouled up the sheriff’s 78th birthday. “It’s too bad,” Guide Dog Users Inc. President Becky Barton allows. ” But I didn’t know…
It’s Sheriff Joe’s party, and he’ll cry if he wants to.Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s 78th birthday was “ruined” over the weekend after he received word he would no longer be the keynote speaker at a convention for guide dog users that’s to be held in Phoenix this July.The National…
A Mesa man got a smooch on the wrist from a Maricopa County Superior Court judge on Friday when the judge sentenced him to only three years’ probation after the man pleaded guilty to one count of animal cruelty. Jeremy Tuffly, 28, entered the guilty plea to animal cruelty in May after…
We got word on Friday that a Mesa man who killed a kitten after trying to feed it to a python was sentenced after pleading guilty to one count of animal cruelty. In one of the more despicable crimes against an animal we can remember, 28-year-old Jeremy Tuffly tried to…
We just got word from the Phoenix Police Department that it’s arrested one of its own. We don’t have too many of the details at the moment, but PPD spokesman Trent Crump says he plans to address the media soon. …
A Gilbert man was arrested Wednesday after police say he and a friend posted an ad on Craigslist hoping to trade an iPod Touch and some weed for an iPad. Based on what we’ve heard about the iPad, 20-year-old Jacob Walker probably would have had more fun with the weed,…
There’s a new bank robber on the loose who bares a striking resemblance to one of our favorite, horribly-named bank-robbing “bandits.”You may recall the “First-Aid Bandit,” later re-named the “Band-Aid Bandit,” who was arrested in January after a string of robberies stretching from Gilbert to Queen Creek…
Yesterday, we posted a story about a Phoenix man who shot and killed his wife on Friday, failed to die after shooting himself in the head, and then lived in his house — with his wife dead on the floor — for four days before he called police.Today, the suspect has…
Mesa police arrested a man who they believe beat his 4-year-old daughter with a power cord so severely that investigators say it was “the worst case of child abuse [they’ve] seen where the child survives.”Mesa police Sergeant Ed Wessing tells New Times that on Sunday morning the suspect’s girlfriend went to…
Last week, Maricopa County cut an extra $2 million worth of checks — money owed to detention officers as part of a settlement with the Department of Labor after its investigation into allegations that the Sheriff’s Office routinely required detention officers to check in for meetings before they’d clocked in.But,…
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled this morning that, to collect blood from a person suspected of DUI, police must get specific consent from the suspect or get a search warrant.In other words, if you get stopped driving drunk and cops take your blood without permission, it can’t be used against you in…
Tempe police believe they have found the body of a man who went missing earlier this week after going for a walk on a canal path near his Tempe. According to the Tempe Police Department, Salt River Project workers found a body yesterday in the Western Canal near Kyrene and Baseline in…
The last of the three surviving karate instructors who burned down the Phoenix headquarters of a youth-instruction firm has been sentenced to four years in prison. Moniza Murillo, 20, received the lightest sentence of the three, apparently as reward for providing the most help to authorities following the June 14 blaze. As New Times reported in January’s…
Susan Schuerman, a 23-year employee of Maricopa County and secretary to Supervisor Don Stapley, has filed a notice of claim with the county, the first step to a lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former County Attorney Andrew Thomas.The claim, filed by attorney Michael Manning, details how Schuerman was personally…
