The Phoenix Police Department has identified the boy found shot to death on a Phoenix sidewalk yesterday morning.The victim is 13-year-old Jonathan Garcia-Valladares. His body was found just blocks from the Phoenix home where he lives with his parents.According to police, Garcia-Valladares was jogging near 28th Street and Thomas Road…
Picture your morning routine. Now picture it with a naked meth-head yelling and banging on the front door of your house. That’s what some people in a Surprise neighborhood woke up to last week, and, needless to say, the man was arrested.Surprise police got a call just before 8 a.m…
Super glue isn’t just for dangling from things by your head anymore. Aside from being used as eye-drops — as a Valley woman learned the hard way is a bad idea — it’s also being used to attempt to keep the man from finding out a person’s true identity. A…
Trying to steal a stop sign is a good way to find yourself in a world of somewhat-serious legal shit, but a Prescott man didn’t stop there. While trying to steal a stop sign, 19-year-old Christopher McCollom managed to hit the trifecta in terms of criminal stupidity.Ya see, not only…
Things just when from really (really) bad to even worse for the wife of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, who is currently in jail after being charged with molesting a boy when he was as young as 14-years-old.In addition to the original two counts of child molestation and two counts…
A Phoenix man is behind bars after police say he murdered the 2-year-old son of his girlfriend by beating him — and biting him — repeatedly over the weekend.The kid was so badly beaten, police say, he had bruises covering 80 percent of his body.According to court documents obtained by…
A hiker found a dead body on Camelback Mountain on Sunday, which is where it remained until this morning — even though police were called to the scene yesterday afternoon.Phoenix Police Department spokesman Trent Crump tells New Times the body was left on the mountain overnight because it became too…
[jump] The marshals had been looking for Gray, who sports dental implants that make his teeth look like fangs, for several months before his arrest on Thursday.Gray’s criminal past includes a conviction of molesting a young girl. He had failed to register as a sex offender, which is the reason he was sought…
New Times is issuing a travel alert to take effect on all Arizona roadways for the duration of next week. The danger isn’t weather related, it’s more alleged-drunk-driving-governor, who just declared next week “Arizona Wine Week” related.We couldn’t help but laugh (and laugh, and laugh) and then shudder in fear…
A Peoria father of three boys who creamed a bicyclist in 2008 while drugged up on Soma was sentenced last week to seven years in prison. Aaron Chubick pleaded guilty in September to manslaughter and hit-and-run in the collision that killed Richard Markarian, a retired lab tech for General Electric…
Governor Jan “Drive Hammered, Get Nailed” Brewer wants to set the record straight: when she crashed her car into the back of a mini-van in 1988, she had been drinking wine — not scotch, as was recorded in the police report.”Well ya know, I’ve never drank scotch in my life…
The Phoenix Police Department has identified the man found shot to death in front of a Phoenix hotel on Sunday. The victim is 38-year-old Timothy Wallis, the PPD announced today. About 3 a.m. Sunday, people heard gunshots in the Premier Inns near Interstate 17 and Peoria Avenue.Security at the hotel…
Governor Jan Brewer will appear on CNN tonight and give her explanation of the allegation that she was drunk when she crashed into the back of a mini-van in 1988. According to Jan, the news that she apparently got away with a DUI is the result of one thing: “Silly…
“He’s taking it like a champion.” That’s what a Pinal County Sheriff’s deputy allegedly told another officer as he held a stun gun to a frog’s back. The officer, Deputy Raul Alvarado, was fired after he allegedly zapped the frog, but the Sheriff’s Office was forced to take him back after he…
Just in time for happy hour, we got our hands on a copy of the Department of Public Safety report filed after Governor Jan Brewer rear-ended a mini-van in 1988. Jan admits having two scotches before the accident but says she wasn’t impaired — despite failing four different field-sobriety tests.Not to…
our previous post about allegations that the wife of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock carried out a sexual relationship with a teenage boy, we contacted Brock’s office for comment. Brock wasn’t available but we were told we’d receive his statement this afternoon.A few minutes ago, Brock’s spokesman, Jason Rose, sent…
A woman was shot in front of an apartment complex in Mesa last night, and one of the two suspects police say was involved was found swimming in a nearby canal shortly after.About 8:30 last night, police got a call that there were shots fired in front of an apartment…
Straight from the you can’t make this shit up files, we’d like to congratulate Max Wilson, who now stands alone as the only member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors without some sort of scandal attached to his name.Until today, Wilson shared that honor with fellow Republican Supervisor Fulton Brock…
A week before the November election, the Arizona Republic was given by Terry Goddard’s campaign has stumbled upon Department of Public Safety records detailing a 1988 car wreck, where Governor Jan Brewer rear-ended a mini-van after throwin’ back at least two scotches.The case was never pursued, and Brewer gave three different…
What some see as the last remaining obstacle for State Bar action against former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and former Deputy County Attorney Lisa Aubuchon has come down. John Gleason, a Colorado lawyer assigned to probe allegations of prosecutorial abuse by Thomas and Aubuchon, has been working on the case…
A Mesa woman was drinking on Friday night and apparently thought it would be a good idea to intentionally slam her head into a wall — right before beating the crap out of her girlfriend and forgetting she had weed in her pocket while talking with police.According to the Mesa…
A man was found shot to death in a Phoenix hotel room yesterday morning and police don’t have a whole lot to go on in terms of finding out who did it.Around 3 a.m. yesterday, people heard gun shots in the Premier Inns near I-17 and Peoria Avenue.Security at the…
