Want pot? Are you one of Arizona’s 6,000-plus, card-carrying, qualified medical marijuana patients? Or a valid patient from another state? Join the club. In a creative work-around to the state’s lack of marijuana dispensaries, a group of card-holding patients are offering various strains of buds, edibles and tinctures in exchange for donations…
Immigrant-rights activists are planning to hold a protest vigil at the Pinal County Jail July 7 in hope of pushing the federal government to end its immigrant-detention contract with the county. It’ll start at 6:30 and end at 9:30. Their demonstration follows our cover story on the terrible treatment of…
Even though Angelica Hernandez graduated as valedictorian from Arizona State University’s mechanical engineering school this past May, she won’t be rewarded with a career or a good job. This, because she is an undocumented immigrant. However, she will be recognized in U.S. Congress for her hard work.Hernandez, along with another member of the…
Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas already has blown through the $100,000 in taxpayer money he was granted to defend himself in his upcoming state Bar ethics hearing, and now he’s getting even more of your moolah for his defense.The county has agreed to continue paying Thomas’ attorney, Don Wilson,…
Alleged Phoenix scammer Donald Lapre, who skipped his court date on Wednesday, was apprehended last night in Tempe.United States marshals busted Lapre in the area of Warner Road and Priest Drive in Tempe. Lapre, the owner of the company The Best Vitamin in the World, was indicted last week for…
Scottsdale-based Go Daddy, the largest registrar for domain names in the world, is reportedly about to be sold for $2.5 billion.The Wall Street Journal cites “people familiar with the matter” as saying the company is close to a deal with private equity firms KKR & Co., Silver Lake Partners, and…
Earlier this morning, we commented that a 95-year-old man charged with aggravated assault was too adorable for anyone to be mad at. Then we got our hands on his arrest report.Turns out, he has a history of domestic violence and his wife is currently in a shelter for battered women…
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10cAliens vs. Senatorwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogThe Daily Show on FacebookAs I suspected, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart couldn’t resist slapping U.S. Senator from Arizona John McCain around for his ignorant, hillbilly-esque statements blaming Sand Land’s…
Johnson Lester’s wife recently moved out of the home the two shared in the 3000 block of East Desert Cove Drive in Phoenix. A Department of Public Safety officer who lives across the street from the 95-year-old man helped his wife move — which appears to be the only reason…
The cyber-pests at LulzSec, a computer-hacker organization that recently hacked its way into the websites Fox.com and PBS.org, announced yesterday that its latest victim is right here in Arizona: the state’s Department of Public Safety.See our story on the hacking here.The organization says it’s “releasing hundreds of private intelligence bulletins,…
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:…
Extraditions performed by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office were “inexplicably exorbitant” but not a criminal misuse of public funds, U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke has decided. At the request of County Manager David Smith (see below), Burke’s office conducted a review of how Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s employees brought suspects to the Valley from locations all…
If your husband has a history of perving on young girls, perhaps a daycare business at the home the two of you share isn’t the best idea.That said, it didn’t stop the wife of convicted sex criminal Carlos Parra, who’s, yet again, accused of sexually abusing children.According to court records…
Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve Harrison has just confirmed that DPS computers have been hacked by the Internet pirates and keyboard anarchists of LulzSec.(Currently, AZDPS.gov is down.)LulzSec, which stands for “Lulz Security” (Lulz being a slang version of LOL, “Laughng Out Loud,” or doing something just for kicks), posted…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne today agreed to a hefty $40.8 million settlement agreement with GlaxoSmithKline LLC and PB Pharmco — companies accused of distributing defective drugs.After divvying up the settlement between 37 states and the District of Columbia that also filed complaints, Arizona’s raking getting $1.4 million.From 2001 to 2004, the…
The Arizona ACLU released a report on conditions in Arizona immigrant-detention facilities today alleging serious abuses of detainees in the custody of private prisons and the Pinal County Jail. It is titled, “In Their Own Words: Enduring Abuse in Arizona Immigration Detention Centers,” and you can read it here,…
Filmmakers Valeria Fernandez and Dan DeVivo talk about Two AmericansWant to help tell the world what a sadistic, bigoted power-mad nut Sheriff Joe Arpaio is? Well, here’s your chance, by ponying up the dough to help local journalists/filmmakers Valeria Fernandez and Dan DeVivo complete their documentary Two Americans.The film has…
The case of the missing leg has been solved.Mesa police say that the once-missing leg of a man who was killed during a hit-and-run accident early Sunday morning has been recovered — on top of a roof 160 feet away from the point of impact. “We believe this is the…
According to the United States Attorney’s Office, a Tucson man went to some extraordinary lengths to gain access to an Air Force base earlier this year. Once inside, he bought stuff from the base’s commissary in what a U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesman tells New Times was “part of a larger…
Rick Renzi, the disgraced former Arizona congressman, can be prosecuted for his alleged crimes related to a corrupt land-swap deal, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has decided.The 45-page ruling issued today could have an impact on the President and other members of Congress, because Renzi had appealed to the Speech and…
Alleged Phoenix scammer Donald Lapre, owner of the company The Best Vitamin in the World, was indicted last week for allegedly swindling thousands of people out of more than $50 million by having them buy his essentially “worthless” franchises.His arraignment was scheduled for yesterday, but Lapre never showed up, according…
Court officials tell New Times that a Tempe cop accused of stealing evidence from one of the department’s evidence rooms has pleaded not guilty to charges of theft and evidence tampering. In total, Officer Elliot Campbell’s charged with two counts of theft of a credit card, 10 counts of tampering…
