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:…
Three weeks after a trio robbed a CVS Pharmacy of thousands of prescription pills, Silent Witness is increasing its reward to anyone who comes forward. Purdue Pharma L.P., the owners of RxPATROL — a collaboration to stop pharmacy theft — donated $2,500 to Silent Witness for the case, bringing the…
A Loop 101 collision in December that killed a Glendale mom and her 6-year-old son “appeared to be a suicide,” according to one witness. The witness statement and other clues that support the idea of a suicide appear in a state Department of Public Safety report reviewed today by New Times. The report details…
Apparently Blake Obadiah Adams’ definition of “change” is a little different from Barack Obama’s — “change,” it seems, is what prompted Adams to inexplicably fatally shoot his girlfriend’s cousin on Valentine’s Day.According to court documents obtained by New Times, cops say Adams shot and killed Maxwell Henley on Monday, in…
Senate hopeful Jeff Flake is a refreshing voice of sanity in a state filled with lunatics.Unlike several GOP members of the Arizona state Legislature (see all their names right here), Flake doesn’t see President Barack Obama as a Kenyan version of the Manchurian Candidate, and has a message for those…
From the wide world of tot-tickling and kiddy-cuddling, police accused a 62-year-old man of molesting his 8-year-old granddaughter. Police arrested Arthur Romero, 62, Tuesday after his granddaughter told her parents she had been molested by the man at his Buckeye home. The girl told the cops she has been sexually…
Police arrested six illegal immigrants in Phoenix Wednesday, accusing them of charges ranging from human smuggling, kidnapping for ransom, and extortion — and, for good measure, possessing 160 pounds of weed. IIMPACT, the Illegal Immigration Prevention & Apprehension Co-op Team, arrested six men in connection with their investigation: Francisco Ruben…
An alleged Glendale pimp was arrested yesterday in connection with the 2009 murder of a California man he thought was a guy he’d argued with in front of an apartment building. The man the pimp shot, however, was not the person with whom he was arguing — he was a…
As if having a laptop full of kiddy porn wasn’t enough, cops say a man was sharing his cruel collection of exploited children with the rest of the Internet from his Laveen home. Police say they arrested 22-year-old Jeffrey Eberlein about 3 p.m. Wednesday, after an undercover investigation revealed he…
While most of us were at work yesterday afternoon — presumably not shit-faced — a drunk Phoenix lawyer was driving his brand new BMW through downtown Phoenix. Sadly, he drove it into a couple walking near the light rail tracks, leaving a woman clinging to life. Just before 2 p.m.,…
First, we note that the lowly Cleveland Cavs somehow beat the two-time defending NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers last night in what has to rank as the sports upset of this new year. A real stunner. ASU coach Herb Sendek needs help from the basketball gods For the ASU Sun…
Photo-radar enforcement is done-zo on Arizona highways, but several Republicans in the Arizona state Legislature say that’s not good enough — they want it banned everywhere.While state-wide photo-radar enforcement was given the heave-ho by voters last year, it still exists in cities across the state — and a bill making…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has seen better days — what with those allegations of corruption and criminal activity in his office, that scandal with the Sheriff’s Command Association, those politically motivated investigations against judges and county supervisors by him and his pal, ex-County Attorney Andy Thomas, and … Well, all that…
There’s a pissing match underway between the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office and three mayors of cities along the U.S./Mexico border — and it just got pissier.In one corner: Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu. In the other: mayors Arturo Garino of Nogales, Michael Gomez, of Douglas, and Juan Escamilla, of San…
While cruising around drunk, the last thing you want to crash your car into is a police cruiser. Enter 69-year-old Barry Lee Smith, who did precisely that while driving around Scottsdale drunk last night.A 13-year veteran of the Scottsdale Police Department was on routine patrol just before 7 p.m. last…
RUN, RUSS, RUN! I’m as giddy as a Justin Bieber fan at the Grammys over state Senate President Russell Pearce’s purported ambition to run for U.S. Congress in Arizona’s 6th Congressional District. Pearce long has coveted the seat held by Republican golden boy Congressman Jeff Flake. Pearce even considered running…
I’m a white, rural, ninth-generation Texan who left the farm and is now a lawyer for a large corporation in one of the largest cities in the state. Maybe a quarter of the clients they assign me speak Spanish, so the company’s paying for me to learn Spanish. I’m glad,…
Phoenix police reported 358 kidnapping calls during 2008, and they said a majority of them were linked to drug and human smuggling across the Arizona-Mexico border. While Phoenix police union leaders raised questions about the veracity of the statistics, the city’s top officials — City Manager David Cavazos, Police Chief…
POT STIRRING Fat cats only, please: Your story on the grabs to get medical-marijuana-clinic franchises was enlightening (“Pot of Gold,” Ray Stern, February 3). Proves that the rich just keep getting richer. The amount of money it will take to start one of these businesses is mind-blowing. And the amount…
Clarification: New Times didn’t intend to imply that goddess temples in Orange County and Chico, California; Asheville, North Carolina; Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Sedona offer sexual services like those observed at the Phoenix Goddess Temple. In addition, Goddess Temple of Orange County reports it’s “registered as a church with the…
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:…
In a creative yet another case of people making illicit Build-A-Bears, a former Arizona resident has been arrested in Iowa for mailing teddy bears filled with pot. At least one was mailed from Tempe, authorities say. Douglas Duane Hoffman, 53, was arrested on Monday and slapped with marijuana distribution charges…
