Lone Wolf Trading Company, a Glendale gun store, leads a top-12 list by the Washington Post of traced crime-scene guns recovered in Mexico. The Post conducted its own Wikileaks-like expose, apparently, defying a 2003 federal law that’s supposed to keep the names of gun dealers hidden from the public. Two other Arizona stores…
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon wasn’t always a travelin’ man. Believe it or not, the man who is now jetting off to places like China, Qatar, Dubai, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia, was once known for his aversion to hopping on a plane and leaving Phoenix. While he touts his travels…
The same week the Peoria Police Department issued a friendly reminder that residents shouldn’t kill themselves, it turns out a woman, who told police she was shot by an unidentified white male, actually shot herself.”[Her story] was so vague we knew it wasn’t true right away,” Mike Tellef, spokesman for…
We were fairly deluged this morning with e-mails from readers of Arizona Republic columnist E.J Montini about a blog post he did about ex-Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Peyton Thomas. “Has E.J. Montini become an apologist for Thomas?” a retired judge wrote us. “I don’t understand the purpose of giving [Thomas] a forum for…
A Phoenix woman accused of murdering a cab driver last month was in court today, where she pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder.Corletha Davis, 33, told officers she had nothing to do with the November 22, murder of 37-year-old Brian Mann, a driver for Discount Cab. Some of the stuff…
A local doctor of psychiatry and internal medicine plans to petition the state to allow post-traumatic-stress disorder as a qualifying ailment for marijuana under Proposition 203. In a draft petition, (see below), Dr. Sue Sisley of St. Joseph’s Hospital points out that some research shows pot is incredibly beneficial for…
A recently released report from the Centers for Disease Control finds that of all the national parks in the United States, the Grand Canyon is the second most-popular spot to kill yourself.
What happened to the good old days, when Arizona’s large-school football championship games were held on Saturday, starting in the afternoon and moving into the evening? Something about the National Football League and its contractual arrangement with its teams (the Arizona Cardinals in this instance) to ensure that the…
The Mesa Police Department is looking for a man it says held a family hostage for about an hour and a half this morning before sneaking away from the scene as police closed in.The suspect, a black guy with dreadlocks, was stopped by police prior to the hostage situation while…
Pinal County sheriff’s deputies say a “rip crew” used a car made to look like a police cruiser to make a traffic stop on another vehicle, in which there just happened to be about 320 pounds of weed.According to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office, a deputy patrolling Interstate 8 on…
For those who have kvetched about the boycott of Arizona over SB 1070, here’s an interesting riposte: Zack de la Rocha’s musicians-boycott, Soundstrike, along with other groups such as Puente, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, and Presente.org, will be giving away thousands of toys and bags of groceries to…
If there was a contest for drunkest driver, a Prescott man would be in contention to take the gold.According to Prescott police, 41-year-old Lloyd Kennie was found passed out in his running car at a school bus stop Thursday afternoon. His blood alcohol content was bordering on the ridiculous…
Steve Nash and the rest of the Phoenix Suns lacked both heart and hustle this past weekend as they allowed a fired-up Portland Trailblazers team to completely dominate Friday night’s game at US Airways Center. As a result, the road team left the arena with a 101-9 win and dealt…
The Arizona Cardinals won a football game!That’s the good news. The bad news: who cares?The Cards bested the Denver Broncos in a 43-13 blowout in Glendale on Sunday, and C-squad quarterback John Skelton was spectacularly average.Skelton, who replaced Derek Anderson, who replaced Max Hall, who replaced Anderson, who replaced Matt…
Judge G. Murray Snow, the federal judge in the three-year-long racial profiling lawsuit against the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, has rejected a motion by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s lawyers to seal videotaped depositions of Arpaio, former Chief Deputy David Hendershott and other MCSO staff. (Read the Judge’s ruling, here.) The motion…
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:…
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office announced today that Kevin Gerster, the former Maricopa County detention officer seen on security video punching two restrained inmates, has been charged with several crimes for his alleged misdoings while a member of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.In total, Gerster faces five counts of aggravated…
Responding to serious problems and mismanagement first investigated by New Times and subsequently confirmed in a blistering audit by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors is poised to again take over the Housing Authority of Maricopa County. The Board is scheduled to…
Kumari Fulbright, the former “beauty queen” and law student, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping after the bizarre kidnapping and torture of her ex-boyfriend two years ago, was sentenced to two years in prison and six months probation by a Pima County Superior Court judge this morning.The charges…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office confirms to New Times that detectives have recovered a video at the home of Dr. Don Underwood — the Anthem naturopathic doctor (N.D.) accused of molesting a 9-year-old boy — that shows a man and a boy taking a shower together.The man, MCSO Lieutenant Brian…
When 47-year-old Michael Thornborrow watched from his backyard as the SWAT team from the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office surrounded his trailer yesterday afternoon, his first thought, apparently, was to run into the trailer, fire up a butane lighter, and smoke a little meth.Bad idea — in the process, he set…
The husband of a woman killed in a wrong-way crash on the Loop 101 freeway on Thursday had been worried about the safety of her and their children just prior to the crash, officials said. The Glendale woman, Patricia Evans, was killed along with her 6-year-old son in the collision, which occurred just after 8 p.m. on the…
