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…
By now, the sale of the Tempe’s Centerpoint Towers was supposed to be a done deal. Workers should be buzzing all over the 22- and 30-story towers, which have sat unfinished and vacant (except for the occasional trespassers) since 2008. Zaremba Group, the Ohio-based company that wants to buy the towers, expected construction…
We got a cordial note last night from a guy who identified himself as Gary Karpin Jr., the son of white-collar scammer Gary Karpin Sr. The elder Karpin (in photo), a disbarred attorney turned divorce “mediator,” is serving a long sentence at the Arizona State Prison for stealing from dozens…
It’s depressing out there, no doubt. President Barack Obama’s “honeymoon” never happened, partly his fault, partly not. The collective memory of the “American public” is about as long as that of a rather slow 2-year-old. Joe F-ing Arpaio, a paragon of everything that can be bad about law enforcement, is…
A Pinal County mom let her 14-year-old son use her car to go joyriding with a group of friends, and it didn’t go well — he crashed the car, and a fence pole impaled the him and one of his friends.According to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office, Griselda R. Figueroa…
We just got word from the Maricopa County Superior Court that the long-awaited trial of the mother of missing baby Gabriel Johnson finally is scheduled.The trial of Elizabeth Johnson is set for May 9 and is expected to last three weeks.Johnson’s been charged with kidnapping, child abuse, and custodial interference in…
Attention, Andrei Cherny: we’re hip to you.As we’ve seen throughout the 2010 election season, family values matters to Arizona voters, and in a final push to drum up support for his campaign for state Treasurer, Democratic candidate Andrei Cherny ordered his wife to have a baby last night — just in…
Sherwood gets the Dennis Gilman treatment in this YouTube video Andrew Sherwood may not slay the anti-immigrant goliath, neo-Nazi-huggin’ state Senator Russell Pearce, but he’s got the right idea on how to take on the beast. And that is, talk about everything Pearce’s not doing, and all the stuff he’s…
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Brewer declares her desire to live in America, 4:24 in. (Psst, so do “illegals,” Jan) When you’re Governor Jan “We have did” Brewer, how do you top yourself on the gaffe-meter following that September 1 brain freeze during the Channel 8 debate? The reality is, with a flub like that, there’s…
We wrote earlier this year about the obsession of Rusty Stuart, a veteran Phoenix street cop (in photo) who became fixated during the Baseline Killer investigation with the possible culpability of a seriously mentally ill, low-level criminal named Terry Wayne Smith. Here’s the story, which we called “Going Rogue.” Suffice…
An hour-long hearing at the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco signals a mixed bag for both supporters and opponents of Arizona’s harsh anti-illegal-immigrant law. A story in the Washington Post claims that “deep skepticism” by one judge about the Obama Adminstration’s challenge to the law makes it “uncertain” that the…
An Arizona prison inmate convicted of sexually assaulting his daughter and one of his daughter’s friends is believed to have killed himself at the Eyman Prison last week.James Galloway, 54, was serving 18 life sentences for multiple acts of sexual abuse. He was found dead in his cell last Tuesday.Galloway…
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…
Attendance at Phoenix Coyotes games is once again an issue. Like much of last season, the Howlers have the worst attendance in the league — partly because desert-dwellers tend to not like hockey (until the Canadian snowbirds arrive, that is), and party because of games like Saturday’s 3-0 loss to…
Arizona Cardinals rookie quarterback Max Hall threw his first NFL touchdown in the Cards’ 38-35 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday. It was a short, three-yard pass to Larry Fitzgerald to give the team an early, 7-point lead. It was a nice moment — following the touchdown, Fitzgerald’s…
The Los Angeles Lakers both demonstrated their dominance over the NBA’s Western Conference and proved why they’re the Phoenix Suns’ biggest rivals by defeating Steve Nash and his crew 114-106 on Friday night in the Purple and Orange Gang’s home opener at US Airways Center. But while the Suns suffered…
It’s not lookin’ good for Maricopa County’s corrupt top constable, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and that bottomless pit of iniquity known as the MCSO.You’d think things were bad enough with a federal grand jury probing the sheriff’s office on criminal abuse of power allegations, and intertwining investigations by the FBI, the…
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In a startling turn of events, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has cut ties with the local nativist organization Ban Amnesty Now over a controversial e-mail that many Latino and liberal groups assumed was a voter suppression effort. As I detailed in a blog post yesterday, the e-mail claimed (falsely) that illegal aliens are poised…
