Score one for the good guys — Phoenix police, responding to a possible fight at a Phoenix home, stumbled upon 400 pounds of weed and enough guns to arm a small drug cartel. The Phoenix Police Department got a call on Wednesday morning about the fight that was going on…
Staffers for Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Rodney Glassman’s campaign are jumping ship so fast it might as well be a reenactment of James Cameron’s Titanic.Since July, three top staffers have bailed on Glassman: Political Director Junelle Cavero left last month; Field Director Kristin Gwinn resigned a couple of weeks ago; Communications Director…
The Phoenix woman who stole more than 1,000 pieces of luggage from Sky Harbor Airport last year was in court this morning, where she was sentenced to prison time and probation for the thefts.Maricopa Superior Court Judge Paul McMurdie sentenced 39-year-old Stacy King to three-and-a-half years in prison and five…
An argument at a Phoenix apartment complex turned deadly this morning when one of the men involved pulled out a gun and shot the 20-year-old victim.Just after midnight today, Arlandis West was standing with some friends in front of an apartment building at 6805 North 27th Avenue.He got in an…
There’s no disputing that driving drunk is stupid. You could kill someone, hurt someone, or, at the very least, get stopped by a cop, pay a hefty fine, and possibly spend some time in the tents at Joe Arpaio’s jails. Nobody wants that.You could also get away scot-free, which is…
Senator John McCain’s back-and-forth banter with “Snooki” — of Jersey Shore shame — seems to have earned him high marks as far as his digital prowess goes.In a joint study conducted by George Washington and New York universities, McCain ranks number one when it comes to his “digital IQ.”The study…
Maricopa County Supervisor Andy Kunasek says in a letter released today that prosecutors working for former County Attorney Andrew Thomas tried to extort a political deal from him in return for dropping a criminal matter. The letter addressed to “fellow Arizonans,” Kunasek explains, is to help people understand the full story behind…
The Romley campaign’s latest YouTube video dissing MontgomeryU.S. Senator John McCain took some time off from horsewhippin’ GOP primary rival J.D. Hayworth to endorse Rick Romley for Maricopa County Attorney over Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s boy in that primary race, Bill Montgomery.To call McCain’s endorsement of Romley “glowing” would be an…
Any plans for a West-Virginia-style wedding for escaped Arizona prison inmate John McCluskey and his cousin/ fiancee, Casslyn Welch, will have to be put on hold. As you probably know, the two were busted at a campsite in northern Arizona last night.They apparently hoped to go out in a hail…
Yesterday — a relatively slow news day — us New Times staffers were (ahem) blessed with two meth-related baby stories in roughly an hour.The first: a woman gave birth to a baby with crystal meth and weed in its system. The mother was arrested and charged with neglect thanks to…
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 monotony of a fairly slow news day was briefly interrupted here at New Times this afternoon, when a trio of Hispanic teabaggers (J.D. Hayworth supporters, nonetheless) camped out in front of our downtown Phoenix offices to call our writers “communists” with no “itelligence.”We’re assuming they meant intelligence but we…
A Mesa man was arrested yesterday for allegedly masturbating in his car, which was parked across the street from an elementary school in Chandler.According to court documents obtained by New Times, 52-year-old Jamey Mark Flatt was beatin’ off in his car as it sat parked across the street from Knox…
A group of diverse individuals including Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Barry Hess, former Republican state Senator Karen Johnson, and voting activist John Brakey are suing Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell, alleging that Maricopa County Elections is involved in various voting shenanigans. Their claim, which you can read in its entirety, here,…
A 1-year-old “acting like a junkie.” A 3-week-old girl choking and turning “bluish gray,” but not receiving medical attention from their meth-smoking parents. These are some of the chilling allegations in court paperwork against Jeremiah and Adrienne Outland, a Phoenix couple arrested at their home yesterday following a months-long police investigation…
If you ask us, doing meth probably isn’t the best idea. Doing meth when you’re pregnant, in our humble opinion, is just disgusting.A Sierra Vista woman might disagree.Police in Sierra Vista say a woman gave birth to a baby over the weekend, which would have been good news had doctors…
More than 100 inmates previously housed at Arizona’s privately-run Kingman Prison have been moved to state-run digs thanks to the three inmates who escaped from the prison last month.The Arizona Department of Corrections released its report on the escape this morning. It found several security problems with the facility, which…
The campaign of Congressional candidate Ben Quayle continues to hound Steve Moak for answers to questions he posed to Moak in a letter. The Moak campaign continues to not answer them — yet.The questions pertain to the relationship between Moak’s anti-drug charity, NotMYkid, and a business he used to own…
The law firm representing Lisa Aubuchon in the probe of actions by her and her former boss, Andrew Thomas, billed the county $177,876 in four months, the Arizona Republic reports this morning. After reporters Michael Kiefer (formerly of New Times fame) and Yvonne Wingett published their article yesterday afternoon about…
Hopefully, Arizona prison inmate Jefferey Douglas enjoyed his brief taste of freedom because it certainly didn’t last long — about 20 hours.Douglas, an inmate serving a 7-and-1/2-year sentence at a minimum-security prison complex near Tucson, walked away from a prison work detail yesterday but was captured this morning, the Arizona…
With all the fun taking place in the District 3 Congressional primary, and because his campaign’s pretty much been dead-in-the-water since news of his infomercial stardom made headlines, former Congressman J.D. Hayworth’s futile attempt to become Arizona’s next senator has been pushed to the back burner in terms of things…
For the second time in just over two weeks an Arizona prison inmate has escaped from custody.Inmate Jefferey Douglas walked away from a prison work crew near Tucson yesterday afternoon and hasn’t been seen since.Meanwhile, federal authorities are combing the American northwest looking for Casslyn Welch and her fiancee/ cousin,…
