Phoenix Sergeant Steve Martos confirms to New Times that the deaths of two people found in a Phoenix home last night is suspected to be a case of murder/suicide.Martos says it appears Dylan Bell fatally shot 24-year-old Marilyn Guerra before turning the gun on himself.When the bodies were found, Guerra’s…
Bryan Stewart, a.k.a. “Rick Valentini,” was in Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where he was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the presumed murder of his ex-girlfriend Jamie Laiaddee.Laiddee’s body was never found, but while Stewart was in police custody, he was heard telling other inmates that he…
A Phoenix woman’s 10-month-old baby was found crying in a Phoenix home last night as she sat next to the bodies of her murdered mother and her mother’s boyfriend.The victims have been identified as 24-year-old Marilyn Guerra and Dylan Bell, who’s in his mid-20s.Phoenix police say officers responded to a…
Does the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office have the right to detain you if you seem to be violating one element of a criminal statute?The office’s lawyer, Tim Casey, is arguing with U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow over that question right now in this morning’s hearing in the Melendres vs. MCSO…
According to Troy Allen Puetz, his ex-girlfriend — who currently has an order of protection against him — is into some real “kinky shit.”She’s not kinky enough to ask him to stand outside her window and videotape her having sex with another man, though — which is what police say…
The Glendale Police Department says it now believes the body of missing 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley was thrown in a trash can in Tempe and may be in a landfill just south of the Valley.Glendale Officer Tracey Breeden tells New Times that the case is now a homicide investigation and that Jhessye Shockley’s…
Remember last year when a guy was arrested after Glendale police found what appeared to be the beginning stages of an underground, Silence of the Lambs-esque sex-dungeon being built in his back yard? Well, he’s going to prison…for a long time.William Willis, 46, pleaded guilty earlier this year to one…
A 19-year-old Phoenix man is in “extremely critical condition” after reportedly getting shot in the head while driving through a Phoenix park last night.Phoenix Sergeant Steve Martos says the victim and a 17-year-old friend were driving through a park at 3100 West Morten Avenue in Phoenix about 8:15 p.m. yesterday…
Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and his former underling Lisa Aubuchon must be disbarred in order to restore public trust in the legal system, the State Bar’s investigating lawyer has found.The opinion comes in two documents filed today with the state Supreme Court: A closing argument and “finding of…
Jack Hegarty, the former boss of the Arizona Highway Patrol who was demoted in October, is being investigated for an allegedly unethical use of baseball tickets, the state Department of Public Safety confirmed today. The probe was spurred by a photograph (see below) of Hegarty and another DPS officer, Tim…
The latest FBI crime report shows violent crime was on the increase in most Arizona cities for the first half of 2011, even as the rate of such crimes fell nationwide.Phoenix’s violent crime rate went up 2 percent in the first six months of the year, (from 3,188 reported incidents…
Luis Alberto Ochoa has a fairly extensive porn collection, which would be fine if it wasn’t made up of hundreds of videos and images of children.Ochoa was arrested yesterday morning after police tracked a kiddy-porn video to the IP address on the computer in his Phoenix home.According to court records…
The hits keep coming for the folks at Arizona Child Protective Services — the latest child killed by a person the agency has investigated in the past is 1-year-old Aleigh Torres, who police say was murdered by her mother’s boyfriend, 22-year-old Miguel “Angel” Garcia.According to court records obtained by New…
Sara Petsinger, 31, is going to need a new job — her meth/topless massage business was shut down yesterday when she was arrested for selling meth and heroin to an undercover Mesa police officer…in a school zone…as an 8-year-old slept in her apartment.Petsinger and her co-defendant, 49-year-old Christine Petsinger, face…
Jasmine Brown — a 29-year-old youth minister at the Family of God Christian Fellowship in Apache Junction — and the 12-year-old boy he’s accused of molesting, have differing accounts of the abuse — Brown doesn’t deny he molested the boy, he just claims it was consensual.Unfortunately for Brown, even if…
Yesterday, Scott Bass was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping and child abuse charges for locking his 14-year-old daughter in a bathroom for more than two months.Per his plea deal, Bass faced up to 17 years in prison — and New Times readers apparently weren’t…
Brian Bizzell is a band teacher with the Buckeye Unified School District — which is unfortunate considering he’s also an alleged pederast.Bizzell, who teaches at Estrella Foothills High School, was arrested early yesterday morning after police found evidence on one of his student’s cell phones that he and the underage…
A Phoenix man who pleaded guilty to charges that he locked his 14-year-old daughter in a bathroom for months, barely fed her, and forced her to exercise until exhaustion, was sentenced to 15 years in prison this morning.Additionally, Scott Bass, 31, was sentenced to lifetime probation by Maricopa County Superior…
“She is definitely dead — I put two to the chest and one to the head.”That’s what Anthony Rinaldi — now a former Department of Corrections officer — told a Department of Public Safety officer last night, less than 30 minutes after fatally shooting his wife, 28-year-old Amanda Rinaldi, at…
An officer with the Arizona Department of Corrections turned himself into authorities last night and confessed to murdering his wife at the Phoenix home the couple shared.The officer’s two young children were in the home at the time of the shooting.Phoenix police say about 6:20 p.m. yesterday, Anthony Rinaldi, 26,…
Sorry, gentlemen, according to her Facebook page, Brandi Farnberg, 23, is in a relationship. According to police, she’s also an alleged car thief with aliases like “Sabrina Angelo,” “Brandy Torres,” and “Kacey Whitmore.”Farnberg was arrested early yesterday morning after she was stopped by police while driving a stolen car. Additionally,…
Taylor Jose Basilio told police earlier this week that he’s done some “stupid things” lately. Specifically, he beat his 7-week-old son so violently that the baby’s skull was fractured in two places.Basilio and his wife, Candace Basilio, each of Phoenix, brought the baby to a pediatrician last week to get…
