Three Maricopa County employees are heading to mediation talks on Monday with the possibility of settlements in their multi-million-dollar claims against Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former County Attorney Andrew Thomas.This will be the first round of what are sure to be other mediation talks — and potentially quick and lucrative…
Arizona can’t force Jared Loughner to take his anti-psychotic medication for now, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court ruled today.The opinion comes less than a week after U.S. District Judge Larry Burns said Loughner could be forced to take his meds. This spring, the apparently insane Tucson massacre suspect, who shot…
When a creepy stranger clad only black boxer-briefs climbed into a 14-year-old’s bed on Sunday morning and told her to be quiet, the girl made the only sensible choice:Scream. Loudly.Her shouts woke up her 11-year-old brother, who shared her bedroom in the home near Peoria and 7th avenues. The boy…
Normally, possessing photos of Jaden Smith, the star of the most recent Karate Kid movie/son of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, won’t land you in prison.However, if you’re a convicted sex offender currently on probation after getting convicted of child prostitution charges, photos of the 12-year-old star could land you…
Things just got even worse for “reality” porn recruiter Antonio Adrian “Gonzo” Gonzalez.”Gonzo” was charged last month with several kiddy-porn-related charges for allegedly sexually attacking several underage girls he was recruiting for his websites, photosbygonzo.com and gonzomodeling.com — both feeders for the porn website “Backroom Casting Couch” — and now…
The Arizona Supreme Court has again upheld the death sentence of a man who murdered his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son more than 20 years ago.Styers is one of 24 inmates who’s been on Arizona’s death row for two decades or more.In a 4-1 ruling today, the court has again affirmed the…
An arrest has been made in the murders of an Arizona State University student and his friend earlier this week.Read about the murders of pre-med student Tyler Webster, 18, and 19-year-old Olek Wladyszewski here.Jesus Busso Estopellan was picked up yesterday after police discovered text messages exchanged between him and Wladyszewski…
New Times took a look yesterday at Arizona’s 130 death-row inmates awaiting execution. Turns out, nearly 20 percent (24 of 130) have been rotting away/cheating court-ordered death for more than 20 years — on taxpayers’ dime. The extended-stay hotel that Arizona’s death row has become ain’t cheap — last year alone, nearly $600,000…
Kid-killing child molester Richard Bible was executed this morning after sitting on death row — on taxpayers’ dime — for more than 20 years.But Bible’s not the only convicted murderer who’s called death row home for more than two decades. In fact, we crunched the numbers and found that nearly 20…
A Cave Creek man who stabbed a woman to death before setting her house on fire has been sentenced to 23 years in prison, Maricopa County Superior Court officials announced this afternoon.Justin Wade Lunsford pleaded guilty in to second-degree murder and arson of an occupied structure in the death of 29-year-old Mary Elisabeth…
Arizona Department of Corrections officials confirm to New Times that kid-killing child molester Richard Bible has been executed.Bible, DOC spokesman Barrett Marson says, was pronounced dead at 11:11 a.m.Bible was on Death Row for more than 20 years before his execution was carried out this morning.”The delay of over 20…
Tick-tock…Kid-killing child molester Richard Bible is set to be put to death in just hours for the 1988 murder of a 9-year-old girl.Richard Bible is set to die at 11 a.m. after losing all of his appeals. He’s been on Death Row for more than 20 years.Bible was convicted in…
Christie Elliot, a now-former English teacher and cheerleading coach at Empire High School in Tucson, pleaded guilty last month to assault of sexual nature on a minor of 15 years or less after it was revealed that she had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student.Today, she was sentenced to three…
The Mesa Police Department has identified the two victims in this morning’s shootings, one of whom was a pre-med student at Arizona State University.They are 18-year-old Tyler Webster and Olek Wladyszewski, 19.Webster’s Facebook page lists him as a pre-med student majoring in bio-chemistry at ASU. Wladyszewski was a member of the…
Two men are dead after getting shot while sitting in a car in Mesa early this morning, and Mesa police tell New Times that the suspect in the shooting is still on the loose.About 1:15 this morning, Mesa police got a call from a man who said he and the guy…
Kid-killing child molester Richard Lynn Bible is running out of time. He’s set to be put to death tomorrow for murdering a 9-year-old girl, and today the United States Supreme Court denied him a stay of execution.See the court’s ruling here.Bible was convicted in the 1988 murder of 9-year-old Jennifer…
he horse herpes that has plagued Arizona equine for more than a month has been contained, according to the Arizona Department of Agriculture.In mid-May, the ADA announced that an Arizona horse tested positive for the Equine Herpes Virus…
U.S. District Judge Larry Burns ordered an emergency hearing yesterday to determine whether Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner should continue to be involuntarily medicated.Prosecutors filed a motion yesterday arguing that Loughner should be given anti-psychotic medication because he’s been diagnosed as schizophrenic and is a danger to others.His behavior while…
Soliciting a prostitute, as you probably know, is illegal. When the prostitute is only 15 years old, it becomes extra illegal — and when police watch a 15-year-old prostitute’s head “pop up” from your lap as you sit with the girl in your parked car, you’re in some serious trouble.That’s…
A man who walked into a Peoria Dollar Tree on Monday afternoon wasn’t interested in bargain shopping. Instead, police say, he inappropriately touched two young girl in two separate incidents.The girls weren’t at the store together but had apparently drifted away from each of their parents, who were also in the…
The man pictured above is responsible for three bank robberies over the past month, and cops need the public’s help tracking him down…
An Avondale woman was arrested yesterday after she claims her husband — with whom she’s had several documented domestic violence issues in the past — told her “shoot me bitch,” which she did, killing the man.Aimee Stensgaard, 27, admittedly killed her husband during a fight after the two came home…
