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…
As Oprah-approved “self-help” guru James Arthur Ray prepares for sentencing after getting convicted of negligent homicide for the deaths of three people at a sweat lodge ceremony, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are trying to capitalize on the publicity his case received — by comparing the victims of…
A Phoenix man is charged with first-degree murder after police say he beat his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter to death over the weekend. In addition to blunt force trauma to the girl’s head and torso, police also noticed bite marks on the young girl, which were admittedly caused by her mother’s…
Disgraced former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas already has blown through $100,000 in taxpayer money he was granted to defend himself in his upcoming state Bar ethics hearing, and he’s getting more.On Friday, the county agreed to continue funding his defense after his attorney, Don Wilson, threatened to quit if…
Adam Hollingshead, 32, of Glendale, found a shirtless 15-year-old boy he saw as he was driving near Thunderbird Park last week to be “kinda cute,” an observation he felt he need to tell the boy — several times.Not much harm in that, right? However, Hollingshead also asked the boy “do…
Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas already has blown through the $100,000 in taxpayer money he was granted to defend himself in his upcoming state Bar ethics hearing, and now he’s getting even more of your moolah for his defense.The county has agreed to continue paying Thomas’ attorney, Don Wilson,…
Earlier this morning, we commented that a 95-year-old man charged with aggravated assault was too adorable for anyone to be mad at. Then we got our hands on his arrest report.Turns out, he has a history of domestic violence and his wife is currently in a shelter for battered women…
Johnson Lester’s wife recently moved out of the home the two shared in the 3000 block of East Desert Cove Drive in Phoenix. A Department of Public Safety officer who lives across the street from the 95-year-old man helped his wife move — which appears to be the only reason…
If your husband has a history of perving on young girls, perhaps a daycare business at the home the two of you share isn’t the best idea.That said, it didn’t stop the wife of convicted sex criminal Carlos Parra, who’s, yet again, accused of sexually abusing children.According to court records…
Court officials tell New Times that a Tempe cop accused of stealing evidence from one of the department’s evidence rooms has pleaded not guilty to charges of theft and evidence tampering. In total, Officer Elliot Campbell’s charged with two counts of theft of a credit card, 10 counts of tampering…
