Debra Kastner, 31, of Phoenix, wanted to show her baby-daddy and local police that she’s untouchable — so she called her 11-year old son over and punched him in the lower-back. According to police records, Kastner and the baby-daddy had an argument, which led her to hit the child and…
A Phoenix man has two problems: his neighbor, and throwing like a girl.According to court records obtained by New Times, 51-year-old Bruce Mueller had a dispute with his neighbor at an apartment complex at 1625 East Glendale Avenue in Phoenix. He responded by trying to set burn the neighbor’s house…
Attention Valley residents: Stop driving around shitfaced with your kids in the car.For the second time this morning, we’ve been hit with a story about a person driving drunk with a child in the car. The latest: 34-year-old Carla Flanagan.Flanagan was arrested Saturday after drunkenly crashing her car near 45th…
A story about a Mesa man getting a DUI Monday night probably wouldn’t be news worthy… unless at the time he had three kids in the trunk of his car, which he did.Robert Soto, 23, was stopped by police Monday night after a police helicopter responding to a road rage…
According to a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Deputy, Isabel Beltran is one of the more-honest meth heads in the valley — even though she was using an ex-girlfriend’s ID and a forged prescription to buy drugs for a mysterious woman at Walgreens pharmacy last night.About 8 p.m., Beltran showed up at…
The U.S. Marshals Service released today another mugshot of Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner. In it, as you can see below, he looks far-less maniacal than he does in the now-infamous photo taken by the Pima County sheriff’s deputies shortly after the shooting.Loughner’s attorneys had fought to keep the unreleased…
Police found two dead bodies in Phoenix over the weekend, and today announced the deaths have been ruled a murder/suicide.About 2 a.m. Saturday, Phoenix police responded to a shooting near 26th Street and Clarendon Avenue in Phoenix.Witnesses told the officers they’d heard people arguing and then gunshots…
Some people are better at getting themselves out of trouble than others. Salma Rafik Hourieh is not one of those people. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office was called to the 6600 block of West Laurel Avenue yesterday to deal with a fight between Hourieh and her sister. The sisters had…
A Pima County jury decided this morning that Shawna Forde, the kid-killing minutewoman responsible for the deaths of a 9-year-old Arivaca girl and her father in May of 2009, will pay for the murders with her life.Earlier this month, Forde was convicted of murdering 29-year-old Raul Flores, and his 9-year-old…
A man killed during a shootout at a Phoenix bar early yesterday morning has been identified as 27-year-old Pedro Sanchez Galvan. The man who shot him, however, remains on the loose.Phoenix police spokesman Sergeant Trent Crump says the investigation into the shooting is ongoing, but, at the moment, there aren’t…
Serial stabber Jeff Hausner’s hope for leaving prison early has just been thwarted by the state Court of Appeals. This morning, the court upheld the conviction of Hausner on attempted murder and aggravated assault charges for a 2006 stabbing he committed with serial shooters Dale Hausner (his brother) and Samuel Dieteman. Among Jeff Hausner’s…
A Chandler woman insists that she’s not a meth dealer — she just arranges, buys, and is paid with either cash or meth, and she often conducts business with her infant daughter under the same roof.Last week, police arrested 29-year-old Carol Stephen following several meth deals at the home at…
If any good came from the shooting rampage in Tucson last month, it’s an institution opening today at the University of Arizona with the goal of getting politicos to tone down the rhetoric.The National Institute for Civil Discourse opens today in Tucson. The organization is described as a “center for…
A couple of Chandler gangsters kept things extra gangsta this morning, when police say one thug shot another.Chandler Detective Frank Mendoza tells New Times that about 10:20 a.m. today, an 18-year-old male was shot at a home at 449 West Ray Road in Chandler. He took bullets to both his…
Authorities continue to search for a U.S. Marine reported missing on Monday.Military officials initially thought 22-year-old Jonathan Kyle Ferguson’s disappearance was an unauthorized absence, but now believe it’s a missing person case.Ferguson was last seen at an IHOP restaurant in Yuma about 3:30 a.m. Monday…
A Loop 101 collision in December that killed a Glendale mom and her 6-year-old son “appeared to be a suicide,” according to one witness. The witness statement and other clues that support the idea of a suicide appear in a state Department of Public Safety report reviewed today by New Times. The report details…
From the wide world of tot-tickling and kiddy-cuddling, police accused a 62-year-old man of molesting his 8-year-old granddaughter. Police arrested Arthur Romero, 62, Tuesday after his granddaughter told her parents she had been molested by the man at his Buckeye home. The girl told the cops she has been sexually…
As if having a laptop full of kiddy porn wasn’t enough, cops say a man was sharing his cruel collection of exploited children with the rest of the Internet from his Laveen home. Police say they arrested 22-year-old Jeffrey Eberlein about 3 p.m. Wednesday, after an undercover investigation revealed he…
While most of us were at work yesterday afternoon — presumably not shit-faced — a drunk Phoenix lawyer was driving his brand new BMW through downtown Phoenix. Sadly, he drove it into a couple walking near the light rail tracks, leaving a woman clinging to life. Just before 2 p.m.,…
While cruising around drunk, the last thing you want to crash your car into is a police cruiser. Enter 69-year-old Barry Lee Smith, who did precisely that while driving around Scottsdale drunk last night.A 13-year veteran of the Scottsdale Police Department was on routine patrol just before 7 p.m. last…
Frequent New Times readers know that we’ve spent a good part of the last eight months covering the mysterious death of Jeff Ahlers, a Tempe man whose bullet-riddled body was pulled from a canal last June.It turns out, the death has now been ruled a suicide, according to the Tempe…
A father of a student at St. Gregory’s Catholic school in Phoenix says that aside from being a pederast, Carl Mosher, a gym teacher at the school accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student, has not only devastated the school, but he was a flat-out shitty teacher, as well…
