Can you believe this nonsense? First, former County Attorney Andrew Thomas and his deputy, Lisa Aubuchon, claim that county officials misused public funds by sweeping their offices for hidden listening devices. Then, last month, a high-ranking sheriff’s official publicly accuses county officials of a felony related to the sweeps, despite the fact…
Well, the sun came out today, which, here in the Valley, often means a local law enforcement agency needs the public’s help in tracking down some bozo who robbed a bank.The latest bank heist is brought to you by the Phoenix Police Department, which announced today that it’s looking for…
Richard Burke is a soldier currently serving in Iraq. Up until a few days ago, he was also renting an apartment in Mesa, and was in the process of buying a new truck. Sort of.It turns out one of Burke’s high school buddies saw his deployment less as a noble…
Average folks struck back at criminals recently in two separate incidents. In the most dramatic of the cases, two men rescued a baby who was being threatened by a suspected armed robber inside an east Phoenix laundromat. The disturbing crime began at about 3:15 a.m. Monday morning at the laundromat at…
It seems nearly every other day we get a press release from a Valley law enforcement agency asking for the public’s help in tracking down someone who robbed a bank. It’s rare that we hear any news of one of those robbers being caught or convicted.Today is one of the…
Andrew Thomas tries to spin damning grand-jury testimony in a new blog column published today — but he fails miserably. Staying on a tack he began last week, after the release of grand-jury transcripts that showed the weakness of the former Maricopa County Attorney’s case against county officials, Thomas repeats the ludicrous claim that…
They’re back.It’s that special time of year in Tempe again: when traffic near University and Mill Avenues becomes unbearable, lines — everywhere — get longer, and the stench of stale Milwaukee’s Best and overindulgent students fills the streets.Arizona State University students are coming back to town and the Tempe Police…
Former (if not already former, likely, soon-to-be former. Read about the confusion here) deputy county attorney Lisa Aubuchon filed a $10 million lawsuit against the county last weekThe suit is in response to County Attorney Rick Romley’s bombshell announcement that he was releasing documents, including transcripts of grand jury proceedings,…
The deputy county attorney who helped former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas with his most controversial cases has filed a claim against the county for $10 million. Lisa Aubuchon states in a lengthy claim letter that her reputation has been damaged and future earnings prospects in doubt after smears by…
The man charged in the 2008 beating death of two Phoenix boys was found incompetent to stand trial today and will be sent to a mental health facilityJoe Sauceda Gallegos, 38, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder after he allegedly beat two young boys to death with a…
We’ll spare you a cliche lede about “getting caught with your pants down” — KPHO beat us to that — we’ll just say it: a Valley couple got caught doin’ it in a Scottsdale parking garage last week.The couple, a 38-year-old Scottsdale man and a 26-year-old Phoenix woman, were reportedly…
Since Andrew Thomas quit his gig as Maricopa County attorney to run for attorney general, his sinister smirk hasn’t been plastered all over the New Times Web site nearly as often as when he was launching baseless investigations into judges and his — and Joe Arpaio’s — other political rivals.With…
There’s a new candidate for the world’s dumbest, alleged criminal: 37-year-old Honandez Simmons.Simmons was arrested early this morning after he was found in the parking lot of a Mesa shopping center picking up change.Picking up change in a parking lot is not illegal, as far as we know, but the…
What happened when a shamelessly ambitious zealot (Andrew Peyton Thomas, a timelessly paranoid publicity-seeker (Joe Arpaio), a meglomaniac with a heart of coal (David Hendershott), and a person whose interpretation of the rule of law differs from ours (Lisa Aubuchon) conspire to violate their oaths? This is what happened–The Case(s) of…
The now-infamous tale of the Jet Blue flight attendant who quit his job in grand fashion earlier this week didn’t occur in Phoenix, or even in Arizona, but that hasn’t stopped some area news outlets from trying to turn it into a local story.We figured we’d follow suit.If you’re unfamiliar…
The “Overtime Bandit” is at it again — for the second time in three months he’s robbed the same Mesa bank.The bandit, dubbed the “Overtime Bandit” because he tends to strike on weekends or at the end of the work day, robbed the Desert Schools Federal Credit Union at 2355…
A Prescott Valley man was caught on camera with his hand in the cookie jar. Only it wasn’t an actual cookie jar — it was a coffee can collecting donations for the family of 2-year-old Emmett Trapp, the boy found dead last week after going missing from his home two…
There’s an argument to be made that violence on TV leads to violence in the real world. A Glendale man may have contributed to this argument.Police say 32-year-old Kemonte Tremayne Wesson was arrested early Sunday morning for shooting a 37-year-old man with whom he had an argument.The argument, as dumb…
Tempe Police Department If you know this guy, call the cops. Today is a day that ends in the word “day,” which tends to mean one thing here in the Valley: police need help finding someone who robbed a bank.As Valley crooks have proven recently, there’s no shortage of banks…
A former superintendent at the Gadsden Elementary School District near Tucson was sentenced to some prison time today for a vacation he planned last year and some photos cops found at his house.The vacation 52-year-old Albert Thomas Rogers planned wasn’t to an exotic beach — it was to a Mexican…
The Tempe Police Department has identified the body of a girl who was murdered 40 years ago.Tempe police say the victim, Surette Clark, was murdered by her step-father, Wayne Clifford Roberts, in November 1970. Surette was 4 years old at the time.The body was found buried in a shallow grave in…
It isn’t uncommon for police to release details about certain physical characteristics of a suspect involved in a crime. A tattoo, a scar — things along those lines.According to the Phoenix Police Department, one of the characteristics that might help track down the guy who robbed a bank in Phoenix…
