If you have any plans on robbing a bank with a note, at least make your demands legible.Perhaps the suspect in a failed bank robbery in Phoenix this morning would have been better served e-mailing his demand note to the bank because the words he scratched onto a piece of…
Back in November, we heard that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office had Governor Jan Brewer under investigation, and passed that rumor to you. It didn’t seem a stretch to believe our source on the shocking piece of gossip. After all, Arpaio’s office investigates its political enemies, perceived or real, at…
A pig named “Porkchop” (the name’s a bit on the presumptive side, if you ask us) was apparently pig-napped in downtown Phoenix on Monday. At least that’s what signs being distributed around 7th Street and McDowell would suggest.A colleague brought this to our attention yesterday and after several attempts to…
When we hear about large amounts of cocaine and Cuban guys we’re instantly compelled to make some lame reference to saying hello to “my little friend.” The story of two Cuban nationals who tried to buy 22 pounds of cocaine near Tucson last year isn’t nearly as sexy as the…
The photo to the left is the original booking photo for 24-year-old Andrew Cushman. Cushman’s been charged with raping a 16-year-old girl during a weed-deal-gone-wrong last weekend.A few readers commented on yesterday’s story saying they were unimpressed with the face Cushman made during his mugshot. Specifically, one reader commented “What…
If you’re going to all the trouble of committing armed robbery — even if you’re really only looking for prescription pills — you might as well take some cash, too.You see, pill-poppers, once you polish off the pharmies you rob, you can often use money to buy more — kind…
The disappearance of Town Lake is only one of the problems Tempe’s facing these days. The other: armed robberies — lots of them — happening in roughly the same area, each with a similar M.O.Since April 11, nine people have been robbed at gunpoint in the northwest section of the city.Tempe Police…
MCSO Joshua Larsen a.k.a. “Cowboy Cowboy.” There’s good news and bad news from the front lines of the war on perverts. The bad news: they’re out there. The good news: a lot of them are idiots willing to believe that a child they met in an Internet chat room is…
Last year’s sweep of Maricopa County offices for hidden bugs had nothing to do with the feud between county officials and the tag-team of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and then-County Attorney Andy Thomas, says County Manager David Smith. Instead, the two sweeps costing taxpayers $14,600 were conducted out of concern about…
Last Wednesday, someone described by witnesses as an old lady robbed a Pima County bank with a handgun.According to the Pima County Sheriff’s Office, a woman believed to be between the ages of 60 and 70 went into the Bank of the West in the 3,000 block of South Kinney…
Everybody loves a good cold-case file, and the Phoenix Police Department is happy to oblige whenever it can.Yesterday afternoon, Phoenix cops arrested a man in connection with the 2005 murder of 24-year-old Vester Freeman.Freeman’s body was found stabbed to death on May 3, 2005, in front of a business at…
A Mesa man was arrested Tuesday after authorities say he molested his 6-year-old step-granddaughter on several occasions at her Chandler home. In at least one case, police say he used pieces of pool equipment.According to court documents obtained by New Times, on July 20, the girl’s mother reported to police…
Once you hit a certain age, it’s important to stay active. While many of those in the twilight of their lives often opt for things like BINGO, bird watching, and knitting, a Pima County woman has taken up a different hobby: armed bank robbery.According to the Pima County Sheriff’s Office,…
Kerby Young Having pictures of your nude, female neighbor isn’t the strangest thing in the world — assuming she gave them to you. However, when you get the images by sneakin’ around outside her bathroom window with a camera — without her knowing — not only is it super-creepy, it’s…
While Andrew Thomas won’t stoop so low as to take our call, his debate-loving spokesman, Barnett Lotstein, nearly always calls us back. We just heard from him on our question, posed in an earlier blog post: If Thomas, who’s running for state Attorney General, can praise Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon for…
The Phoenix Police Department is asking the public’s help in tracking down the person who stabbed a man to death yesterday morning.Sergeant Steve Martos of the Phoenix PD tells New Times that, just before noon, cops responded to a call saying someone was hurt at 8822 North 1st Street in…
If you’re wanted on a felony warrant, hanging out at a county jail that’s swarming with cops seems like a great place to get yourself caught.That didn’t stop a Phoenix man, though, who paid a visit to a friend in the county clink. The visit resulted in a high-speed chase…
Seriously, who steals cows?Aside from the obvious physical challenges such a task presents, the legal ramifications don’t decrease based on difficulty of theft.In other words, you’re better off stealing a diamond — or just about anything that doesn’t weigh as much as a small car and that doesn’t require you…
Another day, another murder here in the Valley, and the latest victim seems to have died under circumstances similar to that of a Tempe man who was found shot to death in a canal last month.Fire crews pulled the body of an unidentified man out of a Phoenix canal near…
Pets need more than just food and exercise in the summer — they need some damned shade, too. Xavier Montes, 30, didn’t catch on to this part of dog ownership, court records show. At about 10 a.m. on Friday, police were called to Montes’ home at 10407 West Montecito Avenue to check…
The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club sent us an e-mail over the weekend saying that “if [we] have the balls,” we should give them a call to discuss — among other things — a former member arrested for murder last week. We were feelin’ a little ballsy, so we did, and…
Police in Prescott Valley arrested 27-year-old Mathew James Noble yesterday after some naked pictures of him found their way onto the cell phone of a 13-year-old-girl.Police got a call from the girl’s mother about 1 a.m. Sunday; she said she found nude photos of a grown man on her daughter’s…
