The feds are bringing another child-porn watcher to justice with the recent guilty plea of Arizona resident Douglas Earl Leach. When Leach’s Peoria home was raided on September 5, 2012, following an FBI investigation, agents found nearly 4,000 child-porn pictures, mostly of young boys engaged in sex acts. At least…
A member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club was arrested this weekend after cutting off a Scottsdale police detective who was trailing several Hells Angels during an Arizona Bike Week event.Bruce Schweigert, one of the seven Hells Angels bikers who beat charges from a 2010 shootout with Vagos bikers in…
Police say the man who shot at a group of people attending a birthday party in Phoenix this weekend, killing two people, admitted to doing just that.One of the men killed in Carlos Rodriguez’s drive-by shooting was the birthday boy, 18-year-old Jason Acosta-Ramos…
A 17-year-old Peoria girl has joined her mother and brother as a murder defendant.Alysa Gibson is now the third family member arrested in the murder of her father, Steve Gibson, who was killed at his Peoria home about six weeks ago.See also:-Steve Gibson of Peoria Killed by Teenage Hitman Hired…
Steven Craig Shiflet, the Mesa resident who admitted to starting the near-18,000-acre Sunflower Fire in the Tonto National Forest last year with an “incendiary shotgun shell,” was sentenced Monday to probation.Shiflet fired the shell during a bachelor party in the desert near Sycamore Creek on May 12, and the fire…
Most of the time, things don’t work out like they do in action movies, which apparently came as a surprise to 18-year-old Luis Cardenas this morning.Cardenas, who allegedly started a car chase with the Phoenix PD a little before 1:30 a.m. today, ended up driving to Scottsdale and onto a…
A Peoria mother and her teenage son pleaded not guilty this morning to murder charges, about six weeks after police said the two hired a 16-year-old boy to kill a member of their family.Police said at the time that Michelle Gibson called 911 early on March 1 saying she found…
Aaron Smith, a former Tempe patrol officer who decided to steal from a building full of cops — the police department — has pleaded guilty to a theft charge.Smith, who was caught taking some cash, bikes, and a GPS unit that didn’t even work, told his fellow officers that he…
Arpaio’s new office just might be bigger than your first apartment. When the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office headquarters moves this summer from the downtown Phoenix Wells Fargo building to its new digs on Fifth Street and Jackson, the tough-talking, 20-year sheriff will be welcomed into a personal office in the…
The Phoenix parks and recreation department employee who police say admitted to molesting three teenagers between 1995 and 1998 has pleaded not guilty in the case.Arthur Rey Juarez, 42, was picked up by detectives on March 30, the day before he had a “a scheduled activity with children on Easter…
Here’s something that’s totally normal: You can follow America’s favorite murder defendant on Twitter. Seriously.There aren’t too many tweets up there, but the story associating Arias with this account seems to check out.See also:-Psycho Killer: Jodi Arias’ Kinky Death-Penalty Trial…
Michael Cohn, the 61-year-old Scottsdale resident accused of murdering his wife Linda inside their North Scottsdale home on March 27, has pleaded not guilty.Of course, that’s just his plea. Cohn told a 911 dispatcher that day, “I just killed my wife.”See also:-Michael Cohn’s “I Just Killed My Wife” 911 Call…
Based on the cops’ account, 64-year-old Eugene Maraventano’s alleged murder of his wife and son were pathetic.Not only did Maraventano allegedly stab both of them to death for extraordinarily poor reasons, but he also tried unsuccessfully for the next four days to kill himself.See also:-Eugene Maraventano Thought He Gave His…
The Phoenix woman accused of shoving a vibrator into her 2-year-old son’s anus has pleaded not guilty to charges in the case. The vibrator had to be surgically removed. Rickesha Burns, 21, called police almost two weeks ago, reporting that her son was bleeding from his anus but said she…
Eugene Maraventano, a 64-year-old Goodyear resident, told police this weekend that he stabbed his wife and son to death and failed to kill himself after multiple tries over the course of the next four days.”I killed my wife and I killed my son; I can’t kill myself,” Maraventano told a…
Don’t let the name fool you — Clint Eastwood Maez has just about nothing in common with the salty Hollywood actor.In fact, we’re only talking about Clint Eastwood Maez because he’s accused of stabbing two men, one fatally, in the parking lot of a Phoenix apartment complex a couple of…
An Arizona Department of Public Safety officer shot and killed Alexander Wilson at a gas station, who had decided to ram the officer’s vehicle in order to escape, police say. Sunday night around 9:30, the officer ran a license plate on a Chevy Tahoe near 27th Avenue and Camelback Road…
The audio of the 911 call placed a couple of weeks ago by 61-year-old Scottsdale resident Michael Cohn, informing the dispatcher that he just killed his wife, has been released by police.As it was explained in a court filing, Cohn seemed extremely calm after he’d just killed his wife of…
Phoenix police discovered the apparent reason that 29-year-old Jeremy West hopped on a school bus with a gun and took a ride to an elementary school last week.According to court documents obtained by New Times, West told police he got on the bus — which transports special-education students — because…
Bill Montgomery, Maricopa County Attorney, is showing his preference for Andrew Thomas-style ethics by pushing for a lenient punishment for Peter Spaw, one of his high-ranking deputy attorneys. Spaw admitted yesterday in an agreement with the state Supreme Court that he committed “conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice,” filing…
The reason the phrase “stranger danger” exists is because of people like Jeremy West.Thursday, Phoenix PD put out a bulletin to media, in an attempt to identify the grown man who A) asked a kid if he wanted a “a cigarette or a fix,” B) hopped on a school bus…
Phoenix resident Taylor Basilio told police in December 2011 that he’d done some “stupid things” in recent days, which apparently led to his 7-week-old baby’s several rib fractures, a broken clavicle, fractures to both legs, and two skull fractures.Basilio’s now pleaded guilty to two child-abuse charges in the case.See also:-Taylor…
