The Tucson Police Department says a 22-year-old high school teacher’s aide was involved in a sexual “incident” involving six male students.We’d love to tell you exactly what happened, but the cops were first to discover the video of the incident, filmed by one of the six students involved…
Three people have been arrested — two of them on murder charges — in the death of a Phoenix man whose body was found in December, just a couple miles from Phoenix International Raceway. Hector Sanchez Duque, 43, had “no known ties” to the Tolleson farm near where he was…
Just about every week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest.This week, our alleged criminals look like they deserve awards…
After waiting around in prison for nine years, death-row inmate Richard Glassel died from “apparent natural causes” at the age of 74, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections.Glassel killed two people and injured three when he opened fire at a board of directors meeting for a retirement community in…
Another day, another six-digit award by Maricopa County to a victim of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas. This time it’s the chairman of the Board of Supervisors, Andy Kunasek, who was framed for a crime he didn’t commit as part of an apparent plan to…
If you have four warrants for your arrest, and you’re in a stolen car, we suppose carrying around a box labeled “Meth Time” isn’t outside the realm of possibility.According to information provided by the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office, the man doing the aforementioned things was 20-year-old Richard Prunty, a Kingman…
The court process for Jerice Hunter — the woman accused of murdering her 5-year-old daughter, Jhessye Shockley, before tossing her body in the garbage — may take a bit longer now, since Hunter is short an attorney.The public-information office at the Maricopa County Superior Court says Hunter’s case has been…
A man with five felony convictions already on his record is facing 17 new felony charges, after police found out how he stole four cars in a little more than a month.Phoenix police say 45-year-old Richard Barker would follow men into the locker room at their gyms, wait until they…
A 43-year-old man was shot and killed in Phoenix last night by an Arizona Department of Transportation employee in an apparent self-defense shooting.This apparent self-defense shooting doesn’t seem to be nearly as questionable as those featured often in national news coverage, as police say Quentine Barksdale was wearing a ski…
A Phoenix teenager is dead and his two brothers are in jail, after they allegedly went after their neighbor — who had a gun — with knives and large rocks.Phoenix police Sergeant Steve Martos says the man who fatally shot 17-year-old Theodore Curley on Saturday night was questioned and released…
Albert Arias has pleaded guilty to the murder of his 76-year-old father, more than nine months after Arias walked into the El Mirage police station, and told employees that he did just that.Arias pleaded guilty late last week to a charge of second-degree murder for stabbing Pete Arias to death…
Chandler just wasn’t far enough for fugitive and armed-robbery suspect Keith Kirk. Authorities tracked the man to the east Valley and had local authorities arrest him this morning in connection with the November 28 robbery in Oxford, Massachusetts.. (Not Oxford, England, as we slipped up and said previously.) Kirk, wearing…
Just about every week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest.This week, our alleged criminals look like those people, if…
Although Phoenix’s chief of police wouldn’t go into detail about why Officer Pete Bennett approached the man who shot him several times on Sunday, court records state that 28-year-old Brandon McCabe was pulled over for riding a bicycle without a light.According to the court documents obtained by New Times, Bennett…
Conservative blogger and disgraced Arizona lawyer Rachel Alexander announced on Monday that she’d raised enough money from her right-wing readers to save the life of her cat, Buckley. But a closer look at Alexander’s previous writings shows that Buckley’s life had already been saved. Alexander just needed to pay the…
Dejuan Donaldson, the man accused of raping three girls, between the ages of 10 and 17, who were walking to schools in south Phoenix neighborhoods in 2010 and 2011.Donaldson pleaded guilty today to six charges related to the rapes, a plea that is almost undoubtedly part of a plea agreement.See…
Donald Miller, a 54-year-old Peoria resident, has been identified as the man suspected of shooting Maricopa County Sheriff’s Deputy Ruben Garcia “several times” yesterday.Miller died yesterday, after exchanging gunfire with Peoria police officers.See also:-MCSO Deputy in Critical Condition After Being Shot Several Times in Peoria…
A man driving with a 5-year-old child was shot and killed by Phoenix cops last night, becoming the subject of Phoenix Police Department’s third officer-involved shooting in the past three days.According to Phoenix police Sergeant Trent Crump, the man — whose name hasn’t been released — was fatally shot after…
A deputy with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office was shot “several times” while conducting a traffic stop in Peoria shortly after midnight on Tuesday.MCSO Sergeant Brandon Jones says Deputy Ruben Garcia, who’s been with the MCSO for 29 years, pulled over a truck that was related to a call the…
The man accused of shooting Phoenix police Officer Pete Bennett six times Sunday night has been identified as 28-year-old Brandon McCabe.McCabe, whose name was withheld until he was released from the hospital, is pictured in the photo to the right, in a prison jumpsuit.See also:-Phoenix Cop Shot Six Times While…
Phoenix police Officer Pete Bennett was shot six times last night after confronting someone he thought was suspicious near 21st and Georgia avenues.Police Chief Daniel Garcia said today that Bennett’s “extremely lucky” to be alive, although the four-year veteran still has some surgeries to go through…
With the possible exception of a squirt gun, pointing just about any type of gun at a police officer will get you shot.That also goes for 39-year-old Chuckie Stowers, whom police say was shot and killed by Phoenix Police Department officers after pointing a BB gun — which Stowers allegedly…
