Pedro Lopez-Marroquin isn’t exactly a pickup artist — according to police, he was just walking around a Phoenix apartment complex with $100 in his hand, trying to get kids to have sex with him.Believe it or not, nobody took him up on his offer…
The Tempe men who were arrested after driving around completely naked together after allegedly breaking into a man’s car couldn’t seem to get their stories straight when talking to police Monday morning.While Anthony Gammon told a story consistent with Tempe PD’s recollection, his partner Alberto Rosciano told police he really…
Jesse Miller’s 1-year-old daughter was taken to Phoenix Children’s Hospital yesterday, as Miller explained to a nurse that he “just beat the shit out of [his] baby.”According to court documents obtained by New Times, Miller’s explanation was that he smoked the synthetic chemicals known as “spice,” which caused his soul…
Don Kenney, the former “quarter” back of one of Arizona’s worst corruption scandals, AzScam, was sentenced on Monday to 240 hours of community service for stealing his son’s identity. Kenney was convicted in 1991 of taking a $55,000 bribe, one of several lawmakers caught in a police sting for selling…
Both men charged in the 2010 murder of Arizona State University student Zachary Marco have now pleaded guilty, after Louis Eugene Harper pleaded guilty today to first-degree murder and armed robbery.Marco was 21 years old when he was gunned down after refusing to give up his belongings in a robbery…
Mesa resident Nicholas Linsk is accused of driving his truck away from the scene of his fatal collision with a bicyclist in Fountain Hills, which was reported by a man driving in the lane next to him at the time.According to court documents obtained by New Times, the initial story…
Naz Derboghossian, a key player in an alleged “crime ring” that owned Valley nightclubs and exotic car dealerships, has been sentenced to probation and a year in jail. We covered this complex and fascinating case in a July 12 feature article. Derboghossian, a smooth-talking car expert and scamster who ran…
David Walker flew into town from Chicago early yesterday morning, and was in Phoenix for about an hour before he beat his ex-wife’s boyfriend to death with a baseball bat, according to police.Phoenix police say Walker, 29, got in around 12:30 a.m., and went straight to his ex-wife’s house, near…
Following in the footsteps of our sister papers of South Florida, Miami New Times and Broward-Palm Beach New Times, we bring you the weekly roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail.Between being passed out, dressed up, inked up, or just plain messy, our alleged law-violators this week…
Karl “Jack” Frost pleaded no contest to a charge of disorderly conduct today stemming from his May 17 “citizen’s arrest” of a man jogging in a bicycle lane. The 47-year-old former British cop had been out for a morning bike ride in Gilbert that day when he became enraged at…
Chandler couple Vu Tran and Siobhan Grogan told police they often kept their 8-year-old son — who has mental and physical disabilities — locked in a bathroom. According to Tran, it’s because they “have a life too.”Tran and Groghan only ended up talking to police on Tuesday because while they…
A Flagstaff woman’s puppy was killed this weekend, which she discovered after she returned home and saw the pup hanging from a noose in her backyard.Flagstaff police Sergeant James Jackson tells New Times that the 4-month-old puppy was found hanging from a rafter in a shed that was being used…
Judge Warren Granville has ruled that Michael Lee Crane cannot represent himself in his murder trial.Crane’s accused of killing three people — Paradise Valley couple Glenna and Lawrence Shapiro, as well as businessman Bruce Gaudet — and while Granville found Crane competent to represent himself, it’s Crane’s goofy behavior in…
About four years ago, Todd Fries, the owner of Burns Power Washing, was shorted $200 for a power-washing job because his customers didn’t think Fries’ employees did such a great job.Fries responded to this lack of payment by spreading things outside the customers’ home including (but not limited to) motor…
If you know the savage who punched a guy about 25 times in an elevator at the W6 apartment building in Tempe early Thursday morning, Silent Witness is offering a reward for that information.The W6, or West 6th Tempe, opened a little more than a year ago, and the apartment…
Three members of an Iraqi family living in Phoenix pleaded guilty to various charges related to the alleged abuse of a fellow family member for refusing an arranged marriage.Yusra Farhan, 50, pleaded guilty to unlawful imprisonment, and Mohammed Altameemi, 45, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct for alleged attacks against…
Following in the footsteps of our sister papers of South Florida, Miami New Times and Broward-Palm Beach New Times, we bring you the weekly roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail.This week, the jail saw some happy campers and not-so-happy campers, so this week’s collection of mugshots…
Mark Bosworth, a former Valley real-estate maverick who once boasted he owned $50 million in property, claims he was conned into trying to cash a bogus, $4,500 check. The felony forgery charge he’s fighting could result in jail time. It’s an ignominious — though somewhat expected — turn of events…
In May, a 13-year-old girl told her friend that her father’s girlfriend had smacked her in the face with a spatula.Police in Surprise got word of this and investigated it as a child-abuse case, but eventually found out that the girl and her sister were victims of horrific alleged molestations,…
Qui Tu Truong got fired from a market in Phoenix last year.For this, he did what any rational person would not do — attack his former colleagues with a meat cleaver…
When Jeffrey Salter’s girlfriend and her daughter moved into his studio apartment in Phoenix, Salter warned his girlfriend that he “has a history of molesting young girls.”Believe it or not, police are accusing Salter of molesting his girlfriend’s daughter “at least” 45 times in a little more than two months…
Jodon Frank Romero, the man whose suicide was shown live on national television thanks to Fox News, was out of prison for almost four whole months before shooting himself in the head Friday.Phoenix police released some additional details about the events leading up to the suicide, as well as the…
