Curiosity will cost 47-year-old Michael Cerise 90 days of freedom after Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Karen Potts sentenced him to jail yesterday. Cerise must also serve an additional three years of probation following his 90-day bid for the November 2011 laser-pointing that injured three pilots. “The consequences of this…
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Daniel Cook was executed today in Florence for the 1987 strangulation murders of 16-year-old Kevin Swaney and 26-year-old Carlos Cruz-Ramos in Lake Havasu City. Appeals made by Cook’s defense team were denied by a state board for the final time on August 3, and by the U.S. Supreme Court before…
Phoenix police arrested now-former fellow officer Christopher J. Wilson last night for alleged sexual misconduct with two teenage boys. Wilson admitted to having improper sexual relationships with a 14-year-old and a 17-year-old, according to Phoenix police Sergeant Trent Crump. An investigation into Wilson’s misconduct began yesterday afternoon after the parents…
Jared Lee Loughner will die in prison.Loughner — the lone suspect in last year’s Tucson shooting that killed six people and injured 13, including former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords — pleaded guilty to 19 charges in federal court today, after being found competent to understand the charges against him.As part of…
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The rumored change-of-plea for Jared Loughner — the lone suspect in last year’s shooting that killed six people and injured 13, including then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords — is officially scheduled for tomorrow.U.S. District Judge Larry Burns signed the order today, indicating Loughner wants to change his plea from not guilty as…
Jared Loughner — the lone suspect in last year’s shooting that killed six people and injured 13, including then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords — is planning on entering a guilty plea this week, according to some anonymous people.The Los Angeles Times said this weekend that Loughner’s set to plead guilty tomorrow, and…
It turns out there’s more evidence leading police to believe Rebekah Mellon murdered her husband Tuesday night at their home in the Willo neighborhood — the whole shooting was recorded on video.Mellon made her initial appearance in court yesterday, and a prosecutor explained that he got word from the Phoenix…
A Phoenix man was shot in the head and killed Tuesday night, and his wife — who was arrested in her husband’s murder — was light on the details, as she repeatedly fell asleep in police custody. Rebekah Mellon faces a first-degree murder charge, as police say she’s just about…
Jennelle Long Curtis, a Casa Grande mother of four young kids, embezzled $780,000 in a three-year-period from the Pinal County Federal Credit Union, court records say. Curtis, whose 23-year-old husband was shot and killed at a truck stop in March, worked as an accounting assistant at the credit union from…
The Tempe man who tried to rape an employee at Phoenix’s Arizona Grand Resort in December will spend the rest of his life on probation.Michael Robert Martinez, 31, pleaded guilty in June to attempted kidnapping and attempted sexual assault, and was sentenced this morning to lifetime probation with mental-health and…
Sonoran Sky Elementary School teacher Kimberly Ali says she thought she “fell in love” with a girl.Unfortunately for Ali, the girl’s a 14-year-old who just finished eighth grade, so that’s a problem.Ali also has some other problems, like the several times she allegedly sexually abused the girl behind a grocery…
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A 73-year-old Phoenix woman was murdered and in the process of being dismembered in her home Sunday, and police think her alcoholic daughter’s the one who did it.Phoenix police went to Deborah Hatley’s house on the west side around 3 a.m. Monday, finding Hatley dead and “in the process of…
A Glendale police officer shot and killed a man Saturday after the man drove a stolen car straight at him, police say. Glendale Officer Justin Penrose fired at Kenneth Girardot, 38, after Girardot attempted to drive away from what started as traffic stop, then drove at Penrose, according to police…
A U.S. Postal Service employee is accused of punching one of his kids, a whole two days after the cops were at his home for a “similar incident” with his other kid.This time around, police say an officer was actually inside Kevin Campbell’s Phoenix house as he let his son…
Aaron Smith, a patrol officer with the Tempe Police Department for more than seven years, was arrested this weekend for allegedly stealing some of the department’s stuff.Smith, who told his (now former) fellow officers that he was suffering from “extreme financial hardship,” is accused of taking some cash, bikes, and…
Cordell Jude was charged with second-degree murder today for shooting Daniel Adkins at a Phoenix Taco Bell drive-through in April. Jude already admitted to killing Adkins, but maintains that he was acting in self-defense. “Our decision to prosecute this case is based on a thorough review of the evidence gathered…
Justin McMahan was arrested Thursday for the murder of former Phoenix College head football coach Land Jacobsen. Jacobson, 59, died Tuesday, several days after he was shot in the abdomen at his Peoria home in the early morning hours of July 17. Documents obtained by New Times reveal that Jacobsen…
A former social worker at Tolleson High School — and current youth worker with the City of Tolleson — is accused of sexually assaulting his 23-year-old foster son as recently as last week.Michael David White, 49, became the man’s foster father when the alleged victim was 16, although the man…
