Residential burglary is a slightly safer activity than Russian roulette, but sooner or later, burglars are bound to run into someone with a gun who does not take kindly to scumbags in his house. One of those types would be cops, who all have guns, and aren’t too sympathetic toward…
Say what you will about unorthodox parenting techniques, but Surprise police officers think discipline shouldn’t involve two “highly intoxicated” boys in their underwear crying, screaming, and vomiting.Cops say that’s the route Kristopher Harvey took on his boys Monday, and that earned him a trip to jail.According to court documents obtained…
Steven Saldana took a plea agreement that sends him to prison for a little more than two years, stemming from the case of the 4-month-old baby found with a cigarette burn, 14 broken bones, and bruising all over her body.Angelica Jimenez — the Chandler woman designated by Child Protective Services as…
Tempe police detectives are pretty sure the family of James and Yafit Butwin was killed in a murder/suicide, not “connected to the violent drug cartel,” as Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu suggests.The five charred, still-unidentified bodies were found in an SUV in the Vekol Valley this weekend, and the embattled…
A 22-year-old mentally disabled man is dead after sustaining at least a dozen injuries, allegedly at the hands of family members.Joshua and Carlena Pinkerton, the man’s brother-in-law and sister, brought him to the hospital Friday after he collapsed in the bathtub, and a doctor called Phoenix police after noticing bruising, scrapes, puncture…
Browsing through the “Mugshot of the Day Leader Board” on the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office website always brings a surprise, like the Sunday booking of Vicente Valles, who has the City of Tempe logo tattooed on his chin, and an Arizona State University logo on his cheek.It kind of reminded…
U.S. District Court Judge Neil Wake’s final order in the proposed settlement by Maricopa County to Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox: Pay the woman.In an order on Friday, Wake granted Wilcox’s motion to enforce the settlement order, stating that Wilcox “shall have judgment” in the amount agreed, plus an additional $28,000…
Turns out, the baby belonging to 19-year-old Catalina Clouser was allegedly put into harm’s way by two acts of moronic driving Friday night.As we told you this morning, Phoenix police say Clouser put her kid in a car seat late that night, but forgot to put the baby/car seat into…
Update: Catalina Clouser’s Baby Was Also in the Car During Boyfriend’s DUI, Before Getting Dumped in Phoenix Intersection Catalina Clouser put her 2-month-old baby in a car seat after smoking some weed with her boyfriend at a Phoenix park Friday night. The minor detail she missed was that the 19-year-old…
Ashley Buckman and her boyfriend James Edwards — in jail after Buckman’s 4-year-old daughter died Thursday night — had no prior contact with Child Protective Services before their arrests last week.Toryn Buckman was pronounced brain-dead when she was brought to Phoenix Children’s Hospital on Wednesday night, after what Edwards told…
Ashley Buckman’s 4-year-old daughter died last night, just one day after Buckman and her boyfriend, James Edwards, were arrested for horrific alleged abuses of the girl.Toryn Buckman was pronounced brain dead when she was brought to Phoenix Children’s Hospital on Wednesday night, after what Edwards told police was five or…
UPDATE: 4-year-old Toryn Buckman has died.A 4-year-old girl is brain dead at Phoenix Children’s Hospital after an alleged series of abuses at the hands of her mother and her boyfriend.Ashley Buckman and her boyfriend James Edwards, both 22 years old, were arrested yesterday after police were called to their apartment,…
Andrew Thomas is a failed politician in serious need of good publicity.After being disbarred in April for unethical acts as Maricopa County Attorney, Thomas also wants to strike back at the judiciary system, which he feels screwed him over.So now, he’s putting himself on public display as the face of…
Mark Dixon of Casa Grande is ticked off at Arizona Supreme Court Disciplinary Judge William O’Neil, that much is clear.O’Neil, former presiding judge for the Pinal County Superior Court, had the contractor come out to his property to do maintenance and they had a “very close friendship,” according to an…
Lisa Aubuchon’s law license will be canceled officially as of July 2, the state Supreme Court ruled today.Aubuchon and former boss, failed politician Andrew Thomas, were disbarred in April following weeks of testimony over the bad decisions they made in their fight with county leaders.Unlike Thomas, Aubuchon is choosing to…
By most standards, Thomas O’Rourke got a bit rowdy this weekend.After consuming some alcoholic beverages at his Phoenix home Sunday evening, a kid ended up getting shot with a BB gun, a cat was killed, and that dead cat was thrown at a moving vehicle.According to court documents obtained by…
William Null pleaded guilty today to a few charges, including second-degree murder, for beating his aunt to death in Mesa in November.Cigarettes sparked an argument between Null and Cynthia Pesek — at least, that’s what Null told police at the time of his arrest — and after three days of…
A woman attending her daughter’s middle-school graduation ceremony was killed in an Avondale school’s parking lot Friday, in a shooting police believe was carried out by her ex-boyfriend.Takesha Barnes — a domestic-violence victim who had just taken out an order of protection against 38-year-old Thomas Moton earlier that week –…
Ed Moriarity has quit as Lisa Aubuchon’s pro-bono attorney, saying he and his law firm can no longer afford to work on her long-running case.The countrified, oft-combative Montana lawyer defended Aubuchon for free through the disciplinary hearings that resulted in the disbarment of his client and former Maricopa County Attorney…
Sometimes it’s hard to ignore how adorable local TV reports are — like the endless chupacabra chases from KPHO.This time around, it’s ABC 15, which sent its reporters northwest to Wittmann to find out if serial cat-hoarder Lucienne Touboul — an 81-year-old woman — was really eating her cats.For the…
Maricopa County has dumped Cave Creek Councilman Steven LaMar following his failure to convince a federal judge that a $975,000 payment to Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox might need further authorization.LaMar was appointed to defend the county in late 2010 against the claims and subsequent lawsuits by county employees, former judges…
Jonathan Knight — who taught Tae Kwon Do to children in Gilbert — will be updating his address to a prison cell for sending pictures of his penis to a 12-year-old former student of his.Knight pleaded guilty last month to two counts of furnishing obscene or harmful items to a…
