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…
Robert Fischer, the California divorce lawyer accused of murdering his stepdaughter’s husband in Queen Creek in 2010 and staging it as a suicide, pleaded not guilty today.Fischer — not to be confused with the Scottsdale man of a similar name who blew up his family — is accused of shooting…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office arrested Lee Charles Lubonne after two alleged sexual-assault suspects described his house, vehicle, and identified him from a photo lineup.Judging from what sex-crime detectives found in his house, the Sheriff’s Office is thinking there’s a “possibility” there may be more victims, and Lubonne, a 44-year-old…
A 2010 “suicide” in Queen Creek has now been determined to have been a staged suicide, and Orange County, California divorce lawyer Robert Fischer is the one accused of doing the killing.Fischer — not to be confused with the Scottsdale man of a similar name who blew up his family…
Few things tick off Karl “Jack” Frost more than pedestrians in a bike lane, apparently.Frost, a 47-year-old Chandler resident, tried to make a “citizen’s arrest” on a 52-year-old Chandler man who was jogging in a bike lane yesterday, Gilbert police say…
It appears a person with an actual law degree also thinks it’s a bit strange that former middle school teacher’s aide Gabriela Compton got probation for having sex with a student, groping another, and sending some nudie pictures that the teenaged boys passed around.Slate posted an online article yesterday sending…
Juan Garcia — who’s accused of killing his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son in February — is back in Maricopa County, winning a trip to the 4th Avenue Jail for a fresh mugshot.Garcia, 18, turned himself in to immigration-enforcement authorities near the border crossing in Lukeville on Friday, and was booked into…
When did Tucson resident Moses Antonio Shepard’s chasing of a woman turn into an interstate stalking case?According to the federal government, some point before the 18-year mark.Shepard was sentenced yesterday to 100 months in prison, as the 19th anniversary of his one and only date with his victim comes in…
Michael King, who was wanted in the rape of a Pleasure Palace porn shop employee — that is, until he was caught robbing a bank, and tossed the stolen cash all over a Phoenix backyard — took a plea agreement today that’s sending him to prison.King, 23, pleaded guilty today…
Juan Garcia — who’s accused of killing his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son in February — turned himself in to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents near the border crossing in Lukeville on Friday, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department confirmed.Garcia, 18, has been wanted by Phoenix police since going on the run after…
Rachel Alexander, acolyte of former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, has filed a notice of claim against Maricopa County for $67,000 to cover the legal fees of the appeal of her law-license suspension.Alexander, along with Thomas and former deputy county attorney Lisa Aubuchon, was disciplined for their bad ethics in…
