With some 1.4 million people, Phoenix is the sixth biggest city in the country — so it only makes (gulp) sense that hunting pigeons within city limits is totally legal.The Arizona Game and Fish Department recently released its 2011-12 Arizona Dove and Band-tailed Pigeon regulations, and has opened up about…
According to a Glendale man, Satan forced him to sexually assault his maid. That’s what he told police, anyway.On June 21, the victim was cleaning 77-year-old Bobby Guyton’s Glendale trailer home when he grabbed her hand and forced her to touch his penis on four separate occasions.. The victim told…
We got our hands on the arrest reports for the four monsters charged with the torture and murder of 10-year-old Ame Deal, who suffocated after she was locked in a footlocker and left overnight by family members earlier this month.If you ever want to smile again, stop reading right now…
The suffocation death of a 10-year-old girl found in a footlocker at her family’s home earlier this month has been ruled a homicide — and members of her own family are believed to be responsible, Phoenix police announced this afternoon.Initially, the July 12, death of Ame Deal was suspected to…
The storm that pummeled the Valley last week delivered a knock-out blow to KO Boxing Gym in South Phoenix.Michelle Rosado, a Valley woman who promotes boxing through Face II Face Events, is hoping that Valley residents and boxing fans will pitch in to help rebuild the gym…
Have you seen this bracelet?It came off one of two men who attacked a woman and her 18-year-old daughter in the driveway of their Peoria home as they unloaded groceries from their car.Peoria police say that on July 23 at about 9 p.m., two men accosted the women, threw them…
Turns out, Erik Grumpelt — the Mesa man accused of murdering his girlfriend and living with her decomposing body in his apartment for more than two months — is a meth head.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Grumpelt tested positive for amphetamine while hospitalized earlier this week, and…
“I don’t care about dogs, I’ve probably hit 1,000 dogs in my life.”That’s what 69-year-old George Guzman told police Monday night after running over two pooches, one of which was his own German Shepherd.According to court records obtained by New Times, about 8 p.m. Monday, Guzman was seen driving his…
Just weeks after Arizona contained an outbreak of horse herpes, a stallion in Maricopa County has tested positive for an STD.According to officials at the Arizona Department of Agriculture, a stallion has tested positive for Contagious Equine Metrititis, resulting in the quarantine of five other horses that were exposed to the…
To continue yesterday’s trend of meth-induced stupidity, George Carrillo fired 15 rounds of ammunition from inside his Mesa apartment as he tried to combat “imagined assailants” — subsequently terrorizing his neighborhood. But that was only after he called the cops on himself to let them know he was “tripping” on…
Elizabeth Johnson, the mother of missing baby Gabriel Johnson, will be in court next week where a judge will rule on whether she’s competent to stand trial on charges related to the disappearance of her 9-month-old son.Johnson’s been charged with kidnapping, child abuse, and custodial interference in the disappearance of…
It takes some big cojones to steal an ambulance from the scene of a fire — or, apparently, a bloodstream filled with crystal meth, to which a Phoenix man is crediting his meth-fueled joyride in a stolen ambulance.According to court documents obtained by New Times, 28-year-old Travis Ward was arrested…
On the list of people not to leave your 2-month-old with, a heroin addict ranks high. Sarah Exley of Gendale deemed otherwise, police say, and left her daughter in the care of a drug buddy while she went to “get money” from someone else. On Monday at about 11:15 p.m…
For fictional sports agent Jerry Maguire, it was “show me the money!” For non-fictional Valley sports agent Jason Dubin, it’s apparently more like show me the two underage girls willing to double-up on me for some oral sex.Dubin got popped yesterday after police say he tried to lure two teenage…
Some people prefer to cover their partner with whipped cream or chocolate to up the ante during foreplay. Brent Vandecasteele went a different direction: he covered his girlfriend with ranch dressing and sodomized her with his picante-sauce-covered finger. But pleasure for Vandecasteele was pain for his girlfriend — she wasn’t…
A Pinal County sheriff’s deputy who saved two lives in two separate incidents — all in about 45 minutes — will be honored as a hero at tonight’s Arizona Diamondbacks game.On the afternoon of February 3, PCSO Deputy Robert Taylor saved the lives of an infant and an elderly man…
For the second time in about 24 hours, a dead body has been found in Phoenix.The latest is only described as an adult male. He was found near 64th Lane and Rivas Road about 6:30 a.m.. Phoenix police say they’ve had contact with the man recently. The death, however, is…
Jonathan Meadows could use a little work on his pickup lines. For starters, he shouldn’t use them on 16-year-old girls. Secondly, should the girl ignore his offer of money for sex, trying to convince her to stick around while he “jack[s] off” could be a bit of a turn off.That,…
A Mesa woman was arrested Sunday after flashing some skin at passing motorists, all while aiming a gun at them — and she wasn’t even on meth.Rather, when police arrested 52-year-old Deborah Kay Jones, she was in possession of “Spice,” a synthetic form of marijuana. According to court documents obtained…
Peoria Animal Control Officers are investigating the poisoning of at least three — perhaps as many as seven — cats.Jay Davies, a spokesman for the Peoria Police Department, said that such cases are unusual and that the individual(s) responsible face animal cruelty charges.Animal Control officers were out this afternoon knocking…
No, we’re not looking for a “serial-grinding” transvestite who goes by the name “Trina.” But Phoenix police are after he/she allegedly fired a gun at a crowded gas station after getting pepper sprayed and thrown out of a club.According to Phoenix Sergeant Darren Burch, “Trina” was booted from Club PHX…
After more than 20 years on Arizona’s Death Row, convicted murderer Thomas Paul West was executed this morning at the state prison in Florence. According to prison officials, West didn’t have any last words. He also skipped the best part about getting executed: the food.Arizona Department of Corrections spokesman Bill…
