Alan John Shepard was minding his own business Monday morning when his meddling neighbors decided to call the police accusing him of peddling meth. Phoenix police officers showed up at his place, near 4th Avenue and Vineyard, with a search warrant in hand, and tagged him for dangerous drug transportation…
MCSO Family values Some apples don’t fall far from the tree, and some don’t fall at all. Christian Alexander Bullis, 20, also known as Farva Bullis, was arrested with his mother, Marie Ranay Bullis, yesterday afternoon, after they were busted shoplifting at an ACE Hardware Store on 31st Street and Indian…
An execution date finally has been set for an Arizona killer convicted of murdering a 13-year-old girl as she collected money for her paper route at a Tempe apartment complex in 1984.After nearly 26 years on Death Row — on the taxpayer dime — 56-year-old Donald Edward Beaty will be put to death…
An amateur Avondale tattoo artist who traded a tattoo for sex with a teenage girl was sentenced to prison today after pleading guilty to two counts of attempted child prostitution and two counts of unlawful tattooing for the April 2010 incident.Juan Lara, 38, was in a Maricopa County Superior Court…
A Chandler woman who’s been missing since Friday has been located and is apparently OK.According to the Chandler Police Department, 18-year-old Trinity Olsen-Galeai called police this morning to report that she was not in any danger…
An 18-year-old Chandler woman is missing and police need your help tracking her down.Trinity Olsen-Galeai was last seen about 9:30 Friday night. According to the Chandler Police Department, she has missed several appointments since, which is unlike her.Olsen-Galeai is described as a Pacific islander. She is about 5-foot-8 and 135…
Zulema Espinoza terrorized her three children, her husband, and a fellow motorist while out drinking and driving Saturday night. According to court documents obtained by New Times, Espinoza, 30, was driving drunk near 33rd Avenue and Thomas Road about 9 p.m. when she sideswiped a fellow motorist’s car with her…
is closed and a man is dead after he threatened to commit suicide by jumping from a highway overpass. Phoenix police shot him before he was able to execute his plan, but he still managed to fall to his death.About 4 a.m. today, a motorist called police to report that…
A San Diego-based psychiatrist was appointed today to evaluate Jared Loughner, the 22-year-old, lone suspect in the Tucson shooting rampage on January 8. U.S. District Judge Larry Alan Burns appointed Dr. Matthew Carroll to perform Loughner’s mental-competency exam, according to the Associated Press. The AP says the decision to appoint…
Some things in life require intense courage and willpower — like the guy who went to the Surprise Police Department to tell the cops he was raped by his meth dealer. According to documents obtained by New Times, the man told police he was at the Surprise house of 41-year-old…
Skinny dipping can be fun when the participants are visually appropriate. Another suggestion/law is making sure that nobody participating is a 10-year-old boy — especially if you’re a 25-year-old “friend” of the family.Last week, police in Casa Grande arrested Nicholas Ryan McCray, who — among other pervy things — allegedly thought it…
The accomplice of three inmates who broke out of an Arizona prison last summer pleaded guilty today to state-level charges of escape and robbery. Casslyn Welch, the fiancee/cousin of one of the escaped inmates, will be sentenced to 20 years in prison for the state crimes. However, punishment for the federal…
A Phoenix man taking out the trash made a grim discovery in an alley near his house: a barely clothed dead body.The body was found near 29th Avenue and Madison Street earlier this morning.Police haven’t said much about the discovery of the body, but ABC 15 spoke with Jose Torres,…
Elizabeth Johnson, mother of missing baby Gabriel Johnson, has a choice to make: actually show up in court for her next hearing under her own free will, or allow Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jailhouse goon squad to use “any means necessary” to get her there.Yikes!In the past, Johnson’s had some…
The Phoenix Police Department has released a sketch of the man cops believe is responsible for the bizarre February murder of a Phoenix woman.About 2 a.m. on February 27, 22-year-old Alexcia Salsberry and a friend were driving home from a party in west Phoenix. The women got into an argument,…
Good news: 44-year-old Steven Michael DeMarlie, reported missing yesterday by his wife, was found alive and well in the Tonto National Forest near Roosevelt Lake, the Chandler Police Department announced this afternoon.According to Chandler P.D. spokesman Detective Frank Mendoza,several fishermen at Roosevelt Lake called the Gila County Sheriff’s Office after…
A verdict was returned Friday in the case of 39-year-old Daniel Gukeisen, a Tempe attorney accused of fatally stabbing a 22-year-old Arizona State University student in 2008. Gukeisen, however, didn’t bother to show up.The proceedings went on without him, though, and he was found guilty of manslaughter in the death…
The Chandler Police Department is asking the public’s help in tracking down a man with autism last seen yesterday morning.Steven Michael DeMarlie, 44, was last seen about 11:30 a.m. yesterday by his family. He told them he planned to go hiking in the Tonto National Forrest with his dog, a…
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ condition continues to improve after she was shot through the brain during the January 8 rampage in Tucson, and her staff says she’s doing so well that they’re moving forward with plans for her to go to Florida for her astronaut husband’s upcoming shuttle launch.In a statement, Giffords…
It’s alleged female pedophile Friday here in the Valley, and all the buzz about Susan Brock getting hit with a 13-year prison sentence for having a three-year sexual relationship with a teen shouldn’t steal the spotlight from another Valley woman who apparently has a thing for kids.Last month, Gabriela Compton,…
Tempe PD James Homer Ferris March 31 was a crappy day for 58-year-old James Ferris. In fact, crappy is an understatement — with his apartment catching on fire, cops finding 30 binders full of kiddie porn, and having to explain to investigators his penchant for wearing women’s underwear. About 10:30 a.m…
facebook.com Timothy M. Oline Driving drunk is dangerous in general. But when it’s part of a demolition derby through a Mesa neighborhood followed by a standoff with a SWAT officers, you begin to understand what Timothy Oline’s Wednesday night was like. Mesa police got a call that a driver was…
