Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas already has ripped through much of the $100,000 he was granted by the Board of Supervisors to fund his defense against an ethics complaint filed against him with the Arizona State Bar Association, which has prompted discussion about whether he should be granted more county…
Following the January 8 Tucson shooting rampage, during which Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot through the brain, her husband, astronaut Mark Kelley, told reporters that the “low point” of the whole ordeal was, naturally, hearing a false report that his wife was dead. Now, one of the reporters responsible for the false report is…
A Phoenix mom who put a newborn baby in the trash was convicted of abuse yesterday. However, she faces retrial on a charge that her actions constitute murder.In January 2010, Williams delivered a baby in her family’s Phoenix home. According to authorities, none of her family members knew she was pregnant. Rather…
We first came upon John Dowd when he represented Major League Baseball in the Pete Rose scandal. Dowd was the consummate Washington D.C. bigtimer who could bloviate with the best (or the worst) of `em. (If you have trouble viewing this clip, try Firefox). At least a few readers may…
A Peoria man was sentenced today for his role in an international kiddie porn racket, and when the judge read his sentence, he cried like a baby.David Dean, a 43-year-old trucker from Peoria, was sentenced today to 15 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised probation after pleading guilty…
David Clark Nelson, a former Jehovah’s Witness elder, pleaded guilty to charges that he played strip poker and had oral sex with a teenage boy in 1980. He was sentenced this morning to six months in county jail and three years’ probation. If that seems like a light sentence, that’s…
A former Jehovah’s Witness preacher who pleaded guilty to charges that he repeatedly played strip poker and felated a 14-year-old member of his congregation more than 30 years ago got a tap on the wrist this morning when he was sentenced by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Karen O’Connor –…
A great way to draw attention to a house in which you just anally raped a child is to set it on fire –, which is exactly what Phoenix police say Dejuan Donaldson, the alleged south Phoenix rapist, did last month.The 18-year-old Donaldson’s been hit with a laundry list of crimes for…
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office announced this morning that a man has been arrested in connection to three sexual assaults dating back to November.Dajuan Donaldson, 18, was nabbed this morning in connection with the attacks on three young girls as they walked to school.The first attack happened on November 22,…
[jump] When police got to the scene, they found Peralta lying face down and completely naked in the empty field. He told cops he wanted his pants, which were in a nearby pile of clothing. The officers were happy to get Peralta his pants, and when they did, they found a…
In a text message he showed police after getting arrested for having a weekend full of sex with a 15-year-old girl, 23-year-old Christopher Bochenek told his victim, “I hope I don’t go to jail.” Good luck, bub.Bochenek was arrested last Friday after the girl told her parents that she’d spent the…
As he was holding his neighbor hostage following a drunken fight with his fiancee, 35-year-old Chad Wisneiwski had an idiotic request: He wanted to have a “fire fight” with the Pinal County sheriff’s deputies who’d surrounded his home and were negotiating with him to come out. It never happened,…
“Buffalo” William Willis, the alleged cross-dressing kiddy-porn connoisseur who removed his court- ordered ankle monitor earlier this week, was not only busted by U.S. Marshals yesterday, he was busted wearing a wig — which is both fitting and terrifying.When Willis was arrested at an apartment complex near 48th Street and…
Being a police officer is a hard, thankless job, and the vast majority of cops are good people. Then there’s Phoenix police Officer Patrick Larrison, who ruins the public perception of police officers when he essentially body-slams an unarmed, non-threatening 15-year-old girl into the side of a building.It was all caught on film,…
Kid-killing rapist Donald Beaty is scheduled to be put to death on May 25 at the state prison in Florence for the 1984 murder and rape of 13-year-old Christy Ann Fornoff. Let the last-minute appeals commence.Beaty’s attorneys filed a motion yesterday to have his death sentence overturned, claiming his trial…
The nice part about “holidays” like St. Patrick’s Day, New Year’s Eve, and Cinco De Mayo is that police literally tell you they are going out of their way to arrest drunk drivers. They tell you when, for the most part where, and advise that, to avoid getting a DUI,…
The Avondale Police Department wants to remind Valley residents that an infant taken from a swap meet in 2001 is still missing, in the hope that some new ink about the girl’s abduction could create some new leads.Ten years ago Friday, 4-month-old Jacqueline Vasquez was with her mother and 2-year-old…
Clifton Wilkinson had two plans yesterday after getting caught in the act of allegedly sexually assaulting his estranged wife: Plan A was to convince her that it wasn’t rape. Plan B was to hang himself. He failed miserably at both. According to documents obtained by New Times, Wilkinson’s estranged wife…
The second officer shot during the execution-style murder of a Buckeye police officer over the weekend is expected to recover, the Phoenix Police Department announced today. Additionally, a third suspect in the case was located, questioned, and released, Phoenix Sergeant Tommy Thompson tells New Times.A second suspect in the case…
A Pinal County woman was arrested last week on charges that she assaulted her husband as the two were driving near Casa Grande — which wouldn’t be much of a news story if the woman arrested weren’t Pinal County Family Court Commissioner Theresa Ratliff.Ratliff and her husband were driving to…
Arizona’s liquor laws dictate that people within the state’s borders can’t purchase alcohol between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. But they can still steal it — or at least try to — which is apparently the route a San Tan Valley man took on his quest to get sent back to…
A wanna-be “Fight Club” member was bested and a guy’s girlfriend’s sister took revenge in two separate stabbing incidents over the weekend in Mesa. The knifings were just two of the noteworthy crime stories passed along this morning by our flyboy buddy over at Mesa PD, helicopter pilot…
