Crime & Police

Emily Lopatofsky disappeared for six months and was found pregnant and confused in a Cancún hospital. It all started with a violent encounter Phoenix police aren’t eager to explain.

The proposed legislation homes in on inmates who are injured while working for the state or through its prison labor program.

Autonomous, camera-equipped vehicles like Waymo can provide law enforcement with what is essentially a traveling fleet of surveillance cameras.

Valentina Gloria will remain in mental health facilities while awaiting trial.

Video of the incident doesn’t match officers’ descriptions of the shooting, and the 120-page police report is rife with inconsistencies.

Three months after his indictments.

AZPOST took no action against a Tempe officer who tased a man in his own apartment who was holding his 1-year-old baby.

The tweet was apparently meant to assure Phoenix residents that they were safe, but the message had the opposite effect.

He’ll continue to hold his badge, allowing him to apply at another department if he wishes.

Kelly’s lawyers allege Glendale officer James Calderon used excessive force by tasing Kelly multiple times, causing him to defecate himself.

The trial is set for January 14, 2020. If convicted of both counts, he faces a minimum sentence of 23 years in prison.

Johnson responded to a call from a caregiver about a man who had died from a gunshot wound at a home in the Sun Lakes neighborhood of Mesa.

The chief of the Goodyear Police Department, Jerry Geier, has been fired, city officials announced today.

The settlement comes just before the six-month deadline for Erica Reynolds to file a lawsuit against the city.

CoreCivic officers kept Justin Fuller from calling lawyers and a prison rape hotline, he said. They piled disciplinary reports on him and threw him in solitary.

An email sent to Tempe Mayor Mark Mitchell, City Council members, and the city manager may offer some insight as to why the city changed its mind.

At the 26-member Globe PD, two chiefs resigned (one is suing), two got banned from law enforcement, two were suspended, and two were accused of abuse.

Vasquez told police he had videos and photos of children as young as toddlers on his cellphone, police say.

She tried to protect her neck as she feared for her life and she screamed for her 10-year-old daughter to come,” Faust said.

The vulnerable woman seems rightfully terrified, grabbing onto a pole to stop herself from being wheeled out against her will.

Ryff alleged the city breached a non-disparagement agreement and prevented him from getting a job with the Tempe Union High School District

A Yuma school resource officer has resigned after the department learned he had struck up a personal and sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl.