Crime & Police

A judge sentenced phony Gustavo Nunez after he performed cosmetic surgery on nine women without a license, nearly killing one.

She’ll be the third woman on Arizona’s death row.

He resigned from the top post in the Catholic diocese here in 2003 and now Thomas O’Brien faces new allegations in court that he was himself an abuser.

Belt-tightening at the Arizona officer training board has led to the death of an agreement that funds the law enforcement training academy in Phoenix.

Sheriff Paul Penzone described the firebombing as “an attack on law enforcement and the community at large.”

Several city courts are pushing back on a report from the libertarian Goldwater Institute that said some Arizona municipal courts bring in millions of dollars from fines and fees.

The trail goes cold quickly if a murder isn’t solved in the first 48 hours, experts say That’s what happened in the investigations of the 2007 deaths of Gina Guthrie and Sandra Jakubowski.

Two women, last seen on the same night 10 years ago, have become among hundreds of unsolved murders in Phoenix. Could they also have been victims of another serial killer?

The Nevada parole board votes to release former NFL star on October 1; Fred Goldman of metro Phoenix still believes Simpson killed his son.

Joe McCool and the gang guaranteed that investors would make 15 percent a month, but said 5 percent would be plowed back in to buy insurance on the original investment. The plan couldn’t fail.

Fines and fees can be a major revenue stream for some city courts. But for residents, the municipal court system is a Kafkaesque part of daily life.

A Phoenix family’s mailbox was defaced with a swastika and the word “Jew,” but they left the hateful graffiti uncovered.

22-year-old Bakari Henderson was killed while vacationing in Greece, reports said.

It criminalizes the poor, often goes hand-in-hand with racial profiling, and could lead to more deportations.

Aaron Juan Saucedo, 23, pled not guilty in Maricopa County Superior Court on Thursday to 20 felony counts. Saucedo was not present at the arraignment.

Caution? Not enough evidence? Why did the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office take so long to indict the suspect in the Serial Street Shooter case?

Last year 507 drivers were busted for DUI during this period; police will be out in force this year.