DUI task forces around the state arrested 495 people on DUI charges over Memorial Day weekend.That’s the fewest DUI arrests of the last five years over Memorial Day weekend. An average of about 630 people were arrested over Memorial Day weekend between 2010 and 2013, according to statistics released by…
Drunk driving is bad.With that out of the way, here’s where one police department will be setting up a sobriety checkpoint and other departments will be operating “saturation patrols” around the Valley, looking for impaired drivers this weekend:…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest.This week, we bring you our second edition…
Cacti are taken very seriously in Arizona.Scottsdale police arrested a 16-year-old Gilbert boy yesterday for cutting the arm off a cactus in Pinnacle Peak Park…
A Tempe woman is accused of making her boyfriend’s 3-year-old daughter eat her own feces as punishment.Nicole Candelaria, 28, denied the claim, but the girl’s two siblings corroborated the story to police, according to court documents obtained by New Times…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest.This week, our alleged offenders either have tattoos…
A Lake Havasu man has been arrested for using Twitter to threaten to kill House Speaker John Boehner.According to a federal complaint, Ronald Dean Frazier operated a Twitter account with a profile picture of Boehner with crosshairs on his forehead, and posted tweets such as, “Did you know I’m going…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest.This week, our alleged offenders all look like…
DUI task forces around the state arrested 500 people on DUI charges this weekend, including Monday, Cinco de Mayo.Of those 500 people, 155 of them were arrested on a charge of “extreme” DUI, meaning their blood-alcohol level was at least double the legal limit of .08…
Drunk driving is bad.With that out of the way, here’s where police will be setting up “saturation patrols” around the Valley, looking for impaired drivers this weekend:…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest.This week, our alleged offenders set a bad…
Phoenix police say a man was able to steal three AR-15 rifles from a Walmart store by placing them in a cart and wheeling them out of the store.Daniel Justin Miranda, 46, was arrested yesterday afternoon for stealing the rifles, in part because officers saw him sell one of the…
A Phoenix woman is accused of throwing a kitten off the balcony of her third-floor apartment, killing it.According to court documents obtained by New Times, neighbors heard 49-year-old Patricia Gaffin arguing loudly with her children before tossing the kitten over the balcony…
Once again, deputies from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office have busted someone who went to Craigslist looking for sex with an animal.This time, a 22-year-old Phoenix man went to the “Missed Connections” section of Craigslist seeking a male horse “on which to commit the act of fellatio,” according to the…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest.This week, it seems pretty clear how the…
A local mixed martial arts trainer who once fought in a UFC event was arrested on Monday for his alleged involvement in a 1999 murder in Mesa.Homer “Rock” Moore, 42, was arrested by Tempe police and the U.S. Marshals Service on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of…
Arizona Cardinals linebacker Daryl Washington was sentenced today to a year of supervised probation for aggravated assault.Washington, 27, was arrested in May after getting into a fight with the mother of his child. Washington was accused of choking the woman and breaking her collarbone after an argument at the woman’s…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest.This week, we bring your some people that…
It’s just now surfacing that former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was arrested for DUI in December.McNabb’s arrest near the Loop 101 by the Salt River police was kept quiet until today, when his mugshot surfaced, as McNabb had to serve his sentence of one day in jail…
Hopi medicine man Ivan Jackson was sentenced on Tuesday to one year in prison for performing oral sex on a patient who believed she was receiving treatment. The victim, who wasn’t named in federal court records, had sought help from Jackson in the summer of 2012 because she was “seeing…
A Navajo man anally raped his buddy’s 18-year-old girlfriend on a dark road south of Kayenta early Sunday, then either suffocated or strangled her, federal court records allege. The woman’s half-naked body was found in a ditch, a tire track over her chest. Sankey Reid, 30, admitted he drove over…
A fight Sunday night in a Phoenix diner between police officers and a berserk man on a destructive rampage ended when the man fell ill and died after he was tased four times. Police haven’t yet released the name of the 38-year-old white man, pending notification of his family…
