Kyle Yocom’s detention-officer job for the Arizona U.S. Marshal’s Service didn’t pay enough — for him, anyway. The once-supervisor for a detention unit at a federal courthouse pawned body armor worth about a thousand bucks and other gear, netting $90. He was was given five years’ probation this week after…
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.Summer doesn’t even start until tomorrow, but this…
Mary Rose Wilcox finally got her million dollars from taxpayers. The only question now is how the former County Supervisor, who’s running for Congress, will spend the money…
A former Phoenix Boy Scouts leader and his roommate are accused of committing sex crimes against five boys between 1983 and 2003.A boy actually filed a complaint with the Boy Scouts alleging now-65-year-old Bill Challberg molested him back in 1986. The boy didn’t go to police, and it wasn’t until…
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 find some alleged offenders who…
Deputy Sean Pearce, the son of recalled State Senator Rusell Pearce, won’t face criminal charges in his speeding-related crash that killed a Glendale motorist. Maricopa County Bill Montgomery announced his office’s non-charging decision this morning at a news conference, claiming that Pearce’s obscured view and assignment in tracking a homicide…
It appears that Mary Rose Wilcox will finally be able to deposit a few hundred grand of taxpayer money into her bank account. Wilcox, the former longtime County Supervisor who resigned to run for Congress, won another court ruling on June 2 for her right to a pre-arranged $975,000 settlement…
A Tempe home invasion caught on video as a woman played a video game can be seen this morning on YouTube. A police bulletin picked up by various news media organizations around the Valley reported the home invasion, which took place early this morning in a west Tempe apartment complex…
People who thought they were buying Viagra pills from one Phoenix man were getting stiffed. Er, scammed.According to Phoenix police, Melvin Rutkowski, 68, was also selling other counterfeit pills online, including Cialis and Levitra…
A pair of Peoria parents are accused of keeping two of their adoptive daughters in a twisted home “prison,” according to police.Court documents obtained by New Times describe various treatments the 13- and 11-year-old girls faced: Being forced to sleep nude in the backyard, having their heads shaved, being forced…
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 definitely keep it…
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 found some real one-of-a-kind offenders…
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:…
