Andrew Thomas followed up on last year’s rumor that he might run for governor with an official announcement today. Knowing that anything’s possible in Arizona, the so-called meth lab of democracy, we thought we’d put out this helpful voting guide. So, without further ado, we offer you our best eight…
Most suspected cyber-pervs give up quietly when authorities come knocking, judging from the many arrest reports we’ve read. Teddy Jay Blair, 53, of Phoenix, put up some resistance during a Wednesday raid, records show, refusing to drop a knife and trying to run from agents. An FBI agent discovered in…
A Phoenix mother admitted to killing her 6-day-old baby girl because she “had too many kids already,” police say.According to court documents obtained by New Times, the woman, 36-year-old Nina Koistinen, has prior run-ins with Child Protective Services and previously had said she wanted her children “to go to heaven…
Developer Conley Wolfswinkel, his family and company will received $1.4 million in the largest Maricopa County payout yet to victims of the legal abuses of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former County Attorney Andrew Thomas. As the county just confirmed, the Wolfswinkels are getting more in this settlement than the $1.27…
The costs keep climbing for the corrupt acts of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former County Attorney Andrew Thomas. Late last month, the Board of Supervisors agreed to pay $1.27 million to a former judge smeared with bogus criminal charges, plus another $250,000 to former county Schools Superintendent Sandra…
The price of having sex with a 17-year-old student is a 3 1/2-year prison sentence for former Paradise Valley High School teacher Jordan Doneskey.As part of a plea agreement, Doneskey will spend the rest of his life on probation, will have to register as a sex offender, and agreed to…
The Arizona State University student found dead in a Tempe apartment is identified in court paperwork as 19-year-old Rebecca “Becky” Kasper.Court documents describe a written note left near Kasper’s body that police believe was written by Kasper’s boyfriend, 22-year-old Luis Soltero, admitting to killing her. That note wasn’t found far…
The outcomes are now known for charges against three of six family members accused of harming 10-year-old Ame Deal, who was murdered in Phoenix almost two years ago.Ame’s father, David Deal, pleaded guilty this morning to attempted child abuse and possession of marijuana, while the girl’s aunt previously pleaded guilty…
A 19-year-old Arizona State University sophomore was found dead in her Tempe apartment yesterday, according to police.The student’s name hasn’t been released at this point, but police believe 22-year-old Luis Soltero, the woman’s boyfriend, murdered her…
Dejuan Donaldson, the man accused of raping three girls between the ages of 10 and 17 who were walking to schools in south Phoenix neighborhoods in 2010 and 2011, will be going to prison for a long time.For the sexual assaults, Donaldson earned himself 51 1/2 years in prison –…
A week after charges were dropped against one of six family members accused of abusing 10-year-old Ame Deal, who was murdered in Phoenix almost two years ago, another family member has pleaded guilty.A spokesman for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office wouldn’t elaborate when child-abuse charges against Ammandea Stoltzmann, Ame’s cousin,…
Members of the Superstition Search and Rescue have discovered what they suspect is the body of a hiker missing since Monday. Crews from the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office responded to Lost Dutchman State Park on Monday night — four days ago — after receiving a call of an overdue hiker,…
Anthony Giunta got a little scraped up earlier this week while being picked up by a pair of Phoenix bail bondsmen for skipping bail, and he urged that his friends and family who were watching the incident shoot the bail bondsmen.Police say 23-year-old Nicholas Malicki obliged, and murdered the men…
The feds are bringing another child-porn watcher to justice with the recent guilty plea of Arizona resident Douglas Earl Leach. When Leach’s Peoria home was raided on September 5, 2012, following an FBI investigation, agents found nearly 4,000 child-porn pictures, mostly of young boys engaged in sex acts. At least…
A member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club was arrested this weekend after cutting off a Scottsdale police detective who was trailing several Hells Angels during an Arizona Bike Week event.Bruce Schweigert, one of the seven Hells Angels bikers who beat charges from a 2010 shootout with Vagos bikers in…
Police say the man who shot at a group of people attending a birthday party in Phoenix this weekend, killing two people, admitted to doing just that.One of the men killed in Carlos Rodriguez’s drive-by shooting was the birthday boy, 18-year-old Jason Acosta-Ramos…
A 17-year-old Peoria girl has joined her mother and brother as a murder defendant.Alysa Gibson is now the third family member arrested in the murder of her father, Steve Gibson, who was killed at his Peoria home about six weeks ago.See also:-Steve Gibson of Peoria Killed by Teenage Hitman Hired…
Steven Craig Shiflet, the Mesa resident who admitted to starting the near-18,000-acre Sunflower Fire in the Tonto National Forest last year with an “incendiary shotgun shell,” was sentenced Monday to probation.Shiflet fired the shell during a bachelor party in the desert near Sycamore Creek on May 12, and the fire…
Most of the time, things don’t work out like they do in action movies, which apparently came as a surprise to 18-year-old Luis Cardenas this morning.Cardenas, who allegedly started a car chase with the Phoenix PD a little before 1:30 a.m. today, ended up driving to Scottsdale and onto a…
A Peoria mother and her teenage son pleaded not guilty this morning to murder charges, about six weeks after police said the two hired a 16-year-old boy to kill a member of their family.Police said at the time that Michelle Gibson called 911 early on March 1 saying she found…
Aaron Smith, a former Tempe patrol officer who decided to steal from a building full of cops — the police department — has pleaded guilty to a theft charge.Smith, who was caught taking some cash, bikes, and a GPS unit that didn’t even work, told his fellow officers that he…
Arpaio’s new office just might be bigger than your first apartment. When the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office headquarters moves this summer from the downtown Phoenix Wells Fargo building to its new digs on Fifth Street and Jackson, the tough-talking, 20-year sheriff will be welcomed into a personal office in the…
