After allegedly shooting his ex-girlfriend to death in Avondale — in front of their 4-year-old daughter — Michael Hall decided to skip town, in favor of Las Vegas.Not some residential suburb of Las Vegas, and not some crime-riddled corridor of the city — Hall was popped last month by Las…
A red shoe that appears to belong to 19-year-old ASU freshman Jack Culolias remains the only sign of the missing fraternity pledge since he was last seen Friday night.See also:-ASU Freshman Jack Culolias Has Been Missing Since Friday Night…
Jack Culolias, a 19-year-old freshman at Arizona State University, has not been heard from since apparently being booted from a Tempe bar/restaurant Friday night…
Richard Stokley was executed today at the state prison in Florence, more than 21 years after he and an accomplice kidnapped, raped, and murdered two 13-year-old girls in Cochise County.While Stokley, 60, got the state’s lethal juice today, his accomplice in those crimes, Randy Brazeal, is currently a free man…
A suspected Mexican Mafia member has been arrested in the shooting death of ex-con Erasmo Ledezma on Thanksgiving, as police say Mexican Mafia members had a “green light” to kill Ledezma because he had previously “snitched” to the cops.The alleged gangster and shooter has been identified as Steven Benavidez, who…
Phoenix police say 22-year-old Andrew Mathieson broke into a 76-year-old woman’s home near 23rd Svenue and Loop 101 around 4 a.m. Saturday, and stole the woman’s car after strangling her unconscious.Mathieson was arrested yesterday, and told police many of the details, according to court documents obtained by New Times, but…
Marion Patterson III, the accomplice of the man who shot and killed Arizona State University senior Zachary Marco, was sentenced today to 17 years in prison. Marco, 21, was robbed of his laptop in October 2010 by Patterson and another local gang-banger, Louis Harper, who wielded a gun. Rather than…
Deputies at the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office have a tough job: they have to take orders from Captain Underpants Sheriff Paul Babeu, they have to wrangle all of those illegals Babeu talks about on TV, and they have to deal with the rest of the stuff reported to PCSO –…
Erasmo Ledezma, a 26-year-old Phoenix scofflaw, might have felt hope on the day he was released from prison last year after having served four years for theft. Though he’d been convicted of theft, Department of Corrections records show he’d been released a couple of years early in a 2004 program…
David Goodrich told police in Tempe that he “accidentally” stepped on his roommate’s dog.The dog was “obviously dead” after this, Goodrich, 25, told the cops, but the fact that Goodrich was still wiping blood off the floor when his roommate got home — among other factors — has police thinking…
Superstition Search and Rescue team members have located the remains of a man in the Superstition Mountains. Volunteers discovered the remains about a half-mile from the spot where Jesse Capen, a gold prospector in search of the Lost Dutchman’s Mine, had set up his campsite back in 2009. Capen, a…
Two brave women, aged 16 and 20, showed up at the Mesa Police Station on October 30 with a shocking tale: They’d been sexually abused by their stepfather, Edgar Garcia, for the past 12 years. They told of a series of rapes and molestations that began when the 20-year-old was…
Phoenix police report that a homicide investigation has begun after a body was found on Thanksgiving Day with obvious “trauma.” The body was found “in the area of 4015 East Madison” in Phoenix, writes Phoenix Officer James Holmes in an e-mail when asked about recent death investigations. “We have not…
It’s not immediately clear what’s worse — 23-year-old Daniel Hall’s taste in face art, or his alleged burglary attempts on Tempe’s Mill Avenue this weekend.Hall allegedly had a “jimmy tool” to pry open doors, but apparently didn’t quite know how to use it, as people watched him fail to break…
Note to brothers Dylan and Joshua Wroe: allegedly robbing a 99 Cents Only store was a bad idea.First, did either of you consider that filling shopping bags full of the store’s merchandise might not be the most valuable heist? Let’s say, approximately 99 cents per item? Second, for Dylan Wroe,…
Phoenix police have arrested a man who’s been on the run for more than a month, who allegedly shot at a police officer 37 times, and missed each of those 37 times.Cops have been looking for 35-year-old Angel Padilla since October 13, after police say he kidnapping his wife, and…
Koko Anderson took her 2-month-old son on a drive last night, on a stretch of straight and even concrete.What we’re saying is, Anderson drove into the airfield at Sky Harbor airport, and started driving on a runway…
Every 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, most of our Fourth Avenue visitors have some pretty evident…
Lucy Parra was released from the Tent City jail Tuesday morning, and by Tuesday night, she was back in the slammer.The reason for her second trip to jail: allegedly sending her 6-year-old kid inside a McDonald’s, then driving away…
Andrew Thomas, the former Maricopa County Attorney whose abuse of power got him disbarred this year, is considering a run for governor, according to a county GOP site. “The Word Is Out That Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas is considering running for Governor. He can be reached at (602)…
Police say the assault of Phoenix DJ, activist, and former New Times clubs editor Austin Head and a friend — which was detailed this morning on our music blog, Up on the Sun — was an anti-gay hate crime.Phoenix police Sergeant Steve Martos says the case has been designated as…
Pictures taken last week of a Navajo man’s penis and “stumpy” thumbs reportedly link him to the photographed sexual assault of a toddler. Carl Carlson of the Navajo Nation committed aggravated sexual assault of a child, sexual exploitation of a child and possessed child pornography, according to a complaint filed…
