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The former charter school bus driver who liked to be called “Mr. Bill” pleaded guilty this morning to charges related to luring a 9-year-old girl to his car and molesting her.”Mr. Bill,” known to the court system as Billy Bryant, pleaded guilty this morning to three counts child molestation and…
A Phoenix woman was arrested on Tuesday after witnesses at Peter Piper Pizza saw her 2-year-old kid fall out of his chair — possibly because he was drunk.Valerie Topete, 32, was at the pizza parlor in Chandler in the evening when — a witness told police — she poured beer…
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If you watch Fox News, you may have been led to believe that drugs known as “bath salts” are causing people in Arizona to get naked and steal cars, like in the case of John Brigham’s alleged carjacking/car-crashing spree last week.If you’re trusting the cops on this one, it was…
In the Fugitive TV series and movie, nobody saw the “one-armed man” commit murder. That wasn’t the case on Sunday in a Mesa parking garage, where a witness told police he saw the one-armed Roderick Deshan Wagoner repeatedly stab a man who then fell three stories. The witness, unidentified in…
The legs of a 46-year-old man were severed after he was run over by a Union Pacific train in Gilbert early this morning. The man later died.Gilbert police got a call around 3:45 a.m. from the train company that a pedestrian had been hit near Gilbert Road and Park Avenue.A…
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John Brigham, a 45-year-old man whose naked carjacking spree in Scottsdale on Friday ended with multiple crashes, trashed his uncle’s home back in November while dressed in a towel. In Friday’s incident, Brigham stripped naked and danced on top of his car before stealing a Toyota Prius and crashing it…
Dominic Chagolla will be spending the rest of his life in prison for murdering his mother in December 2010.A jury convicted Chagolla of first-degree murder in late April for stabbing Maria Chagolla to death, and Judge Sherry Stephens sentenced him this morning to natural life in prison.Maria Chagolla’s body was…
Maria Rivera, the 21-year-old woman accused of shaking her 11-month-old daughter Stormi to near-death, had two prior run-ins with Child Protective Services involving allegations of abuse against the girl.Rivera claims she only shook Stormi because she fell unconscious after falling down some stairs, although Phoenix police detectives say hospital staff…
We’re not at the Maricopa County Superior Court, but a court spokesman tells New Times that “Burning Man” Michael Marin collapsed after his guilty verdict was announced.The Arizona Republic’s Michael Kiefer was in the courtroom, and is saying Marin had a seizure after the verdict was read — as Marin…
UPDATE: Michael Marin has been transported to a hospital. He collapsed shortly after the verdict was read.A jury found “Burning Man” Michael Marin guilty of arson of an occupied structure today for burning down his Biltmore Estates mansion in July 2009. Marin gave his explanation to New Times writer Paul…
Brian Dicamillo, 39, is accused of offering a 10-year-old boy one whole dollar to have sex with him.According to police, that’s just the start of what landed Dicamillo — and eventually, his wife — in jail.Did we mention Dicamillo’s a bus driver for the Deer Valley Unified School District?According to…
George Kuykendall is off to prison for 24 years after taking a plea deal in what Mesa police told New Times was “the worst case of child abuse [they’ve] seen where the child survives.”Kuykendall beat his 4-year-old daughter with a power cord so severely that her kidneys shut down after…
All three people accused of using Craigslist to find a dog to “fornicate” with have pleaded guilty.The charges stem from Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s latest Craigslist bestiality case, in which a detective responded to a post on the website looking for a dog for sexual purposes, and the three…
After a few rounds of mental-competency hearings, Michael Crane — accused of murdering Paradise Valley couple Glenna and Lawrence Shapiro and Phoenix man Bruce Gaudet — would now like to represent himself against charges of murder, kidnapping, arson, and burglary.A court spokesman says Crane and his current attorney said in…
As the Tempe Police Department got verification earlier this month that the five burned bodies found in an SUV in the Vekol Valley were identified as James and Yafit Butwin and their three children, another group of five people was still apparently missing. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s theory was…
Scott Verbout’s the guy who edits the spelling and grammar for the writers of the Casa Grande Dispatch, online at TriValleyCentral.com.He’s also the guy who was arrested by Ak-Chin police last week for allegedly doing some creative writing of his own, which he sent, along with pictures of his penis, to…
Don’t let those conservative critics mislead you: The Arizona Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Judge is really a big softie. Judge William O’Neil has given Rachel Alexander, the ethics-bending former underling of Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, another chance to appeal the ordered suspension of her law license. O’Neil, after upbraiding former…
Believe it or not, an elected official in Arizona is pleased with something the federal government did.Attorney General Tom Horne handed out his thoughts on the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division suing Colorado City — the town on the Utah/Arizona border that child rapist Warren Jeffs used to call home…
Colorado City — the town on the Utah/Arizona border that child rapist Warren Jeffs used to call home — is being sued by the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division for religious and housing discrimination.The feds say the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and Jeffs are still…
