Robert Fischer, the California divorce lawyer accused of murdering his stepdaughter’s husband in Queen Creek in 2010 and staging it as a suicide, pleaded not guilty today.Fischer — not to be confused with the Scottsdale man of a similar name who blew up his family — is accused of shooting…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office arrested Lee Charles Lubonne after two alleged sexual-assault suspects described his house, vehicle, and identified him from a photo lineup.Judging from what sex-crime detectives found in his house, the Sheriff’s Office is thinking there’s a “possibility” there may be more victims, and Lubonne, a 44-year-old…
A 2010 “suicide” in Queen Creek has now been determined to have been a staged suicide, and Orange County, California divorce lawyer Robert Fischer is the one accused of doing the killing.Fischer — not to be confused with the Scottsdale man of a similar name who blew up his family…
Few things tick off Karl “Jack” Frost more than pedestrians in a bike lane, apparently.Frost, a 47-year-old Chandler resident, tried to make a “citizen’s arrest” on a 52-year-old Chandler man who was jogging in a bike lane yesterday, Gilbert police say…
It appears a person with an actual law degree also thinks it’s a bit strange that former middle school teacher’s aide Gabriela Compton got probation for having sex with a student, groping another, and sending some nudie pictures that the teenaged boys passed around.Slate posted an online article yesterday sending…
Juan Garcia — who’s accused of killing his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son in February — is back in Maricopa County, winning a trip to the 4th Avenue Jail for a fresh mugshot.Garcia, 18, turned himself in to immigration-enforcement authorities near the border crossing in Lukeville on Friday, and was booked into…
When did Tucson resident Moses Antonio Shepard’s chasing of a woman turn into an interstate stalking case?According to the federal government, some point before the 18-year mark.Shepard was sentenced yesterday to 100 months in prison, as the 19th anniversary of his one and only date with his victim comes in…
Michael King, who was wanted in the rape of a Pleasure Palace porn shop employee — that is, until he was caught robbing a bank, and tossed the stolen cash all over a Phoenix backyard — took a plea agreement today that’s sending him to prison.King, 23, pleaded guilty today…
Juan Garcia — who’s accused of killing his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son in February — turned himself in to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents near the border crossing in Lukeville on Friday, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department confirmed.Garcia, 18, has been wanted by Phoenix police since going on the run after…
Rachel Alexander, acolyte of former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, has filed a notice of claim against Maricopa County for $67,000 to cover the legal fees of the appeal of her law-license suspension.Alexander, along with Thomas and former deputy county attorney Lisa Aubuchon, was disciplined for their bad ethics in…
Lisa Aubuchon has managed to eke out a three-week stay of her disbarment.After being told by the state Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Judge that her “staggering mountain of wrongdoing” means she would be officially stripped of her law license today, the Court’s duty justice, Robert Brutinel, granted her a temporary stay.Brutinel…
Marion Patterson III will soon learn his fate for his role in the 2010 shooting death of Arizona State University student Zachary Marco.Patterson, one of two men charged in Marco’s murder, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in February, and this morning, a judge scheduled his sentencing for 9 a.m. on…
A “staggering mountain of wrongdoing” by former county prosecutor Lisa Aubuchon was cited by a judge as one general reason to deny her request for stay of disbarment.Aubuchon and her former boss, ex-County Attorney Andrew Thomas, were disbarred on April 10 for a series of ethical violations related to their…
Miles the pit bull puppy — whose owner is accused of bragging about using a 16-pound sledgehammer to break his legs — is looking like he’s going to make it, although the rescue group caring for him says “euthanasia was considered” when the puppy was brought in.Miles may even get…
Phoenix police have identified 19-year-old Pedro Ramirez as the allegedly drunk driver who got in a head-on collision on the morning of April 30, killing a 5-year-old boy.The boy’s mom was arrested, too, and faces child-abuse charges for putting her youngster in the car driven by Ramirez, and not placing…
Yesterday, former middle school teacher’s aide Gabriela Compton was sentenced to a lifetime of probation for having sex with one of the school’s students, and other related incidents.Compton, now 21, was arrested in March 2011 after principals at Phoenix’s Western Valley Middle School found out Compton had been sending nudie…
Mark Goldman, the wealthy lawyer buddy of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and disgraced former County Attorney Andrew Thomas, is seeking votes in a State Bar of Arizona election.He’s one of eight candidates vying for the Maricopa County District position on the State Bar’s Board of Governors, which oversees Bar…
Jeff Huelster, a teacher at Cortez High School — and the school’s head football coach — is accused of sex crimes against children, including live-streaming video of his penis over the Internet to a person he thought was a minor.In classic To Catch a Predator style, Huelster met the minor…
Gilbert police released the recordings of the 9-1-1 calls yesterday made before and after neo-Nazi J.T. Ready allegedly murdered four people before icing himself last week, and not surprisingly, local news outlets weren’t too hip to the idea of playing the entire recordings.Since we’re not in the business of sugarcoating,…
Update: Gabriela Compton Sentencing: Lawyer Weighs in on the ControversyWelcome to the wide world of teacher sex-scandal sentencing, as former middle school teacher’s aide Gabriela Compton was sentenced this morning to a life on probation.Compton, now 21, was arrested in March 2011 after principals at Phoenix’s Western Valley Middle School…
Former proseuctor Lisa Aubuchon and her husband, Peter Pestalozzi, owe $40,721 in federal taxes, records show.The federal tax lien listed on the Maricopa County Recorder’s website includes $3,388 in unpaid taxes for 2009 and $37,332 for 2010.Aubuchon, who was disbarred on April 10 along with her former County Attorney boss,…
One of the easiest ways to piss off Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio — aside from being in the country illegally or writing for New Times — is to mess with a puppy. Or probably it’s just that Joe realizes animals get his mug on TV easily. Animal abuse is…
