A DNA match led to the July 5 arrest of a man who police say is responsible for at least two sexual assault cases from 2004 and 2006.Phoenix police recently arrested Ramon Manuel Rivera, 50, on several counts of felony sexual assault, sexual abuse, and kidnapping. In May, police were…
Daniel Avey went on a motorcycle ride Tuesday night, which probably wouldn’t have been a problem had he not allegedly left his children — ages 3 and 5 — home alone to play with lighters.The cops say that qualifies as child abuse.According to court documents obtained by New Times, a…
Bullhead City resident Jonathan Lane had this one in the works for more than a year — he was going to have sex with someone he met on the Internet.Finally, Lane got a plane ticket to Tampa, Florida, and landed at the airport early Sunday morning.Lane, 33, was then arrested…
See also: Peter Spaw, Deputy County Attorney, Under State Bar “Inquiry” for Role in Discredited Racketeering Case; Also Named in New Lawsuits See also: Rachel Alexander Wins Reprieve From Judge; Appeal Back on Track County prosecutor Peter Spaw is the subject of a new ethics probe related to the same…
The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office says a 6-year-old was whipped with a hose and dropped on his head by his father, who then tried to hide to hide from the cops.The 6-year-old’s crime that earned an alleged beating from his father: drinking from an irrigation system.YCSO says deputies got the…
Let’s hope this isn’t becoming a trend, but today marked the second time in as many weeks that a school bus driver pleaded guilty to doing something sexual with a kid.On July 6, it was the former Legacy Charter School bus driver who liked to be called “Mr. Bill” who…
See also: New Times special report: Polygamy in Arizona See also: Mohave County Sheriff’s Office to Patrol Colorado City See also: Colorado City Sued by Justice DepartmentSee also: Someone Buried a Cat Up to Its Head in Concrete on Ex-FLDS Member’s PropertyPETA’s kind of in an awkward spot right now,…
A Phoenix man was arrested on felony animal-cruelty charges for the mistreatment and neglect of his two horses, marking the second time in just more than a week that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has nabbed somebody over abused horses. MCSO deputies arrested Jesse Noriega, 33, for alleged neglect of…
See also: New Times special report: Polygamy in Arizona See also: Mohave County Sheriff’s Office to Patrol Colorado City See also: Colorado City Sued by Justice DepartmentSee also: Someone Buried a Cat Up to Its Head in Concrete on Ex-FLDS Member’s PropertyThe Mohave County Sheriff’s Office will be investigating the…
Sadie Johnson told the cops she didn’t like babysitting her sisters — ages 1, 2, and 4 — a job she often had to do when her mother was going out with her boyfriend.Johnson, then 17, finally got out of it — after she was arrested for binding and gagging…
If David Deal, the father of Ame Deal — the 10-year-old girl who died a year ago after her family members admittedly stuffed the girl in a footlocker — wanted to skip town between his arrests this weekend, he had about three days.If Deal actually tried to leave town, he…
See also: “Hide-and-Seek” Suffocation Death of 10-Year-Old Ame Deal Ruled HomicideSee also: Police: Abuse of Ame Deal “Makes You Sick to Your Stomach.”See also: Ame Deal’s Killers Indicted for First-Degree MurderSee also: Pennsylvania Man Says He’s the Father of Ame DealSee also: Ammandea Stoltzmann Arrested For Horrific Abuse of Ame…
See also: “Hide-and-Seek” Suffocation Death of 10-Year-Old Ame Deal Ruled HomicideSee also: Police: Abuse of Ame Deal “Makes You Sick to Your Stomach.”See also: Ame Deal’s Killers Indicted for First-Degree MurderSee also: County Attorney to Seek Death Penalty For Alleged Killers of 10-Year-Old GirlSee also: Ame Deal’s Father Trying to…
See also: Steven LaMar, Cave Creek Councilman, Dumped as Lawyer for Maricopa County Amid Criticism in Mary Rose Wilcox Claim See also: Mary Rose Wilcox Granted $975,000 Judgment by Federal Judge; Sidesteps County Efforts to Check Payment Maricopa County Treasurer Charles “Hos” Hoskins has been thwarted in his attempt to…
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…
