El Mirage police were informed yesterday that Albert Arias stabbed his father, possibly to death, after Arias allegedly came into the police station and told them about it.Pete Arias, 76, was pronounced dead at a hospital, and his son is in jail for his murder.According to court documents obtained by…
Julian Titcomb, a former volunteer basketball coach at a Valley elementary school, was sentenced today to six months in jail for sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl.Titcomb, 22, was booked into jail on eight counts of sexual conduct with a minor in March 2011, but pleaded guilty in February to three…
Police say 21-year-old Martin Garcia crashed into one officer’s motorcycle, another officer’s car, got shot at by police, then managed to crash his car into a guardrail, leaving it hanging over the edge about 15 feet above a highway and running away.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Garcia…
“Chasing girls” is supposed to be a colloquialism, not an actual game plan to pull off at a Tempe park.Curtis Earl Mann apparently missed that memo, as Tempe police say the 19-year-old was literally chasing a pair of 13-year-old girls through Harelson Park on Monday.According to police, Mann approached the…
Joe Sauceda Gallegos, who beat two young Phoenix boys to death with a baseball bat a few days before Christmas in 2008, is finally going to prison.Gallegos was found incompetent to stand trial in 2010, and was sent to a mental health facility.After some meds and time in the nuthouse,…
In late February, Brent Ian Anderson decided the best way to avoid paying child support was to take his 3-year-old daughter to Mexico and not tell the kiddo’s mother about it.Turns out, Anderson was incorrect about that, because the authorities just flew him and the youngster from Mazatlan, Mexico, to…
Michael Brown, a former CVS pharmacy employee who was busted on child-porn charges in June 2010, pleaded guilty today to five related charges.Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Brown after they received a tip that he had left several pornographic images of children in one of the store’s photo kiosks.Maricopa County…
Angela Simpson, the Phoenix woman who impaled, stabbed, strangled, beat, and extracted the teeth from a disabled man — then dismembered him and set pieces of his body on fire — was sentenced today to life in prison for the 2009 murder.Simpson pleaded guilty on March 22 to first-degree murder…
Kevin J. Augustiniak, one of the Hells Angels charged in the 2001 murder of Mesa resident Cynthia Garcia, was sentenced yesterday to 23.5 years in prison.Augustiniak pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in October, nearly eight years after his 2003 indictment.Sentencing for second-degree murder is typically capped at 22 years, but…
It’s probably safe to say plenty of butts are touched just every night at Arizona State University, but cops say someone was doing it illegally on Wednesday.This isn’t the first booty problem at the University, as ASU police had to deal with a serial booby- and booty-gripper starting in August 2010.Police…
[jump] “At just after 9:00 this morning Phoenix Police officers went to the area on N. Central Ave./Roosevelt in response to a naked person standing by a statue. Upon arrival, the officers found a nude female. There was no complainant and the woman was transported to a Local Alcohol Recovery…
David Buot decided he was going to kill himself in October, 2010, and opted for one of the most unsafe methods for the rest of the people who felt like living another day — driving his SUV head-on into another vehicle.Buot failed at killing himself, but he did end up…
As a heads-up, there are some weirdos — possibly one weirdo — who have hid in some random places around Mesa and grabbed women from behind.Mesa police Detective Steve Berry tells New Times three women have reported being grabbed from behind by a guy, with two of those cases occurring…
The Goodyear teenager who brought a gun to school last year to kill his math teacher was sentenced today to two years in jail.Izrahias Morales was 15 years old when he brought a the gun to school last February, and was charged as an adult by the Maricopa County Attorney’s…
Shane and Sarah Dae Walker — the couple Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says was trying to find a dog to “fornicate” with — pleaded not guilty today to conspiracy to commit bestiality.The Walkers, along with 29-year-old Robert Aucker, are accused of using Craigslist to find a dog to have…
After the aunt of a 9-year-old Phoenix girl asked the girl’s mother and stepfather a few weeks ago why the little girl had an infected burn on her hand, she was told the girl was burned while making tortillas.Tortillas couldn’t quite be blamed for the four other burns or scars…
Stock up on the popcorn — a State Bar disciplinary panel is set to release the findings of its inquiry into former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, and former deputy county attorneys Lisa Aubuchon and Rachel Alexander on April 10.Both Thomas and Aubuchon face possible disbarment, and Alexander could have…
Joseluis Marquez, the suspect in the 2010 death of 21-year-old Arizona State University student Kyleigh Sousa, is slated to go to trial in May.Sousa, 21, was dragged by a car in an attempted robbery of her purse in an IHOP parking lot just south of the University’s Tempe campus on…
The findings of the Arizona Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Panel into alleged ethical violations by former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas will be announced during an April 10 hearing.The three-member discipline panel led by State Bar Disciplinary Judge William O’Neil will take place at 9 a.m. on April 10 in the…
Judd Herberger, son of the late Valley philanthropists, was sentenced today to four months in state prison for a felony DUI he received last year in Scottsdale. The 70-year-old businessman had been driving drunk despite the fact that his driver’s license had been revoked after his extreme DUI conviction from the…
A Mesa pervert who was already behind bars for sexually abusing a 5-year-old boy in January, 2011, then charged in April for sexually abusing a 1-year-old and others — and videotaping it — was sentenced yesterday to 35 years in prison.Brandon K. Jones originally was arrested early last year after cops got…
Yesterday, Angelica Jimenez — the Chandler woman who had a 4-month-old baby in her care end up with a cigarette burn, 14 broken bones, and bruising all over her body last year — got her punishment.She was sentenced to a decade of probation.Jimenez, 25, pleaded guilty to child abuse in…
