Tag Archives: Arizona

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after police discovered a woman’s dead body in a duffel bag inside her storage unit. On Friday, Brett Daniel Puett was arrested on charges that included second-degree murder in connection with the death of Debra Childers, police in the western Arizona …

The governor of Arizona has signed a sweeping anti-abortion bill prohibiting women from having abortions solely because their fetus has a genetic abnormality such as Down’s syndrome. Doctors may be charged with a crime if they perform abortions simply because the fetus has a hereditary condition that can be survived. …

In an adoption fraud case in Utah, a former Arizona county assessor was convicted for human smuggling. According to the Utah Attorney General’s Office, Paul Petersen secretly shipped pregnant women from the Marshall Islands to the United States. He did so under pretenses about the legality of the adoption and …

An Arizona couple is worried that a man can walk away without facing serious consequences after pulling a weapon on them during a February business meeting. The Whatchacookin food truck, operated by Brittany Myers and Solomon Odubajo, is a Black-owned company that serves customers in Mesa, Arizona. On February 5, …

An Arizona man held 11 National Guard members at gunpoint to stop their transport of COVID-19 vaccines.  A National Guard convoy was transporting COVID-19 vaccines in West Texas when an Arizona man forced it off the road. Larry Harris, 66, then held 11 guards people at gunpoint. According to authorities, …

An Arizona man faked his kidnapping to get out of work. Now, I know we all dread going to work some days, but is it worth going to jail over? On Feb. 10, Coolidge police received a call at around 5:25 p.m. about “a male subject whose hands were bound …

On Friday, police in Arizona arrested 34 suspected child predators accused of targeting children for sex crimes and human trafficking. “Operations Broken Hearts” is a multi-agency sting that nabbed both men and women ranging from 21 to 66. Most of the predators live in the Phoenix area, MSN reported. The …

An Arizona Republican congresswoman was slammed for saying Hispanics are “good workers,” but “American citizens” should receive COVID-19 vaccinations first. According to NBC News, last week, during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing, Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz., said: “I worked with Hispanics. I mean, they’re very good workers…We’re compassionate …

An Arizona mother has died after being thrown from a minivan while her 10-month-old son was being abducted on Tuesday. PEOPLE reports that Brittany Martie, 30, succumbed to the injuries she sustained during the incident.  According to the Peoria Police statement, they responded to a 911 call for a domestic violence incident. …

An Arizona mother is facing criminal charges after she called authorities on Saturday night to say she hit one of her children in the face. Sarah Michelle Boone, 32, was taken into police custody for child abuse and disorderly conduct. According to PEOPLE, Boone told police she hit one child …

Dr. Cleavon Gilman worked at a Yuma, Arizona hospital as an emergency-medicine physician where he was well-known. But after making social media posts about the seriousness of the novel coronavirus, the doctor was fired. “What I don’t understand about this is I have been advocating for Arizona; I have been …

An Arizona cop adopted a little girl two and a half years after he saved her from abuse while he was on duty. Lieutenant Brian Zach was working the night shift in March of 2018 when he received a call about Kaila, a 2-year-old girl with severe injuries. It was …

Its official, four more states have decided to legalize marijuana in the United States for recreational purposes, and two more have been approved for medical reasons. According to the unofficial results in Tuesday’s general election, recreational marijuana will soon be legal in Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota after …

A superior court judge in the state of Arizona has denied Donald Trump’s reelection team’s request to seal evidence in his legal case that accuses poll workers in the state’s largest county of Maricopa of “incorrectly” rejecting Election Day votes. According to Fox News, Judge Daniel Kiley presided over the …

On Wednesday, a group of Maricopa County voters filed a lawsuit to sue Democratic County recorder Adrian Fontes, the county Board of Supervisors, and others, Fox News reports. The suit alleges some of the county’s polling sites allowed voters to use Sharpie permanent markers on ballots, raising the concern that …