An Arizona man has been charged with kidnapping after he tried to walk out of a Flagstaff grocery store pushing a cart with another customer’s baby inside, according to Flagstaff police. Jeffery Roholt, 59, told police he thought the cart was his when he finished paying for his two small bags of groceries at a …
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A Tohono O’odham Nation police officer was killed Thursday when a man who told investigators he was “high on meth” stole his patrol vehicle and ran him over. Officer Bryan Brown, a 19-year veteran of the force, was responding to a call about an “armed and erratic” driver at the Desert Diamond Casino in Why, …
An Arizona man was arrested last week on a string of charges relating to his increasingly bizarre behavior over money he and his brother inherited from their grandparents. Mesa police said they began their investigation in March when the victim contacted them to say he was being threatened by his brother, Ross Paul Emmick, despite …
An Arizona man was arrested late last month for allegedly filming himself sexually abusing an infant boy on multiple occasions. The Arizona Attorney General’s Office announced in a statement Friday that Michael Spatz, 20, was arrested June 26 at his Tempe home on charges of sexual exploitation of a minor, sexual conduct with a minor, …
Arizona police say “Empire” actor Bryshere Gray has been arrested on domestic violence-related charges after his wife told police he’d held her captive in their home for hours assaulting her, Fox 10 reports. According to the police report, police responded to a convenience store in Goodyear for a 911 call at about 10:15 p.m. on …
An Arizona woman and her stepfather, missing since mid-April, were found dead last month inside her SUV, which had been buried on an undeveloped lot down a dead-end road in central Iowa. And now police believe Elissa Landry’s boyfriend, Mitchell Mincks, and his father, Thomas “Tommy” Tucker, buried the vehicle, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports. …
A former Arizona teacher who’s serving a 20-year prison sentence for sexually abusing her sixth-grade student in 2018 has reportedly filed for divorce from her husband. AZFamily reported that Brittany Zamora is the claimant in the petition, which was filed in Maricopa County Family Court in late April. The document reportedly stated that Zamora deemed her …
On Wednesday, an Arizona man reportedly shot and killed a naked masked burglar who broke into his home as his wife, three children, and nanny slept. Citing Scottsdale police, KSAZ reported that urologist Aaron LaTowsky, 41, fatally shot the suspect after the family dog alerted him to the intruder as he worked on his property. …
The staffer accused of murdering former Arkansas Senator Linda Collins in June is facing additional criminal charges for allegedly conspiring to kill the senator’s ex-husband and two officials while behind bars. Rebecca O’Donnell, 49, has remained jailed since June on charges of capital murder, abuse of a corpse, and evidence tampering with evidence in connection …
A missing persons case in Arizona has turned into a homicide investigation, according to Chino Valley police, who said they’ve found evidence indicating David “Nick” Batten, 45, and Elissa Landry, 28, are dead. Batten, his stepdaughter Landry, and her boyfriend Mitchell Mincks, 24, initially were reported missing on April 21 and hadn’t been seen since …
An Arizona man was arrested after he reached into a car waiting for a train to pass and stabbed the driver, and when he was arrested, he told police he’d stabbed a man in a motel room just minutes before. Phoenix police officers investigated and found Christopher Anthony Molinar, 19, dead at the scene, Fox …
