An Arizona judge declared a mistrial Monday in the trial of a rancher who shot dead an unarmed migrant with an AK-47 after the jury could not reach a unanimous decision. George Alan Kelly’s defense argued that he fired warning shots into the air when he saw a group of armed men near his property …
An Arizona man has been indicted in the murder of a teen found dismembered “and burned beyond recognition” in a bonfire pit in Tonto National Forest last year. Anthony Ruinard Jr., 38, was arrested in July for the murder of 18-year-old Parker League, who had just graduated high school in Nebraska and was visiting friends, …
An Arizona couple was arrested on child abuse charges in connection with Sunday’s death of their 1-year-old son. Braydon Pena and Shania Harris, both 25, called 911 claiming they woke up to find their son dead. Pena said he picked up breakfast for him and Harris before they went back to bed — leading Scottsdale …
An Arizona mother has been arrested and charged with multiple counts after she allegedly threatened a group of children she believed had thrown wood chips at her children and then chased them in her pickup truck, running over a 12-year-old girl’s ankle. Brandie Gotch, 30, was booked into jail on six counts of endangerment, four …
An Arizona jury deliberated for about 10 hours since late Tuesday afternoon before finding a convicted murderer guilty in the kidnapping and killing of 6-year-old Isabel Celis in 2012. It was Christopher Clements’ second trial in Celis’s death. The first trial ended with a hung jury last year, as CrimeOnline reported. Clements, 42, was convicted …
A Maricopa County grand jury has indicted Raad Almansoori on multiple counts related to a carjacking and a stabbing in Arizona, where he fled after killing a woman in a Manhattan hotel earlier this month. According to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, which refuses to extradite Almansoori to New York, the grand jury indicted him …
Newly released body camera footage shows the arrest of New York hotel murder suspect Raad Almansoori in Arizona earlier this week. Almansoori, 26, was arrested on February 18 in Scottsdale after allegedly stabbing a McDonald’s employee in Surprise, and that followed his alleged carjacking-at-knifepoint of a woman outside a Starbucks in Phoenix. Days earlier, Almansoori …
A man arrested in Arizona for attacking a woman at a fast food restaurant reportedly confessed to the murder of New York mom Denisse Oleas-Arancibia, who was found beaten and strangled to death in a Lower Manhattan hotel room earlier his month. Oleas-Arancibia, 38, was found dead by hotel staff on February 8. Her 18-year-old …
Phoenix police say they have arrested a 51-year-old woman in the case of a newborn baby girl left in a restroom at Sky Harbor International Airport 18 years ago. Annie Anderson admitted she was the baby’s mother to investigators who questioned her in Washington state, where she now lives, KNXV reported. The baby, dubbed “Baby …
A 37-year-old Arizona man has been arrested after a girl reported that that he tried to kidnap her as she was walking to school on Friday in Glendale. Glendale Police officers responded to the call from the girl and obtained a neighbor’s security footage, which showed the man make a U-turn in the street, jump …
A hot air balloon carrying skydivers crashed in Arizona on Sunday, killing four people and critically injuring another. Police said eight skydivers had made their jump when the balloon hit the ground in Eloy, leaving the pilot and four people along for the ride inside the gondola, KSAZ reported. Police have no idea what caused …
Prosecutors in Arizona say they will seek the death penalty for a 22-year-old man accused of stabbing a 29-year-old skin care technician to death on a hiking trail last spring. Lauren Heike’s parents released a statement saying they’d learned from the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office that they had filed the notice of intent to seek …
