An Arizona woman accused of child abuse told investigators she held her toddler son’s hand under scalding hot water because “she saw a demon” in him. Court documents say that the skin on the 4-year-old boy’s hand burned and blistered after Brittany Breanna Gaines, 32, held his hand under the water, according to KSAZ. “Brittany …
An Arizona man has been charged with murder in the the shooting death of his girlfriend. Jason Warnock, 36, allegedly shot 31-year-old Skylar Hughes and then took her to Yavapai Regional Medical Center for treatment, Prescott Police said, but it was too late. KSAZ reported that hospital personnel called police at about 10:30 p.m. Monday. …
Three children reportedly kidnapped by their non-custodial mother and her wife in March have been found safe in Arizona. Brittany Barnes, the biological mother, and Ceairah Beverly fled with the three boys, ages 8, 9, and 10 during a scheduled, unsupervised visitation in Missouri on March 23, as CrimeOnline previously reported. An arrest warrant charging …
Arizona police are searching for a man they say strangled a woman on a city bus Friday morning. Phoenix police said that officers responded to a call about a person not breathing on a bus at about 8 a.m. and found 41-year-old Diane Craig with signs of strangulation. Craig was taken to a hospital and …
‘If it’s going down, it’s going down here,’ the father allegedly told school staff before the altercation
The Arizona parents of a 1-year-old boy have been charged with child abuse after their son overdosed on apparent fentanyl. The Phoenix Fire Department responded to a call earlier this week from Anna Chavez, who said the boy wasn’t breathing, KNXV reported. The baby regained consciousness after firefighters administered two doses of Narcan, the emergency …
A Missouri mother and her wife have been charged with interference with custody in the disappearance of three young boys last month. Court documents say that Brittany Barnes and Ceairah Beverly picked up the three boys from their grandmother’s home for an unsupervised visit on March 23, KOLR reported. The grandmother, Audrey Beverly, is the …
On Tuesday, Arizona officials publicly identified a girl whose burned body was found in a desert in 1960. In July 1960, a teacher searching for rocks reportedly found a child’s body in Congress at Sand Wash Creek. The child, who was wearing a buttoned blouse, shorts, cut flip flops, and polish on fingernails and toenails, …
Investigators in Arizona have charged a Phoenix man with the fatal shooting of a beloved member of Scottsdale’s Special Olympics Team earlier this week. John Merryman, 38, was arrested at his home overnight Friday and charged with murder in the death of 59-year-old Scott Harkness, who was found on the side of a road about …
Young Chaskah Davis Smith was found unresponsive in the bathtub. His 9-year-old half-brother was also found with serious injuries.
An Arizona couple has been sentenced to probation after their guilty pleas in a case involving the deaths of three children, who drowned when the family drove into a flooded wash. Lacey Rawlings, 34, was formally sentenced to four years probation on Thursday, while her husband, 38-year-old Daniel Rawlings, was sentenced to five years of …
An Arizona man was indicted this week for murder in the death of his girlfriend’s 1-year-old son earlier this month and promptly released on bond. The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office said its deputies were dispatched to a Fort Mohave home on January 7 and arrived to find Nikko Demitri McLachlan — the mother’s boyfriend — …
