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ASU parking attendant attacked with a Slurpee
While issuing tickets at the According to a police report west side campus of Arizona obtained by abc15.com, State University, a parking (http://bit.ly/wNRBtK), the attendant was assaulted with attendant is repeatedly a freezing cold Slurpee. harassed by people who park The female attendant, who illegally. also attends ASU, told campus The attendant believes the police the assault occurred people who tossed the Slurpee Jan. 23 when a group of men are not students. So far, no cussed her out and one of one has been arrested. them tossed the drink.
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Glendale sees rise in police overtime
A spike in high-profile function of the emergency crimes in Glendale has led to nature of the services police an uptick in police overtime provide," said Rob Worden, a spending. criminal-justice professor at Seven months into the fiscal the State University of New year, Glendale police have York who has studied police spent nearly three-quarters overtime use. of the $1.2 million budgeted But as cities across the for overtime. nation see budget cuts, By comparison, the department officials are more likely to was under budget the prior question the spending and try two years; spending just shy to find ways to limit it, of $1 million in fiscal year said Worden, director of the 2009-10 and nearly $1.2 Albany campus' John F. Finn million last fiscal year. Institute for Public Safety. Police had spent $876,000 on Part of Glendale's challenge overtime through January. is that the department is This excludes overtime paid working with fewer officers. during Phoenix Coyotes and In 2008, the city had about Arizona Cardinals games. 425 officers. That number has Police spokesman Sgt. Brent fallen to about 400 as Coombs said police leaders vacancies have gone unfilled. would use funds from other Police avoid some overtime by parts of the department's overlapping shifts so that budget, for supplies and officers can more seamlessly contracts, if the overtime hand off duties from one costs continue to exceed what shift to the next without has been allocated. requiring an officer to stay Police say big cases, later and accrue overtime. including the disappearance Also, Coombs said, the of 5-year-old Jhessye department is less likely Shockley and the shooting than in the past to deploy death of Glendale Officer multiple detectives without a Brad Jones, contributed to clearly assessed need. this year's costs. The on-call investigations Dozens of officers canvassed supervisor must now give Jhessye's neighborhood in the approval before calling days after her disappearance detectives to leave home and and numerous detectives, respond to a crime scene. crime-scene technicians and At least once a year, police internal-affairs leaders refine the criteria investigators were required for overtime callouts. They to assist after Jones was consider crime trends, too. murdered and his accused Some law-enforcement agencies killer was seriously wounded have switched police by officers. schedules to reduce overtime Police next week will begin costs and ensure officers are to search a landfill south of working when crimes are most the Valley for the girl's likely to happen. body. Such searches can be In 2010, Glendale added a costly. Glendale police have squad of night detectives. so far been unable to offer The move has helped police an estimate, but a police avoid the cost of calling a spokeswoman said the detective to come in to work department would try to avoid overtime in at least some overtime in the search that cases and helped foster is expected to last four to stronger partnerships between six weeks. detectives and patrol Along with the labor- officers who work the night intensive search for Jhessye, shift, Coombs said. a spike in homicides late in Glendale officers work four the year increased overtime 10-hour shifts each week, payouts. which one expert said appears Police say such costs aren't to be most conducive to optional. saving on overtime. The department's central Karen L. Amendola, with the mission is to answer calls Washington, D.C.-based Police from residents in need of Foundation, recently help and sometimes that researched the length of requires specialized police shifts and found resources, Coombs said. cities that switch to 10-hour "There are always those shifts save the most on situations that may not fit overtime. into a perfect 10-hour day, Longer hours, such as the and there is expertise three-day, 13-hour, 20-minute required at times that can't shift being piloted in a be fulfilled by every single Phoenix precinct, don't (officer) on the job," he necessarily translate into said. fewer costs, she said. Law-enforcement experts say Amendola said officers who police overtime can be hard work longer than 10 hours to predict. report feeling more fatigued "Police overtime is a and less alert.
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Man in argument killed in Mesa shooting Monday night
A man was shot and killed in Avenue and Broadway Road. An Mesa on Monday night in an argument ensued, and the argument with another man. original driver took out a Two men who are believed to gun and shot one of the other be brothers were walking men once. south on Sunnyvale around The victim was taken to a 6:30 p.m. from Broadway Road local hospital, where he when they were confronted by later died of the gunshot a man driving north, Mesa wound. The other men were not Police Department spokesman hurt. Sgt. Ed Wessing said. He gave Mesa police believe the men this account: knew each other and are The men exchanged words with searching for the gunman, the driver and at one point, Wessing said. the driver threw something No names have been released from the car in their and more details are expected direction. to be released Tuesday Shortly afterward, a friend morning. picked the two men up and Check back at azcentral.com they found the original for updates. driver's car near Calypso
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2 Arizona lawmakers aim for bill vs. toll evaders
Arizona has no toll roads, authorize private contractors but that hasn't stopped a to collect tolls, something pair of state lawmakers from overlooked by existing law. introducing a bill that, It also would eliminate a among other things, would let provision allowing motorists the state impound the cars or who pay tolls to seek suspend the licenses of toll reimbursement of fuel taxes; evaders. that had been approved at the Republican state Reps. Karen behest of the trucking Fann of Prescott and Russ industry. Jones of Yuma introduced the The changes are needed to bill to fix an existing law avoid scaring investors away, that green-lighted the Jones and ADOT officials said. Arizona Department of The ability to crack down on Transportation to team up toll evaders would help with private firms on ensure revenue collection. projects such as toll roads. The bill comes as state and Lawmakers and ADOT wanted to regional transportation tap private funds because planners are weighing several state transportation funds possible toll projects. have been declining. But in Projects under consideration the three years since the law include a stretch of took effect, no takers from Interstate 15 in the remote the private sector have northwestern corner of the stepped forward. state; Interstate 10 carpool The bill is intended to make lanes and a proposed new changes to improve prospects truck bypass route around for public-private Nogales. partnerships. It would
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Burke of Fast and Furious had anti-gun history
The career path of former U.S. From the beginning, there Attorney Dennis Burke can be were huge controversies: charted through an ascending Senate Bill 1070, Arizona's string of jobs from Arizona's anti-immigration law, was Supreme Court to the U.S. under challenge in court. The Senate, White House, Maricopa County Sheriff's Department of Homeland Office was being investigated Security and Justice for alleged civil-rights Department. violations. Border security It is a resume that spans had become a political more than two decades in firefight, with Arizona as a three branches of government. funnel point for smuggling Then, suddenly, it nose-dives amid growing fear that on Aug. 30, 2011, when Burke Mexican violence would spill resigned as U.S. attorney onto U.S. soil. amid a scandal over a gun- Authorities in both nations smuggling case known as were blaming liberal U.S. gun Operation Fast and Furious. laws for arming the cartels. Since that day, the The assault-weapons law had gregarious public servant has expired in 2004. Restoration gone silent, and nearly of the statute had been on invisible, except that his Obama's platform, and Burke name appears prominently in was among the public Justice Department documents, adherents. congressional hearings and During a news conference in news reports. 2010, Burke complained that Burke's political downfall scores of guns from Arizona may have been shocking, but were being recovered in an Arizona Republic Mexico. "We have a huge analysis of his career problem here. We have now suggests that the cause -- become the gun locker of the firearm politics -- has been Mexican drug cartels." What a pet theme through most of Burke did not mention was his 23 years in government. that his prosecutors had The end came after federal allegedly instructed ATF records and testimony agents to let some of those revealed that Burke last year weapons "walk" across the pressed colleagues and border. superiors to deny that the In fact, just one month after Justice Department knowingly Burke's appointment as U.S. allowed guns to be smuggled attorney was confirmed by the into Mexico under his watch, Senate, Operation Fast and and that two of those weapons Furious was secretly launched wound up at the murder scene in Arizona. of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. According to congressional In e-mail exchanges with DOJ testimony and DOJ records, officials, Burke incorrectly the idea was to follow the described allegations about firearms south so that drug Fast and Furious by Sen. lords who received them could Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, as be identified and prosecuted. "categorically false." He Over a two-year period, also reviled congressional smugglers moved as many as 1, investigators as "stooges" 400 weapons across the border. for gun-rights zealots. The problem: Those AK-47s and Burke finally quit his post .50-caliber rifles were being after testifying in secret to used for mayhem in Mexico, congressional investigators and U.S. investigators had about the case. not devised a successful way He was not the only federal to track them. official to suffer fallout. Agent Terry's death Burke's At the Bureau of Alcohol, supporters question whether Tobacco, Firearms and he understood that the ATF Explosives, national Director strategy knowingly let guns Kenneth Melson was reassigned into Mexico, but critics say and Arizona's top agent, e-mails and other Justice William Newell, was Department records indicate transferred. On Capitol Hill, he knew exactly what was Grassley called for the going on. removal of Lanny Breuer, For example, an ATF memo in second in command of the January 2010 says Burke was Justice Department, and many briefed in detail on Fast and in Congress have said Furious and expressed "full Attorney General Eric Holder agreement" with a strategy should be fired. allowing "the transfer of But, of all the officials firearms to continue to take caught up in America's so- place ... in order to further called "gun-walking" scandal, the investigation and allow Dennis Kiernan Burke is the for the identification of only one to lose his job. additional co-conspirators." A resignation letter to In an April 2010 e-mail to a President Barack Obama said colleague, Burke predicted simply, "It is the right time that the operation would have to move on to pursue other a huge public impact: "It's aspects of my career and my going to bring a lot of life." attention to straw purchasers The question: Has he hit of assault weapons," he wrote. bottom yet, and can he rise "Some of these weapons bought again? by these clowns in Arizona 'A stand-up guy' Since have been directly traced to leaving his skyscraper office murders of elected officials in downtown Phoenix, Burke in Mexico by the cartels, so has turned down all interview Katie-bar-the-door when we requests, leaving his lawyers unveil this baby." to describe him as a "stand- However, available Justice up guy" who didn't Department documents do not intentionally mislead include any record where Congress or the public. Burke explicitly acknowledged An inspector general probe is an awareness of the gun- still under way, as well as walking strategy, and it is congressional investigations. unclear whether he believed a Friends say Burke, who had furor would result because of been touted as a possible the investigative tactic, or candidate for governor or because so many U.S. firearms Congress, is lying low, were responsible for Mexico's volunteering full time with a cartel bloodshed. rape-crisis network and At least some ATF agents playing golf. All of them bristled at the ATF operation, speak of him with glowing warning of potentially fatal adjectives: articulate, consequences. Those positive, hardworking, decent, predictions proved true on funny, loyal. Dec. 14, 2010, when Border "He doesn't have enemies," Patrol Agent Brian Terry was said Robbie Aiken, a longtime killed in a midnight shootout friend and vice president for with bandits near Nogales. federal affairs with Pinnacle Within hours, Burke was West Capital Corp. "All the notified that two guns found things he's done, yet I've at the scene were linked to never really heard anybody Fast and Furious. say anything negative about A man, who bought them 11 him." months earlier at a Glendale But there are critics, firearms store, was promptly especially among staunch arrested on suspicion of Second Amendment advocates, illegal-weapons purchases, who paint Burke as a liberal along with other gun-buy apparatchik who was willing suspects. Yet, at a news to let criminals move weapons conference announcing the to Mexican cartels if it busts, federal officials would help justify new failed to reveal the link firearms restrictions. with Terry's death and denied "It's no coincidence that that guns had been allowed to Dennis Burke, a longtime anti- "walk" as part of the case. gun policy person, was made U. ATF agents, horrified at what S. Attorney in mid-2009 ... happened, became whistle- the same month (sic) that blowers, leaking information Fast and Furious begins," to Congress. Last January, said Mike Vanderboegh, a gun- Sen. Grassley sent letters to rights blogger. "They picked ATF, alleging that the bureau precisely the right guy to had knowingly allowed guns run a clandestine program." into the hands of Mexican (The operation began a month criminals and that two of after Burke's appointment was those weapons were tied to confirmed.) Terry's murder. Burke reacted Curiously, the supporters and by sending e-mails to DOJ detractors agree on one colleagues denouncing the point: They say Burke became senator's assertions as a scapegoat to protect higher "categorical falsehoods." officials in the Justice In early messages to DOJ Department or White House. superiors, he incorrectly Dave Workman, a gun-rights claimed weapons found at the blogger, described Burke as murder scene were purchased "the chief sacrificial lamb." before Fast and Furious Sen. Grassley, in an October started. Later, he clarified statement, said: "Mr. Burke that although Fast and is to be commended, to some Furious was under way, the extent, for being the only buyer was not being person to resign and take surveilled at the time he responsibility for the failed bought them. operation. Of course, I do Bitter denunciations On Feb. not believe he should feel 1, The Republic obligated to be the only fall published the first guy." mainstream news story on the Phoenix attorney Andy Gordon, gun-running scandal and about a close friend for nearly two a congressional inquiry into decades, said Burke may be Fast and Furious. loyal to a fault, protecting Burke e-mailed a top Justice higher-ups in the Justice Department official, Department. "DOJ threw him complaining about the bad under the bus. That's my view, publicity and about " Gordon said. Grassley's letter. "They Another friend, attorney Tim (ATF) got smoked today in the Nelson, said: "I don't know Arizona Republic . Just the workings of the Obama smoked," he wrote. "They administration, whether they punted going on the record to were looking for a fall guy deny completely fabricated or what. But it certainly assertions that cut at the looks that way." heart of their agency and the Whether those evaluations are mission of law enforcement." valid or not, associates ATF and Justice officials agree Burke was devastated to spent three days arguing over lose a dream job and see his language for a rebuttal to reputation tainted by scandal. Grassley's letter. Burke, who Kevin Burke, an older brother wanted a hard-line denial, who serves as a county judge complained bitterly to in Minnesota, said Dennis is colleagues: "What is so focused on defending himself offensive about this whole as investigations continue. project is that Grassley's "He's certainly bummed," staff, acting as willing Judge Burke said. "You want stooges for the Gun Lobby, people to understand what you have attempted to distract did and why you did it." from the incredible success Asked if Dennis privately in dismantling SWB (Southwest admits to making mistakes, Border) gun trafficking Kevin answered, "I can operations," he wrote. "Not categorically deny that. The uttering one word of rightful idea that he is going around praise or thanks to ATF -- saying, 'Boy, I really but, instead, lobbing this screwed up'? He's never told reckless, despicable me that." accusation that ATF is Strong work ethic and ambition complicit in the murder of a Since Dennis Burke got his federal law enforcement law degree at the University officer." of Arizona in 1988, he has In another missive, Burke flourished in high-profile wrote, "I am so personally government jobs, handling outraged by Senator politicians, journalists, Grassley's falsehoods. It is lobbyists and lawyers with one of the lowest acts I have aplomb. ever seen in politics." Born in 1962 in Chicago, the DOJ eventually issued a last of five children in an letter denouncing Grassley's Irish-Catholic home, Burke allegations about Fast and once credited his immigrant Furious as "false." grandfather with instilling a Holder has since acknowledged work ethic to match ambitions. that the senator's assertions When Dennis was just a boy, were true, and that Fast and the family moved to Phoenix, Furious was a flawed where he attended Catholic operation. Spurred by those schools. (As an adult, he admissions, congressional once said his life motto was investigators redoubled their "Love your neighbor as you do efforts, digging up more yourself" because "several records and questioning nuns beat that into my head witnesses under oath. This in grade school.") past summer, Burke was called After graduation from Brophy before congressional College Preparatory, Burke investigators for two closed- earned a bachelor's degree at door interviews. Georgetown University and got According to subsequently an early taste of national released excerpts, Burke politics by serving as an acknowledged mistakes and intern for U.S. Rep. Martin accepted blame. "It should Sabo, D-Minn. not have been done the way it "He was kind of bitten by the was done," he said, "and I Hill bug," said Kevin Burke, want to take responsibility who is president of the for that. And I'm not falling American Judges Association. on my sword or trying to Former Sen. Dennis DeConcini, cover for anyone else." D-Ariz., who hired Burke from Motives debated Attorneys law school as a congressional Lee Stein and Chuck Rosenberg, intern, said the student who represent Burke, said stood out for legal smarts their client did not and people skills. "Just intentionally provide false really bright," DeConcini information to colleagues and said, "and he was good with superiors in the Justice Republicans." Department. Fresh out of law school, "Dennis has cooperated with Burke won a coveted position congressional investigators as clerk with the Arizona and the (Justice) Supreme Court under Justice Department's inquiry into James Moeller. this matter," Stein said. "He Then, in 1989, he was hired takes his public service as a low-level staff lawyer seriously." at the U.S. Senate. Within a Critics say the constellation year -- at age 27 -- Burke of facts points to Burke as a was assigned to the Judiciary ramrod behind Fast and Committee, eventually playing Furious, working to provide a behind-the-scenes role in political powder for more confirmation proceedings for firearm regulations. three Supreme Court justices. In a Dec. 18 post, Second And he began working on gun Amendment blogger John control. DeConcini said Burke Richardson wrote: "Looking at helped draft the Anti-Drug Burke's background and his Assault Weapons Limitation attitude towards gun rights Act of 1989. A five-year and those who support them, I battle ensued, ending with see this as even further President Bill Clinton confirmation that the intent signing the Violent Crime of Operation Fast and Furious Control and Law Enforcement from the very beginning was Act of 1994, which made it a to build support for another federal offense to possess so-called assault-weapons ban. certain semiautomatic rifles I just don't think it was manufactured after the law's coincidental that Operation passage. Fast and Furious was centered DeConcini said Burke fostered in Arizona." the measure in concert with a DeConcini, who has sought to key figure in the White House, help Burke behind the scenes policy analyst Rahm Emanuel, with members of Congress, who years later would become said such inferences are chief of staff for President "totally unfair," and he Obama. Emanuel now is mayor insisted that Burke did not of Chicago. learn of the gun-walking "Dennis was the one who strategy until after Brian worked with everyone on the Terry's death. Judiciary Committee to line Kevin Burke said it is absurd up these members and votes," to suggest that his brother DeConcini said. "Dennis had came up with some all these pictures of these "Machiavellian plan" to guns -- the Streetsweepers justify gun-control measures. and the AK-47s. And it passed He said Dennis was dedicated by one vote. A lot of it was to stopping firearm deaths -- not my eloquence on the not adding to them -- and he bill, it was stuff that would never have risked lives Dennis had done." or his career on such a The law was adopted shortly gambit. before Burke left his Senate David Steele, a political job for a position in the consultant and friend, Clinton White House as a agreed: "The Dennis Burke I senior policy analyst for law know doesn't engage in that enforcement and drug issues, kind of political again working with Emanuel. triangulation," he said. "The According to preserved e- whole notion that he did this mails, Burke continued as a conspiracy for gun handling firearm issues, control is laughable." discussing whether executive Epilogue Investigations by orders could be used to Congress and the inspector extend the Brady Handgun general are ongoing. Violence Protection Act Guns from Fast and Furious requirement for background continue to surface at crimes checks. scenes in Mexico and the In 1997, Burke became a United States. federal prosecutor under U.S. The case against those Attorney Janet Napolitano, accused of killing Brian getting firsthand experience Terry is sealed in federal with Mexican syndicates that court. were smuggling narcotics and And Dennis Burke remains firearms. In an interview under a cloud. that year with the Arizona His attorney Stein said the Business Gazette , he experience has been "sobering, identified earlier gun- " but Burke keeps busy regulation efforts as the volunteering with a rape- most fulfilling professional crisis network. "He's really assignment he'd undertaken. been using this time to Over the next decade, he reconnect with family and served as a chief deputy to friends, and to try to get Napolitano as she became through all this and decide Arizona attorney general, what he'll do with the rest governor and then director of of his life," Stein said. Homeland Security, where he Other friends say he again dealt with gun-running understands how scandals work into Mexico. in the nation's capital. Fast and Furious launched On "It's a tough town," said July 10, 2009, President Aiken, who worked in the Obama named Burke as his Reagan administration. nominee for U.S. attorney for "Dennis knows that. He's a Arizona. He was confirmed by tough guy. And I suspect unanimous consent in the he'll come out of this A-OK. Senate on Sept. 15 of that (But) I don't think he was year. treated altogether fairly."
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Widower writes his way through sadness
It has been nearly two years should." since Leigh Ann Tonkinson, 35, Tonkinson is also speaking died after being struck by a about grief at seminars and speeding car while sitting at churches and said he wants a stoplight at Greenfield and something he can hand to Germann in Gilbert as she was people who approach him coming home from work to her afterwards with stories and husband and three children. queries. The March 6, 2010, crash took "It has been amazing the her life and that of the 20- doors that have opened," he year-old driver who rear- said. "I'm excited and ended her. nervous because whenever you Wracked with grief, her put something out about husband, Greg, also had three yourselves, there's always a young children to comfort -- risk factor." sons Caden and Bailey, and His early postings on his daughter Malia, then ages 10, Blogspot "Informings" are as 5 and 4, respectively, who heart-wrenching to read as often cried themselves to they were for him to write. sleep. He begins March 7, 'Day 0', Tonkinson, an ASU grad, six hours after the life- teacher and Bible department changing knock on the door by chair at Chandler's Valley Gilbert police. Christian High School with a That first entry reads, "At masters in divinity, took to around 8:30 tonight, my life, writing to assuage his loss. my love, my wife, passed away. The Gilbert man started a Sudden car accident, so I'm blog the morning after his told. 1:13 a.m. and I'm awake wife's death. but dead. I can't believe I'm "I started writing it as a writing these words." catharsis, but also for my There follows the struggles, children. I knew there'd be remembrances and joys his times I wouldn't remember family shared, the week of what I was feeling, what was the funeral, the six-month happening. So I decided to mark, the first Christmas, journal what I was dealing other holidays, and even the with," Tonkinson said. first vacation without Leigh Laying out his angst, he Ann. wrote of pain but also "the He noted that May 6, 2010, strength and encouragement" would have been his his faith provided him. 14{+t}{+h} wedding "The blog started out pretty anniversary: "One moment I small -- comments from can give God thanks for the friends and family. But then blessings and the very next, I started getting more my heart is being filleted responses from strangers and open for the thousandth time." others experiencing grief," Reading the entries from Day he recalled. "There were 0 onward is a map of the hundreds of people I'd never journey from tragedy to met and we were able to overcoming; yet as time moved connect on such a deep level." on. Because so many people He ended writing his blog on responded to his journal, and Day 413, Easter Sunday, April others encouraged him to 24, 2011. publish the entries in print, "by God's grace, and the Tonkinson is co-authoring a endless support from family book. and friends, the kids and I "I'm not nave enough to think have accepted our new life. you can take a journal, bind We're laughing more than it and put it up for sale. we're crying, and we're Within the next few months, I focused on what's before us hope to have a body of work and now what we lost. Leigh to take to agents or Ann will never be forgotten .. publishers. This isn't ." something I set out to do, To view: see gregtonkinson. but I feel because of the blogspot.com responses I'm getting, I
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Tennessee man suspected in threat on Arpaio
Tennessee authorities officials, Cox's postings arrested a man Friday who is indicate he is an avid suspected of posting an supporter of President Barack Internet death threat against Obama and that the threat may Maricopa County Sheriff Joe have been sparked by Arpaio's Arpaio. ongoing investigation into Working with Arpaio's office, the legitimacy of Obama's Knox County, Tenn., sheriff's birth certificate. deputies seized computer and "I will not be intimidated other evidence while serving against pursuing this a search warrant at the investigation into Obama's Knoxville home of 33-year-old eligibility to serve as the Adam Eugene Cox, according to President of the United the Maricopa County Sheriff's States," Arpaio said in a Office. Friday news release. Authorities said Cox was Maricopa County sheriff's taken into custody on an deputies previously traveled unrelated warrant for assault, to Google's headquarters in and is being investigated as California, where search a suspect in an October warrants were served online threat that said regarding that threat and Arpaio and his family would another against Arpaio after be killed. the recent death of Deputy According to local sheriff's William Coleman.
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Chandler man accused of biting son
A Chandler man was arrested by pushing his father back. on suspicion of biting his According to police reports, son on the arm and ear in an Karanja then tackled his son argument about money, police and bit his left forearm. said. After his son got up, the Stephen Kinyanjui Karanja, 50, suspect grabbed him from was booked on one charge of behind and bit his ear before assault after the incident, letting him go, police said. which occurred about 10:15 p. A witness called a friend to m. Wednesday in the backyard take the victim to the of his Chandler residence. hospital. He only suffered Karanja, who police documents minor scrapes to the elbow in identified as "extremely addition to the bites. intoxicated" at the time, Karanja also had minor slapped his son in the face scrapes. when they were arguing. The suspect had a previous Police documents say the driving under the influence suspect continued to slap and conviction, police say. punch his son, who retaliated
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Man accused of pointing gun at son a detention officer
A 42-year-old Mesa man son, according to Maricopa arrested Tuesday on suspicion County Superior Court of threatening his 19-year- documents. Higgins tried to old son at gunpoint is a leave in his truck. His son Maricopa County Sheriff's stepped in the way to stop Office detention officer, Higgins from leaving. authorities said. Higgins is accused of then Jeffrey Higgins was booked pointing a gun at his son, into jail Wednesday morning getting in his truck and on suspicion of aggravated leaving, according to the assault and criminal damage documents. Higgins' wife and held on a $25,000 bond. called the police. Higgins will be placed on Higgins has a history of administrative leave threatening his son with guns following his release from but the incidents have gone jail, according to a Maricopa unreported, according to the County Sheriff's Office documents. statement. Police later found Higgins in The Mesa Police Department his truck, with the gun on said it suspects Higgins was the seat, east of the docks intoxicated at his home when on Saguaro Lake. he started arguing with his
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MMA fighter accused of assault
A mixed martial arts fighter officer requested back-up at was arrested on charges of the home. threatening a police officer Officers spoke to Stark, but and breaking his girlfriend's he became angry because he property. felt "disrespected." He Keith Lucas Stark, 21, was ignored officers' requests to booked on charges of calm down, so additional aggravated assault and officers were called. criminal damage after police At that point, Stark said escorted his girlfriend to that he was a mixed martial their home, just east of the arts fighter and that he was U.S. 60 freeway and Lindsay going to seriously harm the Road, where police say Stark officers. He then used threatened officers. several racial slurs. An officer met the girlfriend Officers detained Stark, but at a nearby Circle K to he managed to kick an officer escort her to get her in the knee before being belongings. She told the placed into a hobble. officer that she had been Another officer escorted his living with Stark for about a girlfriend into her room, year and that she was 5 where she told officers Stark months pregnant with his broke her things, including a child. She also told the bracelet and a purse when she officer that Stark is a mixed tried to leave. martial arts fighter, so the
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