An argument between two armed men over alleged reckless driving led to a fatal shooting in front of an Arizona Walmart this week. According to the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office, Larry Burton Marcum, 41, saw a motorcyclist he thought was driving recklessly along Highway 95 in Fort Mohave. The motorcyclist, later identified as 23-year-old Jim …
An Arizona mother has been charged with first degree murder after officers found her two children stabbed to death in her apartment. Tempe police said that Yui Inoue, 41, flagged them down at the Apache Boulevard substation at about 7 a.m. Saturday and said she was hearing voices that told her to kill the children, …
Police in Arizona found two young children dead in their apartment after a woman told them she heard voices telling her to kill her kids. Tempe police said the woman flagged down an officer at the Apache Boulevard Substation at about 7 a.m. Saturday morning, ABC15 reported. When officers went to the apartment a few …
Phoenix police have arrested a couple who reported their truck stolen with a toddler inside earlier this week after determining they had made up the story about the baby to prompt police to speed up the search for their stolen vehicle. Police launched an intensive search for the green, 1999 Ford F-250 pickup truck that …
A man awaiting trial for slitting a teen’s throat because the boy’s music “threatened him” was found dead in his jail cell this month in Phoenix. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Michael Adams admitted killing Elijah Al-Amin, 17, when he heard the boy playing rap music in his car at a Circle K in Peoria, Arizona, …
An Arizona woman said she found two of her tires slashed Thursday morning, and that wasn’t all: The tire-slasher appeared to have left a severed finger behind. Francesca Wikoff told the Maricopa Monitor that a trail of blood led to a nearby residence, and she’s pretty sure she knows whose finger she found on her …
The parents of a 10-year-old Arizona girl have been charged with murder after the girl’s remains were found in an attic after a house fire last year — three years after the girl disappeared. Maribel Loera, 51, and Rafael Loera, 57, were already in jail on charges of arson, child abuse, abandoning or concealing a …
An Arizona man was arrested on Wednesday, days after he allegedly staged a kidnapping — his own — to avoid going to work. According to the Coolidge Examiner, police officers responding near the Coolidge water tower on February 10 reportedly discovered Brandon Soules, 19, with his hands tied behind his back and a bandana and …
Arizona law enforcement busted more than three dozen people in an undercover operation targeting child sex crimes and human trafficking, the Phoenix Police Department said Friday. For Operation Broken Hearts, agents put ads on websites and apps commonly used by suspects seeking sex acts with children. Phoenix police said the operation was part of a …
Three people — one of them a 5-month-old infant — were found shot to death Wednesday in southeastern Arizona in an apparent double-murder suicide, the Cochise County Herald/Review reports. Sierra Vista police identified the adult victims as Gerardo De La Torre, 47, and Raquel De La Santos De La Torre, 30, and said all three …
An Arizona woman was arrested on Monday for allegedly assaulting her boyfriend as he slept. As KTVK reports, Bullhead City police said in a statement that after hitting the victim in the head with a hammer, Marilyn Ann Kepler, 74, claimed she did so because he left the television on at night and she could …
An Arizona woman allegedly shot an ACE Hardware employee on Saturday while opening fire on a suspected shoplifter who was fleeing the store. Phoenix police said Nya Reyes, 45, accidentally shot the male worker as he tried to apprehend the shoplifting suspect outside of the store. The suspect fled the scene before officers arrived, and …
