1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (141+ words) A 23-year-old Phoenix man, Adonijah Josiah Ortega, has been sentenced to 171 months in prison for a 2022 carjacking during which Ortega shot and assaulted a man with a firearm. Ortega previously pleaded guilty to Carjacking and Discharge of a Firearm During…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (163+ words) An argument between two women has led to the shooting death of one man. According to Sergeant Chris Berrelleza of the Phoenix Police Department, on September 8th, 2026, at approximately 5:45 a.m., officers responded to a reported shooting at a residence in the area…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (115+ words) A Phoenix man is dead after confronting officers with a knife. According to the Phoenix Police Sergeant John Buchanan, on September 6th, 2026, at approximately 11:00 a.m., officers responded to a call of a suicidal subject, identified as 20-year-old Jonathan Marquez Delgado, in the…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (214+ words) PHOENIX – Two jaywalkers were killed on Phoenix roadways two days in a row. According to the Phoenix Police Department, on September 5th, 2026, at approximately 4:00 a.m., Phoenix Police and Phoenix Fire responded to reports of a vehicle-pedestrian collision near 33rd Drive and Deer…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (136+ words) Yet another jaywalker is dead in Phoenix. According to the Phoenix Police Department, on September 4th, 2026, at approximately 2:00 a.m., Phoenix Police and Phoenix Fire responded to reports of a vehicle-pedestrian collision near 7th Avenue and Indian School Road. Upon arrival, Phoenix Fire transported…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (497+ words) In some cases, it pays a quarter of a million dollars to be friends with those in power. Records reveal that Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes awarded a no-bid government contract for public relations consulting to a close friend and…...

3+ week, 19+ hour ago   (185+ words) Two Phoenix Police Department officers, identified as Luis Vasquez Jr. and Antonio Felix, accused of violently assaulting a couple during a traffic stop, have been fired and arrested. According to the Phoenix Police Department, on August 5, 2026, at about 11:30 p.m., Vasquez and…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (833+ words) Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes will not prosecute Gov. Katie Hobbs over an alleged pay-to-play arrangement involving Sunshine Residential Homes, concluding after a two-year criminal investigation that prosecutors found no evidence of a quid pro quo linking political contributions to…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (176+ words) On Thursday, the Phoenix Police Department asked the public to help find four men believed to have information about the death of 19-year-old soccer player, Tumusifu Bazirake. According to the Phoenix Police Department, on August 6th, 2026, at approximately 8:02 pm officers received…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (132+ words) PHOENIX – On week after he was brutally beaten during a soccer game at a park, a 19-year-old soccer player has died. Phoenix police are now investigating the case as a homicide. The Phoenix Fire Department responded to the scene and…...