Law Enforcement

The Phoenix Police Department’s treatment of Tyron McAlpin is now the subject of a lawsuit. Last month, he filed a $3.5 million claim over the incident — which drew national attention and criticism. But for Jon Meyers, executive director of the Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council, it wasn’t a surprise.

A polygamist religious leader who claimed more than 20 spiritual “wives” including 10 underage girls was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Monday for coercing girls as young as 9 years old to submit to criminal sex acts with him and other adults, and for scheming to kidnap them from protective custody.

Five inmates who escaped from a tribal jail in northern Arizona have been recaptured with one man still at large, authorities said Sunday.

The Democratic Pima County Sheriff has narrowly won his re-election bid, according to recount results released on Friday morning.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has made the first step in attempting to put convicted murderer Aaron Brian Gunches to death. It is not the filing for the actual warrant.

The Department of Justice is awarding a $1.5 million grant to the program to expand the use of DNA testing. Program heads say this cutting-edge but costly technology will allow them to look more deeply into cases and address a growing backlog of cases more quickly.

Two court-appointed doctors in Arizona deemed Lori Vallow Daybell fit to face charges of conspiring to kill her estranged husband, Charles Vallow, and a niece’s ex-spouse.

The victim claiming former Pima County Sgt. Ricardo Garcia sexually assaulted her at a 2022 Christmas party testified Wednesday that Garcia’s relationship with Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos prevented her from initially coming forward.

The U.S. Justice Department says in a new report stemming from the same type of investigation done in Phoenix that police in Memphis routinely violate civil rights. The mayor there gave a similar response to what city leaders here said before they were even told the Phoenix Police Department has systemic problems.

Five hours of emotional testimony marked the first day witnesses were called to the stand in the sexual assault case against former Pima County Sgt. Ricardo Garcia.