Tempe
CRIME & SAFETY
Police: 2 shot at Tempe hotel
TEMPE, Ariz. — Two people sustained gunshot injuries Friday afternoon at a hotel in Tempe. The police department said officers were dispatched to a hotel near Elliot Road and Priest Drive for reports of a domestic disturbance involving multiple people. Upon arrival, officers discovered two people had been shot.
Neighbors call Tempe home at the center of shooting and fire a 'problem house'
TEMPE, Ariz. — The Tempe home at the center of a local and federal investigation is a frequent target of police activity, neighbors tell 12News. That home along E Del Rio Dr. in south Tempe had U.S. Marshals sprawling outside it on Thursday afternoon as they were there to serve an arrest warrant on someone inside the home.
Tempe man, clinic linked to $85.6M in fraud schemes
A local man and an unrelated Tempe clinic are the focus of separate state and federal cases alleging over $85.6 million in Medicaid and Medicare fraud. A federal indictment accuses Adam Mutwol, 45, of Tempe, of conspiring with Gilbert Nurse practitioner Daud Koloesho, 44, to illegally bill the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) and American Indian Health Program (AIHP) for substance abuse treatments that earned them over $51.6 million in illicit payments.
Parent who left his child in vehicIe in the famiIy driveway for more than 3 hours to die claims he got ‘dlstracted by playing his gaming consoIe and putting his food away’
Phoenix, AZ – According to the police officials, the 37-year-old dad, Cristopher, was taken into custody last week and later charged with second-degree murder after he reportedly left his child in a hot vehicle and faiIed to check on the girl for more than 3 hours because he was playing video games. During the investigation process, authorities also discovered that the parent reportedly knew that the vehicle’s AC will shut off eventually. Police officials said that messages between the father and the girl’s mother reportedly revealed that the father knew that his vehicle’s AC will turn off after 30 minutes.
A man arrives at Sky Harbor Airport and realizes that the 13-year-old he’d been message was an FBI agent.
PHOENIX — An Arkansas man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after traveling to Phoenix in 2022 with the intention of sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl. Andrew Butler, 49, received his sentence in Arizona after a jury found him guilty of attempted coercion and traveling across state lines to abuse a minor.
Mother of Tempe victim in unsolved murder wonders if robbery suspect was involved
PHOENIX — No arrests have been made in connection to the investigation around Mercedes Vega, a 22-year-old Tempe woman who was tortured and killed in April 2023. However, her mother, Erika Pillsbury, said this week she believes her daughter’s murder could be connected to a violent robbery she endured three years before her death.
Police locate missing Tempe 12-year-old Jamol Jones
The Tempe Police Department located a missing child after asking for the public's assistance on Friday to find 12-year-old Jamol Jones. On Friday at 4:25 p.m., Tempe police released a news statement that Jones was safely located and was with officers and social service. ...
Dad claims ‘he was going to get his sick child the medical help he needed, but never did,’ only to leave the ill boy alone for 2 days and find him dead upon returning home
Phoenix, AZ – According to the police officials, the 38-year-old dad, later identified as Gregori, was arrested and later charged with multiple charges, including negIigent homicide and chiId abuse in connection with his child’s death. Police officials said the boy’s body was found decmposing in upright position in the family’s living room. During the investigation process, authorities reportedly discovered that the 9-year-old boy was dead for an xtended period of time because his father never provided the help his child needed.
1 dead, 2 hospitalized after multi-vehicle crash in central Phoenix
PHOENIX — One person is dead and two more people are hospitalized after a three-vehicle crash in central Phoenix, the city's police department said. The Phoenix Police Department said officers were called to the intersection of 19th Avenue and Bethany Home Road at about 9:15 p.m. regarding a multiple-vehicle crash that resulted in serious injuries.
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