Navarrete denies sex crime allegations in trial testimony
Former Arizona state Sen. Tony Navarrete testified on Tuesday and vehemently denied seven allegations of sexual crimes against his nephews.
Navarrete maintains innocence, family testifies in trial
Former state Sen. Otoniel “Tony” Navarrete is currently on trial for a series of sexual crimes against children, which his attorney maintains he did not commit.
Changes needed in sex offender registry rules
Arizonans for Rational Sex Offense Laws supports the American Law Institute’s revised Model Penal Code as it pertains to the management of sexual crimes and calls upon the Arizona Legislature to enact laws that reflect the American Law Institute’s recommendations. These revised recommendations are based on 30 years of research and would make our laws more just regarding crimes of a sexual nat[...]
Thousands of uninvestigated CPS cases traced to brief cost-saving measure in 2009
A brief Child Protective Services cost-saving measure that was supposed to end after five days in December 2009 has led to the failure to investigate thousands of cases of alleged child abuse, an official testified today.
Arpaio’s managers say they warned about staffing woes
Two managers at Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office told investigators examining hundreds of botched sex-crimes cases that they had warned some of the agency's senior administrators about having too few detectives to keep up with a growing caseload.
Understaffing cited in botched Arizona probes
A report examining more than 400 sex-crime cases that were inadequately investigated or not looked into at all by an Arizona sheriff's office attributes the failures to understaffing and mismanagement, including hundreds of pieces of evidence intended for storage that were instead left in offices or taken home by detectives.
Sex crimes fiasco a ‘tipping point’ for Arpaio
House Dems this morning seized on Arpaio’s recent embarrassment and called on the sheriff to step down.