Man accused of veering into oncoming traffic, steers self into more charges
A man is accused of veering into oncoming traffic on State Route 238 on March 28, giving officers a false name and date of...
Man accused of assaulting police after fight at local eatery
A man was arrested March 27 in connection with a fight at a local eatery, and later also charged with resisting arrest and assaulting...
Man arrested at gas station on multiple drug charges
A man is accused of trying to hide drug paraphernalia March 25 after officers ran a records check on the parked vehicle he was...
Proposed law tweaks could ease way for recreational pot dispensaries
Maricopa’s Planning and Zoning Commission will review proposed ordinance changes regarding marijuana dispensaries during its Tuesday, March 28, evening meeting.
The session, at Maricopa City...
Woman runs over herself with her car
A woman driving through Senita ran over her own leg on Sunday night after failing to put in her car in park when she...
Late-night 4-vehicle collision Sunday on SR 347 still under investigation
Updated at 10:49 a.m., March 28, 2023
Arizona Department of Public Safety is continuing its investigation into a multi-vehicle collision on State Route 347 Sunday...
Former MPD chief to run for sheriff
Maricopa’s first top cop now wants to be the county’s top cop.
Patrick Melvin, a Cobblestone resident, says he will run as a Democrat in...
Body-camera footage shows large amount of drugs found in traffic stop
Maricopa Police Department has released body-camera footage of a traffic stop in which drugs were packaged for sale, including 1.1 pounds of M30 pills,...
Maricopa man suspected of assault with his vehicle
Maricopa Police arrested a man who struck another man with a vehicle following an argument in the Villages at Rancho El Dorado neighborhood on...
Woman accused of biting, striking man with chair during argument
An argument at a Sorrento home turned physical on Monday night, after a woman reportedly bit a man and then hit him with a...
Simmons believed radiation exposure at Idaho laboratory was inevitable
EDITOR’S NOTE: Brian Simmons was shot and killed in August by Maricopa Police during a noise complaint that escalated into a shootout. Simmons, who...
Poll: Half of respondents like having license-plate cameras around Maricopa
License-plate reading cameras make some Maricopans feel safer.
While Maricopa police have been using these cameras, manufactured by Flock Safety, since their installation in 2019...
Woman faces slew of DUI charges after traffic stop
A woman accused by police of driving under the influence on Wednesday has a criminal history of 12 DUI violations in the last seven...
Police find cocaine, loaded shotgun during DUI arrest
A man suspected of driving under the influence wound up facing several additional serious charges after officers pulled him over.
Police reportedly found drugs and...
2-year-old pulled from pool, remains in grave condition
A 2-year-old girl is in critical condition after an incident in a pool on Wednesday.
At about 8:30 p.m., Maricopa Police and Maricopa Fire and Medical crews...
3 face drug-related, other charges after stop in car reported stolen
Three people were arrested after officers pulled over a vehicle reported stolen in Eloy and found drug paraphernalia on Saturday.
Marcos A. Mendoza was...
Neighbor: Brian Simmons’ mental state had been alarming for some time
To just about everyone who encountered him, it was apparent Brian Simmons was a man dealing with serious mental-health issues.
Simmons moved to Maricopa from...
Investigation continues after gunfire exchange in Tortosa
A police investigation into gunfire exchanged in Tortosa on March 9 is ongoing and remains “top priority,” according to Monica Williams, a spokesperson for...
Excessive-speed traffic stop leads to laundry list of charges
An 18-year-old man accused of passing a police officer at nearly 100 miles per hour with two juveniles in the car on March 9...
2-man fight leads to arrests on multiple charges
Two men were arrested on March 5 after they fought near North Butterfield Parkway and West Oster Drive.
At about 9 p.m., Maricopa police responded...
Maricopa police officers in Simmons shooting say their hand was forced
The two Maricopa Police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Brian Simmons during a call on a noise complaint at Simmons’ home in...
Maricopa man sentenced to 10 years after tweeting explicit material involving children
A Maricopa man who was arrested in June has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on a conviction of possession of illicit pictures...
Man accused by police of dropping pills in energy drink during traffic stop
A traffic stop on Tuesday ended with the arrest of a man, who police suspect dropped multiple M30 pills into his energy drink in...
Simmons’ family speaks out on death
Cory Simmons, Brian Simmons’ older brother, will forever have two dates stuck in his mind: Nov. 8, 2011, the date of Brian's exposure to...
2 men exchange gunfire in street at Tortosa; remain at large
Two men, apparently dueling it out in the street in Tortosa near West Padilla Street and North Toledo Avenue, exchanged gunfire and then fled...
Plate-reading cameras help officers in multitude of ways
Among the crime-fighting tools the Maricopa Police Department has at its disposal are license-plate reading cameras.
Officers have access to data from 1,360 such cameras...
‘We were trying to get him some help’
Brian Simmons died at his Villages at Rancho El Dorado home on Aug. 29 during an interaction with Maricopa police that started as a...
BRIAN SIMMONS: Tips to managing mental-health care
Brianna Reinhold, a licensed counselor in Maricopa and owner of Northern Lights Therapy, explains persistence is key to helping a loved one experiencing a...
BRIAN SIMMONS: A look at Title 36
If an individual suffers a mental-health crisis and is unwilling to get voluntary help, as with Brian Simmons, an involuntary commitment process is available...
BRIAN SIMMONS: Understanding HIPAA
Understanding HIPAA and what information can and cannot be released to families about their loved ones is among the many frustrations of Brian Simmons'...