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Upgrading airplane engines for Venezuela's air force in violation of an arms embargo has resulted in a $250,000 fine and five years' probation for Phoenix resident Floyd Stilwell.
Image: http://www.aviastar.org/air/usa/rok_bronco.php Floyd Stilwell, former president of Marsh Aviation in Mesa, has been sentenced to a $250,000 fine and five years' probation for upgrading military aircraft engines for the Venezuelan Air Force. He gets to keep most of the $1.8 million he made on the deal.
The 87-year-old former owner of Marsh Aviation in Mesa knew he shouldn't have been doing such work for Venezuela after the 2006 ban, but did it anyway -- and pocketed $1.8 million personally.
He was able to keep the money -- minus the fine -- because the deal was "completely legitimate" and legal when Marsh Aviation and Venezuela entered into it, says Stilwell's Tucson lawyer, Walter Nash. Only specific actions that occurred after the ban resulted in two criminal charges for conspiracy to violate the Arms Export Control Act, he says.
Bryan Teague of Peoria pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts related to the 5,220-acre wildfire he caused last August in the Tonto National Forest by putting a propane tank in a campfire.
Image: Ray Stern Bryan Teague confers with his public defender, Milagros Cisneros, and an unidentified woman following his guilty plea to starting last summer's 5,220-acre Mistake Peak Fire.
Teague, 56, faces the possibility of up to six months in prison, a $5,000 fine, and five years of probation on each of the two misdemeanor counts, according to the plea agreement read in court by U.S. Magistrate Judge Bridget Bade.
Still unclear is whether he kicked the 16-ounce can into the fire with the intention of watching it explode, which it did, or whether he kicked it in by accident and failed to get it out in time.
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Gerald Culverson of Chandler walked out of jail without charges earlier this month after being accused of killing his girlfriend, but ended up in a hospital one week later following a hit-and-run collision.
Image: Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Gerald Culverson, following his March 29 arrest in connection with the death of his girlfriend. A week after being released for lack of probable cause, Culverson was the victim in what cops say was an unrelated hit-and-run collision.
No apparent connection exists between the collision and the earlier arrest of Culverson, Chandler police say.
Regardless, it's sure been a heck of a month for Culverson, whom police had accused of killing and mutilating his girlfriend, Deborah Courtney.
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The feds are bringing another child-porn watcher to justice with the recent guilty plea of Arizona resident Douglas Earl Leach.
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When Leach's Peoria home was raided on September 5, 2012, following an FBI investigation, agents found nearly 4,000 child-porn pictures, mostly of young boys engaged in sex acts. At least one of the pictures depicted children in "sadistic and/or masochistic conduct."
Federal prosecutors got Leach, 65, to plead guilty on April 12 to possessing one of the images: a picture of two prepubescent boys having anal sex.
A group of men dressed up like a SWAT team and armed with assault rifles robbed and kidnapped three people connected to a pot-selling scheme last month in Litchfield Park.
Edward Alvarez, one of five people arrested in a violent robbery on March 24.
One of the terrified victims jumped from the trunk of a Jaguar going 60 mph while being taken to a desert location.
The victim survived and was hospitalized with severe cuts, bruising, and road rash.
Five of the estimated seven or eight suspects were arrested over the next several days, including one busted Monday at his home in El Mirage. They include: David Anthony Ybarra, Edward Alvarez, Victor Vasquez-Duarte, Johnny Ray Fernandez, and Frank Ybarra.
No cop is going to look into this bag, Richard Miller must have thought early this morning at a Mesa CVS Pharmacy.
Richard Miller attacked a Mesa police officer this morning when he was confronted for hanging out in front of a CVS Pharmacy acting "crazy."
A Mesa officer arrived at the CVS, 305 East Brown Road, about 4 a.m. after receiving reports of a troublesome trespasser. He found Miller, walking in circles and talking to himself near a "no trespassing" sign on the property.
Miller was "acting crazy" and kept dipping his hand into a bag he was carrying, Mesa police spokesman Sergeant Tony Landato says. The officer, wary of his safety, asked Miller to stop reaching into the bag. But Miller persisted, so the cop reached out and tried to snatch the bag away from him.
A three-day bench trial has been scheduled for Bryan Teague, the Peoria man who authorities say admitted to starting last summer's "Mistake Peak" fire with a propane tank.
Bryan Teague of Peoria, accused of starting a 5,000-acre wildfire in the Tonto National Forest on August 8, has a three-day bench trial scheduled starting April 8 -- UPDATE -- Bench trial now scheduled for May 29.
Despite his admission, Teague has pleaded not guilty to three misdemeanor charges: carelessly placing or throwing a substance that could cause a fire, burning the forest without a permit, and leaving a fire without completely extinguishing it.
As our previous stories releated, Teague was on an off-roading trip to a remote part of the Tonto National Forest northeast of Phoenix when he decided to build a campfire. He didn't cook any food, but he did kick a 16-ounce propane tank into the fire, he later confessed.
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Early this morning, Mesa PD tased and arrested a man who answered the door with "war paint" streaked across his face, and who on other occasions had greeted police armed with a sword.
Neighbors in the 500 block of Alma School Road called police because they heard yelling and banging from the home of Matthew Andersen, 30.
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