Sarah Walker

Sarah Walker's doing a rare and brave thing -- going public as an alleged victim of a sexual assault.

Walker wants any people who believe they're also victims of Lee Lubonne -- the self-described "sex pig" currently jailed on suspicion of two sexual assaults -- to come forward to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. MCSO has said Lubonne, a 44-year-old father of two, "may" be a suspected serial sexual predator, and detectives have said there's a "possibility" more victims are out there.

With that, Walker also tells New Times about her unusual story up to this point, which began with drawing the ire of Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

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MCSO

Ricardo Marquez

​Picture this: you wake up to find a man with no pants on -- wearing nothing but a condom and a tee-shirt -- carrying your 4-year-old daughter out of your house at about 6 a.m. That nightmare scenario was a reality for a Phoenix family yesterday morning, compliments of 21-year-old Ricardo Marquez.

Marquez was busted after police say he broke into the home of a 4-year-old Phoenix girl, sexually assaulted her, and then attempted to abduct her right out of her bedroom as her family slept.

Prior to breaking into the girl's home, while standing outside, Marquez took off his shorts and put a condom on, according to court records obtained by New Times.

Once Marquez entered the home -- again, wearing nothing but a condom and tee-shirt -- he sneaked into the girl's bedroom and touched her vagina "with his hand underneath her diaper" to make sure the child was female. He then sexually assaulted her using his penis and fingers.

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James King

Vice President Brewer? FML!

​Vice President Jan Brewer?

If you just spit out your coffee, you can thank the Arizona Republic, which recently suggested the aforementioned absurd prophecy in one of its "Political Insider" posts.

Check it out here.

From the Republic:


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Unless you are totally off the news grid (and probably wouldn't be reading this), you, too, are hooked in some fashion on the Casey Anthony murder case down in Orlando. More >>

PCSO

Linda Burchfield (center) used that knife (right) to try and slit the throat of the owner of that trailer (left) in the middle of a post-sex massage.

​A Mesa woman took the term "deep-tissue massage" way (way) too far.

After a night of drinking, smoking weed, and sex, 22-year-old Linda Burchfield offered the owner of the Maricopa trailer in which she was partying a massage. Then she tried to slit his throat with a fishing knife.

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Melissa Pacheco faces 69 counts of abusing vulnerable adults.

​UPDATED: The Arizona Department of Health Services got back to us. Click here for update.

Three assisted living facilities in Phoenix have been shut down -- and the owner of the facilities has been arrested -- after cops noticed they more resembled the apartment of a tweaked-out meth head than a place designated to care for some of Phoenix's most helpless residents.

Melissa Pacheco, 42, a tele-health nurse with Phoenix V.A. Health Care System, was arrested today and booked on multiple counts of abusing vulnerable adults with ages ranging from 35-89 years old.

According to the Phoenix Police Department, in July of last year, officers noticed an influx of emergency calls to Pacheco's facilities for things like patient medical problems, and special needs residents wandering around neighborhoods alone in the area of the facilities.

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Pinal County Sheriff's Office

This is the cotton picker that ran over 55-year-old Javier Rios.

​A Pinal County man is down one leg and is in extremely critical condition after being run over by a cotton picking machine being pulled by the tractor he was driving.

The mishap occurred just after 11 a.m. on Tuesday. Pinal County Sheriff's deputies got a call that a man had fallen off of the tractor he was driving and had been run over.


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Pinal County Sheriff's Office

The scene from the wreck that left two teens impaled by a fence post.

​A Pinal County mom let her 14-year-old son use her car to go joyriding with a group of friends, and it didn't go well -- he crashed the car, and a fence pole impaled the him and one of his friends.

According to the Pinal County Sheriff's Office, Griselda R. Figueroa let her son, and his four friends, take her 1999 Chrysler LHS for a spin Saturday night.

The ride came to an end near the 6300 block of (the ironically named) South Iron Bar Road in Eloy, where the boy lost control of the car and hit a fence.

During the accident, a metal fence pole went through the front of the car and impaled the driver and the rear-seat, driver-side passenger.


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Sabrina and Richard Garcia

​An El Mirage couple has a pretty filthy house -- complete with cockroaches and floors covered with re-fried beans. They also have six kids, who were forced to live in the mess and are now in the custody of another family member after police had a look at what was going on in their parents' abode.

Sabrina Garcia and her husband, Richard Garcia Jr., were both arrested on Sunday after police saw the deplorable conditions in which they, and their children, were living.


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​My Fox Phoenix aired a story last night that needs some attention.

If you've never asked the question "why do they put superglue and eye drops in nearly identical bottles?" you should have -- it's stupid, and can have painful results if a mix up happens.

People who use eye drops often have vision problems, so it makes precisely no sense to put the liquid in bottles that could easily be mistaken for something that's gonna glue your eyes shut.

Irmgard Holm made that mistake and did exactly that.

Check out the My Fox Phoenix segment after the jump.

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