Phoenix PD

The Phoenix Police Department's SWAT team rammed a house Tuesday morning with a giant truck, trying to storm the home after 32-year-old Israel Celis Sr. allegedly kidnapped his own child and beat his wife in a hotel room. 

An Amber Alert that set off a nearly 12-hour chase and standoff ended Tuesday morning after Celis shot himself as police battered and swarmed the home. (The incident also prompted the Phoenix PD to post an ambiguously funny tweet trying to explain why it had driven a car into a Valley home -- read on.)

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Dennis Burke lied to an investigator and leaked a memo to Fox News in order to retaliate against a government whistle-blower, a U.S. Inspector General's Office report released Monday states.

The day after a high-ranking Justice Department official blasted former Arizona U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke for lying about one memo leaked to a reporter, Burke committed an even worse leak.

That's just one damning finding in a U.S. Inspector General report about the actions of Burke in the Fast & Furious "gun-walking" scandal.

Burke's second leak to the news media was "particularly egregious" because it appears Burke's intention was to retaliate against a whistle-blowing agent in the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the report states.

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An angry lover tried to kidnap and kill his ex-boyfriend from a local Jamba Juice, and later shot himself at a hospital. 

The 28-year-old suspect (police have not released any names) had been arrested last month and was in court earlier that day, Phoenix PD spokesman Trent Crump says. Cops picked the man up on charges of domestic violence, stalking, criminal damage, threatening and intimidating after he had allegedly damaged the suspect's car and filled it with pool cleaning chemicals, among other things. All of this, and a restraining order, landed the suspect earlier that day in court.

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Loose Cannons club house

Two motorcycle gangs shot it out in the early morning hours Sunday at a party at the Loose Cannons Motorcycle club house in Apache Junction.

Four people were injured, and one is in critical condition, according to the Pinal County Sheriff's Office. 

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The U.S. Department of Treasury placed sanctions on eight Mexican cartel bosses in the north of the country, each of whom controls smuggling routes and cities for the Sinaloa Cartel called "plazas."

The Sinaloa Cartel is the largest and oldest of the Mexican cartels. Throughout the drug war and internecine battles between smuggling groups, the Sinaloa Cartel has managed to remain fairly intact. Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is believed to be the leader of the criminal group, and Forbes has listed Guzman as one of the most powerful people in world, estimating his net worth to be around $1 billion.(Forbes took Guzman off their 2013 list.) 

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Tempe PD

U.S. Marshals working with Tempe PD arrested Mazen Diamond in Atlanta Monday, after the fugitive had been on the lam for more than 10 years for drugging, raping and videotaping Tempe women he and his cousin met at local bars. 

Authorities found Mazen living with his girlfriend and two young children in Atlanta, where he had assumed a new identity and tried to start a fresh life, police say.  

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Shannon Liska says her pitbull Trax didn't deserve to be shot by a U.S. Forest Service officer while on a camping trip in March. 

Shannon Liska's 2-year-old pitbull still has a bullet shard in its snout. The dog is now toothless on one side of his mouth, and doesn't have enough jaw bone left on that side to fasten replacement teeth to.

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Peoria PD

The Peoria PD arrested Matthew Pape two days ago after he allegedly -- and from what witnesses say and what's indicated in the police report, accidentally -- killed his friend while play-fighting at a bar, police say. 

About 10 p.m. Friday, Pape, 39, and his friend, David Witmer, 45, were at a bar near 6700 West Peoria Avenue having some fun, which turned into pretending to fight over a cell phone, says Peoria PD spokeswoman Amanda Jacinto. 

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Bill Warren, the newly appointed director of the Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health, is scheduled to begin his job on May 20.

Longtime Arizona Division of Occupational Safety Health director Darin Perkins has stepped down and is being replaced by risk manager Bill Warren.

The Industrial Commission of Arizona, which oversees the Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health, (known by its friendly acronym, ADOSH), voted during its April 19 meeting to appoint Warren as the new director.

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