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A 30-year-old man was rushed to a hospital Thursday evening after a serious accident while jumping at the newly opened Sky Park Indoor Trampoline Park in Phoenix's Arcadia neighborhood.

"He was not breathing and had no pulse," says Captain Scott Walker of the Phoenix Fire Department.

Walker expects to get an update on the man's condition in a few hours.

The victim had reportedly jumped into the facility's foam pit before receiving the injury, he says.

Phoenix police had no information as of yet.

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We happened by the Old Courthouse on West Washington Street early this afternoon to pick up some documents, and were greeted at the front steps by a horde of black-robed Maricopa County Superior Court judges having a group photo taken.

What a crew!

 

Judge Michael Ryan hated this photo of himself, but it's all we have on hand. Sorry, Mike...

​Couldn't get into the building for security reasons for more than a half-hour, so we stood around and had a chance to schmooze with a several of the jurists.

Everyone wanted to chat about the sudden and shocking death on Monday of Mike Ryan, the retired Arizona Supreme Court justice.

He was beloved by many and respected by all.

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Grant Goodman, a Phoenix (now suspended) attorney who had his 15 minutes of fame a few years ago as an alleged champion of local folks being abused by their legal guardians/conservators and by the Maricopa County Probate Court, has lost yet another case--his own.

 

Grant Goodman: From the legal penthouse to the outhouse.

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In a memorandum decision filed January 25 by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a panel shot down Goodman's appeal of serious sanctions imposed against him by federal judge Mary Murguia, who is based in Phoenix.

Last summer, the Arizona Supreme Court suspended Goodman from the practice of law for up to five years following a finding that he habitually exploited vulnerable Probate Court clients

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We first met Mike Ryan, who died suddenly earlier today at the age of 66, shortly after moving here to work at this paper in August 1985. Then, he was a prosecutor at the Maricopa County Attorney's Office, and one of that agency's very best.More >>

MCSO

Deputy Bill Coleman was murdered on January 8, when he and other deputies responded to a burglary call in Anthem.

​In what Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio insists was "not a news conference," the MCSO announced this afternoon that two men who allegedly burglarized the business where Deputy Bill Coleman was murdered earlier this month have been arrested.

Arpaio, however, says it's unlikely the two men -- Michael Allen Pierce, 33, and Shawn Patrick Brannen, 23 -- had any involvement in Coleman's murder, or with the man who killed him, 30-year-old "UFO-ologist" Drew Ryan Maras.

"There is probably no connection [between the burglary and the murder] -- [it seems to be] a coincidence beyond all coincidences," Arpaio says.

However, he went on to say that "if that burglary did not occur, and the alarm [didn't] go off, our deputy would not have been in that parking lot."

Coleman, 50, was fatally shot when he and other deputies responded to a burglary call at a medical center in Anthem about 4 a.m. on January 8.

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​An inmate at the Durango Jail died last night -- and it wasn't at the hands of a Maricopa County Sheriff's Office detention officer, according to the MCSO.

MCSO Officer Chris Hegstrom tells New Times the death is being investigated as a "natural causes death."

Hegstrom says he won't identify the dead inmate until next of kin has been notified. He also wouldn't tell us the age of the inmate, or what landed him in the county clink.

He says the death is still under investigation.

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Time was, when Rick Renzi was an up-and-comer in Arizona's (even national) Republican circles, a staunch conservative from Flagstaff who first won election to Congress in 2002.More >>

​The Mesa Police Department tells New Times that no charges will be filed against a 7-year-old boy who accidentally fired a loaded gun on a school bus full of children last week -- and there's a reason: he's only friggin' seven!

In case you missed it, the boy brought a loaded gun on a Mesa school bus full of kids last week. As the kid was moving the gun, which was in his backpack, it went off. Luckily, nobody was hit. Get all the details here (note the correction on the boy's age -- initially we were told he's 8).

Additionally, the boy's parents -- who own the gun -- will not be charged with any crimes, either.

As Mesa Detective Steve Berry explains, if the boy were placed in juvenile detention, because of his age, "he'd have to have someone help him get dressed everyday -- help him eat his cereal."

The obvious challenges of locking up a 7-year-old aside, Berry says the boy didn't even know how to operate the gun, and didn't understand the dangers of bringing a loaded weapon on a school bus.

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Mayor Greg Stanton

​About two weeks after being sworn in as Phoenix's newest mayor, Greg Stanton announced today members of his Mayor's Office staff, which includes some of the same individuals who worked for him while he was a city councilman or with him at the Attorney General's Office.

As we already know, Paul Blue, formerly the city's Community and Economic Development Director, will serve as Stanton's Chief of Staff. 

Here's the rest of the rundown.

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Sheriff Joe Arpaio says "UFO-ologist" Drew Ryan Maras is responsible for the deaths of both an MCSO deputy and a New Hampshire couple.

​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced this morning that the murder of MCSO Deputy William Coleman was committed by the same man who murdered a New Hampshire couple near Sedona last week.

The sheriff says the same weapon -- an AR-15 assault rifle firing "military-grade, green-tip" ammunition -- was used in each of the murders.

"We believed from the outset, these killings were somehow likely connected," Arpaio says.

What prompted the suspect, 30-year-old Drew Ryan Maras -- who was killed in a shootout with Arpaio's deputies -- to randomly kill the couple near Sedona remains unclear.

"If you look at his Facebook, he has somewhat of a strange philosophy," Arpaio explains.

Maras is a conspiracy theorist with a bizarre obsession with UFOs and the apocalypse -- which, if you believe the Mayan calender, is scheduled to happen this year.

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