A Queen Creek man convicted of concealing his girlfriend’s body in his car trunk was sentenced to 2 1 /2 years in prison Thursday and remains under investigation.

A Mesa tailor who admitted he tried to smuggle an Iranian across the U.S.-Mexico border was sentenced to five years’ probation Tuesday.

Sentencing of a 21-year-old man involved in the fatal shooting and robbery of a Chandler man last November in Gilbert has been postponed.

A 19-year-old man involved in the 2006 murder and robbery of a man in Gilbert was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison by a Maricopa County Superior Court judge.

September 15, 2004

You might think the justice system, which has processed far too many cases of adults having sex with children, would make an example of Benjamin LeMere, the former Higley High School teacher who impregnated a 15-year-old student.

A state lawmaker wanting to drive prostitution off the streets and out of Arizona is pushing for tougher penalties against prostitutes and their patrons.

A state lawmaker wanting to drive prostitution off the streets and out of Arizona is pushing for tougher penalties against prostitutes and their patrons.

April 8, 2005

The Baptist Foundation of Arizona's former president was sentenced Friday to eight years in state prison, and the group's former general counsel received a term of six years.

Seeking to reverse a 30-year trend toward tougher -- and longer -- prison sentences, some state lawmakers are moving to give judges more leeway in determining how long criminals belong behind bars.

A former agent for the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Phoenix on Tuesday for tampering with detainee records on July 25, 2005.

A federal court in Mexico has sentenced a man to 42 1 /2 years in prison for two murders in Chandler in 1982, the state Attorney General’s Office announced Tuesday.

PITTSBURGH - Tommy Chong, who played one half of the dope-smoking duo in the Cheech and Chong movies, was sentenced to nine months in federal prison and fined $20,000 Thursday for selling bongs and other drug paraphernalia over the Internet.

A Gilbert man who used the cover of his financial business to provide fraudulent loans to distressed homeowners was sentenced to slightly more than two years in federal prison and ordered to repay the victims he scammed nearly $1 million in restitution.

MIAMI - A jury decided Wednesday that a convicted sex offender should get the death penalty for the kidnapping, rape and murder of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, who was buried alive in trash bags just yards from her home.

A former minor league baseball player is going to defend himself in a death penalty sentencing trial to begin Wednesday in Mesa even though his legal adviser has said it is "legal suicide."

PANAMA CITY, Fla. - The "Girls Gone Wild" video empire agreed to pay $1.6 million and its founder was sentenced to community service Wednesday for filming drunken, underage girls in the raunchy videos.

The first person to be criminally charged in a nine-month investigation into possible sexual misconduct of priests and employees of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix was given the maximum sentence of 22 months in prison and three years probation on Wednesday.

The main suspect in the Serial Shooter attacks received six death sentences Friday for a series of murders that put the Valley on edge for nearly two years.

May 19, 2004

Arizona doesn’t have a “three-strikes” law mandating lengthy — often life — sentences for criminals on conviction for their third felony, but the U.S. Supreme Court’s upholding California’s toughest-in-the-nation version should give our legislators the impetus to pass one.

Police are calling the recent arrest of a peeping Tom at a Mesa fitness center a “test case” of a new state voyeurism statute. Last year, legislation made voyeurism a crime and defined the offense as viewing or recording someone without his or her knowledge for the purpose of sexual stimulation.

State lawmakers took the fi rst steps Tuesday to create a category beyond extreme DUI that would trigger mandatory jail terms of at least 45 days for Arizona’s most intoxicated drivers.