A case involving the alleged sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl by a Florence High School student while others used cell phones to photograph the incident was forwarded Friday to the Pinal County Attorney’s Office.

A sex offender with past convictions for public sexual indecency and indecent exposure was arrested again Sunday on suspicion of fondling his genitals while standing near a pay phone in front of a Mesa store.

Police say a 45-year-old Gilbert man has admitted to a five-month spree of exposing himself, performing various sex acts and peeping on senior women at nine Mesa mobile home parks.

Police say a 45-year-old Gilbert man has admitted to a five-month spree of exposing himself, performing various sex acts and peeping on senior women at nine Mesa mobile home parks.

Gilbert police are investigating accusations that a Southwest Ambulance manager sexually abused a 16-yearold boy at the Riparian Preserve.

Gilbert police are investigating accusations that a Southwest Ambulance manager sexually abused a 16-yearold boy at the Riparian Preserve.

A retired Mesa police sergeant has pleaded not guilty to charges of child molestation and sexual exploitation of a minor.

A 52-year-old minister who believed he was chatting with a 14-year-old girl over the Internet shot and killed himself on Thursday after Chandler police arrived at his south Phoenix church to execute a search warrant in connection with a months-long investigation.

A Phoenix man has been arrested after he allegedly used a computer to conduct a sex crime.

PHOENIX - A Peoria man has been sentenced to 27 years in prison and lifetime probation after pleading guilty to sex crimes involving three girls who lived at his home.

A Chandler lawmaker has proposed a state law that aims to fill a gap in a state notification system that allowed a kindergarten teacher accused of child sex crimes to lead class for more than six months without the school knowing.

We frequently make fun of the ill-conceived and sometimes zany measures cooked up at the Arizona Legislature. But there are times when these same state lawmakers take a serious look at an emotionally charged but critically important issue and withstand verbal slingshots and arrows to propose the right changes.

They have raging hormones, backward social skills and, at best, poor judgment. Most have confessed their sexual crimes to family members, clergy or school counselors. Many of the teenagers — who are often younger than 15 — are prosecuted as adults.

August 13, 2004

Police say a Tempe man has committed a string of sexual offenses in the past seven years and suspect more have gone unreported.

A Mesa hotel owner will not be charged with a crime for tipping off a suspected sexual predator that the police were looking for him, officials said Wednesday.

A retired Mesa police sergeant has pleaded not guilty to charges of child molestation and sexual exploitation of a minor.

I find it interesting the number of Arizona folks who are captivated and fascinated with sex crimes. It’s like they can’t get enough of it. I hear constant talk about the media-created, soap-opera-like atmosphere surrounding the Jodi Arias murder trial. People are fascinated with the sex talk and titillating tales of what Arias and Travis Alexander did before she admittedly murdered him.

It was the system.