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Updates on high-profile Surprise sex cases
by D.S. Woodfill – Jan. 6, 2012 10:15 AMThe Republic | azcentral.com
The Republic updates high-profile cases in the West Valley. In three cases, a youth umpire, a nurse and a teacher are accused of abusing minors.
Trial set for former umpire
Edward Lee Hartley, a 67-year-old former high school softball umpire from Surprise, was indicted on 15 counts stemming from allegations that he sexually abused runaway girls he picked up at a Phoenix bus stop in August. He was arrested at his Surprise home in September.
Jerry Cobb, a spokesman for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, said the charges include kidnapping, sexual conduct with a minor, molestation, prostitution with a minor and public sexual indecency. Hartley is to go to trial in February.

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PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police say a police officer and another man have been arrested after an off-duty incident at a strip club early yesterday. Officer Scott Gomez was booked into jail on four counts of aggravated assault following an altercation with four security guards. Police allege Gomez aimed his gun at the club security guards while off duty.

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Updates on high-profile Surprise sex cases
The Republic updates high-profile cases in the West Valley. In three cases, a youth umpire, a nurse and a teacher are accused of abusing minors.
Trial set for former umpire
Edward Lee Hartley, a 67-year-old former high school softball umpire from Surprise, was indicted on 15 counts stemming from allegations that he sexually abused runaway girls he picked up at a Phoenix bus stop in August. He was arrested at his Surprise home in September.
Jerry Cobb, a spokesman for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, said the charges include kidnapping, sexual conduct with a minor, molestation, prostitution with a minor and public sexual indecency. Hartley is to go to trial in February.
Authorities had said Hartley’s criminal history dates to 1973 and includes six sex-crime violations, including rape. They believe he has records in New York, Texas, Kentucky and Alabama.

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Updates on high-profile Surprise sex cases
by D.S. Woodfill – Jan. 6, 2012 10:15 AMThe Republic | azcentral.com
The Republic updates high-profile cases in the West Valley. In three cases, a youth umpire, a nurse and a teacher are accused of abusing minors.
Trial set for former umpire
Edward Lee Hartley, a 67-year-old former high school softball umpire from Surprise, was indicted on 15 counts stemming from allegations that he sexually abused runaway girls he picked up at a Phoenix bus stop in August. He was arrested at his Surprise home in September.
Jerry Cobb, a spokesman for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, said the charges include kidnapping, sexual conduct with a minor, molestation, prostitution with a minor and public sexual indecency. Hartley is to go to trial in February.

See the full article from “Arizona Republic”

Here is the latest Arizona news from The Associated Press
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PHOENIX (AP) – Phoenix police say a police officer and another man have been arrested after an off-duty incident at a strip club early yesterday. Officer Scott Gomez was booked into jail on four counts of aggravated assault following an altercation with four security guards. Police allege Gomez aimed his gun at the club security guards while off duty.
PHOENIX (AP) – An officer-involved shooting in east Phoenix has left one man dead. The police department says an officer pulled over on State Route 51 to investigate a truck that was on the side of the road. Police say the officer tried to wake the driver, who woke up, lifted his shirt and began to pull a handgun from his waistband. The officer pulled his gun and shot the man.

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Phoenix PD arrest officer during scuffle at club by Associated Press (December 31st, 2011 @ 8:29pm)
PHOENIX Phoenix police say a police officer and another man have been arrested after an off-duty incident at a strip club early Saturday.
Officer Scott Gomez was booked into jail on four counts of aggravated assault following an altercation with four security guards.
Police allege Gomez aimed his gun at the club security guards while off-duty.
Based upon witness accounts and interviews with the alleged victims, detectives arrested Gomez and 36-year-old Francisco Vallarta (vy-AHR’-tuh) for aggravated assault.
In addition, police suspected Vallarta had impersonated a police officer.
The 36-year-old Gomez is assigned to the Estrella (es-TRAY’-uh) Mountain Precinct and will be placed on administrative leave, pending the conclusion of the internal investigation.

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Off-duty cop held in strip-club gun incident
An off-duty Phoenix police officer and his friend were arrested early Saturday morning at a strip club on suspicion of pointing a gun at security guards following a parking lot brawl, police say.
Scott Gomez, a 36-year-old officer assigned to the Estrella Mountain Precinct, and Fransisco Vallarta, 36, were at the club with two women around 2:45 a.m., according to Phoenix Police Sgt. Tommy Thompson.
As they were leaving the club near the 1900 block of north Black Canyon, the two got into altercation with four men that turned into a fight. Security guards sprayed all of the men with pepper spray or some other chemical agent, Thompson said.
The fight was broken up but Vallarta allegedly got a gun from his vehicle and pointed it at security guards and told them he was a Phoenix police officer, Thompson said. The security guards, some of whom were armed, pointed their guns at Vallarta and convinced him to drop his weapon, he said.

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First, a look at the 12 stories in Phoenix Fled, a collection that has been described by Anita Desai as a ‘monument’ to India’s pre-independence past. The title story is about an old woman who, faced with the threat of communal violence in the aftermath of the Partition, refuses to leave her house when the rest of her family has fled. Alone and scared, she faces the mob that comes to set her house on fire but admonishes them thus: “Mind, she scolded, pointing her bony figure, “mind you do not step on the doll’s house.” Evidently, the mythical phoenix that can arise from its own ashes has fled in the face of the barbarism of the times. Elsewhere, as in ‘The Street of the Moon’, unable to take the tedium of marriage to a much-older, opium-quaffing cook, a high-spirited nubile young wife runs off with another servant, only to end up in the prostitute’s street. ‘The First Party’ is a touching tale o …

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Off-duty cop held in strip-club gun incident
by John Yantis – Dec. 31, 2011 02:27 PMThe Arizona Republic
An off-duty Phoenix police officer and his friend were arrested early Saturday morning at a strip club on suspicion of pointing a gun at security guards following a parking lot brawl, police say.
Scott Gomez, a 36-year-old officer assigned to the Estrella Mountain Precinct, and Fransisco Vallarta, 36, were at the club with two women around 2:45 a.m., according to Phoenix Police Sgt. Tommy Thompson.
As they were leaving the club near the 1900 block of north Black Canyon, the two got into altercation with four men that turned into a fight. Security guards sprayed all of the men with pepper spray or some other chemical agent, Thompson said.
The fight was broken up but Vallarta allegedly got a gun from his vehicle and pointed it at security guards and told them he was a Phoenix police officer, Thompson said. The security guards, some of whom were armed, pointed their guns at Vallarta and convinced him to drop his weapon, he said.

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Phoenix PD Officer Arrested After Strip Club Fight
Updated: Saturday, 31 Dec 2011, 2:10 PM MSTPublished : Saturday, 31 Dec 2011, 2:02 PM MST
PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police say a police officer and another man have been arrested after an off-duty incident at a strip club early Saturday.
Officer Scott Gomez was booked into jail on four counts of aggravated assault following an altercation with four security guards.
Police allege Gomez aimed his gun at the club security guards while off-duty.
Based upon witness accounts and interviews with the alleged victims, detectives arrested Gomez and 36-year-old Francisco Vallarta for aggravated assault.
In addition, police suspected Vallarta had impersonated a police officer.
The 36-year-old Gomez is assigned to the Estrella Mountain Precinct and will be placed on administrative leave, pending the conclusion of the internal investigation.

See the full article from “MyFox Phoenix”