Melanie Bernas (Left) Angelia Brosso (Right) Booking Photo of Bryan Patrick Miller Phoenix, AZ—In 1992/1993 Melanie Berna s, 17 and Angela Brosso , 22 were savagely sliced up nearly a year apart in the same general Sunnyslope vicinity. In November 1992 the Brosso girl went for a bicycle ride and never returned. Her live-in boyfriend reported her missing to police. Brosso was soon found headless and her torso cut in half in a nearby park at 25th Avenue and Cactus. I saw raw and disturbing video of Brosso's naked and bloody body captured by a TV news photographer and it was indeed hideous. That video was heavily edited before it hit the airwaves. Brosso’s severed head was subsequently located in or next to a canal some two miles away. Brosso’s bicycle has never been recovered and no viable suspect has ever been located. Nearly one year later in September of 1993 the Bernas girl’s severed head was found near the Arizona canal and the Black Canyon freeway. Nearby floa...

Phoenix, AZ —Last week Christopher Scott Gale approached a woman shopping at the Central Ave and Osborn Road Walgreens from behind.  Without provocation or a known motive he used a kitchen knife with an 8” blade to stab the woman at the base of her skull. The woman screamed and an off duty but armed federal officer in a checkout line quickly intervened.    The offender was standing over the wounded woman when the G-Man ordered the man to drop his knife and lie face down on the ground.   Responding Phoenix Police took the offender into custody. Gale told police that he purchased the knife at the WalMart located in the Christown Spectrum Mall because he wanted to,c “stab and kill someone.” Police reported in court documents that after stabbing the woman, Gale was face to face with her while the knife was protruding from her neck.   Allegedly Gale told her, “I’m killing you to save the world.” Rather than book Gale immediately in jail police...

Will they be able to jail drone pilot Paul Huebl now?   Phoenix, AZ —Two members of the City Council here are proposing an anti-drone ordinance that will make a criminal out of anyone using a drone within the city. Let me disclose that I own and operate two camera drones like the one above and plan to use them in pursuit if gathering images and video for news.  The proposed law requires that “written permission” be obtained in advance from anyone that might be photographed by a drone.   That would for example include some gardener mowing grass who might be photographed whether he is readily identifiable or not.   They are not talking about just close up pictures but any picture. There is plenty of existing law that protects people’s privacy where people have a reasonable expectation of privacy.   That is inside a home or structure of some type.   That’s why millions of ordinary surveillance cameras are everywhere in America today. ...

Phoenix, AZ —Politicians and their appointed police chiefs across this nation demand nearly total control of police related information. It’s epidemic in the larger cities controlled by Democratic Party mayors.   They see the value of leaving their citizens with a false sense of security and public safety as they spin any and all information accordingly. Police business was once considered just that.   Certain information was kept away from all but sworn police officers.   That’s not the case because the local politicians have demanded and unlawfully obtained access to sensitive police data nearly everywhere. Politicians also demand the ability to influence arrests and prosecutions of friends, relatives and of course their campaign contributors.   Illicit influence is used to both free the guilty and even jail the innocent.   Cops and prosecutors have no choice but to look the other way.   Whistle blowing in law enforcement circles simply does not ...