BLACK CANYON CITY, Arizona – A dentist previously charged with illegal dental work in the Phoenix area was arrested in a neighboring county on the same crime.
The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office announced that 69-year-old Denis Froehlich was detained at his home in Black Canyon City Thursday night for practicing dentistry without a license and for guilty of serious assault. His wife was also arrested.
A search warrant for the house found weapons, meth- and heroin-related items, and dental items, including novocaine.
The couple are being held in a Camp Verde prison. It was not immediately known on Friday whether they had a lawyer.
Authorities say two victims accused Fröhlich of leaving them disfigured and in severe pain. Froehlich presented himself as a retired dentist who could work from home.
One victim said Froehlich removed 13 teeth and the other said he inserted 11 tooth crowns. In both cases, he allegedly refused to complete the work.
The sheriff’s deputies learned that Froehlich was on parole for committing similar acts to an elderly man in Maricopa County. In 2019, the Arizona Attorney General accused him of fraud and unlicensed work.
Froehlich’s license was revoked in 2013 for failing to respond to the state dental association on patient abandonment and substance abuse allegations.
Man stuck in Arizona gutter after waving arm
GLENDALE – A man stuck in a Phoenix subway drain was rescued Thursday after passers-by saw the man waving his arm out of the drain, officials said.
People stopped to see if the man needed help, said Ashley Losch, the Glendale fire department spokeswoman, and the man in the drain “said he was stuck so they called 911”.
The man appeared okay after climbing a ladder that firefighters lowered into the drain, but was taken to a hospital for a thorough examination, Losch said.
The man told the fire department that he was having a “bad day” when he entered the rain drainage system about two days ago in a park about 1.6 kilometers from where he was found, but the authorities could not confirm his information, called Losch.
The name of the man who is said to be in his thirties has not been published.
Losch said some sections of gullies are particularly dangerous because of their low oxygen levels.
The Arizona Supreme Court approves sewage district consolidation
PHOENIX – The Arizona Supreme Court upheld the decision of the utility authorities to allow multiple parishes to be merged into a single sewer service district, with rate increases or decreases in different parts of the new district to make them uniform.
The judges’ ruling on Friday said the tariffs approved by the Arizona Corporation Commission for the consolidated district do not violate a state constitutional provision that precludes discrimination against tariffs paid by customers and locations in similar circumstances.
The case concerned counties in the Maricopa and Mohave counties, which EPCOR Water Arizona Inc. amalgamated into one county.
The Sun City Home Owners Association and a state consumer protection agency intervened in the regulatory case, opposed full consolidation and pushed for separate tariffs to be maintained for the service areas.
The Sun City Group appealed the Commission’s decision to the state appeals court. It ruled for the commission, saying the commission had properly examined the case and the tariffs approved were non-discriminatory.
The Supreme Court agreed with the lower court’s finding, but overturned that the Commission’s actions should be considered constitutional.
2 shot dead in a quarrel between neighbors in a suburban street
MESA – Police say a neighbors dispute broke out in violence in a suburban Phoenix community, in which two people were shot dead on a sidewalk.
Mesa police said Friday that 41-year-old Justin Keith Peterson was arrested just before midnight on Thursday in connection with the murder of 39-year-old Ivana D. Liversedge during the dispute.
Police are still investigating the killing of a second person, 54-year-old Shawn M. Conner. He was also shot dead on the sidewalk during the argument that night.
Liversedge and Conner were acquaintances who argued with Peterson and his wife prior to the shooting.
Police said Peterson’s wife is only considered a witness at the time.
An indictment document filed in the court case against Peterson states that investigators were told he was in a casual romantic relationship with one of the victims and a witness to the shooting.
The dispute resulted from an argument among them, the document says.
Ducey appoints House Chief Clerk, 3 others, as judges
PHOENIX – Arizona Governor Doug Ducey appointed three people to Maricopa District Supreme Court on Friday, including the Arizona House Clerk.
Jim Drake has been Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives since 2015 and was previously Deputy Secretary of State from 2009 to early 2015. From 1996 to 2009 he worked as a regular lawyer and in other staff positions for the House of Representatives.
The general manager oversees parliamentary sessions behind the scenes, gives parliamentary advice during the debates and takes care of other legal matters.
Drake holds a law degree from the California Western School of Law and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Arizona.
Ashley Villaverde Halvorson and Keith Miller were also appointed judges. The three new judges replace the outgoing judges Roger E. Brodman, Connie Coin Contes and Karen A. Mullins.
Halvorson is currently a partner at Jones Skelton & Hochuli and mainly defends insurance companies in complex litigation. She also handles personal injury and wrongful death cases and has served as a pro tem judge. She earned her law degree and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Arizona State University.
Miller currently serves as a freelance attorney with the Fennemore Craig law firm, practicing on business disputes and before state and local authorities. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Assistant Attorney General in Arizona in the Office’s Federalism Department and then served in the Environmental Enforcement Department as an advisor to the Department of Environmental Quality.
Miller earned a law degree from Columbia Law School and a bachelor’s degree in math and history from Hillsdale College.
Drake is an Independent, Halvorson is a Democrat, and Miller is a Republican.
Earlier this week, Ducey appointed Joseph Clark to the Navajo County Supreme Court.
Clark spent his career as a prosecutor with the Navajo County Prosecutor’s Office and founded the agency’s Veterans Court in 2014.
He graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a law degree. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Mary Washington University while serving in the US Marine Corps from 2000 to 2004.
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