On Oct. 18, Jim Larkin and his wife, Molly, were in bed in their home outside Phoenix when a group of men in unmarked cars pulled up and began knocking on the door and shining flashlights in the house, saying, “You know what we want.”

Recalling the night on the phone last week, Mr. Larkin said, “I had no idea what they wanted.” Mrs. Larkin immediately called 911 and said, “Oh my God, help us, please,” begging the police to find out who was threatening them at their door. In fact, the cops were already on the case.

The Maricopa County Selective Enforcement Unit had arrived to arrest Mr. Larkin for the crime of disclosing the inner workings of a grand jury. Michael Lacey, the executive editor of Village Voice Media, was arrested in similar fashion at his home near Phoenix.

Mr. Larkin and Mr. Lacey are the two principal owners of Village Voice Media, publisher of The Phoenix New Times. Earlier that day, under Mr. Lacey’s and Mr. Larkin’s bylines, the paper published an article about a subpoena it had received demanding, among other things, the Internet addresses and domain names of members of the public who had visited the newspaper’s Web site.

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