Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

Dennis Burke's Leaking of Fast & Furious Memo in 2011 "Wholly Unbefitting a US Attorney," Says U.S. Inspector General's Office

The day after a high-ranking Justice Department official blasted former Arizona U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke for lying about one memo leaked to a reporter, Burke committed an even worse leak. That's just one damning finding in a U.S. Inspector General report about the actions of Burke in the Fast & F ... More >>

'Til Death Do Us Part: Arizona's Dangerous Love Affair with Guns

John Leonardo, Arizona U.S. Attorney, Supports Obama's Gun-Control Plan

John Leonardo, Arizona U.S. Attorney, released a letter to the public today that expresses support for banning certain kinds of guns and requiring background checks for all sales of firearms. Leonardo begins his letter by explaining that the "political climate for a constructive discussion about gu ... More >>

NRA's Wayne LaPierre and Neo-Nazi Agree on Sandy Hook Solution: More Guns

It's dang encouraging to learn that the National Rifle Association's top propagandist Wayne LaPierre is practically on the same page as Maricopa, Arizona neo-Nazi Harry Hughes regarding what the nation should do in response to the massacre of the innocents in Newtown, Connecticut. More guns! As I ... More >>

"Fast and Furious" Weapons Linked to Many More Deaths, According to Univision

As has been the case with much of the timeline in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives "Fast and Furious" operation, the details just seem to get worse.This time, Univision claims it has linked 57 guns from Mexican crime scenes to the "Fast and Furious" operation -- 57 weapons tha ... More >>

ATF Officials Formerly in Phoenix Reportedly Blamed (Yet Again) in "Gunwalking" Scandal

See also: Top ATF Officials in Phoenix Replaced in Wake of "Gunwalking" Scandal See also: "Fast and Furious" Guns Tracked to More Violent Crimes in ArizonaA trio of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives managers formerly in the Phoenix office are reportedly being singled out for blame ... More >>

ATF, Glendale Police Trying to Figure Out Who Bombed a House -- for the Third Time

The Glendale Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are currently trying to figure out who bombed a Glendale home for the third friggin' time.The bomb -- which the ATF is calling an improvised explosive device -- exploded in the driveway of the house yesterday ... More >>

Hells Angels' Charges Dismissed in 2010 Shootout With Vagos Bikers

Charges were dismissed against seven members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club who were accused of being involved in a 2010 shootout with Vagos, a rival gang.The two clubs shot it off in Chino Valley, north of Prescott, in August 2010, as at least 50 shots were fired, although no one was seriously ... More >>

ATF Offering $10,000 to Anyone Who Gives Up the Guy Turning Flashlights Into IEDs

If you know the guy who decided to turn flashlights into IEDs that blow up when people try to turn them on, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is offering $10,000 for you to give him up.Three of these devices have been found in the last three weeks, and have caused plenty of fla ... More >>

Mixing It Up with AZ Bitters Lab

Bill and Lillian Buitenhuys aren't bitter people. They're bitters people, ardent food lovers whose interests have broadened from food-and-wine pairings to food-and-cocktail pairings to the distinctive components, such as bitters, that go into both classic and craft cocktails. Although the Buitenhu ... More >>

Peoria Kid Plants a Flashlight Near School, Tells Fellow Seventh-Graders It's Probably a Bomb

A Peoria seventh-grader earned a trip to a juvie facility yesterday for telling his classmates the flashlight he planted near the school was probably a bomb, police say.Flashlights, as you may recall, are a hot topic on the west side these days, as someone turned a couple of them into improvised exp ... More >>

J.T. Ready Gilbert Massacre: Six Grenades Were Found at the Scene

At the Gilbert home where five people died yesterday in an apparent murder/suicide -- allegedly perpetrated by neo-Nazi J.T. Ready -- there was a reason the bomb squad showed up: six grenades.Gilbert police said this morning that "hazardous chemicals and military grade munitions" were found by inves ... More >>

Larry Dever Is a Real Arizona Sheriff

ATF Says 68,000 Guns Recovered in Mexico Were From U.S.; Official Admits Number Could be Only Fraction of Mexico's Seized Guns

A new report from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says that 68,000 guns seized by Mexico in recent years came from the United States.But an ATF official in Washington D.C. admits the agency has no idea how many guns Mexico seizes overall, or whether the 68,000 figure rep ... More >>

Hells Angels Crony Robert Tutokey Gets Prison Time For Helping Alleged Murderous Biker/Former Stock Broker Flee Country

​A Hells Angels hanger-on who helped alleged murderous biker Paul Eischeid flee the country in 2004 has been sentenced to prison time for supplying Eischeid with a false passport before he skipped town.Eischeid -- a former Charles Schwab stockbroker with a "relatively clean criminal record" -- is ... More >>

Dennis Burke, Former Arizona U.S. Attorney, Accused of Retaliating Against ATF Agent Who Blew Whistle on Fast and Furious Scandal

Dennis Burke, former Arizona U.S. Attorney, leaked a memo to a reporter in an apparent attempt to discredit a Fast and Furious whistleblower.​ In July, news broke that someone in the U.S. Justice Department had leaked a memo in an attempt to retaliate against a whistleblower in the Fast ... More >>

House Republicans Call For Special Counsel to Determine Whether AG Eric Holder Lied During "Fast and Furious" Testimony

​United States House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith wrote a letter to President Barack Obama today asking that he appoint a special counsel to investigate whether Attorney General Eric Holder lied when he testified before Congress about "Operation Fast and Furious," the Bureau of Alcohol ... More >>

105mm Howitzer Seized by Feds From Globe Company, "Damage, LLC," in Forfeiture Proceeding; Former Gila County Deputy a Partner

Image: Video still from Damage, LLC. Big bang: The feds are trying to seize a 105mm Howitzer from Damage, LLC, a Globe company that apparently specializes in fixing up and firing old artillery pieces.​The federal government is moving ahead with a forfeiture proceeding for a 105 mm How ... More >>

ATF Agents Intercept 50-Caliber Cannon Headed to Mexican Drug Cartel

James KingThis gun could take down a helicopter.​Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms intercepted a 50-caliber cannon they say was headed to a drug cartel in Mexico.ATF Supervisory Special Agent Peter Forcelli tells New Times agents got information from the Mexican government tha ... More >>

Iowa Senator Says Justice Department Policy May Have Led to Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry's Shooting Death

Brian Terry was shot and killed in southeastern Arizona on December 14. ​Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley accuses the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives of instructing Arizona gun dealers to sell firearms that eventually landed in the hands of Mexican drug cartels -- a stra ... More >>

Mesa Man Helped Murderous Hells Angel Flee Country, Authorities Say

Paul Merle Eischeid​When Hells Angel Paul Merle Eischeid fled the country following the 2001 kidnapping and murder of Cynthia Garcia, he didn't do it alone, authorities say -- he had help from a Mesa man.Tuesday morning, U.S. Marshals arrested 43-year-old Robert Tutokey at his home near Powe ... More >>

Hells Angel Accused of 2001 Murder Arrested in Argentina After Nearly Four Years on U.S. Marshals' Most Wanted List

KPHOPaul Eischeid and his Angel ink.​A member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, who authorities believe is responsible for "one of the most grisly" murders in recent American criminal history, has been captured in Argentina, the U.S. Marshals Service announced today. Paul Merle Eischeid, one o ... More >>

Phoenix Police: There Is No Criminal Investigation of PD Over Kidnapping Stats, Feds Conducting Standard Audit

​Kidnapping statistics tallied by the Phoenix Police Department are getting called into question --again. Two Valley news stations have reported that the Phoenix Police Department, including Public Safety Manager (read: Police Chief) Jack Harris and Mayor Phil Gordon, are under inves ... More >>

The ATF Agent Who Put the Mahon Brothers in the Hoosegow; Plus, Why the MCSO Has Something Else to Worry About

Former Hells Angel Accused of Murder Got Boot From Club for Being Government Informant and Drug Use, Group's Former Lawyer Claims

William Gary Potter​The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club sent us and email over the weekend saying that "if [we] have the balls" we should give them a call to discuss -- among other things -- a former member arrested for murder last week. We were feelin' a little ballsy, so we did, and it seems the gr ... More >>

Has Phoenix PD's Expert Career Criminal Squad Fallen Prey to Office Politics?

Cigar Warehouse Owner Dimitri Rozenman Convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Murder: Score Another Win for the Career Criminal Squad

Dimitri Rozenman's facing life behind bars thanks to the CCSThe soon-to-be-disbanded Career Criminal Squad of the Phoenix Police Department has scored another W: The conviction of local cigar czar Dimitri Rozenman for contracting to have the mother of his two children and members of her family murde ... More >>

Courtney Bisbee Is Assaulted in Prison, and a Band of Skinhead-Collaring Cops Gets Busted Up

Arizona Grenade Bust May Be Linked to Similar Bust in Mississippi

www.politicsforum.com​On Tuesday, the Department of Public Safety Announced it had arrested three people after finding 23 grenade casings and one live grenade in their possession. The weapons are suspected to have been headed to Mexico to fuel the drug wars going on between rival cartels. C ... More >>

A Skinhead-Collaring Cop, Nazis at the State Capitol, and a Lesbian Nativist Reveals Homicidal Fantasies Toward Mexicans

Obama Squeezes Out First Female Native American U.S. Attorney; Diane Humetewa Submits Resignation

​ Arizona's U.S. Attorney, Diane Humetewa, the nation's first-ever Native American woman to become a U.S. Attorney in any state, will resign on August 2. Sandy Raynor, spokeswoman for the office, says Humetewa plans on spending some time with her family before figuring out her next career mo ... More >>

ATF Agent Jay Dobyns, Infiltrator of Hells Angels, Says Feds "Abandoned" Him in Tucson House Fire Investigation

  Image: www.youtube.comAn undercover agent who infiltrated the Arizona Hells Angels basically called his federal superiors cowards this morning on NPR for not doing more to find out who burned down his Phoenix home last year. Jay Dobyns, a University of Arizona grad who has been promoti ... More >>

Blow My Mine

Could Arizona's 80,000 working and abandoned mines be the root of all evil?

Hollow Points

State requirements for a concealed weapons permit are hit or miss

Haunted by Spirits

John McCain derived his wealth from his marriage to Cindy Hensley McCain, whose father started his road to riches as a bootlegger. As a politician, the senator has remained beholden to the liquor industry and the family business

Net Loss

Twenty years ago-- as gangs began their rise in the valley-shortsighted civic leaders slashed youth programs. Today's troubled kids are still paying the price.

Trunk Stop

Trunk Federation's second album finds each member getting in touch with his disturbed inner child

Viper Snitch Hits a Glitch

He was the mystery informant in the Viper militia case. Now he's resurfaced after a year on the run. And he wants what's coming to him.

Flashes

What's the Mig Deal?

A Valley company finds a thriving market for used Soviet-bloc fighter jets

Letters

Sticking By His Guns

ccused conspirator Charles Knight talks about his days in the Viper Militia, why he's fighting the government's case against him, and how he fell in love with fellow defendant Donna Williams

Letters

Fangs a Lot

Channel 10 repeatedly misidentifies small business as Viper Militia location

BLOOD SPORT

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LET'S DO LAUNCH

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JOE ARPAIO'S TENT CITY

A FIXER TAKES OVER UNDER HOWARD ADAMS, ARIZONA'S LIQUOR DEPARTMENT HAS BECOME USER-FRIENDLY

BUSTING THE BIKERS

YOU'RE A TATTOOED GIANT ON A HARLEY. YOU'RE A MEMBER OF THE DIRTY DOZEN. YOU'RE TOAST.

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