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Dave Hendershott, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's right-hand man, may have improperly tried to influence county Superior Court staff in the case against Supervisor Don Stapley, a letter sent to Hendershott today from the court's attorney states. The accusation comes ... More >>
Thomas IrvineWith so much county news going on, we had temporarily overlooked this fascinating tidbit: Dave Hendershott Thomas Irvine, the lawyer hired by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to help backhoe the rift between top county leaders, has been appointed as co-counse ... More >>
Thomas IrvineWith so much county news going on, we had temporarily overlooked this fascinating tidbit: Dave Hendershott Thomas Irvine, the lawyer hired by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to help backhoe the rift between top county leaders, has been appointed as co-counse ... More >>
Lawyer Dennis Wilenchik's spearheading Joe Arpaio's attempt to smear his chief political rival
Lawyer Dennis Wilenchik's spearheading Joe Arpaio's attempt to smear his chief political rival
Vocal leader of deputy's group is candidate for dismissal
FBI subpoenas Posse Foundation records of sale of pink boxers
FBI subpoenas Posse Foundation records of sale of pink boxers
Tom Bearup helped elect Joe Arpaio and mold the myth of "America's Toughest Sheriff." Now the former executive in the Sheriff's Office is convinced he was wrong.
We just heard from a reader whose friend -- a Maricopa County employee -- was visited in the last few days by deputies from the sheriff's office. The employee told them she didn't want to talk and they went away, our source says. The anonymous reader says the county's finance department workers rec ... More >>
Dave Hendershott The dam has broken on the SCA story: Under threat of a $315,000 fine from the Maricopa County Elections Department, Joel Fox and the SCA have filed two campaign finance reports that show high-ranking deputies under Sheriff Joe Arpaio as major contributors. The biggest buck ... More >>
Captain Joel Fox hasn't been honest with us. Here's what Fox posted to our blog in February about the $105,000 contribution to the Arizona Republican Party that came from the SCA: None of the money came from Arpaio,or Hendershott or Arpaio's campaign, or anyone associated with Arpaio's campaign, ... More >>
Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott asked for e-mails of Superior Court staff in a fresh public-records request this month and was promptly told to bug off.A similar records request went nowhere earlier this year, spurring a lawsuit from the Sheriff's Office that was shot ... More >>
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced today he'll take $2,613 out of his $97,000 yearly salary and donate it to "charities" while his employees are forced to take unpaid, two-week furloughs. In typical self-aggrandizing fashion for the sheriff, the beneficiaries of Arpaio's largess will ... More >>
The Arizona Republic published a lengthy piece on Sunday about MACE, the Maricopa Anti-Corruption Effort, run by Dave Hendershott, Chief Deputy of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. One question we didn't see raised or answered in the piece, though: How does Hendershott's involvement with the SCA ... More >>
Five blog posts over 10 days led up to Sarah Fenske's cover analysis this week on the SCA (Sheriff's Command Association) scandal. A 2007 cover story on the smear of Arpaio opponent Dan Saban was an omen of what was to come -- state Republican Party ads further sme ... More >>
Nobody likes to be shown up as a liar, especially a police officer who might be called to the witness stand someday and grilled on his credibility by a defense attorney. So it's no wonder Captain Joel Fox of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office has tried to defend himself from our bit of name-calli ... More >>
Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott The county feud took what is perhaps its ugliest turn yesterday as deputies with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office seized county computers with data a court already ruled the sheriff couldn't access. County Manager David Smith called Sheriff Joe Arpaio a "thug ... More >>
We finally got a chance to inspect the report from the raid on Mesa city buildings last year by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, months after we requested it. You remember this one -- the nighttime raid on the city government that employed Sheriff Joe Arpaio's law enfor ... More >>
Dave Hendershott (at right) in pool photograph shot from yesterday's hearingChief Deputy Dave Hendershott could end up behind bars next week. We're not kidding.If you followed our earlier play-by-play from the court hearing this afternoon about the Great Computer Takeover, (and we won't be offend ... More >>
Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott claimed last week that federal law prevented him turning over a password to a computer system used by law enforcement officials. Yesterday, without an act of Congress, Hendershott agreed to give the county computer administrators the password. The ag ... More >>
A planned $527,000 "donation" to Maricopa County's IT department by Tempe-based Insight Networking (a.k.a. Calence) looks suspicious to the sheriff's office. After a hearing last week over the sheriff's takeover of the ICJIS system, Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott told New Times and oth ... More >>
Since we're on speaking terms (for the time being) with Dave Hendershott, chief deputy of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and Joe Arpaio's right-hand man, we've got a few other things to relate to you. From interviews last night and today with him, we learned: *Hendershott is ticked o ... More >>
An investigation should be launched against four retired and current Maricopa Superior Court judges who committed ethical breaches, Sheriff Joe Arpaio's chief deputy demands in letters to the Arizona Judicial Conduct Commission. The complaint letters by Dave Hendershott (left), dated ... More >>
The squabble between Maricopa County officials took yet another turn today as deputies raided the offices of a local computer firm, looking for evidence of fraud and other crimes. For close followers of the circus acts that pass for county news these days, you'll need another branch for the flow cha ... More >>
The State Bar of Arizona has rejected five complaints against Maricopa County leaders submitted a few months ago by the Sheriff's Office. Dave Hendershott, chief deputy of the Sheriff's Office, wrote to the State Bar with complaints against County Manager David Smith, Wade Swanson (director of gener ... More >>
Arpaio's rotund Cardinal Richelieu: MCSO Chief Deputy David Hendershott Lawyers for the plaintiffs in the big Melendres vs. Arpaio racial profiling lawsuit fired another salvo at the MCSO on Wednesday. In the latest bid for sanctions against the MCSO, attorneys from the firm of Steptoe & J ... More >>
Documents about the sale of pink underwear will fit into an abandoned mine shaft. Dave Hendershott, on the other hand...We've just started thumbing through hundreds of pages of the report from a special investigation into the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office conducted by the Arizona Attorney Gene ... More >>
David Hendershott, above, and Larry Black were fired from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office today. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio fired two of his most trusted aides today, Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott and Deputy Chief Larry Black, both of whom have been accused of cr ... More >>
Dave Hendershott's five-bedroom, five-bath, 5,700-square-foot rental home includes a movie theater and other posh amenities. Yet last year, he couldn't pay the mortgage on his own home. Sheriff Arpaio's double-dipping, now-fired chief deputy, Dave Hendershott, lost his las ... More >>
Sheriff Joe Arpaio fired his chief deputy, Dave Hendershott, last week -- then let him "retire" before the May 5 effective date of termination.Sheriff Joe Arpaio fired his chief deputy last week, but Dave Hendershott is being allowed to resign before the scheduled date of terminatio ... More >>
Dave Hendershott says that an investigative report into allegations against him is "littered with hundred (sic) of flaws." Former Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott, in a gushing, now-public goodbye to his boss, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, claims that a long-awaited report on his misconduct ... More >>
Dave HendershottFrom what we've seen so far today, the investigative report on allegations against Dave Hendershott, Sheriff Joe Arpaio's former chief deputy, can be summed up with a cliche: Hendershott lied, cheated, and stole. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office ... More >>
We're down here at the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office headquarters, checking on the latest release of documents related to the Munnell Memo investigation. The docs we received last week, we found out today, weren't part of the 1,022-page summary report that's been sort of advertised ... More >>
Sheriff Joe Arpaio: "Read the report."Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said today that he "made mistakes" in dealing with his top aide, former Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott. In an intentionally brief news conference today, Arpaio read from a prepared statement and took questions f ... More >>
Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he knew nothing about the misconduct of his top aides -- and Pinal County Paul Babeu (above) believes him. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said today that he's convinced his Maricopa counterpart, Joe Arpaio, knew absolutely nothing about the misconduct of his top deput ... More >>
Sheriff Joe Arpaio tells to "read the report." We will -- but his office hasn't yet released a full, non-blacked-out version.The long-awaited report on the investigation into allegations against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's command staff didn't get released today, after all. ... More >>
Dave Hendershott Dave Hendershott, the former top aide for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, was apparently worried enough about being charged with crimes that he hired a legal firm for help. That wouldn't be a problem -- except he may have gotten the county to pay the bills. It lo ... More >>
"Ricky"Sheriff Arpaio's disgraced chief deputy, Dave Hendershott, once told us that a stuffed rattlesnake he kept in his office was named after former Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley. Maybe that's what he told visitors, but we figured the forked-tongue serpent was his pers ... More >>
Photo Illustration: Ray Stern Did Sheriff Arpaio play the king to Hendershott's mesmerizing Jaffar? More likely, as Deputy Chief Paul Chagolla told investigators, Arpaio knew what went on in his office.A top aide to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio doesn't believe his boss was "o ... More >>
Photo Illustration: Ray Stern Did Sheriff Arpaio play the king to Hendershott's mesmerizing Jaffar? More likely, as Deputy Chief Paul Chagolla told investigators, Arpaio knew what went on in his office.A top aide to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio doesn't believe his boss was "o ... More >>
Sandi Wilson, Maricopa County deputy county manager, is among three county employees attending mediation for their claims in lawsuits against Sheriff Arpaio and former County Attorney Andy Thomas.Three Maricopa County employees are heading to mediation talks on Monday with the possibility of sett ... More >>
Image: www.ij.orgTom Liddy, a Maricopa deputy county attorney and son of G. Gordon Liddy, tipped off County Supervisor Andy Kunasek to a plot to "destabilize" county government, Kunasek testified yesterday.Tom Liddy, a deputy prosecutor who also happens to be son of infamous Watergate villain G. ... More >>
Dave Hendershott, Sheriff Arpaio's disgraced former chief deputy, struggled to explain his grand conspiracy theories in the Andrew Thomas disciplinary proceedings today. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's former chief deputy, Dave Hendershott, wearing a bold red tie and suit jacket, testifi ... More >>
Maricopa County Detective John Halverson is testifying now in the disciplinary hearing of former County Attorney Andrew Thomas about the corruption he witnessed.If you want to hear Maricopa County Sheriff's Office detectives describe the "blatant" corruption they saw under the leadership of Joe A ... More >>
Mary Rose Wilcox and Don Stapley are among the six current and former county officials who amended their federal complaints recently against Sheriff Arpaio and Maricopa County. Current and former Maricopa County officials have filed new, streamlined complaints against the county and Sheriff J ... More >>
Paul Chagolla allegedly threatened to arrest an Arizona Republic reporter and have her baby put in CPS custody for no valid reason -- but Sheriff Arpaio doesn't want to investigate. Usually, Arpaio loves a good probe. The list of questionable investigations the five-term sheriff has launched ... More >>
Image: Channel 12 News screen shotLoretta Barkell, seen here in a May interview with Channel 12 News, was convinced her superiors had bugged her office, newly released records show. Newly released records show a top Arpaio official was convinced her superiors had bugged her office.County obse ... More >>
Image: Court video Dave Hendershott, seen hear testifying in the disciplinary hearing for former County Attorney Andrew Thomas, was very evasive when interviewed by investigators about the SCA scandal.The evidence shows that Sheriff Joe Arpaio's top men ran an illegal campaign-financ ... More >>
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