Dave Hendershott

Andy Kunasek, Maricopa County Supervisor, to be Paid $123,000 by County Because of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Andrew Thomas

Another day, another six-digit award by Maricopa County to a victim of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas. This time it's the chairman of the Board of Supervisors, Andy Kunasek, who was framed for a crime he didn't commit as part of an apparent plan to usurp power ... More >>

Joel Fox, Arpaio's 2008 Election Patsy, Loses Lawsuit Against Cox Communications Over Release of Mushy "Zorro" Emails

Joel Fox, a former captain under Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, has lost his lawsuit against Cox Communications over the release of embarrassing emails related to a defunct criminal investigation. Fox lost his job in late 2011 as part of the fallout of what we call the "SCA Scandal" -- a schem ... More >>

Deputy Tim Abrahamson, Accused Attacker of Man Who Cuckolded Him, was Key Figure in Sheriff Arpaio's Disgraced Anti-Corruption Team

Detective Tim Abrahamson, who played a lead role in some of the discredited MACE investigations that led to the disbarment of former County Attorney Andrew Thomas, drove to North Dakota in September and attacked his wife's ex-lover, police say. Abrahamson created a ruse to get close to the man, the ... More >>

Which MCSO Employee Gave the Most Likely Explanation of "Crime Suppression" Sweeps?

See also: MCSO Sergeant Says Main Goal Is to Catch Illegal ImmigrantsSee also: Deputy Chief Brian Sands' Testimony Contradicted by His Statements in 2010 See also: Joe Arpaio's Deputy: Sheriff Is Misinformed About Illegal Immigration Patrols See also: Joe Arpaio Struggles in Racial-Profiling Trial S ... More >>

MaryEllen Sheppard, Longtime Sheriff's Office Employee, Gets Billboard Farewell by Lisa Allen, Arpaio's Spokeswoman

MaryEllen Sheppard's apparently one of the more likeable chiefs at the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. Last year's departure of two of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's top administrators, Dave Hendershott and Larry Black, was a shameful episode for Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who claimed he was "duped" by their corr ... More >>

Joe Arpaio and Crew Remain Unscathed As Feds Go After Nickel-Dime Pilfering Pol Arredondo

May be apples and oranges on some level, but yesterday's bust of State Representative Ben Arredondo after a fairly elaborate FBI sting, got us to thinking about Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his onetime henchman (i.e. chief deputy) Dave Hendershott.The federal indictment against the veteran Tempe pol claim ... More >>

Joel Fox, Former Captain in Sheriff Arpaio's Office, Blames Stress for Lies to State Criminal Investigators

Joel Fox, a former captain in the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, was "floored" when state criminal investigators showed up with a search warrant at his house on March 31, 2009. "I couldn't believe it," Fox said on the stand this morning, testifying in his attempt to get his job back. These were m ... More >>

Barbara Mundell, Retired Judge, and Susan Schuerman (Supervisor Don Stapley's Secretary) Each Get $500,000 in Settlements From County

Barbara Mundell, the now-retired Maricopa Superior Court Judge targeted in an unethical investigation by county lawmen, received $500,000 from the county to settle a lawsuit.Susan Schuerman, the executive assistant for Supervisor Don Stapley, also received a $500,000 settlement, county officials con ... More >>

Outstanding Maricopa County Warrants Finally Back to Pre-Arpaio Numbers; Deputy Chief Paul Chagolla Debates AZCentral Readers

An interesting story by JJ Hensley in the Arizona Republic yesterday mentions how the number of outstanding warrants in Maricopa County has dropped by 20 percent since 2008.For years, critics have been juxtaposing the number of warrants with Sheriff Joe Arpaio's priorities, questioning why his deput ... More >>

David Smith, Maricopa County Manager, to Retire in April; Served During Legal Fights With Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Maricopa County Manager David Smith announced today that he'll retire on April 27 after 17 years on the job. Smith, 65, was at the helm during countless storms, guiding the county through severe fiscal crises and years of emotional legal battles with Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former County Attorney And ... More >>

Victims Wonder Why Arpaio Let Sex-Abuse Cases Languish

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Apologizes to Sex-Crime Victims for Mishandled Cases; Deputies Resign After Internal Probe

​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio apologized today to the victims of El Mirage sex-crimes cases that went uninvestigated due to incompetent police work under his watch."Sometimes these kinds of things occur in big departments like (the Maricopa sheriff's office)," Arpaio said during a press conf ... More >>

Joel Fox Booted from Maricopa County Sheriff's Office; Arpaio Remains Mum

Shamed former MCSO Captain Joel Fox was given the heave-ho yesterday.​The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office confirms to New Times that shamed former Captain Joel Fox has been given the boot following a long-running internal investigation that already has resulted in the resignations of two ot ... More >>

Joe Arpaio During Andrew Thomas Hearing: Senile, Or Full of S**t?

I know nothing. Nothing!​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio testified -- under oath -- yesterday during the state Bar disciplinary hearing for disgraced former County Attorney Andrew Thomas.As our colleague Stephen Lemons points out in his story on the hearing, it was a performance "worthy of a Ma ... More >>

Maricopa Detectives Describe Corruption in Their Office and Under Leadership of Sheriff Arpaio and Former County Attorney Andrew Thomas -- Watch Now

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 >>

Andrew Thomas and Lisa Aubuchon's Defense in Disbarment Hearing Looks Weak in Opening Statements

Image: Ray SternAndrew Thomas wasn't at today's State Bar disciplinary hearing -- which was probably a good thing for his ego.​ Did a cabal of county supervisors, judges, lawyers and others work together to block legit police investigations into allegations of public corruption?Or did a poli ... More >>

Morning Poll: Is Dave Hendershott's Son Getting Special Treatment After Second DUI Stop in Two Weeks?

MCSOJeffrey Hendershott, son of ousted former MCSO Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott, stopped for DUI...again.​As you may have heard, the son of Dave Hendershott, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office's shamed former chief deputy, was stopped over the weekend for his second (alleged) DUI in two weeks.T ... More >>

The Feds Have Evidence That Joe Arpaio Broke the Law -- When Will The Indictments Come?

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Out of the Loop? Deputy Chief Paul Chagolla Finds That "Hard to Believe"

  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 >>

MCSO Commanders Dave Hendershott and Paul Chagolla Threatened Reporter for Doing Her Job, Says Report; Joe Arpaio's Response Unclear

Deputy Chief Paul Chagolla is alleged to have threatened a reporter with arrest, and put her baby in CPS custody, all because she did her job.​ Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio won't say whether one of his deputy chiefs, Paul Chagolla, deserves to be investigated for allegedly threatening ... More >>

Hendershott's Stuffed Rattlesnake -- as Good a Symbol for the Former Chief Deputy as Any -- to Educate Kids

  "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 >>

Steve Ellman's a Bad Influence on Sheriff Arpaio's Men, It Seems; Developer Tied to Multiple Allegations

  Image: ellmanco.com Valley developer Steve Ellman has shared some good times with Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the sheriff's top aides. Now he shares their scandals.​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio ought to tell his deputies not to play with Steve Ellman. The Valley developer and forme ... More >>

Morning Poll: Did Joe Arpaio Really Know Nothing About Misconduct by Top Deputies?

Seems reasonable -- if you're gullible enough to actually believe Joe Arpaio was in the dark about what his top deputies were up to right under his nose. ​Yesterday, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu announced that after his office's investigation into misconduct by top deputies in the Maricopa Coun ... More >>

Munnell Memo Report to be Released Today; Sheriffs Arpaio and Babeu Schedule News Conferences

  ​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 >>

Andy Kunasek Releases One Page From Transcript of Talk With Lisa Aubuchon Related to Alleged

  County Supervisor Andy Kunasek accuses deputy county attorney Lisa Aubuchon, (above), of offering to resolve a trumped-up investigation in return for a political favor. ​Andy Kunasek released one page of a transcript to New Times today that he believes shows the attemp ... More >>

Dan Saban Loses Appeal of Defamation Lawsuit Vs. Sheriff's Office

  Image: Dan Saban Dan Saban's defamation lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, like his SmartCar, had no get-up-and-go.​Dan Saban, who ran twice against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, has lost his appeal of a failed defamation lawsuit he filed three years ago against Arpaio and hi ... More >>

David Hendershott's Investigation Into County Sweep for Bugs Looked, in True Paranoid Fashion, at RepublicReporter's Actions

  Image: azcentral.com When Yvonne Wingett, who covers Maricopa County for the Arizona Republic, called county officials about a Sheriff's Office investigation, detectives reportedly assumed she was acting like some sort of gang lookout.The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office has imp ... More >>

Arpaio-Thomas Feud had Nothing to do With Sweep for Bugs, County Manager Says

County Manager David Smith says last year's sweep for bugs in county offices had nothing to do with its problems with Arpaio and Thomas.​Last year's sweep of Maricopa County offices for hidden bugs had nothing to do with the feud between county officials and the tag-team of Sheriff Joe Arpa ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Unveils New, Inmate Torture Device: "Pedal Vision"

Cronkite News Watch Fitness buff Joe Arpaio playing with his new toy​ Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio unveiled his latest dehumanizing crime deterrent yesterday -- a device the sheriff is calling "pedal vision."Pedal vision is a something the Sheriff's Office rigged up that requires inm ... More >>

Lisa "Let's Charge the Max `Til We Get the Facts" Aubuchon May Find New Life With Sheriff Joe

We reported yesterday about the inappropriate, unforgivable, thoughtless -- and utterly delicious -- heckling by two county workers of Lisa Aubuchon, a special assistant to departing County Attorney Andy Thomas. ​ The pair wondered aloud about Aubuchon's job prospects at the County Attorney ... More >>

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Worried Channel 15 Will "Come After" Him

Image: www.mcso.orgThe sheriff's office depicts a reporter's brain in its "The Truth" Web site feature..​ The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is concerned that an ABC-15 (KNXV-TV) new director's e-mail means the station might not be "fair and impartial" in his coverage of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, January 14, 2010

Arpaio Brings His MCSO Circus to ASU's Cronkite School, and Deputies Admit Destroying Public Records

Sheriff's Posse Vehicles May Retain Official Insignia; County Rescinds Order After Hail of E-Mails

Image: www.jeepposse.orgOfficial or private vehicle? In some cases, it may be difficult to tell.​ You don't mess with the posse.Maricopa County leaders learned that Wild-West lesson this week when they were forced to rescind a demand to the sheriff's office that posse vehicles could no longer ... More >>

Hendershott on Computer Seizure: "We Felt Intrusion ... Was Imminent;" Wilcox Calls Raid a "Power Grab"

Image: Pool picture taken by Repub photographer​ The chief deputy for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office told a judge yesterday he believed intrusion into a law enforcement computer system "was imminent," the Arizona Republic reported this morning. Apparently, that's the reason the chief de ... More >>

Sheriff's Office Overtime Report Suggests Possibility of Nepotism, Favoritism; Hendershott's Son Got Lots of OT Pay

  ​A report by Maricopa County budgeters critical of the use of overtime at the Sheriff's Office says nepotism and favoritism appears to play a role in who gets extra cash for extra work. News of the report made a splash on the front page of Sunday's Arizona Republic and s ... More >>

Captain Joel Fox Expected to Deliver SCA Donation Checks Today to County Elections

​ Captain Joel Fox had to 'fess up and spill the names of the cagey SCA donors behind a Republican Party smear campaign, but he still hasn't turned over the contribution checks. Today's the big day, according to Jeffrey Messing, the lawyer hired by the Maricopa County Elections ... More >>

Captain Joel Fox Defends Reputation On Our Blog, But Leaves Much Unexplained

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 >>

Arpaio to Donate $2,600 to "Charities" as Sheriff's Office Employees Forced on Furloughs

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 >>

SCA Scandal: Captain Joel Fox Lied About Hendershott's Involvement; SCA Fails to Answer Key Questions

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 >>

SCA Scandal Round Up

In case you missed any of the action on the SCA scandal as reported through several blog posts today here is a review: Dan Saban: SCA Donors had "Vested Interest" in Election Outcome; Hendershott Nixed Payroll Deductions for Union DuesJoe Arpaio's Office Denies Involvement in SCA Despite Donations ... More >>

Sheriff's Office Denies Involvement in SCA Despite Donations From Office's Top Brass

We sent Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio a question on Twitter about the newly uncovered SCA donors that include his top brass. No response yet. We left messages for Arpaio and his chief deputy, Dave Hendershott -- one of the SCA's top donors -- but they didn't return calls. Instead, Arp ... More >>

Dan Saban: SCA Donors had "Vested Interest" in Election Outcome; Hendershott Nixed Payroll Deductions for Union Dues

The revelation today that top deputies at the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office were behind the shadowy SCA shows Sheriff Arpaio and his minions "aren't willing to come out and have a fair fight," says Arpaio's longtime political opponent, Dan Saban. Saban (pictured) ran against Arpaio in ... More >>

Captain Joel Fox Explains His Side of Donation Flap in Comments to Valley Fever Posts

For months, Captain Joel Fox of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office stayed quiet about his role in a questionable $105,000 donation to the Republican Party. Now you can't shut the guy up. Not that we'd want to: Everyone loves a good mystery, and Fox still won't tell the names of ... More >>

Arpaio Says, "No One Would Be Foolish Enough to Destroy Public Records" But At Least One of His Employees Does Just That

We finally quit laughing over a January 29 news release from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and are now able to write about it. The release involves a request for public records Sheriff Arpaio's minions made in late 2007 to the county's Superior Court -- a blatant fishing e ... More >>

Arpaio to Display "Day-in-the-Life" Photos in Scottsdale Exhibit and Charity Auction

Moving Target

Vocal leader of deputy's group is candidate for dismissal

Affidavit Versus Goliath

A former lieutenant accuses top sheriff's officials of misconduct in firing of "dime dropper" deputy

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