Jerry Sheridan

Joe Arpaio's Biggest Danger: Mail Bombs, or Sidewalks?

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's name was on a package with what may have been an explosive device inside, triggering a five-alarm press conference headed up by the elderly Sheriff."I'm a victim," Arpaio said, apparently trying to convince everyone that he's not crying wolf about a death threat this time.See al ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Takes Full Advantage of Scary Box in Mail: "I'm a Victim"

Authorities in Flagstaff discovered a package with a rudimentary explosive device addressed to Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and the Sheriff pulled out all the stops for this one.Trump up reality? Check. Play the victim? Check. Blame Mexican drug cartels, try to associate the incident with unrelated murders f ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Recall Scores 120K Valid Signatures: 85 Days Left, a Little Over 215K More to Go

With Sheriff Joe Arpaio still out of commission from his "broken arm," and with Respect Arizona's announcement today that they have 120,000 valid signatures demanding his recall, Arpaio's best career move at this point would be to resign from office for health reasons. See also: -Why Sheriff Joe Ac ... More >>

Exclusive: MCSO Sex Crimes Internal Investigation Reports Online

Portions of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office's 10,000-page sex-crimes internal investigation are now available online following a New Times records request. When the massive report was released to the news media and public on February 8, the agency at first refused New Times' request to put it ... More >>

Arpaio, Learning Nothing From Hendershott Scandal, Delegates His Duties to Chief Deputy

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio admitted in 2011 he was "duped" by his top aides. He admitted in an embarrassing news conference the same year that he'd "made mistakes" in dealing with his former chief deputy, Dave Hendershott, whom he fired after evidence of corruption and mismanagement in his ... More >>

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Sex-Crime Scandal After Five Years: No One Disciplined, Report Still Unfinished

More than five years after the Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio learned his agency had mishandled hundreds of sex-crime investigations, no one has been disciplined and a key report on the matter has yet to be released to the public. The investigation into what happened is fraught with negative im ... More >>

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 >>

Analysis: Sheriff Arpaio Lied in 2009 About SCA Scandal and Still Won't Tell the Truth

In July of 2009, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio issued a bald-faced lie to the media when he claimed the SCA scandal "has absolutely nothing to do with the Sheriff's Office." He knew it did. But even worse, Arpaio still hasn't explained why he didn't take action against his top aides in late 2 ... More >>

Victims Wonder Why Arpaio Let Sex-Abuse Cases Languish

Sheriff Arpaio Ratted Out Commanders Who Complained About Former Chief Deputy David Hendershott

​Nobody likes a snitch, right?Unless the fink's name is Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose supporters seem to tolerate all sorts of bad behavior.Arpaio's own employees have had to put up with his tattling on them for years.And we're talking significant betrayals by the sheriff, not minor of ... More >>

Joe Arpaio on Blast by Citizens for a Better Arizona in New Video

CBA demands accountability of Arpaio in the latest video by Dennis Gilman A point some local journos missed concerning the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors' recent hearing on Sheriff Joe Arpaio's various misdeeds was that the special meeting, which addressed Arpaio's racial profiling and his bun ... More >>

Businessman Brian Weymouth Gets on the Wrong Side of His Celebrity Partners

Randy Parraz and Supporters Disrupt County Meeting About Sheriff Arpaio With Walkout; Watch Video

Image: Ray SternRandy Parraz meets with supporters outside the meeting hall of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors before leading a disruptive walkout.​ Activist Randy Parraz led a disruptive walkout on Tuesday at the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors meeting in protest of board policy ... More >>

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 >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, June 9, 2011

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

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 >>

Arpaio Admits He Made Mistakes in Dealing With Now-Fired Top Deputy; Munnell Memo Report Released Without Conclusions

  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 >>

Under Mark Spencer's Leadership, the Phoenix Police Union Has Become an Anti-Immigrant Juggernaut, to the Detriment of Its Members

David Hendershott Used Position for Financial Gain, Lied to Sheriff Arpaio and Mismanaged Anti-Corruption Unit, Report Concludes

  Dave Hendershott​From 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 >>

Will the $100 Million Hole Joe Arpaio Dug Kill Him in the 2012 Election?

Two of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Top Deputies Have "Love Connection" to SCA Scandal

Two of Joe Arpaio's Detention Officers Face Assault Charges for Roughing Up Inmates. We Saw the Video -- it's Nuts!

​Two of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's detention officers face aggravated assault charges after allegedly roughing up two inmates in the psych ward at the Lower Buckeye Jail.Arpaio actually allowed us (New Times!) to join in watching the video of the alleged assaults this afte ... More >>

Joe Arpaio, Bill Montgomery and Montgomery's First Day as County Attorney

Bill Montgomery (right) being sworn in by Superior Court Judge Norm DavisAs Bill Montgomery was sworn in yesterday as Maricopa County Attorney, Sheriff Joe Arpaio sat glowering, Nixon-like, from the front row of the Board of Supervisors auditorium.After the ceremony, I asked Arpaio of he was checkin ... More >>

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

Joe Arpaio's Boy Adam Stoddard: Is He in the Lower Buckeye Jail?

HeatCity.orgContempt of Court: D.O. Stoddard, in the mugshot published by Heat CityThere's beaucoup speculation out there about the location of MCSO detention officer Adam Stoddard, the poor, poor deputy (sniff) who's been jailed for contempt of court by Judge Gary Donahoe following Stoddard's refus ... More >>

CBS 5 Follows Up on Joe Arpaio Report Wednesday, Channel 12's Joe Special a Disappointment

I just spoke with CBS 5/KPHO news producer Gilbert Zermeno, part of the award-winning team that put together the recent, blistering report on Sheriff Joe Arpaio's abuse of power that ran at the end of October. That's the one that featured reporter Morgan Loew's interview with former U.S. Attorn ... More >>