Subject: Lisa Allen

• Toughest Sheriff in the Nation Wimps Out

  November 20, 2006

• Sheriff Joe Arpaio's "groomer" Lisa Allen screws the pooch (um, metaphorically) on Animal Planet's "Groomer Has It."

  April 14, 2008

• Agence France-Presse effs up a très simple stick of type on mean ol' Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

  June 18, 2008

• Sheriff Joe Arpaio's BIGGEST fan: XXXL masseuse Brandy Baron.

  July 10, 2008

• Mutiny At The County

  Sheriff Arpaio's deputies say his vaunted posse does little more than waste money and slake their boss's thirst for publicity

  April 25, 1996

• Letters

  October 3, 1996

• Flashes

  September 17, 1998

• Flashes

  March 25, 1999

• Letters

  09-07-2000

  September 7, 2000

• Flashes

  From the week of March 8, 2001

  March 8, 2001

• Arpaio Struts into the Civic Center and Vows It's Not His Last Campaign

  November 4, 2008

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

  November 12, 2008

• Paul Chagolla, Sheriff Arpaio's Acerbic Spokesman, Transferred Out of Media Work

  Well, we won't have Paul Chagolla to kick around any more. The sometimes pleasant, often rude spokesman of six years for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been transferred to oversee the sheriff office's training division. We knew something was up when we found out Chagolla had been promoted to deputy chief and hadn't been quoted by any news outlet since the November election. Chagolla "did the best job he could do under the most difficult circumstances," says the sheriff's office's m

  December 17, 2008

• Sheriff Arpaio Touts Former Spokesman's Success as Agency's "First Hispanic" Deputy Chief

  Paul Chagolla, the former spokesman for Sheriff Joe Arpaio who many in the media found tough to deal with, has made history.It turns out he's the first Hispanic in the long history of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office to have ever achieved the rank of Deputy Chief.Isn't that something? Our county follows the Anchorage, Alaska police department by seven years.You'd think at least one other news outlet or blogger in town would have reported Chagolla's recent ground-breaking promotion, especia

  December 29, 2008

• Conley Wolfwinkel's Office Raided by Sheriff's Office as Part of Don Stapley Case

  The Tempe offices of companies linked to Conley Wolfswinkel, a developer with a history of questionable land deals, were searched today by deputies as part of the criminal case against County Supervisor Don Stapley. The East Valley Tribune has a story about the raid, which apparently happened this morning. Details in theTrib article are scant in this breaking story, but Lisa Allen, spokeswoman for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, apparently confirmed the search was connected to the St

  January 22, 2009

• Joe Arpaio Caves, Backs Off Dumbass Plan to Transport Inmates Via Light Rail

  Sheriff Joe: He puts the CON into "Con Rail."Has Sheriff Joe's well-oiled media machine finally blown up in his aged face? Will Lisa Allen have to revert to grooming dogs full instead of part time, and leave Arpaio's upkeep to another PR handler? Below is the latest press release from the MCSO, backing off the Sheriff's ludicrous "Con Rail" plan. Although our corrupt top cop is not averse to negative publicity, usually there's a little positive pub mixed into the batch. Not on this one. Joe's be

  January 29, 2009

• Kid Thinks He's Banging Cheerleader -- Really, It's His 49-Year-Old Schoolteacher

   Dreams of sex with a young cheerleader became a nightmare for a 14-year-old boy when the lights went on and he realized he had just boffed his 49-year-old teacher. It sounds like it could have been in The Onion newspaper, but the scene really did occur on Saturday at a Best Western Hotel in Phoenix, authorities say, resulting in the arrest of an Ed Pastor Elementary School teacher, Rosanna Brown. According to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, Brown and the boy had e

  February 3, 2009

• Sheriff Arpaio's Office Wants E-mails and Other Public Records From 36 County Officials -- UPDATED

  Yvonne Wingett, who writes the Political Insider column for the Arizona Republic, reports this afternoon that the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is requesting e-mails and other public records from all five county supervisors and 31 county employees under the state's public records law. Fulton Brock, one of five county supervisorsThe meaning of the records request isn't clear, but the tactic has been used several times by Sheriff Joe Arpaio's over the past year or so&nb

  February 4, 2009

• Shocking News: Sheriff Joe Arpaio Sued Over Two More Inmate Deaths

    You can file this one under "Dog Bites Man." Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio faces two more lawsuits over inmates who died in his care. Both suits were filed last month by Phoenix attorney Joel Robbins. And at least one of them, we suspect, is going to be expensive for Maricopa County taxpayers, who've already shelled out a staggering $43 million to cover lawsuit settlements and expenses to families of jail abuse victims during Arpaio's tenure. The suit in question was filed by t

  February 10, 2009

• Joe Arpaio, MCSO Can't Back Up Bogus Claim that Fox Reality Show Collared 400 Fugitives

  from the Fox Reality Channel's Smile...You're Under Arrest!The MCSO wants us to foot the bill for these deputy dawgs without knowing how much they cost us.I know it's been, like, two whole months, but do ya recall that lousy three-episode pilot Sheriff Self-Shill shot for the lame-o Fox Reality Channel, Smile...You're Under Arrest? Remember Joe plugging it on Conan O'Brien, and elsewhere, claiming that the reality series nabbed almost 400 warrant scofflaws? Well, this piece of unadulterated tras

  February 18, 2009

• Sheriff Joe, Elias Bermudez and the Case of the Very Offensive Voice Mail

    Guilio Sciorio Elias Bermudez, host of "The Voice of the Immigrant" on AM 1540"You go to hell," the caller snarls. "You talk about illegal immigration -- You go to hell and -- take your Spics with ya."  The message is just a few seconds long, and in these polarized times, sadly, not that unique in its use of a racial slur to describe Latino residents. There's just one thing, in fact, that makes this particular voice mail fascinating. And that's this: The

  February 23, 2009

• DMX Assaults Prison Guard Over Bad Food, Jail Staff Says; Probation Status Now in Doubt

  Rapper DMX, who's serving 90 days in jail for animal abuse and theft, faces an assault charge following a tiff with a jail guard -- a legal problem that could send him to prison. DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was first put in Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Tent City jail after his January sentencing. Staff recently moved him to "lockdown" at the Towers jail in downtown Phoenix because he wouldn't stop swearing at guards, says Lisa Allen, spokeswoman for the sheriff's offi

  February 25, 2009

• Prensa Hispana Blows MCSO Deputy Chief Paul Chagolla in Print

  from Prensa HispanaJesus, Paul, where did you get that tie, Goodwill?What the hell has gotten into Prensa Hispana, the Spanish language freebie you always see in racks at Mexican restaurants and grocery stores? In today's March 25th edition, and teased on the cover, is a full-page puff piece on MCSO Deputy Chief Paul Chagolla, the much-despised former flack for Sheriff Joe Arpaio who was finally kicked upstairs with a promotion in December. (Check out a PDF of the article, here.)For real, Chagol

  March 25, 2009

• Guadalupe Redux: Will Joe Arpaio Return to the Scene of the Crime, or Punk Out? (w/Update)

  "Watch out, Arpaio's coming..."As I reported in last week's Bird column, Guadalupe's lickspittle Mayor Frankie Montiel has invited Sheriff Joe back to his square-mile town for Thursday's town council meeting, and perhaps a meal of Mexican seafood. Arpaio's return comes one year after the MCSO ran roughshod over that town in an anti-immigrant sweep, pulling over everyone brown (which is the whole burg), harassing law-abiding citizens, even menacing a Catholic confirmation for the town's ch

  March 25, 2009

• Joe Arpaio’s men fail to justify criminally charging New Times reporter Ray Stern in a public records dispute

  August 28, 2008

• Below the Belt

  Lawyer Dennis Wilenchik's spearheading Joe Arpaio's attempt to smear his chief political rival

  September 20, 2007

• Histrionics Lesson

  Again, a judge bends over and allows Sheriff Joe Arpaio to sneer at Arizona's public records law

  August 11, 2005

• Dangerous Curves

  ASU's How I Learned to Drive is a near miss

  September 25, 2003

• Joe Arpaio's Balloon Payments

  It hasn't been cheap keeping the Joe Show aloft. Now, his employees, his inmates and the citizens of Maricopa County are paying the price.

  April 5, 2001

• High-Speed Chaste

  Will county auditors be Arpaio's Waterloo?

  January 25, 2001

• Posse Galore

  Staking out Maricopa County's wildest political race -- to unseat Sheriff Joe Arpaio

  August 24, 2000

• Soft Cell

  Special handling for a federal prosecutor's drunken-driving case sparks controversy in sheriff's ranks

  August 3, 2000

• Flashes 02-24-2000

  February 24, 2000

• Flashes

  January 14, 1999

• America's Toughest Suspects

  Is Sheriff Joe's pink underwear in Bureau's drawer?

  December 3, 1998

• Premature Articulation

  Sheriff spokeswoman spoke too soon

  September 17, 1998

• Paying the Price

  The sheriff's not talking, but records reveal that taxpayers are spending big bucks to defend controversial jail operations

  August 27, 1998

• Flashes

  September 25, 1997

• Flashes

  July 31, 1997

• Say It Ain't Joe

  June 12, 1997

• Flashes

  January 16, 1997

• CARLE HODGE'S NEEDLESS DEATH

  October 20, 1993

• 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, Arpaio had his spokeswoman, Lisa Allen, read a statement to New Times: "This situation has absolutely nothing to do with the sheriff's office," Allen says.

  July 14, 2009

• MCSO Arrest Rate Is "Startlingly Low," Says Goldwater Institute

  Clint BolickThe Maricopa County Sheriff's Office arrested suspects in less than five percent of its cases in 2007, the Goldwater Institute says -- a shockingly low statistic that contradicts what the Sheriff's Office has long officially maintained.The statistics, which the Goldwater Institute obtained through a public records request, show that the Sheriff's Office cleared just 4.68 percent of its cases by arresting a suspect in 2007. In 2008, the arrest rate was 13.07 percent -- a bit hig

  July 16, 2009

• All the Sheriff's Men: The SCA Campaign-Finance Scandal is Linked to Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Chief Deputy David Hendershott

  July 23, 2009

• Source: "Crime Sweep" Underway in Chandler by Maricopa County Sheriff's Office

      The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is conducting some kind of operation in the east Valley today, though exactly what it is we're not sure. A source we trust called us this morning to say Sheriff Joe Arpaio's forces were engaged in another immigration/crime sweep in Chandler this morning. When we called Chandler police for confirmation, Sergeant Joe Favazzo tells us the Sheriff's Office advised his department it would be conducting "saturation patrols" in the east Vall

  July 23, 2009

• Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, August 6, 2009

  August 6, 2009

• ACLU and Julio and Julian Mora Sue Joe Arpaio, Arpaio Whines on Twitter

  Julio Mora with his father Julian at the Arizona ACLU offices today, announcing their lawsuit against Arpaio​As I anticipated in yesterday's blog post, the Arizona ACLU today had a press conference at their offices with father-son Julian and Julio Mora present, announcing a lawsuit on their behalf against Sheriff Joe and other members of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. The incident at issue occurred during the MCSO's February raid of county contractor Handyman Maintenance, Inc. Bo

  August 19, 2009

• Joe Arpaio Hates on New Times, Blows His Lid in Vid with New York Journos

  Joe goes ballistic on two journos from NYC He hates us, he really does hate us! Yes, the mere mention of New Times (or the East Valley Tribune) causes Grampa Joe to fly out of his chair and run looking for his top PR flack Lisa Allen during this vid. You can't imagine how satisfying it is to know that he cares. (Sniff.)  The video is part of footage shot by an independent team out of New York, from an interview that took place in June. At one point, Arpaio "stops" the interview to lo

  October 14, 2009

• Lou Dobbs' Account of Gunfire Incident "Chuckled" at by New Jersey Police Spokesman

  CNN screenshotBlue Lou: Many believe Dobbs' house got hit by a hunter's errant bulletAlterNet scribe Isabel Macdonald's scored again. You'll recall her as the Brooklyn-based journalist who along with cameraman Mark Read captured Arpaio losing it a few months back. This, during an interview with our corrupt top cop in his offices. I posted some of Macdonald's hilarious footage to my blog of Arpaio walking out of his office with his mic still on, crying for his top PR flack Lisa Allen, and referri

  October 31, 2009