Lisa Allen

Joe Arpaio's B-Day Wish? Your Money, Of Course

He's raped public coffers, cost taxpayers tens of millions to pay for the lawsuits resulting from his malfeasance, swiped $100 million from voter protected funds for his pet projects, and now he wants the county to fork over more millions to appeal a federal judge's finding that his office has engag ... More >>

Jodi Arias Trial: Five Things to Watch for Between Now and July 18

Jodi Arias coverage has been in the doldrums since the May 23 non-decision by the jury on the death penalty. Some news media outlets are digging up crumbs leftover from the trial. Nancy Grace and CNN resorted to interviewing Arias' fellow jail inmates; Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced l ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Blames Feds for MCSO's Racial Profiling, and Why He's Full of It

Can someone check Joe for vitals? The MCSO's beginning to resemble a re-make of Weekend at Bernie's. Sheriff Joe Arpaio recently crawled out from under his rock in Fountain Hills where he's been licking his wounds since his February slip and fall to do a YouTube video, in which he responds to U.S. ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Sycophant Don Shooter Wants to Give Joe $1.5M of Your Money (Update: Shooter Amendment FAILS in Senate)

Note: Please see update below. Think Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's been doin' a bang-up job lately, and not just on that broken arm of his? See also: -Don't Tread On Me, I'm DON SHOOTER!: Senator Allegedly Assaults Teacher I mean, we hardly see "America's toughest sheriff" these days after ... More >>

Joe Arpaio, "Media Whore," Won't Go on Television for at Least a Week Due to Injury

Oh boy -- you know things are bad for publicity-hound Sheriff Joe Arpaio when he's not even well enough to appear on television.The public-relations team for the self-proclaimed "toughest" sheriff in America sent out the memo to media this morning, and it kind of reads like one of those melancholy C ... 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 >>

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Accepted Award From Confederate Group With "History of White Supremacy," Salon Says

Besides the announcement of plans to deploy armed posse members at schools, another Sheriff Joe Arpaio story making the rounds concerns his acceptance last year of an award by a confederate group. Salon, an online magazine with a national presence, published an article yesterday about the mini awar ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Targeted in Prank Involving Obama Kenyan Birth Video, Which He Never Even Saw

A hoax video of President Obama's birth in a Kenyan hospital, intended to make asses out of "birthers" like Sheriff Joe Arpaio once they bought into its legitimacy, failed miserably.The New York Observer, um, exposed the video as fake -- a video we hadn't even heard of until they called B.S. on it - ... More >>

Joe Arpaio "Kidnapped"? Ex-DEA Honcho Phil Jordan Cries Foul

See also: Sheriff Joe buffaloes readers with bogus yarns in his book Joe's Law See also: Arpaio denies writing, reading or agreeing with his book "JOE'S LAW" See also: Joe Arpaio's Early Christmas Gift from President Obama and the U.S. Attorney's Office See also: The Feds Proved Themselves a Cage of ... More >>

Former Teacher Rosanna Brown Gets 20 Years in Prison For Tricking 14-Year-Old Student Into Having Sex With Her

MCSORosanna Brown's heading to prison for 20 years.​Rosanna Brown, a former teacher at Ed Pastor Elementary School in Phoenix, was sentenced to some pretty lengthy prison time today after pleading guilty to charges that she tricked one of her 14-year-old students into having sex with her back in 2 ... More >>

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

Munnell Memo Report Complete, in Hands of Sheriff Arpaio; Public Release of Document on Hold

  David Hendershott, Arpaio's No. 1 guy, figures large in the Munnell Memo report about to be released.​The long-awaited report on the so-called Munnell Memo investigation is complete, but public release of the findings will have to wait, the Pinal County Sheriff's Office says.   ... More >>

Read the SCA Investigative Report From the State Attorney General's Office

​ We've only just begun looking through a large report on the state Attorney General's SCA investigation, and already we're finding interesting stuff. But it's hundreds of pages long and, honestly, we don't have time to sift through it and cobble the highlights for you tonight. So, rather than ... More >>

Joe Arpaio, "Media Whore," at the Nixon Library

Sheriff Joe took his shuck-and-jive to the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California Tuesday, where he wowed a crowd of blue-hairs with his Sopranos-esque "dees, dats and does."The YouTube video above, which borrows (read: "rips off") footage from an Orange County Register video and a ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Pal Paul Babeu Sends Bill To Maricopa County on Munnell Memo Investigation

$46K sounds like a steal if Hendy's fired. If not, someone has some 'splainin' to doSo we don't yet have Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu's report on his department's investigation into allegations contained in the now infamous Munnell memo, but we do have a bill for services rendered.It totals just ... More >>

Lawsuits by County Officials Vs. County Move to Federal Court

  Image: Ray Stern Maricopa County Supervisors Don Stapley and Mary Rose Wilcox.​A $10 million lawsuit filed by Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley last Thursday against the county will likely end up in federal court. Lawsuits alleging abuse of power, defamation, civil right ... More >>

Randy Pullen Out as Arizona GOP Chair

Glory days: Pullen being sworn in as chairman in 2009, after defeating Lisa Allen Randy Pullen, chairman of the Arizona Republican Party, has announced via Twitter that he will not seek reelection at the next state party meeting on January 22. This follows the news that Pullen had no ... More >>

Joe Arpaio, Will He Get the "Nogales Mayor Treatment" from Terry Goddard and the FBI?

Damn! We're in a tight spot! Where's Lisa Allen when I need her? Watching the footage of Nogales Mayor Octavio Garcia-Von Borstel and his father Octavio Garcia Suarez dragged before a judge in shackles and prison stripes after their arrests on charges of bribery, theft, fraud and mon ... More >>

Joe Arpaio for President? Just How Dumb Is the Media?

Hey, I could be da president...Amazing, just amazing how our septuagenarian (soon to be octogenarian) sheriff plays the media -- both national and local -- like a two-bit plastic ocarina.Well, usually, his handlers do it for him. In this case, it was Chad Willems of Summit Consulting Group ... More >>

Joe Arpaio To Live Stream the Bull Every Wednesday at 1:30 P.M.

I'm gonna be famous, ma. I'm gonna be on da Internets...The MCSO's highly-paid PR apparatchiks have just sent out an announcement on the one guy who seems to get more publicity than neo-Nazi J.T. Ready these days.I'm talking, of course, about our own geriatric, Mr. Magoo-esque gendarme, Sh ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Hugs It Out with Undocumented Students, Punks Out on Arresting Them

The four Dream Walkers after confronting Sheriff Joe: From left, in pink, Carlos Roa, Felipe Matos, Juan Rodriguez (behind Matos), and Gaby Pacheco They entered the belly of the beast, and they hugged it out with El Diablo. Literally. That's right, the four undocumented students many know sim ... More >>

Andy Thomas' Go-To-Gal Lisa "The Loser" Aubuchon Heckled by County Workers Today

By now, everyone who reads this blog surely knows that Maricopa County Attorney Andy Thomas is resigning next week to run for Arizona Attorney General.   ​The news was greeted in downtown Phoenix with a mixture of surprise (many were starting to wonder if Thomas would pull the ... More >>

Detention Officer Defies Judge, Must Report to Jail by Midnight

A Maricopa County detention officer made a choice last night to defy a judge, and now he faces jail time for contempt of court. The officer, Adam Stoddard, held a news conference Monday but did not apologize for taking papers from a defense attorney's file, as Superior Court Judge Gary Donahoe had o ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, August 6, 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 ... More >>

Sheriff Joe Retaliates Against Mexican Consul General; Demands Mexico Reimburse County for Prisoners

Two weeks ago, Mexican Consul General Carlos Flores Vizcarra fired off a letter to Maricopa County, complaining about Sheriff Joe Arpaio's televised forced march of illegal immigrant inmates -- and their subsequent segregation in Tent City. Today, Arpaio returned fire, sending a letter to Vizca ... More >>

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 Count ... More >>

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. F ... More >>

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, back ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 coun ... More >>

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

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

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

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

Below the Belt

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

Histrionics Lesson

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

Dangerous Curves

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

Posse Galore

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

Insider Account

One of sheriff's former henchmen tells of dubious tactics

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America's Toughest Suspects

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

Paying the Price

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

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Letters

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