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  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    "Joe Arpaio and Stuff" Saved the Lives of All the "Brothas" at the Jail, According to Inmate

    Forget everything you've heard about the Justice Department lawsuit against the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and Sheriff Joe Arpaio for racial-discrimination claims, because there's an inmate who says "Joe Arpaio and stuff" saved the lives of all the "brothas" at the 4th Avenue Jail.OK, don't ac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Joe Arpaio: 4th Avenue Jail on Lockdown, Mexican Mafia "Attempting to Control" Jail

    Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has ordered a lockdown on parts of the 4th Avenue Jail, as the sheriff's office says the Mexican Mafia is "attempting to control" the jail."Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio ordered parts of the maximum security 4th Avenue Jail be placed on indefinite lockdown as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    Ralph Moreno, Unemployed Ex-Con on Food Stamps, Fights to Keep $76,000 in Cash Seized in Home by FBI

    Ralph Moreno, an unemployed ex-con on food stamps, is fighting with the federal government to keep $76,000 in cash seized at his west Phoenix home by FBI agents.State records show that Moreno and his wife, Wilma, of 6629 West Coronado Road in Phoenix, haven't earned wages for at least 10 years, and ... More >>

  • News

    December 29, 2011

    Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, December 29th, 2011

    Ralph Moreno, an unemployed ex-con on food stamps, is fighting with the federal government to keep $76,000 in cash seized at his west Phoenix home by FBI agents.State records show that Moreno and his wife, Wilma, of 6629 West Coronado Road in Phoenix, haven't earned wages for at least 10 years, and ... More >>

  • News

    December 15, 2011

    Don't Bet on Arpaio Resigning Over the El Mirage Botched Sex-Crime Cases

    Ralph Moreno, an unemployed ex-con on food stamps, is fighting with the federal government to keep $76,000 in cash seized at his west Phoenix home by FBI agents.State records show that Moreno and his wife, Wilma, of 6629 West Coronado Road in Phoenix, haven't earned wages for at least 10 years, and ... More >>

  • News

    June 17, 2010

    Hit Man Trained by Mexican Cartels

    Ralph Moreno, an unemployed ex-con on food stamps, is fighting with the federal government to keep $76,000 in cash seized at his west Phoenix home by FBI agents.State records show that Moreno and his wife, Wilma, of 6629 West Coronado Road in Phoenix, haven't earned wages for at least 10 years, and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    Pro-SB 1070 Phoenix Rising Rally: Neo-Nazis, Nativists, Crackpots, and More

    A white supremacist in the nativist nut bag... A fruitcake of nativist rage and looniness baking in the Arizona sun: That's what was generally to be found at Wesley Bolin Plaza this Saturday, June 5 for the pro-SB 1070 Phoenix Rising rally, which drew around 2,000 mostly white participants to ... More >>

  • News

    January 7, 2010

    Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, January 7, 2010

    A white supremacist in the nativist nut bag... A fruitcake of nativist rage and looniness baking in the Arizona sun: That's what was generally to be found at Wesley Bolin Plaza this Saturday, June 5 for the pro-SB 1070 Phoenix Rising rally, which drew around 2,000 mostly white participants to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2010

    Joe Arpaio Denies Wacky, Nativist "Reconquista" Conspiracy Theory in Video from Deposition

    Here's a bit of Sheriff Joe under oath while being deposed in the Melendres vs. Arpaio racial profiling lawsuit, a deposition I blogged about a couple of days ago. (A transcript of Joe's depo is linked to therein.) Activist/videographer Dennis Gilman has posted a segment of the video, this part ... More >>

  • News

    December 24, 2009

    Is Nothing Sacred?: Apparently Not in Joe Arpaio and Andrew Thomas’ Wacked Legal World

    Here's a bit of Sheriff Joe under oath while being deposed in the Melendres vs. Arpaio racial profiling lawsuit, a deposition I blogged about a couple of days ago. (A transcript of Joe's depo is linked to therein.) Activist/videographer Dennis Gilman has posted a segment of the video, this part ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    Joe Arpaio Cries Wolf, Links Self to Lou Dobbs Threat, Slanders Activists

    Is Sheriff Joe "America's Toughest Sheriff," or "America's Biggest Wimp"? That's what I can't help wondering as I read this latest press release from his PR staff. It lamely attempts to link the folks who protest Joe almost daily outside downtown Phoenix's Wells Fargo Building -- where Arpaio keeps ... More >>

  • News

    July 24, 2008

    The Bird shelters Pima County Legal Defender Isabel Garcia from the flak she’s received for hoisting an Arpaio piñata head

    Is Sheriff Joe "America's Toughest Sheriff," or "America's Biggest Wimp"? That's what I can't help wondering as I read this latest press release from his PR staff. It lamely attempts to link the folks who protest Joe almost daily outside downtown Phoenix's Wells Fargo Building -- where Arpaio keeps ... More >>

  • News

    June 26, 2008

    Sheriff Joe buffaloes readers with bogus yarns in his book Joe's Law

    Is Sheriff Joe "America's Toughest Sheriff," or "America's Biggest Wimp"? That's what I can't help wondering as I read this latest press release from his PR staff. It lamely attempts to link the folks who protest Joe almost daily outside downtown Phoenix's Wells Fargo Building -- where Arpaio keeps ... More >>

  • News

    May 24, 2007

    Year of the Goat

    This dastardly dodo dogs Phil "Goober" Gordon, lambastes Gilbert mayor Steve Berman, and assigns guilt for the Suns' Game 6 loss

  • News

    April 12, 2007

    To Catch a Thief

    A con man who worked for high-powered Phoenix attorneys, and who himself impersonated a lawyer, plea-bargains to theft

  • News

    November 11, 2004

    Lord of the Lies

    Robert Owens, A gifted con artist linked to an astonishing murder-for-hire plot, may go free because he's compromised law enforcement.

  • News

    November 14, 2002

    Diary of a Madman, Part 2

    Joe Arpaio really has become a dangerous man

  • News

    December 30, 1999

    City of Coke

    Cocaine from Mexico is the currency that drives gangster economics

  • News

    October 14, 1999

    Marked Man

    Felix Medina and his gang compatriots ruthlessly ruled a south central neighborhood. Now the party's over.

  • Music

    May 13, 1999

    Arrested Development

    There's inconvenience in store when cops interrupt a late-night Circle K run

  • News

    April 2, 1998

    Custody Battle

    Hundreds of inmates in state prisons need special protection from gang paybacks. When officials tried to mix them in with the general-prison population, they filed suit--and won.

  • News

    February 19, 1998

    The Angel of Area 5

    When retiree Bev Tittle-Baker's neighbors convinced her to help them make the crime-infested area safer for children, they unleashed an irrepressible force for change

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