Morgan Loew

Anti-Pot Pinal County Attorney Thanks CBS 5 for Medical Marijuana "Investigation"

Rushing to the defense of CBS 5's severely flawed "investigation" of the state's medical-marijuana program is Pinal County Attorney Lando Voyles, who wants to add to the disinformation campaign.In fact, Voyles sent out a press release including a public thank-you note to CBS 5, thanking them for the ... More >>

CBS 5's Medical-Marijuana Story: "Investigation," or Propaganda?

CBS 5 -- the local news station that claims to be "telling it like it is" -- ran one of the stranger "investigations" we've seen from a local TV station.In the report, "investigative reporter" Morgan Loew told the state health department it was true that he had severe and chronic pain, but then clai ... More >>

CBS 5 Reporter Claims Chronic Pain and Gets a Medical-Pot Card, Then Implies Wrongdoing

Hopefully you missed CBS 5's "investigation" into the state's medical-marijuana program, in which they claim that "young, healthy" people are getting medical-marijuana cards.To prove it, reporter Morgan Loew, acting undercover, tells a doctor he's had back pain for months -- pain he said was "distra ... More >>

CBS 5 "Investigation" Into Medical Marijuana Includes a Made-Up Statistic

CBS 5 -- the local news station that claims to be "telling it like it is" -- prominently displayed a made-up statistic during its recent anti-medical marijuana propaganda piece "investigation."In the report, in which "investigative reporter" Morgan Loew told the state health department it was true t ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Makes Moolah Off Botched Sex Crimes Investigations, and More Sex Crimes May Be Outstanding

Protecting the kids? Tell it to those who suffered because the MCSO botched hundreds of sex crime investigations Wanna find out how Sheriff Joe Arpaio's boys in beige botched investigations into hundreds of sex crime cases in Maricopa County? It'll cost ya. Five grand, to be exact. And make the ch ... More >>

The Feds Proved Themselves a Cage of Cowardly Lions in the Arpaio Investigation

Joe Arpaio's Early Christmas Gift from President Obama and the U.S. Attorney's Office

See also: Andy Thomas Needs a Perp Walk With His Papi, Sheriff Joe Arpaio See also: No Charges for Arpaio: U.S. Closes Criminal Investigation of Maricopa Sheriff and Former County Attorney Andrew Thomas See also: The Feds Have Evidence That Joe Arpaio Broke the Law -- When Will The Indictments Come? ... More >>

Report: Hendershott May Have Charged County for Personal Criminal Defense Work; Kept Some Legal Invoices in Safe

Dave Hendershott​ Dave Hendershott, the former top aide for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, was apparently worried enough about being charged with crimes that he hired a legal firm for help. That wouldn't be a problem -- except he may have gotten the county to pay the bills. ​ It lo ... More >>

KPHO Cops the PLEA Line on a Report Swiped From Another Police Union, Flubbing the Story in the Process

Jan Brewer's Chuck Coughlin, CCA, KPHO, and the Nearly $14K Canceled Ad Buy

KPHO.com Coughlin: Squealin' like a stuck javelina Last night's report from KPHO's Morgan Loew on the ties between private prison behemoth Corrections Corporation of America and Governor Jan Brewer has drawn some serious plasma from Brewer's camp. Specifically, the hemorrhage i ... More >>

Governor Jan Brewer's CCA Ties Burn Like Neon, and News for Liberals: J.T. Ready's Still a Neo-Nazi

Russell Pearce's Drive to Outlaw "Anchor Babies," Otherwise Known as American Citizens

Pearce: The sick, racist mind behind SB 1070 remains filled with bloodlustChannel 5/KPHO's Morgan Loew did a segment for last night's newscast on state Senator Russell Pearce's plan to punish the American citizen children of undocumented parents, by making it illegal to accept or issue the birth cer ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Subject of Federal Grand Jury, Channel 5 Reports

Reckon they have pink undies in the federal pen? According to KPHO's 5 p.m. newscast, the station has confirmed that a federal grand jury is looking into Sheriff Joe Arpaio's abuses of power, and his retaliatory investigations of his political enemies. Reporter Morgan Loew just broke ... More >>

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

Joe Arpaio's Meet the Press Moment Interrupted to the Tune of Bohemian Rhapsody

photo by Adriane Goetz Joe, showing a little leg...You cheeky devil, youSheriff Joe Arpaio's circus came to ASU's Cronkite School of Journalism Monday night, only to be cut short by the sounds of a pro-immigrant ditty, sung to the tune of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.The evening was filled with protest ... More >>

CBS 5's Joe Arpaio Follow-Up, and the Pressure on the ASU Profs to Perform Tonight

by Ernesto YerenaWill ASU profs give Joe a pass tonight?If CBS 5's follow-up to its October Joe Arpaio special didn't pack the combination punch of the first episode, it did bring home the notion that anyone can get caught up in Arpaio's web of cynical, trumped-up investigations. Indeed, ordinary cl ... 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 >>

Does U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke Have the Stones to Take on Sheriff Joe?

Ex-U.S. Attorney David Iglesias on Joe Arpaio: "I Would Seek an Indictment" (w/Video)

from CBS 5 KPHOFormer federal prosecutor David Iglesias said he would seek an indictment against Sheriff ArpaioCBS 5's nearly ten-minute segment on Sheriff Joe Arpaio's abuse of power last night did not disappoint. Essentially, reporter Morgan Loew and producer Gilbert Zermeno laid out all of the ma ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Target of FBI Probe, Says Channel 5 in Report to Air Thursday

CBS 5's tantalizing promo for their Thursday report Set the DVR this Thursday night for KPHO CBS 5's 10 p.m. newscast, which will feature an eight minute mini-documentary on Sheriff Joe's abuses of power while in office. The award-winning team of producer Gilbert Zermeno and reporter Morgan Loew bo ... More >>

Video of Joe Arpaio's 200 Mexican March, Footage of a Redneck Riot, and KPHO's Piece on the Posse's Big Lie

A video of Joe's medieval Mexican march from the organization Puente. Two timely videos have made their way to me. The first is from Sal Reza's organization Puente, and documents Joe Arpaio's racist 200 Mexican March last week segregating undocumented and mostly Mexican inmates from Tent City's  ... More >>

Burn, Baby, Burn!

Butch-lesbian nativist Laine Lawless loves incinerating Mexico's flag. Is she a dangerous wacko or a proud patriot?