Paul Chagolla

Joe Arpaio, Suck It Up: Top Ten Reasons to Vote for Paul Penzone

As far as I'm concerned, the only race that matters in this election is the race for Maricopa County sheriff. Don't get me wrong, I'm pulling for Rich Carmona to top Congressman Jeff Flake in the run for U.S. Senate, and I'm praying (best as an atheist can) that President Obama beats back Mitt Rom ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Hides as Randy Parraz and CBAers Pizza Party It Up

Randy Parraz and his merry band of activists from Citizens for a Better Arizona celebrated their success at Wednesday's Maricopa County Board of Supervisors meeting with a pizza party...at Sheriff Joe's place.By Joe's place, I mean Arpaio's executive suite of offices on the 19th Floor of the Wells F ... More >>

Outstanding Maricopa County Warrants Finally Back to Pre-Arpaio Numbers; Deputy Chief Paul Chagolla Debates AZCentral Readers

An interesting story by JJ Hensley in the Arizona Republic yesterday mentions how the number of outstanding warrants in Maricopa County has dropped by 20 percent since 2008.For years, critics have been juxtaposing the number of warrants with Sheriff Joe Arpaio's priorities, questioning why his deput ... More >>

Sheriff Arpaio Won't Investigate Deputy Chief Paul Chagolla for Alleged Threat to Reporter

Paul Chagolla allegedly threatened to arrest an Arizona Republic reporter and have her baby put in CPS custody for no valid reason -- but Sheriff Arpaio doesn't want to investigate.​ Usually, Arpaio loves a good probe. The list of questionable investigations the five-term sheriff has launched ... More >>

The Feds Have Been Investigating Arpaio Since 2008, So Where the Hell are the Indictments?

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Out of the Loop? Deputy Chief Paul Chagolla Finds That "Hard to Believe"

  Photo Illustration: Ray Stern Did Sheriff Arpaio play the king to Hendershott's mesmerizing Jaffar? More likely, as Deputy Chief Paul Chagolla told investigators, Arpaio knew what went on in his office.​A top aide to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio doesn't believe his boss was "o ... More >>

MCSO Commanders Dave Hendershott and Paul Chagolla Threatened Reporter for Doing Her Job, Says Report; Joe Arpaio's Response Unclear

Deputy Chief Paul Chagolla is alleged to have threatened a reporter with arrest, and put her baby in CPS custody, all because she did her job.​ Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio won't say whether one of his deputy chiefs, Paul Chagolla, deserves to be investigated for allegedly threatening ... More >>

Arpaio Kicks $40K to New Times, Plus Benjamin Bratt Discusses His New Movie, La Mission, and His Opposition to SB 1070

Rick Romley Checks Sheriff Joe's Power, the MCSO's Paul Chagolla Gets His Back Up, and U.S. Marshal David Gonzales Scores

Joe Arpaio, Paul Chagolla and the Veil of Fear in The Tears of Lives

courtesy of Salvador Reza Andrew Valenzuela (standing) as Captain Montoya, with Masavi Perea as jornalero Regino Ortega I don't know if playwright James Garcia modeled the character Captain Montoya from his new play The Tears of Lives on Deputy Chief Paul Chagolla of the Maricopa County Sheri ... More >>

Appellate Court Rules Against Sheriff Joe Arpaio -- Says Records Request Has "No Discernable Public Benefit"

The Arizona Court of Appeals today smacked down Sheriff Joe Arpaio, ruling that administrators at the Maricopa County Superior Court do not have to turn over thousands of e-mails, as Arpaio had demanded.In a unanimous decision released this morning, the three-judge paneled found that Superi ... More >>

Sheriff Arpaio's Former Spokesman, Paul Chagolla, Suddenly a Crusader for Public Records Law

Paul Chagolla a champion of Arizona's public records law? Please! Chagolla was a former top flak for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and we had to laugh after reading his comments following an opinion column by the Arizona Republic. The column suggests Arpaio should "scale back" his large rec ... More >>

Sheriff's Office Not Looking for Anyone's Support on County Records Request, Chagolla Says

We heard from Maricopa County Sheriff's Deputy Chief Paul Chagolla following our post this afternoon about his office's request of public records from the county: He takes issue with our quip about him wanting the media to rally behind its request."I wasn't looking for anybody's support," Chagol ... More >>

Sheriff Arpaio's Deputy Chief Twists His Own Words in Public Letter on Warrants

Paul Chagolla, a deputy chief for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, claims in an open letter published in the Arizona Republic that his office does enough work serving felony warrants, and that critics on the subject are advocates of illegal immigration. It's difficult for us to believe nearl ... More >>

Immigration Holds Mostly for Minor Offenses, Sheriff's Data Shows; Office Thwarted New Times' Attempts to Get Same Data

  The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office released records last week showing what New Times readers already knew: Most jailed inmates kicked out of the country under the county's 287(g) agreement with the feds were picked up by local police forces for relatively minor crimes. O ... More >>

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 ... More >>

March 25 In Blogs: The Bronx, Mutant Pinatas, Bank Robbers and More

We understand that in the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. Worry not! We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Valley Fever: Peoria Bank Robber Cuts Hole In Wall, Surprises Bank Employees Arriving ... More >>

Maricopa Warrants Go Unserved as Sheriff's Office Denies Responsibility Before Legislature

Paul Chagolla There were certainly no surprises from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office yesterday during a legislative hearing on unserved felony and misdemeanor warrants. Back in November of 2007, Paul Chagolla, then the spokesman for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, told the Scottsdal ... 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 >>

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 promo ... More >>

Dec. 17 In Blogs: Sheriff Joe, Top 10 Metal Albums, Fogo de Chao and More

We understand that in the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. Worry not! We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Valley Fever: Sheriff Arpaio's Captain Joel Fox, Illegal Donation Guy, Must Request H ... More >>

Paul Chagolla, Expert Propagandist for Sheriff Arpaio, Gets Promotion

As a public information officer for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Paul Chagolla has a widespread reputation for getting nasty when local journalists fail to buy into whatever propaganda he wants to sell. And that means, from Arpaio's point of view, he must be do ... More >>

David Hendershott Tries to Take One for Andrew Thomas, but Somebody's Not Telling the Truth

County Supes Critic Randy Parraz Arrested by MCSO During Supes' Do-Over Meeting (w/UPDATE).

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio Offers Jobs for Disgraced Cops

Sheriff's Office Confirms Profiling Investigation On Deputy

Sheriff Investigating One of His Own for Racial Profiling?

Sheriff's Office Plays Dumb On Racial Profiling Investigation

Arpaio's thugs threaten to arrest a New Times reporter for looking at public records

Arpaio tells a $400 million whopper, and a New Times reporter's kicked out of Joe's offices--again

Sheriff Joe wants to read Phil Gordon’s e-mail

The Goldwater Institute takes aim at Sheriff Joe Arpaio; MCSO flack Paul Chagolla spars with KPNX.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's approval rating drops to 57% in Maricopa County.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Easter ethnic cleansing.

The bill for Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Honduran scam: $157K and rising.

More MCSO docs released in the Honduran scandal...

New Times files a prelude to a lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, County Attorney Andy Thomas and a discredited ex-special prosecutor on behalf of its readers and the Constitution

Math-Challenged Sheriff Joe Arpaio Can't Account for the $41 Million He's Cost Taxpayers

Inhumanity Has a Price

Corpses, a flesh-eating virus, the most-sued sheriff in America. Lawsuits against Joe Arpaio have cost us $41 million, so far

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, December 20, 2007

Information Blockade

The sheriff's made a career of stonewalling critical media — the public's right to know be damned

Public Wreckers

The ticked-off toucan recounts the trials of NT scribe Ray Stern, snickers at the County Attorney's press conference, and tells why Rusty Childress' anti-immigrant org is goin' to the library

Who's Sorry Now?

Andy Thomas eats crow to save his political career, but wants us to apologize to Sheriff Joe. Fat chance

Vick-timization

Backstabbing in Buckeye, DMX's doggy woes, and nativist grandstanding over Officer Erfle's murder p.o. P-town's prickly pelican

Grand Wizard Arpaio

The plumed penman denounces Sheriff Joe's shenanigans, and chats with transgendered rocker Genesis P-Orridge about her gig at Anderson's

Joe Arpaio flack Cpt. Paul Chagolla threatens to arrest yours truly for, uh, being a journalist.

Keystone Clowns

This poop-producin' pelican dive-bombs slapstick sheriff's deputies, ex-mayor Skip Rimsza, and Chase Field's crotchety old baseball enforcers

J. Edgar Arpaio

Sheriff Joe's fashioning himself after the late FBI director, only (we think) without the women's underwear

The Devil's in the Details

Sheriff Arpaio uses police powers to shamefully punish enemies, protect pals and finance his campaign

We Sue the Coward of the County

Arpaio's ditsy chief flack Lisa Allen MacPherson tells us to take her boss to court, so . . .