Paul Chagolla

Joe Arpaio Cozies Up to Latino Pastors, Prensa Hispana, and Michael Nowakowski Days Before Employer Raid

Days prior to his agency's immigration raid on a Tempe clothing company, Sheriff Joe Arpaio was meeting with scores of Latino pastors in a get-together brokered by Phoenix City Councilman Michael Nowakowski. See also: -Bill Montgomery Is No Immigration Moderate -Prensa Hispana Blows MCSO Deputy Chi ... More >>

Sheriff Arpaio Racial-Profiling Lawsuit Court Records Summarize Case; Read New "Findings of Fact" & Other Documents

A truckload of paperwork was filed today in the racial profiling lawsuit against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office, including succinct accounts of the allegations and responses by both sides.The case involves several plaintiffs, including immigrant Jose Ortega Melendres, but was expa ... More >>

Coddling Joe: How Do You Collaborate With a Felon?

Tom Liddy was Andrew Kunasek's Deep Throat; County Supervisor Describes Tip on Arpaio/Thomas Plot to Overthrow Board

Image: www.ij.orgTom Liddy, a Maricopa deputy county attorney and son of G. Gordon Liddy, tipped off County Supervisor Andy Kunasek to a plot to "destabilize" county government, Kunasek testified yesterday.​Tom Liddy, a deputy prosecutor who also happens to be son of infamous Watergate villain G. ... More >>

The Feds Have Evidence That Joe Arpaio Broke the Law -- When Will The Indictments Come?

Joe Arpaio Messing Around With a Lamb? Sheriff and Gang Joke About Sex and Sheep in Secret Recording

  ​More humor from the secret recording of a command staff meeting at the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office made on July 27, 2009 by Frank Munnell: Joe Arpaio is grousing over a quip made by longtime Valley reporter Howie Fischer on a PBS Horizon roundtable that ... More >>

Sheriff Joe’s Tortured in Hades, and Will Arizona’s New U.S. Attorney Follow El Diablo’s Lead?

Joe Arpaio Under the Microscope: DOJ Team in Phoenix, According to Multiple Sources

photo by Adriane GoetzHey, the DOJ's in town, Joe. Time for another sweep?What a difference a couple of days make. Less than 72 hours ago, members of the pro-immigrant community in Phoenix were kvetching to me about the lack of follow-through on the part of the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rig ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, November 12, 2009

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Denied -- Again -- On Public Records Lawsuit

Sheriff Joe gets a third strike in his attempt to read court email.​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has lost yet another round in his near-endless quest to read the email of Superior Court judges.This decision, from the Arizona Court of Appeals, appears to mark the third such rejection. A ... More >>

New York Times Blogs Video of Kids Traumatized by MCSO; and I'm Blocked from Latest Arpaio Presser

"Frankie the Snitch" groveling before the Board of Supervisors in September. I had a funny feeling the MCSO might block yours truly if I headed down to the love-in between Guadalupe Mayor Frankie Montiel and Joe Arpaio today at the Wells Fargo Building, where Joe has his high-rent offices. But ... More >>

Update: Arpaio Attorney's Obvious Ploy is to Stall Handing Over the Video of the Farias Jail Beating Death Until After the Election

Contradicting His Office's Previous Statements, Chief Deputy David Hendershott Now Claims He Ordered the New Times Arrests

Federal Judge Found a Litany of Inhumane Problems in Joe Arpaio's Jails

911 Call Backs Up Parts of Allegation Against Sheriff Arpaio's Deputies

Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Jails Lose National Accreditation

Police State: How the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency Turned All Local Authorities Into La Migra

The Bird joins the anti-Arpaio siege at Wells Fargo, postmortems the Pearce- Gibbons race, and knocks Napolitano for defending Sarah Palin

Was Juan Mendoza Farias beaten to death by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s guards?

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

The Bird revels in Sheriff Joe's decline, slams Mark Spencer's false hysteria, and explains why "illegals" ain't criminals

Guadalupe made it clear that Joe Arpaio’s attacking anyone with brown skin

The Bird exposes Sheriff Joe's racist ties, delves into the Israel Correa madness, and reveals Napolitano as the real Judas

Letters from the issue of Thursday, March 13, 2008

The Bird catches Darrell Ankarlo butt-smoochin' Sheriff Joe again, relates the latest on the MCSO's Honduran scandal and introduces candidates vying for Candy Thomas' job

Letters from the issue of Thursday, March 6, 2008

The Bird digs up more dirt on Arpaio's henchmen soaking up the sun in Honduras

Disgraced ex-special prosecutor Dennis Wilenchik's op-ed tripe in the Arizona Republic.

ACES AND EIGHTS: Appeals court deals Joe Arpaio a losing hand in New Times lawsuit over public docs.

The Bird wonders why Sheriff Joe Arpaio put a U.S. citizen behind bars for simply appearing Mexican

The Bird wonders just what Joe Arpaio's top dog is doing down in Honduras

Dennis the Menace

Arpaio's lawyer can't explain away his fudged résumé

A Joe Arpaio Christmas at Pruitt's: Bigotry and hate aplenty.

Sheriff Joe's racist clown cars? You be the judge...

Wilenchik's a Liar, and There's More

Besides personally demanding our arrests, Andy Thomas' special prosecutor sought to bankrupt New Times over a misdemeanor and lock up our lawyers

County Attorney’s office (finally) files "Notice of Intent to Dismiss" charges in Lacey/Larkin matter.

Dennis Wilenchik, the Sgt. Schultz of the PHX legal world?

The Party's Over

The Phoenix rave scene loses a hot spot — and may put another one on ice

Do Svidanya, Joe

The vexed vulture swoops down on mean ol' Sheriff Joe, then sides with a nativist (for a change) against the mothers of MADD

KEYSTONE KOPPERS: The skinny on the fake plot to whack Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Pitiless P-Town

The cranky cockatoo slams callous P-towners, pecks away at (sigh . . .) another bogus "plot" to off Sheriff Joe, and profiles the "Mexican Mutant"

Bird Alert

The feathered fiend demands travel records from Sheriff Joe, decries Prop 100 hooey, and hangs with some art-geek meshuggenehs

Useful Idiots

The pissed-off puffin paddles fellow journalists, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and an FBI monkey-spanker at U of A

Boob's Tube

Here's how publicity hound Joe Arpaio used a TV station to try to destroy rival Dan Saban with a bogus rape claim

Toughest Sheriff in the Nation Wimps Out

Enemies List

Arpaio haters, perceived and otherwise, beware! Looks like Joe's up to his old tricks

Letters

Letters from the week of October 14, 2004

Say No to Joe

Voters have the best chance ever of kicking Outlaw Joe to the curb on September 7.