Subject: Roger Vanderpool

• Governor yanks Arpaio's immigration funding

  May 13, 2008

• Update: Napolitano yanks Arpaio's immigration funding

  May 14, 2008

• DPS Creates Honorary Web Site for Medic Killed During Rescue

  October 15, 2008

• Glendale Man Arrested on Suspicion of Hammering Speed Camera With Pickax: Hero or Villain?

    A Glendale man has been arrested on suspicion of vandalizing a speed camera on Loop 101 by striking it with a pickax. Late Wednesday night, a motorcycle officer with the Department of Public Safety heard a lot of banging noises while he was staked out under an overpass. When he went to check it out, he saw Travis Munroe Townsend, 26, whamming a box containing a photo enforcement camera, states a DPS news release (reprinted below).

  December 4, 2008

• Traffic Stop Nets Nearly 200 Pounds of Pot Found Wrapped Like Christmas Presents

  A couple driving north toward Tucson the day after Christmas was caught with nearly 200 pounds of marijuana disguised like holiday presents. The Nogales, Arizona, couple were stopped on Interstate 19 for a traffic violation, according to an Arizona Department of Public Safety news release: Inside of their vehicle, concealed neatly in wrapping paper, were not toys but bundles of marijuana totaling 185 pounds. The release also contained a quote from DPS Director Roger Vanderpool:

  January 5, 2009

• Goddard Says Criminal Speeders Caught on Camera Can Be Prosecuted; Disputes Andrew Thomas' Legal Analysis

  Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas is dead wrong about the state's inability to prosecute criminal speeders using photo enforcement evidence, says State Attorney General Terry Goddard. In an official memo to Roger Vanderpool, director of the Arizona Department of Public Safety, Goddard explains that "Mr. Thomas' conclusions do not appear to be supportable as a matter of law." Thomas believes that since the statewide speed camera system was restricted from being used to apply penalt

  February 27, 2009

• "Heroin Ring" Stretched from Chandler to Show Low, Says DPS

  On the heels of recent articles across the United States that claim heroin use is surging, the Arizona Department of Public Safety says it recently broke up a major heroin ring based in Chandler. Detectives worked for seven months on the case with members of a northern Arizona anti-drug task force, tracing the source of drugs found in the White Mountains back to the East Valley. In the last week of February, cops served three search warrants and found more than 15 ounces of the narcotic. S

  March 6, 2009

• Money Seized in Traffic Stops Provides Photo Evidence of Drug Cartel Biz

    Drool away at this big-buck seizure. The Arizona Department of Public Safety today released photos of cash seized in traffic stops by state troopers, including one of a stop that netted a duffle bag containing $248,249 in cash. The evidence shows what law enforcement is facing, DPS says. The large cash seizure represents a couple of other things, too, like the temptation that troopers must be facing out there and the nonchalant attitude of some of the people connected to th

  March 13, 2009

• Meltdown

  The Phoenix branch of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau is Exhibit A of this country's failed border policies

  November 16, 2006

• Career Death

  The consequences for a DPS officer who bucked his bosses' dismissal of a righteous speeding ticket, got fired, and won a $190,000 jury award for wrongful termination

  September 28, 2006

• Auto Theft Down in Phoenix and Tucson; Arizona DPS Takes Credit

  Roger Vanderpool, DPS Director The Arizona Department of Public Safety is taking credit for a decrease in auto thefts in Phoenix and Tucson, saying a smorgasbord of enforcement efforts made the difference. Referring to a report by the National Insurance Crime Bureau that show no Arizona city in the Top 10 auto theft hot spots for 2008, DPS director Roger Vanderpool says todaythat, "Much of this is a result of the sustained effort by DPS to attack the problem of auto theft from severa

  April 15, 2009

• Jack Harris, Phoenix Police Chief, Stepping Down from AZ POST Board

  Phoenix Police Chief Jack Harris is stepping down from his position as a board member of the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board after a five-year run. No reason was given for the departure in an announcement by police this afternoon (see below). The announcement itself, police say, was in response to "an inquiry from the media." Harris, who will remain as police chief, is two years past his three-year appointment on the board -- maybe it was just time to go. Perhaps the duties

  April 16, 2009

• Photo Radar Van Worker Shot Dead on Loop 101; UPDATE: Suspect in Custody

    Police are hunting have arrested a suspect in a SUV who shot a photo radar van operator Sunday night. (SEE UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF POST).  The 51-year-old victim, Doug Georgianni, had worked for the photo enforcement company Redflex as a "driver-technician" for only three months, according to a news release just put out by the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Georgianni was shot as he worked in a fully marked DPS photo radar van parked on the side of the eastbound lanes

  April 20, 2009

• Illegal-Immigration Opponent Russell Pearce Could be Appointed Head of DPS, News Outlets Say

    ​ Here's one from the rumor mill: Russell Pearce (above), the state senator from Mesa who's led the charge against illegal immigration in Arizona, could be appointed head of the state Department of Public Safety. The Phoenix Business Journal and KTAR (92.3 FM) quote anonymous insiders at the State Capitol who are supposedly talking about this explosive idea. But if you support turning trooopers into migrant-hunting shock troops, don't get too excited. Governor

  October 22, 2009