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Bill Montgomery's Apartheid Policies Challenged by Puente's Carlos Garcia in Videotaped Confrontation

Monty's head nearly explodes as he's challenged by Carlos Garcia of Puente Kudos to Carlos Garcia and his fellow activists at Puente for again confronting Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery on his policy of overcharging undocumented workers so as to make them ineligible for bail, coercing a g ... More >>

American Banks Are on a Massive Crime Spree; Obama and Romney Hope You Won't Notice

Show Your Support for Mitt Romney by Shopping at Guitar Center! The Power of Passive Endorsement

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you stop doing it wro ... More >>

"Fast and Furious" Report Pegs Phoenix ATF Office, U.S. Attorney's Office of Arizona

The Justice Department's inspector general has released the agency's novel-length report on the "Fast and Furious" gunwalking scandal, which mostly calls out the ATF's Phoenix office and the U.S. Attorney's Office of Arizona for the botched operation.Attorney General Eric Holder released a statement ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, September 13, 2012

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 >>

Devils Diciples Motorcycle Gangsters Indicted on Tons of Charges, Including Trying to Murder Their Own in Arizona

The feds unsealed an indictment charging 41 members and associates of the Devils Diciples Motorcycle Club -- including the national president and national vice president -- with crimes mostly related to gambling, drugs, and violence.The Justice Department says the crimes committed by members of the ... More >>

Should the Feds Be Getting Involved in Colorado City?

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division sued the neighboring towns of Colorado City and Hildale yesterday, as the DoJ apparently thought it was inappropriate to have a child rapist running the show.The DoJ filed suit alleging religious and housing discrimination, with much of the lawsuit brin ... More >>

Are Joe Arpaio's Alleged Discriminations Against Spanish Speakers Civil-Rights Violations?

Yesterday, we told you about the response from Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's lawyers to the Justice Department lawsuit alleging racial-discrimination practices.Points made by Arpaio's laywers in an attempt to throw out a couple of the claims in the lawsuit contend discrimination against peopl ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Justice Department Problem Could Cost County Way More Than $25 Million

On Wednesday, we told you about U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy asking Attorney General Eric Holder asking if Maricopa County could be on the hook for repaying up to $25 million in federal taxpayer coin, thanks to the Justice Department's civil-rights case against Sheriff Joe Arpaio.Turns out, alleged ci ... More >>

What's the Dumbest Thing Joe Arpaio Said in Response to the Justice Department Lawsuit?

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was sued by the Justice Department yesterday over racial-discrimination claims, and not surprisingly, Arpaio had a little more than two cents to give to everyone yesterday.His responses ranged from the Justice Department having the wrong guy, wanting to play basket ... More >>

Joe Arpaio on Blast by Tom Perez, Courtesy of Dennis Gilman

Tom Perez blasts Sheriff Joe in Phoenix yesterday Hey, did you hear that the U.S. Department of Justice is suing Sheriff Joe Arpaio?Well, in case you were hibernating beneath a saguaro yesterday, Assistant U.S. Attorney General Tom Perez was in town to blast everyone's least-favorite sheriff for his ... More >>

Feedback from the Thursday, April 26th Issue

Joe Arpaio Fail: DOJ Cancels Racial-Profiling Talks, Describes Sheriff's Lawyer as Cheat and Liar

Few would be surprised to know that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office is lying about about its negotiations with the federal government over accusations of widespread racial profiling by deputies.Both Arpaio and his ally, County Attorney Bill Montgomery, have accused the U.S. Department of ... More >>

Justice Department to Bill Montgomery: What's Your Relationship With Joe Arpaio and MCSO?

Last week, Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery shipped off a letter to the Justice Department, demanding the department's evidence of botched sex crimes by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.Montgomery wrote that withholding that evidence "may needlessly jeopardize prosecutions," and also ask ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Heads to Trial July 19 in Racial Profiling Lawsuit

More than four years after it was first filed, and more than three years since the American Civil Liberties Union lodged its amended complaint in the case, the big racial profiling lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio --  Melendres v. Arpaio -- will finally go to trial this summer.That is, i ... More >>

Canadian Mounties Cancel Training Trip With MCSO Because Joe Arpaio Racially Profiles People

​The Royal Canadian Mounted Police apparently didn't get the memo -- Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio only racially profiles people from south of the border...Nevertheless, the RCMP confirms to New Times that it has canceled plans to have several mounties train with MCSO deputies because of the ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Whoppers In His Latest Money-Grubbing Fundraising Letter

More mendacity from a sheriff without shame...If you're dumb enough to fork over cash to a scalawag like Sheriff Joe Arpaio, you're dumb enough to buy any line of bull the most-sued sheriff in the country wants to sell you.Like the malarkey that the recent U.S. Department of Justice report on Arpaio ... More >>

Best Reader Caption For Joe Arpaio's PR Puppy?

Your Caption Here.​Last week, in honor of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's comeuppance ( Department of Justice investigations, botched sex-crime investigations, etc.), we submitted the above photo of the sheriff and his PR puppy for this week's New Times You Write the Caption contest.If you mi ... More >>

Feds Pull 287(g) Authority From Maricopa County Jails Due to Civil Rights Violations

Janet Napolitano, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, announced today that she's yanking the 287(g) program, which helps identify illegal immigrants, from Maricopa County jails.​ U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano yanked the 287(g) program from Maricopa County jails today due to ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Hammered by Politicians, Activists Praising DOJ Report

Supervisor Wilcox, with the DOJ report on Joe's racial-profiling ways...Flanked by community activists and fellow elected leaders at her El Portal restaurant in central Phoenix, Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox held aloft the recently-released U.S. Department of Justice report on Sheriff ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Jails Off Limits to Federal Immigration Detainees, John Morton Tells Bill Montgomery

ICE honcho John Morton, back when the two guys to the left were still in office...In case Sheriff Joe Arpaio missed the gist of the fiat handed down Thursday by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ending Arpaio's 287(g) jails agreement, John Morton, Director of U.S. Immigrati ... More >>

Congressman Ben Quayle: Eric Holder Must Step Down. Still Mum on Joe Arpaio

New TimesCongressman Ben Quayle apparently has no thoughts on Joe Arpaio's several hundred botched sex crime investigations.​Arizona Congressman Ben Quayle today officially joined several other GOP members of Congress in calling for Attorney General Eric Holder to step down over "Fast and Furious, ... More >>

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Office Cooperating (Finally) With Justice Department in Civil-Rights Probe

  Feds' obedient pet? Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office finally is cooperating with the feds in a civil-rights probe, court records state.​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio finally is cooperating with the U.S. Justice Department in its civil-rights probe, thanks to ... More >>

An SB 1070 Prediction: The Feds Will Come to the Rescue

Eric Holder on Joe Arpaio Probe: DOJ Expects "Results," Investigation Ongoing

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder: Still waiting on the "results" of the Arpaio probeWith demonstrators outside the Phoenix federal courthouse clamoring for Sheriff Joe Arpaio's head, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder today characterized the Department of Justice investigation into Arpaio's office a ... More >>

Robert Driscoll, Big-Shot D.C. Lawyer, and Sheriff Arpaio Help Andrew Thomas Claim "Victory" After Dropping RICO Lawsuit Vs. County

Image: Ray SternAndrew Thomas keeps taking it in the shorts. Will the DOJ's Public Integrity Section come to the rescue?​ When you file a lawsuit that's vigorously contested, but withdraw it before any judgment or settlement in the case  -- that's called failure, right? At the least, it would ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Next Headache: Sal Reza Pushes Eric Holder to Take Over MCSO

Sal Reza: Taking it to the streets, and to Eric Holder's deskHot on the heels of news that Wells Fargo wants Joe Arpaio out of his pricey executive suites in the bank's downtown Phoenix tower, human rights activist Salvador Reza is raising the stakes, asking that Attorney General Eric Hold ... More >>

Joe Arpaio, Walkin' on the Water? Wacky, Nativist African-American Preacher Compares Sheriff Joe to Jesus Christ

Usually, folks like to compare Sheriff Joe to rather nefarious historical figures, you know, like Bull Connor, Idi Amin, Augusto Pinochet, Benito Mussolini (well, they're both Italian), and so on. But the Man from Galilee? The Prince of Peace? The Light of This World? Jesus Christ himself? That's t ... More >>

Arizona Juvenile Facilities Report High Sex Activity With Staff; State Above Average for Incidents in National Survey

Arizona State Government Adam Henning, principal at Adobe Mountain School ​Arizona's incarcerated juveniles are having sex with staff members at one of the highest rates in the country, according to a survey published by the U.S. Department of Justice. In a survey of thousands of ki ... More >>

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

Obama Squeezes Out First Female Native American U.S. Attorney; Diane Humetewa Submits Resignation

​ Arizona's U.S. Attorney, Diane Humetewa, the nation's first-ever Native American woman to become a U.S. Attorney in any state, will resign on August 2. Sandy Raynor, spokeswoman for the office, says Humetewa plans on spending some time with her family before figuring out her next career mo ... More >>

On Spousal Abuse and Over-Using the Word Gabacho

"Liquid Meth" Seized Near Border; California Man Arrested

A California man tried to drive through the international border at Naco last week with about 13 pounds of liquid meth in his pickup's windshield washer reservoir. The find is part of an ongoing trend in the world of illegal drugs to package methamphetamine in ways that make smuggling easier and gi ... More >>

Justice Department, Homeland Security Investigators in Phoenix This Week, Looking Into Joe Arpaio, Monitoring the March

Joe wanted the feds to pay a visit, and now they're here Joe Arpaio has always bragged that he wants the feds to "come on down," like in The Price Is Right. This week, they're taking him up on his offer. One of the news outlets Joe loves to leak stuff to, aka the Arizona Republic, just posted ... More >>

Live from D.C.: The House/Arpaio 287(g) Hearings, Starting About 7 a.m. Phoenix Time

Stepping off the plane in Washington D.C. this afternoon was like my first trip to New York many moons ago. The cab driver is Russian. The hotel front desk guy is from someplace in Africa. The room service waiter is from El Salvador. In other words, D.C. shows us to be a nation of immigrants. The na ... More >>

Hot Links: Arpaio Probed, Resort Approved, Sinatra Blown

The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department is investigating Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the MSCO, looking for evidence of discrimination based on race. Arpaio says "We'll open our books. We have nothing to hide." If that's true, then why has he repeatedly refused to rele ... More >>

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Targeted in Justice Department Probe, Finally...

Dennis Gilman/Adolfo Maldonado Snarl all ya want, Joe, but the feds are comin' for ya...So much of the time, Joe Arpaio, with his speech punctuated with dese, dats, and dose, and his defiance of federal authority, sounds more like he's imitating Robert DeNiro's Al Capone in The Untouchables, ... More >>

The Mexican urges you to boycott Absolut Vodka for not sticking to its ad guns

Holding his fire: AG Terry Goddard discusses Sheriff Joe Arpaio's anti-immigration sweeps, calls news reports "troubling."

Money Shot

If Maricopa County supervisors wanted to go after Sheriff Joe Arpaio, they could. They could focus on his office's finances

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

Worse Than Ever

Agency insiders say conditions are continuing to deteriorate at ADJC

See You in October

Federal investigation into juvenile corrections broad but slow

Federal Inquiry

Justice Department examines conditions at state youth facilities

Rivera's Edge

After a year on the job, U.S. Attorney Jose de Jesus Rivera looks to be in the right place at the right time

Fed Up

The Justice Department investigates the county sheriff's officeagain

Hangin' With Sheriff Joe

Two inmates commit suicide in the space of a week; feds had warned Arpaio of unsafe "overhanging structures"

Another Thing Arizona's Last In

Feds query state about abysmal voter registration among welfare applicants

DOES NOT WORK TO CAPACITY

PHOENIX UNION'S DESEGREGATION PROGRAM PASSED WITH FLYING COLORS. BUT THE SCHOOL SYSTEM FLUNKED OUT WHEN IT CAME TO EDUCATING KIDS.