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Fear Is Killing Tourism in Rocky Point, Mexico, Though Tourists Are Relatively Safe There -- For Now

Joe Arpaio, "Media Whore," at the Nixon Library

Sheriff Joe took his shuck-and-jive to the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California Tuesday, where he wowed a crowd of blue-hairs with his Sopranos-esque "dees, dats and does."The YouTube video above, which borrows (read: "rips off") footage from an Orange County Register video and a ... More >>

Paul Babeu Gets Big Award As Joe Arpaio Announces Latest Crime Sweep: Coincidence?

This has been quite a year for Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, the onetime Massachusetts headmaster who reinvented himself as a cop out here in the desert in the early 2000s.Babeu became ubiquitous on national Fox News programs, especially after the high-profile and increasingly controversial April ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Supports Medical Marijuana, or At Least He Did at One Time

Sheriff Joe Arpaio supports medicinal use of the good ganja? Well, at least that's what the former DEA agent did during this clip from the 2007 documentary American Drug War: The Last White Hope. In it, Arpaio was asked his opinion on medical marijuana, as he stands in Tent City, surr ... More >>

Prop 203 -- the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act -- Puts the Chronic in Chronic Pain

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, October 14, 2010

A Report from Juarez, Mexico, the Bleeding Front Line in the War on Drugs

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 >>

Arpaio to Donate $2,600 to "Charities" as Sheriff's Office Employees Forced on Furloughs

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced today he'll take $2,613 out of his $97,000 yearly salary and donate it to "charities" while his employees are forced to take unpaid, two-week furloughs. In typical self-aggrandizing fashion for the sheriff, the beneficiaries of Arpaio's largess will ... More >>

ACLU to Host Forum on "Constitution-Free" Zone Near Border That Allows Checkpoints

Border Patrol checkpoints and their impact on civil rights will be discussed at a forum next week in Green Valley hosted by the American Civil Liberties Union. The topic is a hot one in the southern Arizona community, where some residents have fought plans to install a permanent checkpoint on Inte ... More >>

Human Growth Hormone Sales Sprout Indictments for Phoenix Pharmacy and Workers

A Phoenix pharmacy and its owner have been indicted for selling up to $8 million in human-growth hormone to doctors without receiving prescriptions. An announcement from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Phoenix also says the Compounding Center, 4045 East Bell Road, and wholesale division manager ... More >>

Flagstaff Won't Give ICE Free Office Space at City Police Building

In a memo to the Flagstaff City Council,  City Manager Kevin Burke says he's decided against offering free office space at the police building to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office:

FBI to Focus More on Kidnappings and Other Southwest Border Crimes, says Holder

Just in time for our blog post today about the role of the FBI in the Phoenix kidnapping crisis comes a major announcement that the FBI will focus more on the problem as part of a strategy to combat cartel violence. In a statement made today during his trip in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Hold ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, March 26, 2009

ICE’s Matthew Allen and Dennis DeConcini Get Ripped Apart by the Taloned Terror

Et tu, Dennis? Ex-Senator Dennis DeConcini Endorses and Does Robocalls for Sheriff Joe.

Head on a skewer: Joe Arpaio was so obsessed with getting a hard-charging New Times writer prosecuted that he badgered Andy Thomas into making a fool of himself

Cyberspace Invaders

County law enforcement's seeking more and more Web site information to mount investigations against private citizens

Enemies List

Paranoia aside, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas just may be targeting you

Joe Strikes Back

This vigilant vulture crafts a Christmas card to Sheriff Joe, as the Pinal County Attorney's Office threatens to seek a felony indictment against New Times

Meltdown

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

Undercover of the Night

Violent shoot-outs and dangerous love in Mann's visceral cop series update

Lord of the Lies

Robert Owens, A gifted con artist linked to an astonishing murder-for-hire plot, may go free because he's compromised law enforcement.

Arpaio's Running Scared

The powerful Professional Fire Fighters of Arizona and Senator John McCain want Sheriff Joke gone

Stick It to 'Em!

The Phoenix City Council can't sanction the $350 million, city-owned convention center hotel. By law, a referendum must be held.

Basic Straining

Oh, look – another bad John Travolta movie. How original.

Truck Ruckus

The MadCaPs take their music to the streets of Phoenix – literally

Mexico, Mars and the Man

Letters from the week of December 19, 2002

Serious Business

If Joe Arpaio runs for governor, he'll win if people forget he's a madman

Doctor Derailed

Fen-Phen conviction results in prison sentence

Nothing but Love

Things are looking up for Southern California electro-break pioneer Überzone

The Next Movement

The Roots return to the Valley, fresh off an effort helping to bridge the gap between electronica and hip-hop

Letters

09-07-2000

Chemistry Decree

Local distributor of "party drug" ingredient held on $5 million bail in biggest GHB bust in U.S. history

Hollow Points

State requirements for a concealed weapons permit are hit or miss

Flashes 10/14/99

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Advocate Without Pier

Jeff Ofstedahl became the Valley's most visible gay activist, turned Echo Magazine into a political force, and carefully planned his departure for four months of sailing and finishing a novel. Then his doctor called.

Mom and Pop Go to Washington

Local shopkeepers stung in Mini Thins case get help from national Arab-American leaders

Letters

Right Under Their Noses

How did the sheriff's posse commander and his minions miss what is alleged to have been the largest marijuana-smuggling operation ever run by gringos? They were, after all, sharing a warehouse.

Letters

Waiter, There's a Lie in My Soup

Come Fry With Me

Crash 'n' burn Con Air never gets off the ground

Don't Leave Homies Without It

Flashes

ARE THESE FOLKS REALLY A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY?

WHAT PART OF A HORSE'S ANATOMY IS JOE ARPAIO?

DESERT-COOKED SOUNDS