Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio may have blown it on 432 sex-crime investigations, but there’s one “investigation” he’s quite proud of: his “Cold Case Posse’s” investigation into whether President Barack Obama’s eligible to be president.In honor of the sheriff’s (embarrassing) investigation into the continuously debunked “birther” conspiracy theory (and the…
Arizona senators Jon Kyl and John McCain today issued a joint statement saying they are “concerned” with the the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s bungling of several hundred sex-crime investigations.”Concerned” is as far as the senators would go, though, and rather than calling for Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s head — as several…
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Four alleged human smugglers were arrested last night when the Department of Public Safety busted up a drop house in Avondale.Also found inside the home was weed, cash, and 19 illegal immigrants — many of whom have been arrested before for crimes like drug possession, weapons misconduct, child abuse, crimes…
Federal authorities spent more than a year investigating Governor Jan Brewer’s role in collecting Social Security benefits intended for her mentally ill son, Ronald, who currently is in a state hospital after being found not guilty by reason of insanity in 1990 on kidnapping and sexual assault charges.The federal government,…
As the outrage over Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s mishandling of several hundred sex crimes continues to spread, the sheriff’s crusade to prove that President Barack Obama is a Kenyan version of the Manchurian Candidate wages on.Arpaio, as we’ve reported, agreed to investigate the president’s citizenship at the request of…
Rachel Brock, the daughter of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, was sentenced yesterday to 10 years supervised probation and a deferred one-year in jail after pleading guilty to charges that she sexually abused the same boy her mother, Susan Brock, was convicted of molesting. See our cover story on the…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio seems to think Democratic politicians are using his office’s bungling of more than 400 sex crime investigations as a reason to call for his resignation — not because of his incompetence, but because they don’t like his policies on immigration.He also seems to think other…
A missing New Mexico couple — last seen in Chandler last week — lived in their car for five days to avoid storms that pounded eastern Arizona over the weekend after they got lost in a remote area east of GlobeChandler Detective Seth Tyler says Dana Davis, 86, and his…
Contrary to popular belief, former CNN talk show host Larry King isn’t a cryogenically frozen corpse…yet.In a recent CNN special, King says that when he finally does kick the bucket he wants his body to be frozen, which — with the help of Scottsdale-based Alcor Life Extentions, best-known for allegedly…
Rachel Brock, the daughter of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, was in court this morning, where she was sentenced to 10 years supervised probation after pleading guilty to charges that she sexually abused the same boy her mother, Susan Brock, was convicted of molesting.Additionally, Pinal County Superior Court Judge Henry…
Congratulations to the New Times reader who goes by the handle Ross, you are the proud winner of this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.On Friday, we asked readers to provide what they think would be an appropriate caption for the above photo of the Scottsdale Gun Club’s…
The Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office today will issue its official ruling in the October 2010 shooting death of Phoenix Sergeant Sean Drenth.As we reported last night, the ME’s Office has ruled that the death was a suicide — despite multiple lingering questions about the shooting.The Phoenix Police Department doesn’t…
Tomorrow, the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office officially will rule that the bizarre shooting death of Phoenix Sergeant Sean Drenth was a suicide — more than a year after Drenth’s body was found fatally shot in a parking lot near the State Capitol in October 2010.The Phoenix Police Department, however, still is calling the…
“They were going to kill me.”That’s the cryptic message an Arizona City woman — hopped up on bath salts — gave police before leading them on a 30-minute chase Saturday afternoon.The pursuit ended when cops managed to blast her in the face with pepper spray while she was still behind…
First Lady Michelle Obama apparently is in a “panic” over Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s probe into whether her husband, President Barack Obama, is a U.S. citizen — if you believe the supermarket tabloid The Globe’s “inside” White House sources, that is.Arpaio, who applauds supermarket tabloids as having “the best…
The National Hockey League announced yesterday its plan to divide the league into four conferences rather than six divisions, as the league is currently arranged.Under the new organization, the Stanley Cup Playoffs will begin inside each conference, with the top four teams squaring off in divisional playoffs (see how the…
There’s good news and bad news about the transformer that caught fire in Phoenix last night.The good news: the enormous plume of smoke that is currently drifting West over downtown Phoenix is non-toxic.The bad news: the smoke could be here for a while — Phoenix fire crews are going to…
Last week, in honor of the Scottsdale Gun Club’s celebrating the holidays by giving people the chance to have holiday photos taken of their children holding machine guns, we asked our readers to offer suggestions for an appropriate caption for the above photo for this week’s New Times’ You Write…
Maricopa County Sheriff is again under fire over hundreds of admittedly botched investigations into sex crimes over a three-year period ending in 2007.One of his biggest critics: Congressman Raul Grijalva, who is calling for Arpaio to resign over the bungled investigations.See our story on Arpaio’s oopsies here.Grijalva, whose Congressional district…
Here’s what we know: 38-year-old Jose Jesse Olmos broke into an office at the Mesa apartment complex where he lives, stole a power drill, and looked at porn on a computer in the office — as captured on the office’s surveillance camera.What we — and, more importantly, people who work…
A Mesa woman has been charged with second-degree murder after admitting to police that she fatally shot her boyfriend after he accused her of infidelity.Police say Donna Diaz called police about 11 p.m. yesterday to report that she shot her boyfriend, Thomas Mark Wakeman, three times after he accused her…
