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Arizona Club Soccer Produces Scholarship-Backed Players, but At What Cost?

By John Dickerson
Dec 18, 2008

Kieran Clancy loved soccer. Like most club soccer players in Arizona, the 18-year-old had long hoped to land a college soccer scholarship. Clancy and his family had done all the right things. Since he was 10, he'd played with one of the most expensive clubs in Arizona, the Sereno Soccer...
Lo and Behold: Another Jail Video Exists, and it Still Doesn't Show an Inmate's Death at the Hands of Joe Arpaio's Deputies

By John Dickerson
Dec 2, 2008

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's attorney, Michelle Iafrate, has doled out still another installment of jail video footage to New Times, and again it doesn't show how an inmate wound up dead in the custody of sheriff's detention officers. It's the third release in a contentious public records battle that began in July,...
Scott Coles’ Family to Auction Estate Art and Memorabilia at Phoenix Mansion Where He Died

By John Dickerson
Nov 21, 2008

Scott Coles with his second wife, Ashley Scott Coles’ family will auction off the deceased millionaire’s fine art and memorabilia collection on December 16 -- at the same mansion where Coles took his life last June. Coles death shook the Phoenix business community this past year. He left behind three...
Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Own Records Raise Serious Questions About Inmate Juan Mendoza Farias' Violent Death

By John Dickerson
Nov 20, 2008

Juan Mendoza Farias was handcuffed and alone in a jail cell when guards opened the hatch on his cell door and fired more than a dozen paintball-like pepper balls at him. Then they fired Taser electrical stun guns — more than a dozen times, by one guard's account — into...
After We Call Him Out, Sheriff Joe Arpaio Surrenders Another Jail Video -- but it Still Doesn't Show How an Inmate Died at the Hands of Guards

By John Dickerson
Nov 14, 2008

By John Dickerson The sheriff gave New Times an additional video today of inmate Juan Mendoza Farias' short-but-fatal stint in jail, but the new video – like the previous one – stops before showing what a gang of jail guards did to Farias prior to his death. On Wednesday the...

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