We stumbled upon this little nugget on the Daily Kos, which is much more interesting given Paul Babeu’s latest attacks on his sister, Lucy. David Nir of the Daily Kos wrote that “Sheriff Paul Babeu originally tried to blame website comments on mentally ill sister.” The entire Daily Kos blog…
Paul Babeu is on the defensive — again. This time the embattled Pinal County sheriff has hired the Rose Law Group to defend him from a second round of allegations from his sister, Lucy, that he engaged in a sexual relationship with one of the students from DeSisto School in…
Organizers of an awards ceremony for the Tulsa Police Department have nixed Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu as a guest speaker for the event because they didn’t want the embattled sheriff to taint the event. The Tulsa World reports that more than 40 Tulsa, Oklahoma police officers will receive awards for…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is clinging to his Congressional campaign, despite being embroiled in what he has described as a “very messy situation.” Since New Times broke the story on February 17, Babeu has continued to deny allegations that he and his attorney threatened Jose Orozco, Babeu’s ex-boyfriend…
A local news station has reported that while Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu was headmaster for the now-defunct DeSisto School in Stockbridge, Massachusetts from 1999 to 2001, the Massachusetts Office of Child Care Services launched an investigation into repeated claims of physical and sexual abuse from students at the private…
Specifically, Babeu claims that Jose Orozco stole his identity and hacked into the sheriff’s web accounts — accounts that Babeu had asked his longtime flame to maintain. Indeed, A.D. Horan, an attorney representing Orozco, said his client was a campaign volunteer and an “authorized administrator who … created and maintained websites for…
Calls for an investigation were mounting following New Times’ web exclusive about allegations that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu and his attorney threatened the sheriff’s ex-boyfriend with deportation after their relationship ended. Finally, Babeu announced that the Gila County Attorney’s Office and the Gila County Sheriff’s Office would conduct an…
It looks like Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu — along with allegations that he abused his power — is headed for the PITs, a state Public Integrity Task Force, that is. Read all about those allegations in New Times’ feature story. New Times has learned that Pinal County Attorney Jim…
Embattled Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is reaching out to Gila County officials to conduct an independent investigation into abuse-of-power allegations that Jose Orozco, his Mexican ex-boyfriend, has leveled against him. Babeu claims that Orozco “hacked” his campaign websites and social media accounts and impersonated him. (More details on that later.)…
Lydia Guzman, a prominent immigrant rights’ activist, has asked Deputy Assistant Attorney General Roy L. Austin of the U.S. Department of Justice to launch an investigation into the allegations against Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu. Read details of those allegations leveled by his ex-boyfriend, Jose, in New Times’ web exclusive…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s ex-boyfriend, Jose, spoke for the first time since he shared his story with Phoenix New Times about the threats he alleges were made against him by the sheriff. Watch the interview: Read New Times’ story…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu turned a nearly hour-long press conference to address allegations of threats that he and his attorney made to Babeu’s ex-boyfriend into a parade of people defending his right to be gay. He asked a slew of own employees and friends to the microphone to offer…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu just announced at a press conference that he is a gay man and that he is no longer a part of presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s campaign. “I called the Romney campaign, and I told him I’m going to step away from the campaign,” Babeu told…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu — who became the face of Arizona border security nationally after he started stridently opposing illegal immigration — threatened his Mexican ex-lover with deportation when the man refused to promise never to disclose their years-long relationship, the former boyfriend and his lawyer tell New Times…
Phoenix has made public portions of the logs that former Mayor Phil Gordon’s security-detail once maintained to track how they spent their time. Though much anticipated, the documents hardly read like declassified top-secret Pentagon documents. Partly because their release comes more than two years after they were originally requested…
Peoria officials are looking at dropping residents monthly garbage fees by 13 percent — from $15.06 to $13.10. Hey, every penny counts. But it’s likely that wouldn’t be the case if the city hadn’t forced its residents to embrace curbside recycling a few years back…
Peoria police are filing animal cruelty charges against a Peoria woman who allowed her pit bull to walk around on a bloody stump for about a year without treating its injuries. Cops contacted Michelle Busse, 22, on January 7, after someone complained that she had not gotten medical treatment for…
Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton posted on his Facebook yesterday that “heaven has another angel today,” referring to his mother, Mary Ann Stanton. He writes: My dear mother, Mary Ann Stanton, passed away peacefully in her sleep this morning. She committed her life to her family and serving others, especially those…
The emerging Latino vote in Arizona is the focus of the Arizona Latino Research Enterprise and Raul H. Castro Institute’s annual Town Hall gathering at Phoenix College. Panels of experts and speakers at the Town Hall will examine the increasing influence of Latino voters at a national, state and local…
Anti-union sentiments among Arizona’s conservative politicos aren’t letting up. Four anti-union bills aimed at thwarting unions’ existence in the public sector sailed out of the Senate’s Government Reform committee on Wednesday…
Nothing like a bad economy to get people to line up for those lottery tickets. State lottery officials say ticket sales in Arizona totaled $293 million between July 2011 to December 2011, nearly 9 percent over the same mid-term sales figures last year. Arizona lottery officials parceled out the $293…
Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is one step closer to completing his team of advisors with the appointment of Phoenix College faculty member Trino Sandoval as Senior Policy Advisor on Education. Sandoval, who is “on loan” from Phoenix College, will take the lead on the Mayor’s education agenda, which includes strengthening…
