There must be 50 ways to leave your lover, goes the old Paul Simon tune, but most of them do not involve murder, mayhem, and the occasional car bomb. Here are 15 that we do not recommend you imitate, performed in various violent ways over the years by Arizonans. …
Those familiar with the history of the Vietnam War may recall that infamous line reputedly uttered by a U.S. Army major about the bombed-out South Vietnamese city of Ben Tre, to the effect that American forces had to “destroy the town in order to save it.” Same could be said…
Dannie Kramer says she still doesn’t know why her son Anthony Singleton died in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s notorious Fourth Avenue Jail. Singleton, 27, was picked up by Phoenix police at his mother’s home on October 21 on a bench warrant, after his failure to appear for a court date related…
With Valentine’s Day just past, it’s worth noting that Pinal County’s most eligible bachelor, Sheriff Paul Babeu, may finally have found love in a young man 25 years his junior. Babeu’s spokesman, Barrett Marson, who also flacks for the legalize pot initiative Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, confirmed to…
A mother and her lawyer are hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court shows more common sense than Arizona courts have so far in the case of accused child molester Chris Simcox, who is bound and determined to personally cross-examine his child victims, two girls, ages 8 and 9. Phoenix attorney…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he wants to meet Pope Francis while the pontiff is in Mexico for the next five days. Initially, he told the press that what he wanted to speak to the pope about was “confidential.” A day later, he grew a little bolder, telling local media…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s favorite deputy, Brian Mackiewicz, has returned to work, dogged by allegations of spiking his overtime and, according to sources, sleeping with a crime victim during an MCSO investigation. Formerly assigned to Arpaio’s threats management unit, the detective was on paid administrative leave for several months last year…
About four months too late, Dotty the wild Salt River horse, left to rot headless on a sandy bank by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s crack team of animal investigators, will finally be buried this weekend by a group of spade-wielding volunteers. Simone Netherlands, president of the non-profit Salt River Wild Horse…
May 2 will mark the fourth anniversary of the Gilbert murder-suicide in which East Valley neo-Nazi J.T. Ready gunned down 15-month-old Lily Mederos, Lily’s mother, Amber; her grandmother, Lisa; and Amber’s boyfriend, Jim Hiott, before turning his 9 millimeter Beretta on himself. An FBI file on…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s crack team of animal crimes investigators remain flummoxed over the shooting death of Dotty the wild Salt River horse, according a report recently released by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. Dotty was the 12 year-old mare found October 1, dead and floating in the Salt River near…
Turf Paradise remains open for business, despite a suspected case of equine herpes virus that has resulted in Arizona officials issuing a 21-day quarantine for the popular West Phoenix track. On Thursday, the Arizona Department of Agriculture announced that it had imposed a quarantine on horses going in or out…
Something’s rotten in Coon Bluff, thanks to Sheriff Joe and the MCSO. That something is the headless carcass of Dotty, one of the famed Salt River wild horses, found on October 1, shot to death and floating in the river near Coon Bluff, a heavily trafficked part of the Tonto National…
Been jonesing for some slam-dancing, rampant sieg heil-ing, and sweaty camaraderie with fellow racist, white-pride skinheads? Well, look no further than deepest, darkest Tonopah, where in past years local white nationalists have held the Arizona Oi Fest, an ofay-supremacist celebration of punk’s lumpen musical cousin, which is known by the Cockney exclamation,…
For more than two decades, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s top flack Lisa Allen has shamelessly promoted her boss to clamoring packs of amoral bottomfeeders masquerading as journalists. Now Allen is calling it quits and shuffling off to Boise, Idaho to be with her new hubby, an ex-MCSO detention officer, who has…
It must’ve been fate, me first bumping into U.S. Senate candidate Kelli Ward outside the recent meeting of the Maricopa County Republican Committee at a church in Central Phoenix. I recently took the Duke University-educated former state Senator to task for her playing footsie with far-right fanatics, like in 2014…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio has confirmed through his top flack Lisa Allen that the sheriff’s wife of 58 years, Ava, is sick. He did not identify her illness, but sources say it is serious. Nor did he deny persistent rumors that she is suffering from some form of cancer. “Sheriff Arpaio…
Shamelessness will get you far in life. Just ask Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his campaign money-man Chad Willems, who also is pimping the statewide legalize-pot initiative in this cycle. On Wednesday, Arpaio filed his first campaign finance report with Maricopa County Elections, showing him in possession of a $3.2 million…
Is it possible for a successful flack to have a conscience? No offense to the many honest and diligent PR reps, public information officers and spokesmen and -women out there, but some of the best in that profession are real sleazeballs, amoral sociopaths who would justify Kim Jong-un dropping an…
You could call it the end of an era. The woman who for the past 23 years has served as Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s top flack, spin guru Lisa Allen, is resigning from the MCSO effective February 2. In an e-mail exchange with New Times, Allen confirmed her resignation, saying she’s…
You’ve got your camo, AR-15 and night-vision goggles ready, and you’re eager to join your fellow patriots up at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, where former Phoenix resident Ammon Bundy and his armed crew of bohunks have taken control of a federal compound, in a bid to force the feds into turning…
Bad news for Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s ex-executive chief Brian Sands, and more of the same for Joe. On Tuesday, federal Judge G. Murray Snow denied a motion by Sands for summary judgment in the ongoing civil contempt case against himself, Arpaio, Arpaio’s chief deputy Jerry Sheridan, and two other Arpaio…
Now that former Phoenix resident Ammon Bundy, son of bigoted clodhopper Cliven Bundy, has up and taken over a wildlife refuge in Oregon with his brother, Ryan, and a bunch of fellow gun-slingin’ wackos, what do Arizona Republicans — like former state Senator Kelli Ward — have to say about…
