At his Wednesday press conference where he doubled-down on his support of deceitful ex-Phoenix detective Armando Saldate, Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery insisted that Debra Milke, the person Saldate put on death row, would remain nonbondable pending trial. “I want to underscore, she’s not entitled to bail under the Arizona…
Please see updates below re: Milke’s being denied bail. Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery should consider chucking the prosecutor gig, and starting a new career as a defense attorney. Already, he makes a fine mouthpiece for Armando Saldate, the ethically-challenged former Phoenix cop, whose questionable testimony put Debra Milke on…
Can’t say I’m surprised that Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery wants to retry Debra Milke, whose 1990 murder conviction was recently thrown out by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. After all, the Milke case stirs passions like only the killing of a child can. The state alleged Milke…
When the deputies of serial racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio raided Phoenix’s Lindstrom Family Auto Wash in 2009, on the hunt for undocumented car-cleaners, they did so with the full authority of the federal government. It was June of that year, and Arpaio still had his force of 160 officers trained…
Chris Simcox, the erstwhile face of the minuteman movement, was not playing to the cameras Wednesday morning in Maricopa County Superior Court, as he stood before Judge Casey Newcomb and pleaded not guilty to six felony counts related to child molestation. Rather, the one-time leader of Minuteman Civil Defense Corps…
Allegations of campaign-finance violations involving Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne and his outreach director, Kathleen Winn, are now in the hands of Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk after being referred to Polk’s office by state Solicitor General Robert Ellman. Last week, Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett sent a letter…
The last time this blog bothered with MCSO Lieutenant Rich Burden, it was 2011, and I had stumbled across a video of Burden on YouTube taking great delight in imbibing “Colorado Kool-Aid in California,” and making an un-PC crack about drunk driving. “I am not drinking and driving, at all,”…
Arizona Republicans remind me of the little Dutch boy sticking his finger in the dike, in this case, trying to keep the flood of Latino voters at bay. Thankfully, the electorate is going to get a chance in 2014 to chop that finger clean off. Metaphorically speaking, of course. Monday,…
No doubt Attorney General Tom Horne and anyone who wants to see him re-elected in 2014 (read: his staff) is elated by the news that Horne’s alleged squeeze, Assistant Attorney General Carmen Chenal, has put in her notice and will be leaving her position come July 5. Where to? Apparently,…
If you require more evidence that Phoenix Magazine’s July issue cover story on Sheriff Joe Arpaio — penned by former New Times staff writer and current Phoenix Magazine associate editor Niki D’Andrea — is a massive wad of journalistic fellatio, a trip to your local Fry’s grocery store will convince…
State Senator Rich Crandall of Legislative District 16, a non-wacko conservative and one of the Republicans who backed Medicaid expansion this year, has been appointed by Governor Matt Mead of Wyoming to lead that state’s Department of Education. Mead’s office made the announcement in a press release late Wednesday, praising…
Word is, recalled, disgraced ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce wants back in the state Senate, and may run again in 2014, either in his current Legislative District 25, or in LD 16, which is just next door, further east, and in many ways, even nuttier. Since Pearce has lived in…
Please see the update given at the end of this post. So what was former minuteman leader Chris Simcox doing for a living prior to being arrested June 19 for alleged child molestation? He was working at iMemories, a company in Scottsdale that converts home movies and photos into digital…
You can be sure of this, if Chris Simcox’s last name was “Sanchez” and, if Senor Sanchez had been in the United States unlawfully, Russell Pearce never would have let us hear the end of it. Instead, when Channel 3’s Dennis Welch asks him about his old minuteman pal’s arrest…
Ah, it’s like disgraced, disbarred ex-Maricopa County Attorney Andy Thomas never left office. Granted, our current county attorney Bill Montgomery is no prince of darkness, yet. But give him time, as he is currently duplicating his forerunner’s abuse of power, by seeking to silence the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors’…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s lawyers submitted a notice of appeal in Melendres v. Arpaio, the ACLU racial-profiling lawsuit, which Joe recently lost, big-time. Currently, both sides in the case are attempting to come to some agreement on a consent decree that would enforce federal Judge G. Murray Snow’s order to the…
Minuteman Chris Simcox could end up being Chris Simcox, 25-to-life man, if the allegations against him are true. Simcox’s new home is Maricopa County’s Lower Buckeye Jail, where he is being held nonbondable on several charges related to child molestation, attempted child molestation and sexual conduct with minors. Phoenix police…
Brown people in this county just need keep their yaps shut, particularly when it comes to something that concerns them directly, like the anti-Latino bigotry that has so thoroughly infected the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. That’s the message from the arrogant, privileged little club of the Arizona Republic’s editorial board,…
Note: Please see update on the charges against Simcox. He once handed Sheriff Joe Arpaio an award, lauding his work as an anti-illegal immigrant lawman. Now he sits in Arpaio’s gray bar hotel, accused of child molestation. I’m talking about former minuteman leader, and one-time U.S. Senate hopeful Chris Simcox,…
Have you just been racially profiled by one of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s boys (or girls) in beige? Did a Phoenix cop ask to see your driver’s license — while you were in the back seat of someone else’s car?! See Also: Joe Arpaio B-Day Bomb: Judge Wants Monitor in Melendres…
In this new video from videographer Dennis Gilman, Gilman calls Deputy County Attorney Tom Liddy on the spin that the MCSO racially profiled Latinos because that’s what U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement taught the MCSO to do. Joe Arpaio Blames Feds for MCSO’s Racial Profiling, and Why He’s Full of…
Most of the media types in this town have no problem donning their kneepads for Sheriff Joe Arpaio. See Also: Joe Arpaio B-Day Bomb: Judge Wants Monitor in Melendres Al Sharpton: Joe Arpaio, “Arrogant,” Racial Profiling a “National Disgrace” Joe Arpaio and the MCSO Need a Court-Appointed Babysitter in the…
