While TV news programs around the country played footage of the explosions at the Boston Marathon, and interviewed witnesses and people with knowledge of the situation, Fox News rolled with a clueless county sheriff from 2,500 miles away.Of course, Arpaio used the setup for shameless self-promotion: “They’re even after the…
There are varying counts of people dead and injured from the explosions Monday afternoon at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, but the updated count from a police spokeswoman was three people dead, and more than 170 injured.Of the 26,839 people entered in the race, 259 of them are…
The news is still unfolding about the explosions near the finish line at the Boston Marathon today, but Sheriff Joe Arpaio already has managed to exploit the situation on national television, thanks to Fox News.”They’re even after the sheriff here,” Arpaio told Fox’s Neil Cavuto.See also:-Two Explosions and Dozens of…
Arizonans have less freedom to engage in activities that may be related to bachelor parties than the residents of 48 other states.According to a study from George Washington University, Arizona gets its poor ranking from laws on gambling, victimless crime, tobacco, beer, kegs, fireworks, prostitution, tobacco, and open containers, as…
A Peoria mother and her teenage son pleaded not guilty this morning to murder charges, about six weeks after police said the two hired a 16-year-old boy to kill a member of their family.Police said at the time that Michelle Gibson called 911 early on March 1 saying she found…
Paul Goldschmidt’s walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth inning yesterday secured a series victory for the Arizona Diamondbacks over the Los Angeles Dodgers.The Diamondbacks took two of three in the series, including yesterday’s 1-0 victory…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s name was on a package with what may have been an explosive device inside, triggering a five-alarm press conference headed up by the elderly sheriff.”I’m a victim,” Arpaio said, apparently trying to convince everyone that he’s not crying wolf about a death threat this time.See also:-Joe Arpaio…
Anyone who actually would be proud to be the great grandson of John Philip Sousa, a third rate 19th Century composer of marching tunes whose music could bore you right into a coma, must have a screw loose. See also: -Joe Arpaio Takes Full Advantage of Scary Box in Mail:…
Alexander Wilson’s family wants to know why the 16-year-old had to die after a DPS officer stopped him while driving a stolen vehicle. On Thursday, more than 30 people marched at the Capitol and demanded answers. They swarmed the normally quiet hallways wearing shirts that read, “Fuck the Police.” When…
A man who was arrested in September after he and his dog both allegedly bit Mesa police officers inside a Target store has filed a federal lawsuit against that Target store.In the lawsuit, Samkeita Jurden (whose first name was misspelled “Samkeith” in county court filings) pretty much admits to all…
A $12,000 dinosaur statue installed at an Orange County petting zoo last year is moving to Arizona after being evicted by snooty residents of a historic mission neighborhood. Our state has long been a friend to cheesy dinosaur statues, from Holbrook to the Flintstones Bedrock City in Valle. Now we’ll…
Today in Brief Acts of Criminal Stupidity, a burglary got a face full of concrete as he tripped over himself while stealing golf clubs from a Phoenix home.The only thing that could’ve made this video better is if it would’ve ended in an arrest, thus associating a name and mugshot…
Authorities in Flagstaff discovered a package with a rudimentary explosive device addressed to Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and the Sheriff pulled out all the stops for this one.Trump up reality? Check. Play the victim? Check. Blame Mexican drug cartels, try to associate the incident with unrelated murders for all the drooling…
Kudos to Puente and Las Cafeteras for this beautiful, moving message to Diana Blanco Only the crassest and cruelest of individuals will be able to watch the video above minus a moist eye. In it Diana Blanco, the young deaf woman, whose mother, grandfather and grandmother were arrested in Sheriff…
Aaron Smith, a former Tempe patrol officer who decided to steal from a building full of cops — the police department — has pleaded guilty to a theft charge.Smith, who was caught taking some cash, bikes, and a GPS unit that didn’t even work, told his fellow officers that he…
Arpaio’s new office just might be bigger than your first apartment. When the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office headquarters moves this summer from the downtown Phoenix Wells Fargo building to its new digs on Fifth Street and Jackson, the tough-talking, 20-year sheriff will be welcomed into a personal office in the…
Charges have been dropped against Ammandea Stoltzmann, one of six family members accused of harming 10-year-old Ame Deal, who was murdered in Phoenix almost two years ago in one of the most horrific child-abuse cases in the Valley in recent history.Ame was killed in July 2011 after, police say, she…
Miguel Angel Morales was not supposed win Wednesday in Maricopa County Superior Court. Charged with ID theft and forgery after he was arrested in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s raid on Glendale’s United Construction in September, Morales has spent more than six months in Arpaio’s notorious jails, refusing to plead guilty while…
The Phoenix woman accused of shoving a vibrator into her 2-year-old son’s anus has pleaded not guilty to charges in the case, and we’re wondering if there’s anyone out there buying her excuse.Rickesha Burns, 21, called police about two weeks ago, reporting that her son was bleeding from his anus…
Here’s a photo of elderly Sheriff Joe Arpaio, taken six weeks after supposedly slipping and falling on a sidewalk in downtown Phoenix.See also:-Joe Arpaio, “Media Whore,” Won’t Go on Television for at Least a Week Due to Injury-Joe Arpaio Still Hospitalized With Broken Arm After 24 Hours-Joe Arpaio Featured in…
The Phoenix parks and recreation department employee who police say admitted to molesting three teenagers between 1995 and 1998 has pleaded not guilty in the case.Arthur Rey Juarez, 42, was picked up by detectives on March 30, the day before he had a “a scheduled activity with children on Easter…
Today in Found at the Border, a Phoenix man tried to cross the border into Mexico with almost $11,000 in his shoes.It might sound like a cash-hiding method that would be obvious to the authorities, but that’s not quite the case.See also:-Bell Peppers Will Not Disguise 2,000 Pounds of Weed,…
