After the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office pulled off its 70th “employer sanctions operation” (which MCSO now refers to as a “criminal employment operation”), we pointed out yet again that no employers were arrested, or sanctioned, in the operation.Arpaio now says that’s probably a job for the Obama administration.See also:-Joe Arpaio…
Although we heard a couple weeks ago that Pastor Warren Stewart was going to run for Phoenix City Council, he’s made it official today.Stewart is now one of two African-Americans who are running for the Phoenix City Council seat in District 8 — which is currently held by Vice Mayor…
Indianapolis Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians has been hired as the man to lead the Arizona Cardinals to victory, which ranks somewhere between walking on water and healing a blind man, as far as miracles are concerned.Arians got his first head-coaching experience this year, when Colts head coach Chuck Pagano…
The human rights activists of Tonatierra and the Barrio Defense Committees will do the annual PF Chang’s 13.1 mile marathon one better this Saturday by holding a 13.4 mile march for human rights and dignity, beginning at Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s notorious Fourth Avenue Jail and ending at Glendale Police Headquarters…
(Regular New Times readers, feel free to skip to the bottom of this post and cast your vote immediately.)Local Republican blogger Political Mafioso was already questioning whether disbarred and disgraced former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas was delusional after Thomas said he was considering a run for governor, but get…
More than five years after the Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio learned his agency had mishandled hundreds of sex-crime investigations, no one has been disciplined and a key report on the matter has yet to be released to the public. The investigation into what happened is fraught with negative implications…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office does not conduct “raids,” according to Sheriff Joe Arpaio.Although we’ve provided evidence to the contrary of Arpaio’s new claim, the Sheriff’s public-relations staff sent out an e-mail this afternoon, with a press release touting MCSO’s 70th “employer sanctions operation.” The subject line on that e-mail:…
After waiting around in prison for nine years, death-row inmate Richard Glassel died from “apparent natural causes” at the age of 74, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections.Glassel killed two people and injured three when he opened fire at a board of directors meeting for a retirement community in…
In one of the less-thought-out attempts to smuggle meth into the United States, Customs and Border protection officers busted a Washington woman with a couple pounds of meth taped to her belly.Believe it or not, an officer got suspicious when he spotted 28-year-old Laura Ivanez-Ramirez in the pedestrian lane at…
For whatever reason, many of us enjoy watching rich people buy cars for one week every year, at the Barrett-Jackson collector car auction in Scottsdale.For most people around the country, that experience is given to you through the boob tube, but the in-person experience is a bit more than watching…
Former Democratic Congressman and Tempe Mayor Harry Mitchell has taken an interesting route in supporting ex-state Representative and recently admitted felon Ben Arredondo.While prosecutors are looking to lock up Arredondo for as much as three years on a pair of mail fraud charges, Mitchell was one of a couple dozen…
NMD video from a hidden camera dated January 8 When U.S. Border Patrol Agents are not shooting each other or unarmed teenagers, they like to destroy water jugs and steal supplies left in the desert for crossing migrants. That’s the charge of the Tucson-based group No More Deaths, which has…
Yesterday, President Obama released his plan to curb gun violence, a plan that consists of both executive orders and recommendations for Congress.As the “Colt Single Action Army Revolver” state, Arizona’s probably got a lot of folks who are concerned about changing gun laws…
Can you please tell me something? How do you think it’s fair that all the people who come to our country and stay get treated far better than some of the people who have busted their butt all their lives here? Tell me how is that fair! You people take…
Nativism as a force is on the defensive in Arizona and elsewhere. Nowhere is this so telling as in the push for comprehensive immigration reform in Washington, D.C. The New York Times reported recently that Republicans, including Arizona U.S. senators John McCain and Jeff Flake, are taking part in meetings…
Making good on her June 7, notice of claim for $10 million against Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, veteran AG investigator Meg Hinchey filed suit Wednesday in Maricopa County Superior Court, alleging that Horne and his underlings are engaged in an ongoing campaign to ruin Hinchey’s law enforcement career. See…
Another day, another six-digit award by Maricopa County to a victim of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas. This time it’s the chairman of the Board of Supervisors, Andy Kunasek, who was framed for a crime he didn’t commit as part of an apparent plan to…
An organization co-chaired by Pastor Warren Stewart is endorsing his candidacy for a District 8 seat on the Phoenix City Council. The Black-Brown Coalition of Arizona, forged to maintain an alliance between the black and Latino communities, believes the Phoenix City Council should maintain diversity. The only black Phoenix City…
The 16-year-old girl who had a plan that Sheriff Joe Arpaio declared “almost meets the profile of what happened in [Newtown], Connecticut” has been released from custody. Maricopa County Superior Court spokesman Vincent Funari tells New Times that a judge ordered the girl to be released on an electronic-monitoring a…
If you have four warrants for your arrest, and you’re in a stolen car, we suppose carrying around a box labeled “Meth Time” isn’t outside the realm of possibility.According to information provided by the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office, the man doing the aforementioned things was 20-year-old Richard Prunty, a Kingman…
The race for the Phoenix City Council seat in District 8 — a seat that has been held by African-Americans for the past 46 years — has been further complicated for those who are determined to keep that streak alive.Phoenix School of Law professor and Roosevelt school district board member…
Although the meaningless online petition begging the federal government to let Arizona secede didn’t even get enough signatures to warrant a response, eight other states’ petitions did.To paraphrase the White House employee who responded to the petitions, “No.”See also:-Arizona Secession Movement Can’t Even Gather Enough Support on Meaningless Online Petition-Obama…
