Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery stepped up for Sheriff Joe Arpaio yesterday, saying the Justice Department was “reckless” to assert county residents are being negatively affected by the sheriff’s office unless Montgomery gets the evidence.Montgomery sent a second request to the Justice Department for more information, and said it was…
Jeffrey Martinson, who not long ago was facing a possible cell on death row, has won a new lease on his legal life with a momentous court ruling ordering a new trial. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sally Duncan’s seven-page ruling overturned last November’s guilty jury verdicts of first-degree murder…
Talk about a lazy Mexican — nearly four years after promising ustedes that I was going to write a book about the history of Mexican food in the United States, my Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America is getting released this week! April 10! 300-plus pages of astounding history…
NO LOVE FOR BABEU Babeu deserves everything bad: The gay Green Lantern (“Hypocrite Tripper,” Stephen Lemons, March 22) . . . Now that’s classic! I hope Babeu has a power ring like Green Lantern’s, ’cause he’s going to need it to get out of the mess he’s gotten himself into…
Hey, Phoenix, it’s time for some crowning achievements. We are among royalty this week, as New Times profiles the 15 finalists for the 2012 Big Brain Awards. Big Brain Awards 2012 Finalists: The Work This is the third year we’ve asked readers to suggest emerging creatives in our community who…
The makers of a new documentary have teamed up with Cannabis Science, Inc., a Colorado firm, to promote the idea that marijuana can cure many types of cancer. “Chronic Future – Killing Cancer,” a 76-minute film by local guys Henry Miller and Corey Pritchard, is scheduled to premiere tomorrow (Thursday)…
Joe Sauceda Gallegos, who beat two young Phoenix boys to death with a baseball bat a few days before Christmas in 2008, is finally going to prison.Gallegos was found incompetent to stand trial in 2010, and was sent to a mental health facility.After some meds and time in the nuthouse,…
In late February, Brent Ian Anderson decided the best way to avoid paying child support was to take his 3-year-old daughter to Mexico and not tell the kiddo’s mother about it.Turns out, Anderson was incorrect about that, because the authorities just flew him and the youngster from Mazatlan, Mexico, to…
Michael Brown, a former CVS pharmacy employee who was busted on child-porn charges in June 2010, pleaded guilty today to five related charges.Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Brown after they received a tip that he had left several pornographic images of children in one of the store’s photo kiosks.Maricopa County…
Given the headlines about an FBI investigation into Attorney General Tom Horne, he’s requesting the same “media prominence” be given to the fact his accuser said his complaint was not based on “direct evidence.”There ya go.The news came Monday from the Arizona Capitol Times that Horne was being investigated by…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery today released letters that show his defense of Sheriff Joe Arpaio from what he calls a “reckless” Justice Department.One of the letters, by deputy assistant Attorney General Roy Austin, also states that the feds have discovered new evidence that Arpaio’s office botched sex-crimes investigations.The April…
The National Republican Congressional Committee has been increasing press-release blasts to some of its targeted districts recently, including two already today.The releases mostly tie local candidates to the Obama administration and the current Democrats in Congress, just plugging in the name of the local Democratic congressional candidate.In Arizona’s newly formed…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed a bill yesterday that bans the use or possession of medical marijuana on college campuses, other schools campuses and childcare facilities.Opponents, including Joe Yuhas of the Arizona Medical Marijuana Association, predict the new law will end up being contested in court because it violates the…
The Phoenix Suns kept their slim playoff hopes alive by outlasting the Sacramento Kings 109-100 on Tuesday night in California. As they have for weeks now, the Suns still hold 10th place in the NBA’s Western Conference race. At 27-26 and 13 games left to play, the Suns are a…
The report from an ethics investigation into state Representative Daniel Patterson was released Monday, as team of lawyers selected by House Speaker Andy Tobin found quite a few reasons as to why they believe Patterson should be expelled from the House.Among several other things in the report, investigators claim Patterson…
After reading the investigation done on behalf of the House Ethics Committee, a handful of legislators were ready to punt state Representative Daniel Patterson out of the House today, but that didn’t happen.Among several other things in the report released yesterday, investigators claim Patterson routinely ignores House rules, “verbally abuses,…
Arizona’s House Bill 2549, which was labeled by one critic as a “bill to censor electronic speech,” has been stopped, according to one of the bill’s sponsors.As we’ve already mentioned twice before, the bill was never transferred to the governor, contrary to the numerous media reports saying it has. The…
Negotiations between Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the U.S. Justice Department over racial-profiling allegations have stalled because of Arpaio’s refusal to let a federal “monitor” check out his office.The feds announced in December that the Maricopa County Sheriff was behind the worst case of racial profiling in U.S. history, and the…
In case you missed it, here’s a jaw-dropping interview with Michael Hicks, a Tucson Unified School District governing board member, by Daily Show with Jon Stewart correspondent Al Madrigal about the school board’s Mexican-American studies ban. Hicks advocated the ban and admits on The Daily Show that he never attended any ethnic-studies classes, instead…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he may be taking heat for breaking up families and going on illegal-immigrant hunts, but when he gets the chance, he’ll still save the lives of illegal immigrants.The sheriff’s office says it got a hot tip on Saturday about six illegal immigrants, abandoned by…
Angela Simpson, the Phoenix woman who impaled, stabbed, strangled, beat, and extracted the teeth from a disabled man — then dismembered him and set pieces of his body on fire — was sentenced today to life in prison for the 2009 murder.Simpson pleaded guilty on March 22 to first-degree murder…
There’s a Rodney Dangerfield joke in here somewhere, but Scottsdale police say Dudley KwokTak Chan was going around pretending he was a Chandler police officer to “get respect.”Getting “respect” for wearing a police badge is typically reserved for actual police officers, so that didn’t work out too well for Chan.According…
