In case Sheriff Joe Arpaio missed the gist of the fiat handed down Thursday by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ending Arpaio’s 287(g) jails agreement, John Morton, Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, doubled down on the dictate.In a letter dated December 15 to County Attorney Bill Montgomery, the ICE…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio — flanked by two attorneys and MCSO Deputy Chief Jack MacIntyre — held a press conference this afternoon to address the Department of Justice’s findings that his office is on the hook for the worst-racial profiling practices in U.S. history.In short, the four men came…
Eileen GilBride, Sheriff Arpaio’s lawyer, reacts to criticism by Chief Judge Kozinski that she had come to court unprepared. Questions asked by a Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in yesterday’s hearing of the New Times vs. Sheriff Arpaio false- arrest lawsuit seemed to lean toward the newspaper’s position…
Flanked by community activists and fellow elected leaders at her El Portal restaurant in central Phoenix, Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox held aloft the recently-released U.S. Department of Justice report on Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s racial profiling campaign against Sand Land Latinos, and praised it as a sort of Christmas…
Back in the late 1990s, the Justice Department ordered Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to stop the physical and medical abuse of inmates in county jails.The problems persist more than a decade later, despite the Department’s stipulations for reform.Today, the Justice Department ordered Arpaio to reform a “culture” of racial…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu says he hasn’t had a chance to read the U.S. Department of Justice’s report on Joe Arpaio’s committing some of the worst acts of racial profiling in U.S. history, but that isn’t stopping him from chiming in and bashing the feds.Somehow, Babeu’s using Arpaio’s bad…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office didn’t just commit racial profiling of Latinos, according to the findings of the U.S. Department of Justice’s investigation. Rather, Arpaio oversaw the worst pattern of racial profiling by a law enforcement agency in U.S. history, a DOJ expert concluded.Arpaio and his commanders created a “culture”…
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano yanked the 287(g) program from Maricopa County jails today because of a finding that Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office abused the rights of Latinos. The program, in which deputies are cross-trained by federal authorities to identify illegal immigrants booked into jail, has been credited by…
Sara Petsinger, 31, is going to need a new job — her meth/topless massage business was shut down yesterday when she was arrested for selling meth and heroin to an undercover Mesa police officer…in a school zone…as an 8-year-old slept in her apartment.Petsinger and her co-defendant, 49-year-old Christine Petsinger, face…
It was the most egregious case of racial profiling federal experts have ever seen. Findings in a long-running investigation of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office found that Sheriff Arpaio’s department has an “ingrained culture” of abusing the rights of Latinos. Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez announced today that the MCSO…
Jasmine Brown — a 29-year-old youth minister at the Family of God Christian Fellowship in Apache Junction — and the 12-year-old boy he’s accused of molesting, have differing accounts of the abuse — Brown doesn’t deny he molested the boy, he just claims it was consensual.Unfortunately for Brown, even if…
The hits keep coming for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. First, the media continues to hound him about hundreds of botched sex-crime investigations. Then Randy Parraz, the man who organized the takedown of ousted former Senate President Russell Pearce, demands his resignation. And now he’s being asked to leave the…
The findings of a three-year probe into allegations of racial profiling and other civil rights allegations against Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office will be revealed this morning by the U.S. Justice Department.The Civil Rights Division has run a wide-ranging investigation into the “patterns and practices” of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office,…
We’re not typically in the business of shameless self-promotion here at New Times, but we’ll make an exception to toot our own horn over recent accolades for our “Best of” smartphone app, which apparently is pretty friggin’ awesome.In fact, our new app has been listed in the iTunes’ year-end “Rewind”…
Yesterday, Scott Bass was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping and child abuse charges for locking his 14-year-old daughter in a bathroom for more than two months.Per his plea deal, Bass faced up to 17 years in prison — and New Times readers apparently weren’t…
BORDER BADDIES What does it tell you, Monica?: What is New Times’ position on immigration, anyway? On one hand, you seem like an open-borders rag, and then you write an article proving how corrupt U.S. border-protection agencies are (“Gangster Rep,” Monica Alonzo, December 1). If you are happy about all…
By the time the 2009 football season rolled around, the University of Minnesota hadn’t won a Big Ten title in 42 years. The Gophers largely spent those decades serving as target practice for the league’s higher powers, yet they weren’t without occasional bursts of second-string glory. One arrived two years…
This is the second rant I’ve felt I had to send to you. I don’t know if readers are allowed “seconds” but here it goes: Much has been said about the terrible things happening to the United States and its citizens by the Mexican drug cartels. But what’s the difference…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio pulled yet another ho-hum raid on a restaurant franchise recently, hunting illegal immigrants. At a Si Senor Mexican eatery in Chandler, sheriff’s deputies scored five — count ’em, five — workers suspected of using fake ID. Arpaio’s self-congratulatory press release on this paltry haul called it his…
A big man has a small cut on his finger. The boss is concerned. Work on a prep line in a restaurant and sooner or later, you’re going to cut your finger. But we’re not talking about any ordinary restaurant, and this employee’s no ordinary prep line guy. He’s a…
Editor’s note: This post was written by Peter Jamison, who covered the hearing for us and our sister paper, the SF Weekly: An 11-member panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had tough questions today for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s lawyer about why…
In a grotesque mix of Freudian projection, denial, all-out hubris and crass hypocrisy, ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce has told the Arizona Capitol Times that he’s trying to “forgive” Jerry Lewis, the man who spanked him hard by 12 points in the Legislative District 18 recall election for the “dishonesty”…
