Feathered Bastard will go dark for about a week as I work on a larger project that requires my undivided attention.Unless something pops up that I absolutely must blog, there will likely be no new blogs on FB until Monday, October 11. Sources are still free to contact me with info,…
Some of what Sanchez said that sunk his dinghyCNN’s firing of Rick Sanchez over some controversial comments made on a satellite radio show is asinine, short-sighted and hypocritical in the extreme.Yeah, he called The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart a “bigot,” but then he withdrew the comment later during the same…
A guy wearing nothing but pink socks was seen running towards 35th Avenue near the Durango Jail yesterday. The problem with that — aside from the guy being naked — is he was an inmate at the jail who’d just scaled five razor-wire fences and his running naked through the…
The Phoenix Police Department has finally issued a press release in the racially-motivated shooting of Kelly Jaeger, a Caucasian woman who was walking late at night in Phoenix’s Palma Park when she and her African-American friend Jeffery Wellmaker were reportedly accosted by a bald, white tattooed man. The man challenged…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office began a press release about an escaped inmate this afternoon with the comical question “Herculean inmate? Or Darwin award?” Perhaps the questions should have been “how the hell does a guy scale five razor-wire fences without anyone noticing?”Allow us to explain:This morning, around 7:30, a…
I’ve blogged till I’m blue in the face about the endless stream of whoppers concerning illegal immigration flowing from the pie-hole of racist state Senator Russell Pearce, the main sponsor of Arizona’s “breathing while brown law” SB 1070. One of Pearce’s favorite falsehoods, a phony stat he’s sputtered on numerous occasions, like he…
Watching the footage of Nogales Mayor Octavio Garcia-Von Borstel and his father Octavio Garcia Suarez dragged before a judge in shackles and prison stripes after their arrests on charges of bribery, theft, fraud and money laundering, raises a few interesting questions regarding Maricopa County’s crotchety top constable, Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The indictments of…
In my Monday blog concerning just who will pay for the cost of Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s administrative investigation into the Munnell memo alleging corruption in the command staff of the MCSO, I reported that Babeu’s flack Tim Gaffney had told me that both the MCSO and the Maricopa County…
I’m on deadline today, so I won’t have time to suss this out till later, but this CNN video of peace activist Liz Hourican being tackled by law enforcement is disturbing for a couple of reasons.The first is that, based on what’s in the video, there was no need for…
You guys call this a mosh? I’ve seen old ladies do betterSand Land continues to serve as the spot to be for neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and plain ol’ racist nativists to party down. Just check out the above video for the 2009 Oi Fest, held yearly in Tonopah, Arizona, and sponsored…
[jump] A photo of a younger Nelson Omar. The boy is now thirteen. Whether the coyote’s tale is true or not, Nelson is missing, and there is a decomposed body of a young boy at the Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office that could be him. The coroner needs photos of the boy…
Who will pick up the tab for Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s investigation into the allegations made in MCSO Deputy Chief Frank Munnell’s memo? And should Maricopa County pay for any of it, particularly considering the PCSO’s past record concerning internal investigations, specifically the mysterious “wounding” of PCSO Deputy Louie…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio spent a large portion of last week touting how his jails received high marks after a federal “audit.””The information they got … they should turn this over to DOJ. They would say, ‘Boy, this is pretty good, you did all the work for us,'” Arpaio…
If you read today’s Arizona Republic or watched Fox News last night, you might be under the mistaken impression that Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s vast incarceration complex has undergone an audit from the U.S. Marshals Service and earned gold stars and smiley faces all around. Um, not exactly. Despite the hoo-ha Arpaio’s made over…
One misconception out there is that the inquiry into MCSO Deputy Chief Frank Munnell’s memo by Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu could result in criminal charges being filed against those Sheriff Joe loyalists now suspended with pay: Chief Deputy David Hendershott, Director Larry Black, and Captain Joel Fox. Though Munnell alleges criminal activity…
Want more proof that Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a cross between Tricky Dick Nixon and Vincent “the Chin” Gigante? Take a gander at the Bobby Wetherell affidavit. Much of the local media continues, bass-like, to be impaled on the hook of Deputy Chief Frank Munnell’s loving memo to Sheriff Joe,…
According to records on file with the Maricopa County Superior Court, the investigators of the Phoenix Police Department’s elite Career Criminal Squad, with the assistance of the local Anti-Defamation League, have crushed the Arizona contingent of the Vinlanders Social Club, one of the most violent and feared racist skinhead organizations in America…
I stopped by DREAM Army headquarters last night to watch Michael Nazario put his wannabe-U.S. troops through the paces.See, Nazario and other members of the Arizona DREAM Act Coalition have been camped out since last week near U.S. Senator John McCain’s Phoenix office, at the corner of 16th Street and…
Gilman dogs Arpaio at a Joe show on the west sideHere’s the latest from the people’s videographer, Dennis Gilman: An account of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s September 16 appearance at a block watch meeting at Manzanita Elementary School on Phoenix’s west side.As you can see from the video, the neighborhood didn’t…
Many of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s ex-aides and critics agree on one thing: Despite Deputy Chief Frank Munnell’s recent memo portraying Arpaio as a hapless figurehead (a memo you can read, here) it’s the sheriff who rules the MCSO. As I discussed in a blog item earlier today, this narrative depicting Chief…
If the feds cannot find some indictments out of the mess that is Maricopa County, they should pack their Samsonites and head to Rio to sell real estate.The latest news in the wake of the release of Deputy Chief Frank Munnell’s memo outlining the many alleged misdeeds of Chief Deputy…
(Please see my update on this story, here.) Someone should consider putting Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s chief deputy, David Hendershott, on a suicide watch. The damning, 63-page memo from Deputy Chief Frank Munnell, first reported on by Joe Dana of Channel 12 News, reads like an indictment of Hendershott and his henchmen, MCSO Director Larry…
