With mariachis, dancing, ice cream cake, and even a brief appearance by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Phoenix civil rights leader Salvador Reza and fellow activists celebrated one year of near-daily protests at the Wells Fargo Building downtown, where Arpaio’s MCSO keeps two floors of pricey executive offices, paid for by county…
The lawsuit filed by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office against county management — the result of disputed ownership of a computer system — will now move to Pima County, the Maricopa Superior Court has ruled.This looks like a victory for the sheriff’s side: His lawyer’s had asked for an “emergency…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio may be considering a run for Governor of Arizona, according to Phoenix Business Journal reporter Mike Sunnucks. If he does so, Chief Deputy David Hendershott might be considering self-imposed exile in Honduras. Or maybe Shanghai. For Captain Joel Fox, center of the SCA scandal and G. Gordon Liddy-wannabe, there’s always harakiri. This…
Pedro Ultreras’ stark, uncompromising film 7 Soles (7 Suns) may be the most timely film out now. The movie depicts a band of Mexican migrants enduring a living nightmare to cross the Sonoran desert in the hopes of reaching Phoenix. Your last chance to see it any time soon will…
Arizona Republican Party Chairman Randy Pullen called for an investigation into Attorney General Terry Goddard at a press conference yesterday — but failed to mention that Goddard’s office is currently investigating Pullen.In fact, in Pullen’s remarks, which you can see in this video posted to www.sonoranalliance.com, the state party chairman…
Watch this, and tell me truthfully, who do you feel for, these two guys, or the nudnik operating the camera? Look, I’m no fan of the U.S. Border Patrol. Or of checkpoints. Or of police power in general. I think anyone familiar with this blog knows that. But it’s a…
Like you needed more proof that white supremacists are lame and talentless Are you painfully white, and hate Jews, diversity, Mexicans, and black folk (though not necessarily in that order)? Do you find yourself googly-eyed whenever Adolf Hitler is on the History Channel, or end up salivating over documentaries concerning the 1995 Oklahoma City…
The Maricopa County Elections Department and Recorder’s Office announced this morning it had found “reasonable cause to believe that a number of individuals and entities” have violated the state’s campaign finance laws. According to the announcement: The finding was hand delivered to the Office of County Attorney Andrew Thomas this morning…
Well, at least they weren’t using old bedsheets this time around Normally, I could give a flip if someone hangs a banner off a freeway overpass. But these Ron Paul-worshipping hosers so annoy me with their conspiracy-a-minute mills and their wack, home-made signs spouting the nonsense that “vaccines equal poison”…
It’s one mystery solved, a few more to go.Thanks to documents unsealed today in Pinal County Superior Court at New Times’ behest, we now know the liaison between the Arizona Republican Party and Sheriff’s Captain Joel Fox.It’s a Republican campaign consultant, Chris Baker.Arizona Republican Party Chairman Randy Pullen has testified under oath…
Pinal County Superior Court Judge Robert Carter Olson today unsealed the search warrant and other documents in a criminal investigation into a campaign finance scandal linked to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office — pulling back the curtain, in part, on an investigation that is clearly both active and serious.Olson acted…
The Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office has released the autopsy report and toxicology results for Marcia Powell, the 48-year-old woman who died May 20 after being confined to a human cage at Perryville Prison in Goodyear for some four hours in the blazing Arizona sun. The conclusion of Medical Examiner Mark…
What did investigators find after executing a search warrant at the Gilbert home of Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Captain Joel Fox? Call it the $315,000 question. Fox has been leading the public on a merry mystery tour for nearly a year, trickling out information about the SCA only under pressure…
Before I hit you with my account of this Sunday’s evening service at Tempe’s Faithful Word Baptist Church — home to Obama-death-wish preacher Steven Anderson, and his spritual follower, AR-15-toter and Obama-hater Christopher Broughton — I should run down some significant points picked up during my post-service chats with both. First off,…
Embedded video from CNN VideoOn Friday, CNN’s Rick Sanchez took on the subject of Tempe pastor Steven Anderson, the kooky, Obama-bashing preacher, now infamous for praying for the president’s demise, and for being the pastor to Christopher Broughton, the AR-15 totin’ anarchist/libertarian who showed up outside President Obama’s address to the…
Why anyone buys any of the shameless bull that flows forth from the MCSO’s PR team like a mighty river of bunk is beyond me. Take this latest, bogus claim from the sheriff of a legal victory in the big ACLU racial profiling lawsuit, Melendres v. Arpaio: “SHERIFF WINS IMPORTANT…
An opinion piece published yesterday on National Public Radio’s Web site, written by Hector Sanchez, Director of Policy and Research for the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, calls Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio “a pernicious person,” a macho champion of “denigration and mental abuse,” and a “torturer on U.S. soil.”…
Radio personality Carlos Galindo gets the MCSO treatment Thursday Above is a video sent to me by activists out monitoring MCSO activity in Maryvale yesterday. According to the activists and others I spoke with, there were about 50 or so MCSO deputies gathered at the John F. Long Community Center at…
The SCA was determined to keep its secrets hidden, but on-the-ball election officials haven’t let that happen. We’ve tracked the release of the bank account info and check copies that Captain Joel Fox, the SCA’s “spokesman,” didn’t want made public. And now, thanks to a subpoena, another secret has been pried loose. This…
Alan Colmes is my new hero. Sure, he might look like E.T.’s pappy, but this dood is one sharp liberal. Just bend an ear to the audio clips of Colmes swimming logical laps round Steven L. Anderson, the Tempe pastor who wishes President Barack Obama, homosexuals, and sundry other sinners, dead. Colmes had…
A just-released letter to President Barack Obama endorsed by a diverse group of 521 civil rights, legal and cultural organizations — including the ACLU, the ADL, MALDEF, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the Episcopal Church — calls on the president to “immediately terminate the 287(g) program operated by the Department of Homeland…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office will be training “dozens” of Canadian Royal Mounted Police on drug detection techniques this week in the county jail. A few Mounties came to Phoenix earlier this year for the same thing, apparently funded by the Canadian government. Canada’s legendary police force may be able…
