Arizona prisons are notorious reservoirs of criminal behavior, and apparently that’s just the staff. No joke. Arizona Department of Corrections Director Charles Ryan admits as much in a recent post to his “Director’s Desk” blog, wherein he states that “in the past four and a half years, there have been…
Willems pumps up the alter kockers with his doomsday scenario, talk of spies in the other camp, and a plan to “block” voters from signing the recall petition As promised in this week’s column, above is the audio of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s campaign guru Chad Willems speaking to the pro-Joe…
What are the chances that a lawyer who was found by a court to have “inappropriately touched” children would try to stop the recall of a county sheriff whose agency failed to properly investigate more than 400 sex crimes?This is quite the, um, coincidence, as we stumbled across a judgment…
Gilman’s latest rakes Nowakowski over the coals for his parley with El Diablo Which side are you on? The recall effort is underway, and even Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s campaign guru Chad Willems has acknowledged that if the recall committee Respect Arizona scores the needed signatures for the ballot, then, “Joe…
Portions of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s 10,000-page sex-crimes internal investigation are now available online following a New Times records request. When the massive report was released to the news media and public on February 8, the agency at first refused New Times’ request to put it on a CD…
The people behind Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “birther” investigation are now trying to tell the Arpaio recall effort that they’ll go to court to shut it down if they don’t do it themselves.Spoiler alert: Fat chance, for Arpaio’s friends.See also:-Why Sheriff Joe Actually Is Nervous About the Recall Effort Against Him-Joe…
My general rule when it comes to drinking is that I do mine at home. Life is so much simpler that way. It’s a bit of wisdom two of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s boys in beige might profit from: MCSO Lieutenant Aaron Brown and sex crimes detective Stephen Palmer, both of…
Timothy Abrahamson, the former Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputy accused of driving to North Dakota in September and assaulting his wife’s ex-lover, faces a March 12 trial date in Fargo. Abrahamson, who played a key role in some of the discredited anti-corruption investigations conducted by Sheriff Arpaio’s office, has pleaded not…
If you’re a close observer of the Maricopa County sheriff like we are, check out this hour-long video (in three parts) from his testimony in last year’s Joel Fox termination appeal proceedings. Arpaio squirms a little, appears to feign ignorance and mixes up his stories as he answers questions from…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio admitted in 2011 he was “duped” by his top aides. He admitted in an embarrassing news conference the same year that he’d “made mistakes” in dealing with his former chief deputy, Dave Hendershott, whom he fired after evidence of corruption and mismanagement in his office…
A Phoenix dog-toy manufacturer who was once involved in a lawsuit with Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch over his dog toy called “Buttwiper” is now involved in a federal lawsuit with another brewer.This time, a lawsuit filed on behalf of Stephen Sacra’s Phoenix-based company, VIP Products, claims that an attorney for Heineken…
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office and Arizona-based attorneys for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement are engaged in a partnership to ensure the deportation of undocumented aliens who otherwise would benefit from President Obama’s proposed comprehensive immigration reform, despite statements from both agencies to the contrary. As I documented in…
Sounds like forgery is rampant in Tempe. Will Bill Montgomery respond? Are all truly equal before the law? When it comes to forgery in Maricopa County, the answer is a decided, “Hell, no.” Yesterday, the Tempe Police Department issued statistics showing that last year they had confiscated “1,761 fictitiously used…
Despite protests and calls for him to apologize, Phoenix City Councilman Michael Nowakowski defended himself on Tuesday for brokering a meeting between scores of Latino pastors and Sheriff Joe Arpaio just days before Arpaio’s anti-immigrant raid on a Tempe apparel company, his 71st such operation to date. See also: -Joe…
Secret footage obtained by New Times of the last Teabagger meet-up headed by A.J. LaFaro. With friends like these, how could Joe lose? Check out the email below, with a message purportedly from walking PayDay bar and newly-elected chair of the Maricopa County Republican Committee, A.J. “Wild Man” LaFaro. In…
Protecting the kids? Tell it to those who suffered because the MCSO botched hundreds of sex crime investigations Wanna find out how Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s boys in beige botched investigations into hundreds of sex crime cases in Maricopa County? It’ll cost ya. Five grand, to be exact. And make the…
Days prior to his agency’s immigration raid on a Tempe clothing company, Sheriff Joe Arpaio was meeting with scores of Latino pastors in a get-together brokered by Phoenix City Councilman Michael Nowakowski. See also: -Bill Montgomery Is No Immigration Moderate -Prensa Hispana Blows MCSO Deputy Chief Paul Chagolla in Print…
Since we first started getting details about the effort to recall Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, readers have asked us how they can sign the petition.Respect Arizona filled us in on a few ways to signing the petition, as the committee is attempting to gather more than 300,000 valid signatures…
Folks, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s school-patrol posse is so serious about school safety that posse members will be setting up a school-shooting simulation this weekend as a test.Have we mentioned yet that actor Steven Seagal will be supervising the festivities?See also:-Joe Arpaio’s School-Patrol Posse Gets a Glowing Review From the NRA-New…
At this point in time, it would be nearly impossible to convince us that there wasn’t a crystal meth smoke-a-thon at the Arizona Republic’s editorial board meeting on Sunday night.The Republic editorial board has declared that the Arpaio recall “should fail,” adding, “The recall is as much of an abuse…
While the National Rifle Association has proposed putting an armed guard inside every American school, the lobbying organization’s “news” arm ran a gushing endorsement of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s school-patrol posse, which puts an armed guard in zero schools.The public-relations piece for Arpaio aired on the TV show “NRA News Cam…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has issued what’s undoubtedly the world’s whiniest response to the recently announced recall effort against him.There’s a statement from his campaign manager Chad Willems, as well as an Arpaio fundraising e-mail, in which the Sheriff asks, “Why do they hate me so much?”See also:-Joe Arpaio…
