Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s playing Santa Claus for the “birther” crowd today, as he’s delivering the “preliminary findings” of his Cold Case Posse’s “investigation” into President Obama’s eligibility.MCSO spokesman Jeff Sprong says it’s unknown how many media members will be in attendance for the announcement, “but we are expecting…
Dave Hendershott, the disgraced former chief deputy under Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, will invoke his right against self-incrimination if asked to testify in the job appeal hearing for fired deputy Joel Fox.Barry Markson, Hendershott’s lawyer, told Judge Robert Sparks in the appeal hearing today that his client intended to…
We stumbled upon this little nugget on the Daily Kos, which is much more interesting given Paul Babeu’s latest attacks on his sister, Lucy. David Nir of the Daily Kos wrote that “Sheriff Paul Babeu originally tried to blame website comments on mentally ill sister.” The entire Daily Kos blog…
With oral arguments scheduled to take place April 25 before the U.S. Supreme Court on Arizona’s breathing-while-brown statute Senate Bill 1070, Arizona District Court Judge Susan R. Bolton today enjoined two sections of the law she had not previously put on hold in 2010, when she stymied the most egregious parts…
A judge wants to know whether a criminal investigation is open on Joel Fox, the fired Maricopa Sheriff’s Office captain at the heart of the infamous “SCA” campaign-financing scandal. Which is great, because so do we. Fox has been fighting to get his job back in a lengthy appeal proceeding…
Paul Babeu is on the defensive — again. This time the embattled Pinal County sheriff has hired the Rose Law Group to defend him from a second round of allegations from his sister, Lucy, that he engaged in a sexual relationship with one of the students from DeSisto School in…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and company say they’ve found more people surfing Craigslist trying to find dogs that are DTF.The plan, according to Arpaio, was that the three people arrested by the MCSO last night were using Craigslist to find a dog to “fornicate” with the woman, while her…
Organizers of an awards ceremony for the Tulsa Police Department have nixed Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu as a guest speaker for the event because they didn’t want the embattled sheriff to taint the event. The Tulsa World reports that more than 40 Tulsa, Oklahoma police officers will receive awards for…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is clinging to his Congressional campaign, despite being embroiled in what he has described as a “very messy situation.” Since New Times broke the story on February 17, Babeu has continued to deny allegations that he and his attorney threatened Jose Orozco, Babeu’s ex-boyfriend…
A local news station has reported that while Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu was headmaster for the now-defunct DeSisto School in Stockbridge, Massachusetts from 1999 to 2001, the Massachusetts Office of Child Care Services launched an investigation into repeated claims of physical and sexual abuse from students at the private…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio — the man who says, “I don’t have press conferences just to get my name on television” — held a press conference today outside Tent City to talk about a sign on the fence.It’s the early 19th-anniversary present for the jail — a sign displaying…
An interesting story by JJ Hensley in the Arizona Republic yesterday mentions how the number of outstanding warrants in Maricopa County has dropped by 20 percent since 2008.For years, critics have been juxtaposing the number of warrants with Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s priorities, questioning why his deputies seem to have so…
Tent City is turning 19 later this year, but Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is getting started early for the jail’s annual birthday publicity stunt.This time, Arpaio’s putting up a sign outside the jail, displaying the total “Number of Inmates ‘Served'” — an idea stolen from what the sheriff’s office…
After releasing two not-so-scathing statements through his campaign last week about Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s Mexican ex-lover problems, Congressman Paul Gosar now sounds pretty peeved off with Babeu (he is one of his Republican primary opponents in the congressional race, after all).Instead of the tone last week — where…
The results show for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “birther” investigation into President Obama’s eligibility is apparently so important that it’s going to be steamed live on a conspiracy-theory website.That’s right — World Net Daily, which has been the mouthpiece for the latest inquiry into the repeatedly debunked conspiracy theory,…
Cost $6,000 and worth every penny… For years, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has successfully peddled the myth that he’s “America’s toughest sheriff,” but his record of wasting taxpayer money, pursuing his political enemies and, worst of all, bungling the investigations of sex crimes on a massive, unprecedented scale, seems to finally…
A new survey of Arizona voters by Public Policy Polling shows that President Barack Obama stands an even chance of turning Arizona blue in November.The poll shows Obama surging in our redder than red state, tying Republican Mitt Romney at 47 percent. Against GOPer Rick Santorum he does one point…
GOPer and State House Speaker Andy Tobin’s turning into a regular Russell Pearce clone these days.Earlier in the year, there was his support of new restrictions on freedom of speech at the Arizona Capitol, and today, according to Channel 12 reporter Melissa Blasius, Tobin’s officious flack Rey Torres booted her…
Pearce telling his “scrotum” jokeDuring a Lincoln Day Luncheon today in Phoenix televised live by C-Span and featuring a keynote address by GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, recalled state Senator Russell Pearce regaled an audience of fellow Republicans with a weird tale about some fella’s “crushed scrotum.”Talking Points Memo posted…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced today that the FBI’s Portland, Oregon office raided a house belonging to the person they believe was running a website that glorified killing cops and “threatened to kill” the sheriff.The suspect, 35-year-old Clifton Dawayne Brooks, wasn’t arrested, but FBI Special Agent James Turgal said…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio took the stage today in an event hosted by the county’s Republican Party, saying — among other things — that President Obama should thank him every time the sheriff’s office goes on an illegal-immigrant roundup “employer sanctions operation.”Arpaio didn’t exactly stick with a topic during…
Former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Rick Santorum is meeting with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio today — at least, according to the sheriff — to become the next in the line of GOP candidates to come kiss Arpaio’s rings.According to Arpaio, or his flak, presidential candidates Mitt Romney and…
