Four of the seven Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office employees suspected of having ties to a drug-and human-smuggling operation have been cleared of any criminal conduct following an investigation conducted by an outside agency.The four unidentified employees have returned to work, and now face an internal investigation.No other officers are being…
With the ouster of now-former Executive Director of the Arizona Republican Party Brett Mecum, Thayer Verschoor, a veteran of the Arizona Legislature and short-lived communications director for the AZ GOP, is getting a promotion.Sources tell New Times Verschoor has been slated to take over for Mecum as executive director of…
Russell Pearce, have a heapin’ helping of freshly baked humble pie.Citizens for a Better Arizona, the group spearheading the effort to recall the powerful state Senate President, made history today, turning in 18,315 signatures to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office, more than double the 7,756 signatures required by law…
A Phoenix man who claims polio caused severe paralysis on one side of his body is suing the Phoenix Police Department because three officers severely beat him after they claimed he ran from them.In a complaint filed in Maricopa County Superior Court, Refugio Rodriquez says the officers’ claim that he…
The New Times cover story this week, “Joe Knows,” shows that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio knew about — and was a driving force behind — corruption that has plagued his office for years.See the article here.Records show that Arpaio knew the MCSO was using money intended for jail upkeep…
As Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio continues to take it on the chin for various acts of mismanagement and corruption within his department — which now includes Mexican drug cartels infiltrating the MCSO — the man who wants his job has some suggestions for the aging sheriff.Click here for the…
Duty calls, and I have been employed on a project by my masters, which is now monopolizing most of my free time. And no, it has nothing to do with Arpaio, thankfully.As a consequence, there will be extremely light blogging, FB-wise, for the remainder of the week. I will resume…
One of those arrested, a detention officer, is the baby-mama of a cartel “kingpin” and another is a former member of the sheriff’s anti-human-smuggling task force who’s himself an alleged human smuggler.The three officers, Deputy Alfredo Navarette and detention officers Sylvia Najera and Marcella Hernandez, were arrested this morning after a…
Our sources, it appears, were correct.The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office just confirmed that three sheriff’s deputies have been arrested in connection with a drug- and human-smuggling operation.Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Bill Montgomery plan to brief the media on the busts at 3:30 this afternoon.According to the MCSO, “Arpaio…
UPDATE: The MCSO confirms to New Times that three sheriff’s deputies have been arrested. Click here for details.The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office served search warrants at three west Valley locations this morning, and county sources tell New Times the boys in beige are investigating some of their own for alleged…
Recently filed court documents show that State Senate President Russell Pearce’s 30 year-old son Joshua has been sentenced to a year in the Arizona Department of Corrections for violating the conditions of his probation on a 2007 conviction for aggravated DUI. (Both Joshua’s infant son and his wife were in…
Russell Pearce: Pioneer Against Illegal Immigration or Racist?: MyFoxPHOENIX.comKudos to Fox 10 anchor John Hook and executive producer Rod Haberer for the best exposé I’ve seen another outlet do on the subject of state Senate President Russell Pearce and his relationship with Arizona neo-Nazi J.T. Ready. The piece ran during…
Well, here’s some fresh proof that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s “Munnell memo” report is a complete whitewash, and that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was, is, and always will be in complete control of his agency. While he’s still sheriff, that is. Today Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s office…
I’m really beginning to wonder about Arizona Republic columnist Doug MacEachern’s sanity.Yesterday, I pointed out that MacEachern was regurgitating Glenn Beck’s conspiratorial leftovers, wailing like a stuck javelina that controversial former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill was present when student activists took over a Tucson Unified School District board…
He just took you for $100 million in protected taxpayer funds.You are one of the following: 1) a senile ol’ coot skerred of Messcans2) a tebagging piece of white trash with a do-rag and a Harley3) a rich Republican goober like Steve Ellmanor4) a GOP hack looking for an endorsement.Whether…
The Arizona Republic’s Doug MacEachern continues to prove himself a shrill, conspiratorial wuss, one so unoriginal, he has to ape Glenn Beck, of all people.In his latest misleading ditty about ethnic studies, MacEachern practically pops a vein informing all and sundry that Ward Churchill, the controversial former Colorado professor, who’s been pilloried for…
Len Munsil, a conservative activist who ran against former Governor Janet Napolitano in 2006, was once investigated by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s corrupt anti-corruption unit. In the “Trifecta case,” as it was called by Arpaio’s minions on the Maricopa Anti-Corruption Enforcement team, Munsil was investigated for supposed improprieties stemming from the 2006 race. The…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s under attack by crazy “big government libs” and needs your support. This according to the bizarre worldview of Rob Haney, chair of the Maricopa County Republican Party. He feels so bad for Sheriff Joe Arpaio and three other conservative leaders who have taken criticism lately that…
Courtesy of the Three Sonorans blog. Now here’s a quiz: What do all these people have in common? Just a coincidence, I’m sure…It’s the easiest thing in the world to label someone a Marxist, a commie or un-American. You don’t need any real evidence. All you need to do is…
A top aide to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio doesn’t believe his boss was “out of the loop” of information in his own office. The opinion by Deputy Chief Paul Chagolla, made to investigators probing the misconduct allegations of some of Arpaio’s other top men, fuels the idea that Arpaio knew…
A kitchen manager at Desert Canyon Golf Club in Fountain Hills was fired — twice — because he complained that female workers were being sexually harassed, says a federal complaint. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the suit (see below) yesterday, demanding that the club’s parent company, Golf International, stop illegally…
I hate to be that guy, but we told you so. Last night Channel 12 aired news hound Joe Dana’s interview with Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Chief Financial Officer Loretta Barkell concerning the $100 million Arpaio and his upper echelon pilfered from two protected funds. The money paid for witch-hunts of Arpaio’s…
