Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s boys in beige raided a Valley business this morning in search of illegal immigrants using fake IDs in order to work — again. The result: a whopping four arrests.About 9:30 a.m., sheriff’s deputies “swarmed” the Allied Tube Company near 27th Avenue and Thomas Road in…
fromtheleft.wordpress.com Apparently it takes a federal judge to tell the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office that being Hispanic isn’t actually illegal. More than two years after a Hispanic father-son combo was arrested by MCSO deputies near the site of one of their infamous worksite raids, a federal judge ruled Monday that…
The Obama administration on blast and the 1070 boycott rolls on, one year laterBehold this first ever video collaboration between Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman and New Times, documenting Saturday’s anti-Senate Bill 1070 march to the Arizona state Capitol.In the above video, Gilman captures some great footage of angry nativists, pro-immigrant…
A Mohave County prosecutor tells New Times today that he dropped meth charges against a woman working as an informant following allegations that a police officer sexually abused her. As we reported on Friday, Erika Solem of Bullhead City is suing Mohave County and the Mohave County Attorney’s Office, Deputy County Attorney…
Goldwater Institute wants nothing more than to protect your right to have hundreds of small fish suck dead skin off of your feet. Later this week, the Arizona Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear a lawsuit filed by Goldwater on behalf of a Gilbert spa owner told by the state…
Sheriff Arpaio’s double-dipping, now-fired chief deputy, Dave Hendershott, lost his last home in foreclosure proceedings and has been on administrative leave for months while under investigation. This hasn’t stopped him from living in the lap of luxury, judging by his current residence. In 2008, a real estate firm specializing in high-end habitations showed…
Around a year ago, just days after Governor Jan Brewer signed Senate Bill 1070 into law and made Arizona synonymous with nativism and bigotry, Arizona Congressmen Ed Pastor and Raul Grijalva, both Democrats, spoke before an anti-1070 rally of thousands, exhorting the crowd to fight against the hate 1070 represents.Pro-immigrant…
Well, it wasn’t too difficult to find out where pro-Hitler propagandist and Holocaust-denier David Irving was having his coffee klatch of kooks, the one I informed you about in a blog post yesterday. By Thursday afternoon, several folks were calling me with the information that he’d be holding court with…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio fired two of his most trusted aides today, Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott and Deputy Chief Larry Black, both of whom have been accused of crimes and misconduct. Arpaio told the Arizona Republic in 2009 that no one could make him drive Hendershott from office, but the 1,022-page investigative report into…
A Bullhead City woman who worked as an undercover informant claims in a federal lawsuit that she was sexually abused repeatedly by a Fort Mohave Tribal Police detective. Erika Solem alleges in her 46-page federal complaint that after she was caught with 14 grams of crystal meth during a traffic stop…
We don’t know whether Sheriff Joe Arpaio read last week’s New Times article about his lovey-dovey top commanders — but we know he saw it. Demonstrators laid out a couple of dozen copies of the issue during a protest of a Tea Party rally at the State Capitol last week,…
It’s been a couple of years since disgraced historian and Holocaust-denier David Irving hit town. You may recall the ruckus raised by anti-fascist protesters at Jerry’s Restaurant in Phoenix in 2009, where Irving spoke before a small crowd of neo-Nazis and assorted kooks.The manager at Jerry’s recently informed me that…
This Saturday, April 23 marks the one-year anniversary of Governor Jan Brewer signing Senate Bill 1070 into law. And though there have been a few encouraging cracks in the racist facade of late, the oppression, the raids, and separation of families continues.That’s why it’s important to support the Puente Movement-organized march…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio faced 5 1/2 hours of questioning in January as part of an investigation into a memo written by one of his top deputies that alleged corruption by his command staff. The Arizona Republic dug up billing records that provide evidence of what had long been speculated: That the so-called…
>p>Who let this gum-smacking, white trash witch out of her cage?Oh, do I have a treat for you. Here’s a new video from Phoenix activist and radio show host Carlos Galindo of him taking on racist Republican state Senator Lori Klein. In the video, Klein basically admits to telling an…
When I first heard that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service were raiding 15 Chuy’s restaurants in Arizona and California, my first thought was that this operation sounded suspiciously like a Sheriff Joe Arpaio-style raid against Pei Wei, Sizzler, McDonalds, et al. In fact, I’m stone-cold certain…
[jump] According to Armstrong, Hendershott withdrew about $10,000 — from three different banks — that he used to sponsor his and Armstrong’s sons’ baseball team to play in a tournament in California.However, Armstrong claims, Hendershott had arranged for the donation of a free van service from Courtesy Chevrolet to take…
We’ve given it the old college try, but State Representative Jim Weiers (R-Phoenix) apparently doesn’t want to talk about his reported role in the SCA criminal investigation. As our article on the campaign-finance scandal this week and previous blog posts mention, Weiers’ name came up in the 802-page report…
There’s a video applauded in the Conservative blogosphere of a man showing Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio a copy of the Constitution as the sheriff rants, raves, and pats himself on the back for his crusade to rid stock rooms at retail stores of illegal immigrants.Despite doing nothing to warrant such behavior…
When I read the recent Salon.com article “How a boycott meant to save Arizona is hurting it,” I wondered to myself how its author, a woman by the name of Drew Grant, ended up writing such an insipid, one-sided piece about the Sound Strike, a piece that’s essentially a Q…
Chalk up another embarrassing defeat for state Senate President Russell Pearce and his fellow Republinuts on three bills they desperately wanted: the birther bill, the guns on campus wackiness, and a bill allowing for an anti-health care reform compact among the states.Governor Jan Brewer has just vetoed all three measures…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s website got a bit of a facelift over the weekend, and the new format seems geared toward one thing: poking fun at inmates in Joe Arpaio’s gulags.The redesigned website features on its front page a way for the general public to vote for the “mugshot…
