Joel Fox Joel Fox finally has achieved the equivalent of a base hit in a court case. A federal judge ruled recently that a lawsuit against Cox Communications by the disgraced former captain fired by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio can proceed, for now. At the heart of the lawsuit, so to…
Congratulations to the New Times reader who goes by the handle Joe Mamma, you are the proud winner of this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.On Friday, we asked readers to provide what they think would be an appropriate caption for the above cover of Globe, and Maricopa…
Call it the revenge of Randy Parraz. The man who organized the end of former state Senate President Russell Pearce’s Career is returning — MacArthur-like — to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors’ auditorium, the place where he was falsely arrested in 2008 by Joe’s boys in beige while seeking…
Since the old, 2009 Pulitzer Prize-worthy tale of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s 432 botched sex-crime investigations was thrust into the national spotlight thanks to an oddly timed Associated Press article last week, two of Arizona’s three Democratic members of Congress have called for his resignation (Gabrielle Giffords hasn’t commented…
Last week, in honor of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s (embarrassing) investigation into the continuously debunked “birther” conspiracy theory (and the friggin’ beating America’s self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff” is taking in the press these days) we submitted the above cover of Globe, one of the sheriff’s favorite publications, for this week’s…
In the wake of the national media attention his office has received over hundreds of botched sex-crime investigations, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has made no secret that there are “other local agencies” who absolutely suck at investigating sex crimes, too.The sheriff hasn’t named names, but we’re stunned to find…
The New York Times piled more criticism of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio this afternoon over his office’s record of poorly investigated sex crimes.Reporter Marc Lacey, in what will be one of his swan-song articles from Arizona before leaving to serve as deputy editor of his paper’s foreign desk, writes…
It’s pile-on time for that infamous ignorer of sex-crimes cases, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and, boy, does the near-80 autocrat ever deserve the abuse.Democratic Congressmen and state legislators are calling for his scalp in the wake of his latest scandal — the MCSO’s ball-drop on more than 400 sex cimes cases,…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio may have blown it on 432 sex-crime investigations, but there’s one “investigation” he’s quite proud of: his “Cold Case Posse’s” investigation into whether President Barack Obama’s eligible to be president.In honor of the sheriff’s (embarrassing) investigation into the continuously debunked “birther” conspiracy theory (and the…
The evidence shows that Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s top men ran an illegal campaign-finance scheme to benefit their boss’ 2008 race, say newly released investigation documents. The internal affairs probe of the so-called SCA scandal concluded earlier this year and resulted in the termination of two of Arpaio’s closest aides, Chief Deputy Dave…
Arizona senators Jon Kyl and John McCain today issued a joint statement saying they are “concerned” with the the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s bungling of several hundred sex-crime investigations.”Concerned” is as far as the senators would go, though, and rather than calling for Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s head — as several…
One unfortunate aspect of the occupation of the Salt River Project’s Tempe headquarters last week was that the activists involved were not able to pull off a similar action at the Westin Kierland Resort, where corporate interests and GOP legislators were engaged in a veritable orgy of legislative cross-pollination during…
Congressman Ed Pastor of Arizona’s 4th District has joined the ranks of Sand Land politicians calling for Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s resignation over the MCSO’s mishandling of more than 400 sex crimes cases in El Mirage, many involving child victims.Today, Pastor’s office released the following statement endorsing plans by some on…
As the outrage over Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s mishandling of several hundred sex crimes continues to spread, the sheriff’s crusade to prove that President Barack Obama is a Kenyan version of the Manchurian Candidate wages on.Arpaio, as we’ve reported, agreed to investigate the president’s citizenship at the request of…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio seems to think Democratic politicians are using his office’s bungling of more than 400 sex crime investigations as a reason to call for his resignation — not because of his incompetence, but because they don’t like his policies on immigration.He also seems to think other…
Newly released records show a top Arpaio official was convinced her superiors had bugged her office.County observers may recall that Arpaio and his go-to guy, former Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott, wanted County Supervisor Andy Kunasek prosecuted for sweeping county offices for listening devices, claiming Kunasek had wasted taxapayer money.Yet these…
See any “screaming kids” chained to the state Capitol? Obviously, there’s limited room in New Times’ print edition to attack all the lies, myths, falsehoods, and half-truths promulgated by Governor Jan Brewer in her ghost-written memoir Scorpions for Breakfast. So there was no way for me to catalog and rebut them…
First Lady Michelle Obama apparently is in a “panic” over Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s probe into whether her husband, President Barack Obama, is a U.S. citizen — if you believe the supermarket tabloid The Globe’s “inside” White House sources, that is.Arpaio, who applauds supermarket tabloids as having “the best…
Maricopa County Sheriff is again under fire over hundreds of admittedly botched investigations into sex crimes over a three-year period ending in 2007.One of his biggest critics: Congressman Raul Grijalva, who is calling for Arpaio to resign over the bungled investigations.See our story on Arpaio’s oopsies here.Grijalva, whose Congressional district…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio apologized today to the victims of El Mirage sex-crimes cases that went uninvestigated due to incompetent police work under his watch.”Sometimes these kinds of things occur in big departments like (the Maricopa sheriff’s office),” Arpaio said during a press conference today, as tweeted by Arizona…
You may be having a better Monday morning than Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was slammed yesterday in a damning story about how his agency bungled hundreds of sex-crime cases.The Associated Press story by Jacques Billeaud presented news that’s familiar to local observers of the five-term sheriff of Maricopa County –…
Usually, Arpaio loves a good probe. The list of questionable investigations the five-term sheriff has launched against his political foes includes county Supervisors, judges, bureaucrats, lawyers, journalists and political activists. (See “Enemies List,”, “Joe Knew,” for starters.) But he won’t investigate his deputy chief’s alleged threat against a reporter and…
