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• Arpaio's Escaped Child Rapist in Custody After Six Years on the Lam

  Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 12:05 p.m.

  Adrian Cruz, the child-raping ice cream peddler who escaped from MCSO custody in 2009, is back behind bars, no thanks to Sheriff Joe. Mexican police, tipped off by the U.S. Marshals Service that Cruz was in Valle de Bravo, a small municipality about 90 miles west of Mexico City, nabbed...

• Arpaio's Chief Deputy Confirms Wack Investigations of Judge's Wife, CIA, DOJ, etc.

  Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 12:19 p.m.

  Here's my pick for the most ridiculous quote from MCSO Chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan's testimony in federal court Friday, during day-four of his and Sheriff Joe Arpaio's civil contempt trial in downtown Phoenix: "It depends on how you define, `investigated your wife,'" said Sheridan, his face redder than a pack...

• Arpaio Cops to Investigating Federal Judge, Judge's Wife, Confirming New Times Story

  Friday, April 24, 2015 at 7:53 a.m.

  In my line of work, it doesn't get much better than a federal judge's handing your column to a public official, and getting the accused pol to confirm the column's facts, one by one, under oath. This is what happened on day three of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's civil contempt trial,...

• Noose Tightens Around Arpaio's Neck as He Channels Ronnie Reagan in Day Two of Contempt Trial

  Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 8:02 a.m.

  Think To Kill a Mockingbird's Atticus Finch doing Jedi mind tricks on an addled Emperor Palpatine. That's what Stanley Young, the plaintiffs' lead attorney in the ACLU's big civil rights case Melendres v. Arpaio, resembled as he interrogated Sheriff Joe Wednesday afternoon during day two of Joe's civil contempt trial...

• MCSO Sergeant Implicates Arpaio in Willful Defiance of Federal Judge

  Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 7 a.m.

  MCSO Sergeant Brett Palmer sang like Pavarotti on the stand Tuesday afternoon during his boss Sheriff Joe Arpaio's civil contempt trial, laying the blame for the MCSO's defiance of a federal court's orders directly at his jefe's feet. Dressed in civilian attire, Palmer, who once helped manage the MCSO's now-defunct...

• "Slut-Shaming" Preacher Harasses Tempe Mosque, Tears Up Quran

  Friday, April 17, 2015 at 11:52 a.m.

  Wacko bigot preacher Brother Dean Saxton and a crew of fellow jerks harass the mosque in Tempe I hate giving morons free publicity, but sometimes it's necessary to spotlight the stupid as a sort of public service. Such is the case with Tucson's notorious "slut-shaming" street preacher Brother Dean Saxton,...