ACLU attorney Dan Pochoda with his golden retriever Blu. Park in the wrong place in Maricopa County and you get jailed for misdemeanor trespassing. Well, at least if Sheriff’s deputies are on site, and you happen to be a persistent critic of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. ACLU legal director Dan Pochoda…
A unisex loo is now an option for you and yours at Anderson’s Fifth Estate. Well, it ain’t over till the fat lady with the weenie sings, but there’s been a break in the battle over who gets to use which bog over at Anderson’s Fifth Estate. The club’s owner,…
Carol Gotbaum with her three children Ella, Nathaniel and Tobias. The PHX PD released a doorstop doc on the Carol Gotbaum arrest yesterday, as has been reported elsewhere. There were a few revelations. Gotbaum was on meds for depression. An airline attendant said Gotbaum purchased and drank a bloody mary…
As if you needed another example of how Maricopa County’s run like a banana republic, there’s the case of this catbird’s colleague Ray Stern. You see, Stern also got a knock on the door by MCSO thugs on the same night that Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin were busted. Reporter…
Below is a new snippet of video released on Friday from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport of Carol Gotbaum’s arrest. Though the video seems of slightly better quality and closer-in than previous footage, it only shows Gotbaum being dragged through the concourse, and does not show her being taken down by…
The Anti-Defamation League has a new report out on anti-immigration nutbars entitled, “Immigrants Targeted: Extremist Rhetoric Moves into the Mainstream.” Naturally, AZ was well-represented, with Minuteman Chris Simcox and Rusty Childress’ United for a Sovereign America getting mentions, and urban cougar Michelle Dallacroce scoring a whole section to herself. Of…
Kia-peddlin’ playboy Rusty Childress, pre-motorcycle crash… So where are all the Hispanic-hatin’ racists gonna go on Thursday nights? Not to Childress Kia anymore. The word’s out that owner Rusty Childress, winner of New Times’ 2007 “Best Bigot” Award, has sold Childress Kia. And for the last few weeks, there have…
I know noth-ink, NOTH-INK about zee Lacey-Larkin arrests… Anybody get a load of the recent statement from toxic-mold specialist and former special prosecutor Dennis Wilenchik? They should call the dood Pass-the-Buck Wilin-chuck for the way he’s thrown his legal lackeys under the bus, tryin’ to dodge all responsibility for the…
Goddard: His masculinity is a work in progress… So yesterday, someone sends me a copy of this letter Attorney General Terry Goddard fired off to County Attorney Andrew Thomas mentioning the New Times case, and asking that Thomas recuse his office from the investigation and have it “transferred immediately to…
Looking pale and uncharacteristically gun-shy, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas approached the podium in his office’s eighth-floor conference room, fully prepared to say his handpicked special prosecutor had acted inappropriately. Following the arrests of New Times founders Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin (Village Voice Media’s executive editor and chairman/CEO), ferocious…
No surprise today that Judge Anna Baca unsealed all the records of the grand jury in the New Times case. Actually, according to her, there was technically no grand jury yet, so the stuff wasn’t really secret! (Huh?) Specifically, she said that is was OK for her to release the…
Check this video of Tuesday’s press conference by County Attorney Andrew Thomas, featuring his fake outrage about the Arizona Republic having a link online to a County Recorder document listing his address and the name of his four kids. Okay, so if you were really worried about the safety of…
Ankarlo not only digs smooching the Sheriff’s butt, he also enjoys the occasional snack. I didn’t really have time to be on KTAR today, engaging in verbal fisticuffs with the Mormon-owned radio station’s premier right-wing lip-flapper. But the offer was hard to turn down for two reasons: 1) I’m addicted…
Enjoy this delicious video of County Attorney Candy “Babyface” Thomas admitting to a major eff-up yesterday in the effort to prosecute New Times by using his private attack-schnauzer Dennis Wilencheckbook, who’s reportedly earned nearly $2 mil of the public’s dough working for former employee Thomas. Check out the very end…
County Attorney Thomas, admitting major mistakes and backing off the criminal prosecution of New Times. In a stunning capitulation to an overwhelming public backlash, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas announced in a press conference this afternoon charges against New Times founders Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin are being dismissed and…
VVM Executive Editor Michael Lacey talking to reporters earlier this a.m. after being released from MCSO custody. Village Voice Media Executive Editor Michael Lacey was released from PHX’s 4th Avenue Jail around 4 a.m. this morning after being arrested Thursday evening by plainclothes agents of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office…
New Times founders Jim Larkin (left) and Michael Lacey (right), now under arrest. Plainclothes Maricopa County Sheriff’s officers arrested New Times founders, Village Voice Media Executive Editor Michael Lacey and Chairman/CEO Jim Larkin at their homes late Thursday evening for revealing grand jury information in their recent story Grand Jury…
The iron fist in the velvet glove: Smoothie Judge Burke crushes the C.A. and Wilenchik’s 10.1 motion like it was an empty Pepsi can. In a quick ruling on yesterday’s 10.1 hearing in which County Attorney Candy Thomas’ well-paid attack schnauzer Dennis “Demon Dog” Wilenchik asked for Judge Timothy Ryan…
It’s official. The former Soviet Union’s freer, kinder, and safer for the indigent and the sick than Maricopa County. What other conclusion can this dodo draw from news that TB-sufferer Robert Daniels has fled the police state of Uncle Joe Arpaio for Moscow, Russia, former home of commie dictator Uncle…
The Wily One, minus his trademark granny-glasses. Today I stared into the piercing pupils of PHX’s legal Demon Dog, the Bane of the Blackrobes, that Pugnacious Pit-Bull of Jurisprudence, Dennis, “the Menace” Wilenchik. And as Nietzsche once wrote of “the Abyss,” The Wily One stared back. OK, that’s a little…
Candy “Babyface” Thomas, minus his Dirty Sanchez mustache. Amazing that the Arizona Capitol Times buried this story on page 8 of their current issue: “State Bar files ethics complaint against County Attorney.” (Sorry there’s no link: you have to be a subscriber.) The piece offers a recap of the ongoing…
The MCSO’s Wells Fargo building brain trust, getting the tip-off on yet another Arpaio assassination “plot.” Somewhere Max Sennett’s skeleton’s rolling over in its dirt crib. His Keystone Kops — Fatty Arbuckle and all — couldn’t hold a taper to the laugh riot induced by reading the nearly 200-page MCSO…
