In late February, Brent Ian Anderson decided the best way to avoid paying child support was to take his 3-year-old daughter to Mexico and not tell the kiddo’s mother about it.Turns out, Anderson was incorrect about that, because the authorities just flew him and the youngster from Mazatlan, Mexico, to…
Michael Brown, a former CVS pharmacy employee who was busted on child-porn charges in June 2010, pleaded guilty today to five related charges.Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Brown after they received a tip that he had left several pornographic images of children in one of the store’s photo kiosks.Maricopa County…
Given the headlines about an FBI investigation into Attorney General Tom Horne, he’s requesting the same “media prominence” be given to the fact his accuser said his complaint was not based on “direct evidence.”There ya go.The news came Monday from the Arizona Capitol Times that Horne was being investigated by…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery today released letters that show his defense of Sheriff Joe Arpaio from what he calls a “reckless” Justice Department.One of the letters, by deputy assistant Attorney General Roy Austin, also states that the feds have discovered new evidence that Arpaio’s office botched sex-crimes investigations.The April…
The National Republican Congressional Committee has been increasing press-release blasts to some of its targeted districts recently, including two already today.The releases mostly tie local candidates to the Obama administration and the current Democrats in Congress, just plugging in the name of the local Democratic congressional candidate.In Arizona’s newly formed…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed a bill yesterday that bans the use or possession of medical marijuana on college campuses, other schools campuses and childcare facilities.Opponents, including Joe Yuhas of the Arizona Medical Marijuana Association, predict the new law will end up being contested in court because it violates the…
The Phoenix Suns kept their slim playoff hopes alive by outlasting the Sacramento Kings 109-100 on Tuesday night in California. As they have for weeks now, the Suns still hold 10th place in the NBA’s Western Conference race. At 27-26 and 13 games left to play, the Suns are a…
The report from an ethics investigation into state Representative Daniel Patterson was released Monday, as team of lawyers selected by House Speaker Andy Tobin found quite a few reasons as to why they believe Patterson should be expelled from the House.Among several other things in the report, investigators claim Patterson…
After reading the investigation done on behalf of the House Ethics Committee, a handful of legislators were ready to punt state Representative Daniel Patterson out of the House today, but that didn’t happen.Among several other things in the report released yesterday, investigators claim Patterson routinely ignores House rules, “verbally abuses,…
Arizona’s House Bill 2549, which was labeled by one critic as a “bill to censor electronic speech,” has been stopped, according to one of the bill’s sponsors.As we’ve already mentioned twice before, the bill was never transferred to the governor, contrary to the numerous media reports saying it has. The…
Negotiations between Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the U.S. Justice Department over racial-profiling allegations have stalled because of Arpaio’s refusal to let a federal “monitor” check out his office.The feds announced in December that the Maricopa County Sheriff was behind the worst case of racial profiling in U.S. history, and the…
In case you missed it, here’s a jaw-dropping interview with Michael Hicks, a Tucson Unified School District governing board member, by Daily Show with Jon Stewart correspondent Al Madrigal about the school board’s Mexican-American studies ban. Hicks advocated the ban and admits on The Daily Show that he never attended any ethnic-studies classes, instead…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he may be taking heat for breaking up families and going on illegal-immigrant hunts, but when he gets the chance, he’ll still save the lives of illegal immigrants.The sheriff’s office says it got a hot tip on Saturday about six illegal immigrants, abandoned by…
Angela Simpson, the Phoenix woman who impaled, stabbed, strangled, beat, and extracted the teeth from a disabled man — then dismembered him and set pieces of his body on fire — was sentenced today to life in prison for the 2009 murder.Simpson pleaded guilty on March 22 to first-degree murder…
There’s a Rodney Dangerfield joke in here somewhere, but Scottsdale police say Dudley KwokTak Chan was going around pretending he was a Chandler police officer to “get respect.”Getting “respect” for wearing a police badge is typically reserved for actual police officers, so that didn’t work out too well for Chan.According…
Governor Jan Brewer’s being considered for TIME magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people, and according to its reader poll, she’s doing better than President Obama.The governor dropped from 13th place to 15th by the end of the day yesterday — leaving her one spot above Stephen Colbert…
Mike Stauffer, looking to retire Arpaio this fallRecently, Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman and I interviewed the two men who want to put Sheriff Joe Arpaio out to pasture come November: Democratic candidate and former Phoenix Police Department Sergeant Paul Penzone, and Scottsdale Police Department Lieutenant Mike Stauffer, who’s running as…
Update: H.B. 2549 has been stopped.Way to go, Arizona legislators, you officially pissed off the Internet.One of the most popular Twitter accounts associated with the Anonymous community, “YourAnonNews,” got wind of Arizona’s House Bill 2549, which was labeled by one critic as a “bill to censor electronic speech.”The response –…
A couple weeks ago, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio sent a letter to the director of the Selective Service System, asking to let his “birther” posse play detective with President Obama’s registration card.Arpaio laid out his whole stamp conspiracy-theory in the two-page letter, and demanded a response within 30 days.As…
Someone just E-mailed us the attached here story by reporter Jeremy Duda of the Arizona Capitol Times. seems to provide possible direction for the sudden departure last week of Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s chief criminal deputy, Jim Keppel. Good work by Duda, who obviously had been working on this…
The video above (language probably not safe for work) seems to be very similar to what was released today in a report on Democratic state Representative Daniel Patterson.What everyone assumed was a ethics complaint filed over domestic-violence allegations against Patterson has turned out to be much, much more.Simply, the investigation…
Keppel isn’t giving the specifics of his departure, but the rumors have been flying around town like fungoes at Salt River Flats. Among the better ones:–Keppel is cooperating with an unspecified law enforcement agency concerning an investigation into his former boss, Horne. –Keppel just couldn’t take working for the highly political Horne…
