Sex offender Devon Anderson allegedly told police he “fights the urge” to molest kids by meditation.He apparently forgets to meditate quite often, as Phoenix police say he molested two 4-year-old girls at a public library — his third and fourth alleged molestation victims.According to court documents obtained by New Times,…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s playing Santa Claus for the “birther” crowd today, as he’s delivering the “preliminary findings” of his Cold Case Posse’s “investigation” into President Obama’s eligibility.MCSO spokesman Jeff Sprong says it’s unknown how many media members will be in attendance for the announcement, “but we are expecting…
Robert Moorman, who sat on Arizona’s death row for nearly three decades, was executed yesterday for chopping up his adoptive mother.Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne responded by saying there was “no rational reason” for it to take that long.”We have been working hard to help reform a system in which…
Aunqué soy Boricua, mi corazón está al lado del pueblo mejicano, aquí en Arizona. ¿Porqué no hablas contra “La Bruja Mala del Oeste” Gobernadora Jan Brewer, “El Leon Cobarde” Ex-Senador Russell Pearce, “El Hombre Hecho de Lata” Alguacil del Condado Maricopa Joe Arpairo, “El Hombre Hecho de Paja” Abogado General Tom…
BABEU’S BAD DAY No one to blame but himself: [Pinal County Sheriff] Paul Babeu has only himself to blame for all this (“Firestorm” and “Investigations Loom Into Paul Babeu’s Mexican Lover’s Allegations,” Monica Alonzo, February 17 and 23). He posed on raunchy websites and let his boyfriend run his campaign…
Despite public pleas for pity, Sheriff Paul Babeu dwells now in a hell entirely of his own making, licked by self-stoked flames of hypocrisy and deceit. To hear him tell it, you’d think Babeu was a martyr for gay liberation, wrongly outed as a homosexual by my colleague Monica Alonzo’s…
When you’ve turned nothing into something once already, you tend to feel you can do it again. There’s faith your luck will turn. Perhaps it’s delusion. But for a professional poker player, self-confidence is essential. So it is for Walter Wright, who now finds himself in Costa Rica. He left…
Eleven members of Vagos, a rival motorcycle gang of the Hells Angels, were arrested today by an Arizona Department of Public Safety gang task force in connection with several violent crimes around Bullhead City.Six of the 11 arrested during “Operation Catch 22” are repeat customers to the DPS task force,…
Dave Hendershott, the disgraced former chief deputy under Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, will invoke his right against self-incrimination if asked to testify in the job appeal hearing for fired deputy Joel Fox.Barry Markson, Hendershott’s lawyer, told Judge Robert Sparks in the appeal hearing today that his client intended to…
We stumbled upon this little nugget on the Daily Kos, which is much more interesting given Paul Babeu’s latest attacks on his sister, Lucy. David Nir of the Daily Kos wrote that “Sheriff Paul Babeu originally tried to blame website comments on mentally ill sister.” The entire Daily Kos blog…
With oral arguments scheduled to take place April 25 before the U.S. Supreme Court on Arizona’s breathing-while-brown statute Senate Bill 1070, Arizona District Court Judge Susan R. Bolton today enjoined two sections of the law she had not previously put on hold in 2010, when she stymied the most egregious parts…
An assault rifle with loaded magazines and 40 pounds of marijuana are just some of the objects found during a clean-up of federal lands near the smuggling corridor of Interstate 8.Dennis Godfrey, spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, says he’ll try to find out exactly what type of…
Phoenix cops have been working since Saturday to find Juan Garcia — who’s accused of killing his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son late Friday night — and police say the leads have been scarce as of yet.”We’re going to track him down — it’s just a matter of when,” Phoenix Sergeant Trent…
Attorney General Tom Horne acknowledges “[j]ustice was carried out” today against Brian Moorman, who was executed this morning for chopping up his adoptive mother.He’s also wondering why exactly it took until 2012 to execute a guy who hacked up mom in 1984.As we’ve previously noted, Arizona spent an estimated $586,000…
Robert Moorman, who sat on Arizona’s death row for nearly three decades, was executed today at the state prison in Florence.Moorman, 63, was originally in prison for a kidnapping conviction out of Coconino County in 1972.During that prison stint, Moorman was granted a 72-hour “compassionate furlough” from the prison so…
A ruling on potential punishment for former Maricopa Attorney Andrew Thomas may be put off until April 2.Citing the extensive filings and thousands of pages of exhibits in the ethics case, Arizona State Bar Disciplinary Judge William O’Neil decided to extend the time to make the ruling by 30 days. O’Neil…
We used to love to check out the Phoenix Coyotes hockey team when they skated around the arena in downtown Phoenix. The crowds were enthusiastic, even if the team itself never could get past the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Then they moved out to the hinterlands of…
Yesterday, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced that his detectives found people on Craigslist trying to have sex with dogs — again.The plan, according to Arpaio, was that the three people arrested by the MCSO Monday night were using Craigslist to find a dog to “fornicate” with the woman, while…
With more than 91 percent of the precincts reporting to the Secretary of State’s Office, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s going to win Arizona’s presidential primary.Shortly before midnight, Romney had 48 percent of the vote from Arizona Republicans, with Rick Santorum lagging behind him at more than 26 percent.A poll…
A judge wants to know whether a criminal investigation is open on Joel Fox, the fired Maricopa Sheriff’s Office captain at the heart of the infamous “SCA” campaign-financing scandal. Which is great, because so do we. Fox has been fighting to get his job back in a lengthy appeal proceeding…
Peoria Police Sergeant Pat Shearer is now Officer Pat Shearer after posting a picture on Facebook of a bunch of kids who’d apparently just shot up a T-shirt depicting President Obama.You can read about the incident from our colleague Stephen Lemons by clicking here.According to Peoria police public-information officer Jay…
Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley has filed with the Federal Election Commission to run for Congress in Arizona’s newly created 9th District.The County Supervisor has served as one of five members of the Board of Supervisors since 1996, and is currently suing the county for $15 million due to his…
