Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is endorsing Phoenix mayoral candidate Wes Gullett, saying that he would work with them to fight illegal immigration. “Wes Gullett understands that the most sacred responsibility of city government is public safety,” Babeu said in a press release. “He’ll work with us, not against us,…
Dyan Castorena, the Arizona prison inmate who escaped custody by stealing a car last week, was taken back into custody yesterday, the Arizona Department of Corrections says.Castorena, who left a work crew at a car auction in a car she stole, was arrested just after 3p.m. yesterday at Casino Arizona…
Dennis Gilman’s video of Ryan’s press conference yesterdayAttorney Tom Ryan was in rare form Thursday afternoon as he faced the media with his client, Mary Lou Boettcher, the plaintiff in the lawsuit against sham candidate Olivia Cortes, and his co-counsel H. Micheal Wright. The scene was Mesa’s Wright House, owned…
At 11 a.m. today, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, and nine other Arizona sheriffs, will hold a press conference at the Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza at the State Capitol to discuss the federal government’s bungled gun trafficking sting, “Operation Fast and Furious.”Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will not be in…
In honor of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s 20th “crime suppression” sweep, we’ve chosen the above photo of the sheriff’s youthfully challenged goon squad we snapped yesterday as the sheriff announced his raid on southwest Phoenix.To be fair, not all of the henchmen Arpaio picked for his sweep were of…
There’s good news and bad news following sham state Senate candidate Olivia Cortes’ announcement that she’s withdrawing from the LD18 Russell Pearce recall race.For starters she’s no longer a candidate (not that she was ever an actual candidate). The bad news: she hung in there long enough to keep her…
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The feds launched a new assault in their fight against medical marijuana today, threatening to seize the property of California medical marijuana dispensaries unless they close within 45 days.If there’s no push-back from the states that have legalized weed for qualified patients, including Arizona, it looks like this could be…
Just looked at an e-mail from Jennifer Liewer, the on-the-spot public information officer for the Arizona Supreme Court:David Hendershott, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s disgraced former chief deputy, is set to testify next week in the disciplinary hearings for former County Attorney Andrew Thomas.That ought to be good. After an…
When asked this afternoon why he spends so much time putzin’ around Maricopa County in search of illegal immigrants and petty criminals during his “crime suppression sweeps,” as opposed to focusing the resources of the sheriff’s office on more dangerous criminal activity, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the following:”I’m…
Gilbert police received a call yesterday afternoon from a man reporting that his 2-year-old son wasn’t breathing. That man was 25-year-old Jonathan Cole, and the reason his son wasn’t breathing, as police would later discover, is because Cole squeezed the life out of him.According to court records obtained by New…
Admitted pederast Luis Mejia Ortiz was in Maricopa County Superior Court today, where he pleaded guilty to charges that he molested his girlfriend’s 9-year-old daughter on several occasions.In all, Ortiz pleaded guilty to one count of child molestation and three counts of attempted child molestation. Initially, Ortiz was charged with…
Hours before she was to appear at a candidates’ forum in Mesa and one day before a second, scheduled evidentiary hearing in Maricopa County Superior Court over her sham campaign, Olivia Cortes this morning officially withdrew her candidacy for state Senate at the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office. SOS spokesman…
The Drug Enforcement Agency wants to make it clear that it’s not just going after kingpins. Any “individual” or organization involved in growing or distributing pot for recreational use can be a target of an investigation, the DEA warns through a U.S. Department of Justice spokeswoman. As we mentioned on…
Tempe police announced today that they’ve made an arrest in last week’s murder of 64-year-old Bonnie Raudman.Raudman was found dead inside her Tempe home in the 2700 block of West Minton Drive on Friday morning by a friend who’d gone to her house to check on her.According to the Tempe…
If you’re waiting for the eastbound light-rail train right now, it may be a few more minutes. A guy in a Cadillac just side-swiped the train at 12th Street and Jefferson, just outside our door. The collision happened about 15 minutes ago, interrupting us with the sound of a “thud”…
Eric Morales, 26, was found murdered and partially buried in the desert North of Gila Bend last month, and yesterday the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office announced it’s arrested a suspect: a man who was living in Morales’ house at the time of his disappearance.Morales was last seen alive by family…
So it’s come down to this–a fifth and deciding game tomorrow afternoon for the upstart Arizona Diamondbacks in what has become a humdinger of a a first-round playoff series against the Milwaukee Brewers. Last night’s 10-6 win seemed closer than the final score indicates, with neither team able to stop…
A group of accordion fanatics in Texas aren’t happy with Arizona Congressman Jeff Flake.This coming weekend is the International Accordion Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The Festival is subsidized by the National Endowment of the Arts, an independent agency of the federal government pegged with dishing out cash in the…
I learned Spanish in school as a teen. Then, it seems, because I was young, everybody was an usted. I would like to practice speaking it, but am now an adult and don’t know who gets to be a tú? I’m scared of getting it wrong and unwittingly offending. Tú…
Anthony Tsontakis, attorney for sham recall candidate Olivia Cortes, seems like a smart enough guy, but I’m guessing his eyesight’s a little off. In an op-ed he authored for the Arizona Capitol Times, he decried the lawsuit brought against his client by attorneys Tom Ryan and H. Micheal Wright on…
In his quest for the presidency, Texas Governor Rick Perry says three things: His state’s economy is better than America’s. Low taxes and small government are the reasons. He gets the credit. Almost none of that is true. The Texas economy isn’t stronger than the national economy, and it may…
