Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio ought to tell his deputies not to play with Steve Ellman. The Valley developer and former Phoenix Coyotes owner has clearly been a bad influence on the sheriff’s men. * Ellman is a major figure in the SCA campaign finance scandal, and is Arpaio’s…
You can add attempted bribery to the list of misconduct committed by former Deputy Chief Larry Black, one of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s closest aides, the Munnell Memo investigative report shows. A few years ago, the report states, Black offered a sheriff’s lieutenant in his agency season tickets to the Phoenix Coyotes…
A group of doctors in town for their annual meeting held a press conference in front of the Arizona statehouse today to declare their opposition to anti-immigration legislation, particularly proposed bills mandating doctors ask their patients for immigration papers. New York Doctor Christina Gonzalez emceed the event, declaring the group…
DeeDee Blase, Arizona’s Republican immigration activist, has a message for the Tea Party: “Move aside, the Tequila Party is here,” she said at an afternoon press conference. The Tequila Party is a non-partisan voter-registration outfit designed to increase Latino political participation across the country. Blase announced at today’s event that…
While Governor Jan Brewer is pretty sure she can run for a third term (which she can’t), her camp is already cooking up some wild explanations to let it happen.Brewer’s spokesman Matthew Benson tells New Times that folks inside the governor’s office believe that the law stopping her from running…
Call off the dogs…Glendale’s infamous, alleged tunnel-digging/cross-dressing kiddy-porn connoisseur, “Buffalo” William Willis, has been located and taken into custody.Willis’ ankle monitor, which he was ordered to wear as his kiddy-porn case works its way through the courts, stopped transmitting a signal about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. Probation officers went to his…
Governor Jan Brewer is trying to weasel her way into a third term as governor by calling the Arizona term-limit law “ambiguous.”Brewer is convinced that she can legally be governor for another term, even though the Arizona Constitution says she cannot.The governor seems to think that since she took over…
Major League Baseball umpire Jim Joyce, by all accounts, is a phenomenal umpire. However, he made one of the worst calls in baseball history, which cost then-Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga a perfect game last season. Galarraga is now an Arizona Diamondback, and Joyce has been banned from officiating any…
Sheriff Arpaio’s disgraced chief deputy, Dave Hendershott, once told us that a stuffed rattlesnake he kept in his office was named after former Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley. Maybe that’s what he told visitors, but we figured the forked-tongue serpent was his personal totem. Every new page released from…
We are a sucker for the odd court case, and the April 29 Arizona Court of Appeals decision in Cindy Vong and LaVie, LLC vs. the Arizona Board of Cosmetology more than fills the bill. Vong owns LaVie, a nail salon out in Gilbert. In 2008, she advertised that she…
Remember last summer when Glendale police found what appeared to be the beginning stages of a sex dungeon being built in the backyard of alleged kiddy-porn connoisseur William Willis? Well, he was released on bail as his case works its way through the court system, and he’s since cut off…
For a state that recently became only the second in the country to pass a law that names an official state gun, it shouldn’t come as much of a shock that Arizona scored a whopping zero points on this year’s Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence annual scorecard — and…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s media sluttiness knows no bounds and now includes exploiting abused horses in an apparent attempt to repair his image. As the walls are caving in around his corrupt command staff following the (partial) release of a report from the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office regarding misconduct…
Being a police officer is a hard, thankless job, and the vast majority of cops are good people. Then there’s Phoenix police Officer Patrick Larrison, who ruins the public perception of police officers when he essentially body-slams an unarmed, non-threatening 15-year-old girl into the side of a building.It was all caught on film,…
Cafe Press It’s never too early to become a patriot. We might not be getting pictures of Osama bin Laden’s corpse from Barack Obama — but there’s some interesting memorabilia for sale. The Toronto Star is reporting that T-shirts, greeting cards, and coffee mugs celebrating Bin Laden’s death are selling…
Yahoo! Sports Barry Enright can’t win ballgames on his own. Arizona Diamondbacks starter Barry Enright just couldn’t help himself enough to win last night. Enright pitched well to start the game, shutting down the Colorado Rockies for the first three innings of the ballgame. He even hit a solo…
President Barack Obama announced yesterday that he would not release photos of Osama bin Laden’s bullet-riddled corpse to the public, claiming the photos are too graphic and “not in our national security interest.”We’re no conspiracy theorists, but Obama’s decision to not release the photos is just the latest in a…
Please settle a dispute. I’m an Anglo living and working in Mexico for years, in Culiacán, Sinaloa (I married one of the famous Sinaloa beauties). My Spanish is passable, and I live and function in Spanish. Where I live, there are virtually no other North Americans, other than English teachers…
GOON SQUAD MCSO is simply rotten: The case [of Julio and Julian Mora] proves that Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his goons don’t give a damn whether they are busting illegals or brown-skin American citizens (“Bully Beat-Down,” The Bird, Stephen Lemons, April 28). The case is quintessential racial profiling. And this…
T he relationship between Alyssa Goodale and the women treating her for Lyme disease ended abruptly in February 2010. It had not been inexpensive, costing Alyssa’s parents more than $10,000 out of pocket over a four-month stretch on “energy machine” sessions and vitamin and nutritional supplements, not to mention a…
New Times has an immediate opening for a music editor who can oversee coverage of Phoenix’s music scene. The ideal candidate has a strong writing voice, sharp line-editing skills, a wide range of musical interests, and a passion for the local music scene. Responsibilities include: overseeing Up on the Sun,…
Retired Phoenix police Officer Jason Schechterle got some unexpected news on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the horrific car crash that should have killed him. It came in a March 23 letter from the Industrial Commission of Arizona, signed by Antonio Escobar, Awards Specialist II. Escobar informed Schechterle,…
