With their own words and deeds, they are damned.I’m talking about what’s in the latest filings in the American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office over claims that his anti-immigrant sweeps racially and ethnically profile Latinos in Maricopa County. Both sides in Melendres vs. Arpaio have asked for…
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Tempe PD Know this guy? Call the cops. Do you know a dude with a ponytail who just happened to get a lot richer in the past few days? Because the Tempe Police Department is looking for a bank robber just like that. About 1:40 p.m. Tuesday, the guy pictured…
New York Congressman Gary Ackerman calls Governor Jan Brewer’s putting her Jan Hancock on a bill that allows the creation of license plates that benefit the Tea Party movement “shameful.” Now, he’s called on U.S. House Speaker John Boehner to schedule a vote on a bill he’s devised that cuts federal…
When authorities from the U.S. Forest Service and Arizona Department of Public Safety responded to a report of a fire off a Forest Service road in the Tonto National Forest last night, they thought a fire was all they were dealing with. Then, they found a dead body inside of…
Some people just don’t know when to give up — like the three men arrested in Phoenix today after the cops say they committed an armed robbery at a pawn shop, then proceeded to lead police on a car chase, break into a house, kidnap a woman and her 5-year-old…
The guy who put the ridiculous tribal tattoo on the face of former Valley resident/former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson has filed a lawsuit against the movie studio responsible for the upcoming film The Hangover 2.St. Louis tattoo artist S. Victor Whitmill has asked a federal court judge to bar Warner…
Is your basement full of bombs that you don’t know what to do with? Hopefully not, but the Pima County Sheriff’s Department is fed up with people coming to them with their bomb collections. Apparently there’s a new trend of people trying to drop off explosives they don’t want anymore,…
Welcome to Arizona, the official billboard for the Connecticut-based Colt gun company. Following intense lobbying of state legislators by the gun company, Governor Jan Brewer yesterday signed a bill into law that makes the Colt single-action Army revolver the official firearm of the state of Arizona — which will undoubtedly…
Attwood on Arpaio’s cockroachesBack in August, I wrote up my interview with former ecstasy kingpin Shaun Attwood, whose memoir Hard Time: A Brit in America’s Toughest Jail provides a harrowing account of his two years in Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s medieval prison complex.Filth, cockroaches, a cornucopia of drugs, the neo-Nazi Aryan…
If in coming months you get pulled over by a police officer in Chandler, don’t freak out, it’s not Robocop — just your run-of-the-mill Chandler traffic cop who will look a lot like Robocop. The look is thanks to a grant from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety that’s being used…
Citizens for Phoenix, a coalition of neighborhood leaders, is sponsoring a mayoral debate on May 3 at the Phoenix Theatre, 100 E. McDowell Road. It is expected to be the first debate with all five mayoral candidates in attendance. Thane Eichenauer, Phoenix lobbyist Wes Gullett, Councilman Claude Mattox, former Councilwoman…
Opening statements in the Mark Goudeau murder trial aren’t scheduled to start until June 6, but attorneys already have started the long grind of trying to pick a jury. We will watch that death-penalty case when it finally gets going — it’s supposed to take more than a year to…
Governor Jan Brewer signed bills into law yesterday that allow for the creation of 11 new Arizona license plates, one of which depicts the Tea Party favorite Gadsden Flag and its “Don’t Tread on Me” slogan.Anyone who wants a Gadsden Flag plate would have to pony up $25, $17 of…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio can be deposed in a lawsuit against him by Chandler police officer Thomas Lovejoy, an ex-K9 cop who let his dog die in a hot car. U.S. District Judge Neil Wake ruled this week in a dispute over the demand by Lovejoy’s attorney, Mike Manning, that Arpaio be interviewed. In Thursday’s order,…
The circus that is the family of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock will continue to play out publicly, the judge hearing Brock’s divorce case from his somewhat-estranged wife Susan ruled yesterday. Mrs. Brock is serving a 13-year prison sentence for molesting a teenage family friend for more than three years The…
Governor Jan Brewer vetoed Senate Bill 1322, a measure that would have required the state’s large cities, namely Phoenix and Tucson, to open up certain city services to competitive bids from private companies. Brewer said it was “riddled with shortcomings””It’s a good victory for now,” says Luis Schmidt, vice president of AFSCME (American…
sports.yahoo.com Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Ryan Dempster got wrecked last night. Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Ryan Dempster’s had a bad outing last night — far, far beyond miserable. Dempster pitched 1/3 of an inning in the Arizona Diamondbacks’ 11-2 home win over the Cubs Thursday — yes, one third of…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne turned over some of the investigation into the Fiesta Bowl corruption fiasco to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office citing a conflict of interest that exists because many of the people being investigated are “clients” of the AG’s office because they’re elected officials.However, he’s hanging onto…
In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries:…
From what we’ve seen so far today, the investigative report on allegations against Dave Hendershott, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s former chief deputy, can be summed up with a cliche: Hendershott lied, cheated, and stole. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office released part of the long-awaited report today, and we just got done examining it…
The National Football League announced today that Arizona is one of two finalist cities to host the 2015 Super Bowl, which means one thing: thousands and thousands of underage hookers will invade the state to cash in on the testosterone of Super Bowl weekend — at least that’s what self-righteous…
