Congratulations to the New Times reader who goes by the handle shadeaux14, you are the proud winner of this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.On Friday, we asked readers to provide what they think would be an appropriate caption for the above photo of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe…
As we reported yesterday, a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office detention officer is sans one toe after getting shot in the foot by a DUI suspect — who was in handcuffs at the time — while he was assisting in a holiday DUI task force over the weekend.The officer is expected to…
A man is dead — and a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office detention officer is missing a toe — following a shootout on a Phoenix freeway over the weekend.According to the MCSO, the detention officer — a drug recognition expert — was part of a Holiday DUI task force patrolling Valley…
Federal authorities promised today to take up the slack in Maricopa County jails following the severing of ties with the sheriff’s office over allegations of widespread racial profiling. In a letter today to Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, an official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security vowed to leave “no gap” in immigration enforcement. Fifty agents from…
The following is a statement issued by Phoenix Police Department spokesman Steve Martos, regarding the arrest of Ernest “Marty” Atencio.Martos states that Atencio was arrested for assault after displaying some very odd behavior, as you’ll read. He also notes that the PPD believes its officers did not Tase Atencio. He further…
Last week, in honor of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s comeuppance ( Department of Justice investigations, botched sex-crime investigations, etc.), we submitted the above photo of the sheriff and his PR puppy for this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.If you missed our post on the sheriff shamelessly…
A distraught Mike Atencio, on his way to the hospital to watch his brother Ernest “Marty” Atencio die, told me today that he and his family believe his brother was “murdered” by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s thugs in the Fourth Avenue Jail.”The sheriff’s office murdered my brother,” said Atencio, acting as…
Note: For Updates, including the name and mugshot of the victim, see below.Following on the heels of a report by the U.S. Department of Justice condemning the MCSO for engaging in “discriminatory policing” and blasting its treatment of Latinos in and out of its jails, an incident involving a prisoner…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery expressed skepticism today about the claims of racial profiling by the Sheriff’s Office, and demanded the return of a jail program to identify illegal immigrants. The feds announced yesterday they were canceling the 287(g) program in Maricopa County due to findings by the U.S…
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau isn’t ready to comment this morning on the impact of severing ties with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.Which is a shame, because we have some good questions for them. Like, why was ICE supervising operations (see the last couple of pages of its…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s having a rough week — Department of Justice investigations, botched sex-crime investigations, etc.To celebrate Arpaio’s comeuppance, we’re goin’ with the above photo of America’s self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff” cozyin’ up to his PR puppy for this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.If you missed…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s had a pretty rough week — aside from the Department of Justice determining that he’s guilty of the worst racial-profiling practices in U.S. history, the sheriff is still dealing with the fallout from the Associated Press’ decision to pull the old El Mirage botched sex-crime…
In case Sheriff Joe Arpaio missed the gist of the fiat handed down Thursday by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ending Arpaio’s 287(g) jails agreement, John Morton, Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, doubled down on the dictate.In a letter dated December 15 to County Attorney Bill Montgomery, the ICE…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio — flanked by two attorneys and MCSO Deputy Chief Jack MacIntyre — held a press conference this afternoon to address the Department of Justice’s findings that his office is on the hook for the worst-racial profiling practices in U.S. history.In short, the four men came…
Eileen GilBride, Sheriff Arpaio’s lawyer, reacts to criticism by Chief Judge Kozinski that she had come to court unprepared. Questions asked by a Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in yesterday’s hearing of the New Times vs. Sheriff Arpaio false- arrest lawsuit seemed to lean toward the newspaper’s position…
Flanked by community activists and fellow elected leaders at her El Portal restaurant in central Phoenix, Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox held aloft the recently-released U.S. Department of Justice report on Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s racial profiling campaign against Sand Land Latinos, and praised it as a sort of Christmas…
Back in the late 1990s, the Justice Department ordered Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to stop the physical and medical abuse of inmates in county jails.The problems persist more than a decade later, despite the Department’s stipulations for reform.Today, the Justice Department ordered Arpaio to reform a “culture” of racial…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu says he hasn’t had a chance to read the U.S. Department of Justice’s report on Joe Arpaio’s committing some of the worst acts of racial profiling in U.S. history, but that isn’t stopping him from chiming in and bashing the feds.Somehow, Babeu’s using Arpaio’s bad…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office didn’t just commit racial profiling of Latinos, according to the findings of the U.S. Department of Justice’s investigation. Rather, Arpaio oversaw the worst pattern of racial profiling by a law enforcement agency in U.S. history, a DOJ expert concluded.Arpaio and his commanders created a “culture”…
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano yanked the 287(g) program from Maricopa County jails today because of a finding that Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office abused the rights of Latinos. The program, in which deputies are cross-trained by federal authorities to identify illegal immigrants booked into jail, has been credited by…
The hits keep coming for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. First, the media continues to hound him about hundreds of botched sex-crime investigations. Then Randy Parraz, the man who organized the takedown of ousted former Senate President Russell Pearce, demands his resignation. And now he’s being asked to leave the…
In a grotesque mix of Freudian projection, denial, all-out hubris and crass hypocrisy, ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce has told the Arizona Capitol Times that he’s trying to “forgive” Jerry Lewis, the man who spanked him hard by 12 points in the Legislative District 18 recall election for the “dishonesty”…
