Acting on an anonymous tip, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office says it busted a puppy mill near 348th Avenue and Van Buren Street in Tonopah, Arizona and rescued 130 dogs. Officials say there was dog feces everywhere, and that the animals appeared to have little food or water. The dogs…
Did Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s infamous Seattle investigation begin with a billionaire intent on revenge against his ex-wife? And was this wealthy individual drawn to Arpaio as part of the paranoid atmosphere that swirled around Arpaio’s investigation of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate? To judge from audio files recently entered into…
As testimony in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s contempt trial wrapped up Friday morning in federal court, Judge G. Murray Snow offered an ominous warning for those not named as defendants in the civil case. Arpaio, his Chief Deputy and three other current and former Arpaio henchmen face allegations of civil contempt…
Will the real Mike Zullo please stand up? By noon Thursday, Zullo had invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination nearly 220 times while being questioned by plaintiffs counsel Stanley Young, during Day 19 of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s seemingly never-ending contempt trial. Through much of it, Zullo looked perturbed, angry…
Someone call Guinness Book of World Records: Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse commander Mike Zullo may have a claim. In federal court Tuesday, during what likely is the last week of testimony in Arpaio’s civil contempt trial before U.S. District Court Judge G. Murray Snow, Zullo invoked his Fifth Amendment…
A Montana billionaire secreting thumb drives of sensitive info through airport security in his socks. Handwritten receipts for cash payments to MCSO confidential informant # 1437, aka, Dennis Montgomery, whose e-mail alias, “David Webb,” is also fictional super-spy Jason Bourne’s birth-name. And multiple timelines’ tying together former Phoenix Mayor Phil…
Federal Judge G. Murray Snow on Friday denied a motion from Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse commander, Mike Zullo, for a protective order on 87 disputed items of evidence in Arpaio’s ongoing contempt trial. Snow instructed defense counsel to produce the documents, which are related to the MCSO’s controversial…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s birther-prober Mike Zullo attended a telephonic hearing before federal Judge G. Murray Snow on Tuesday, phoning in to a nearly-deserted courtroom to discuss pending issues in Arpaio’s ongoing contempt trial. Zullo was on the line with about 16 or so attorneys for the various parties in the…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse commander Mike Zullo is madder than Donald Trump at a mariachi convention. Zullo’s latest, hot-headed filing in Arpaio’s contempt case before federal Judge G. Murray Snow takes at aim at Snow, the ACLU, the law firm of Covington and Burling, and former Assistant U.S. Attorney…
October has not been a kind month for Sheriff Joe Arpaio in his ongoing contempt trial before federal Judge G. Murray Snow. With only a few witnesses left, and oral arguments scheduled for November 10, an end to the trial, which began in April, is near. The 10 biggest revelations…
Sweeter than Halloween candy, and sure to cause cavities in die-hard followers of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s contempt trial. Such is the warning that should accompany the following documents, made public by the ACLU Friday, regarding Cold Case Posse Commander Mike Zullo and his involvement in the MCSO’s so-called Seattle operation. The…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse commander Mike Zullo has erupted in a fit of fury and frustration directed at Arpaio’s attorneys in the sheriff’s ongoing contempt trial before federal Judge G. Murray Snow. In a filing Zullo recently made to the court pro se (on his own behalf), the…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s attorney John Masterson pulled a page from legendary University of North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith Wednesday, doing the legal version of Smith’s legendary four-corners maneuver, and running out the clock on the plaintiffs in the sheriff’s ongoing contempt trial. As ACLU attorney Cecillia Wang sat tightly…
Remember junior high, when the algebra teacher caught you passing notes, then made you read one out loud to the class? On Tuesday, that embarassing vignette repeated itself in federal Judge G. Murray Snow’s court, with Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s favorite deputy, Detective Brian Mackiewicz’s being questioned by plaintiffs’ attorney Michelle…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s contempt trial resumes at 9 a.m. today in federal court before Judge G. Murray Snow, and Arpaio’s …
MCSO Detective Brian Mackiewicz occupies a unique position within Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s organization. Not only is he a favorite of both Arpaio and Chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan, his assignments investigating “threats” against the sheriff, as well as his involvement in various special MCSO missions, have allowed him to travel to…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s version of G. Gordon Liddy, Cold Case Posse Commander Mike Zullo, is trying to take the 5th, at least partially. Zullo, a former car dealer who along with Sheriff Joe has embraced the nutty crusade to invalidate President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, is a key witness in…
If MCSO big shots thought they were bringing in a ringer by hiring private investigator Don Vogel to look into the agency’s disobedience of a federal judge’s order, boy were they wrong. Vogel, a former detective with the Mesa Police Department, testified last week in the ongoing contempt trial of Sheriff…
What would you call a guy who claims there’s a recall effort against him just so he can score donations off elderly, out-of-state supporters? A sleazy prevaricator? A political con artist? A creep of the highest order? Well, yes, all those things. But specifically, in Maricopa County, we call him…
A private investigator hired by the MCSO to report on the agency’s defiance of a federal judge’s order, concluded that Sheriff Joe Arpaio “failed in his responsibility” to have proper control over his agency. Don Vogel, a former Mesa Police Department detective, testified Wednesday in Arpaio’s ongoing contempt trial. The…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio suffered another damaging round of testimony Friday in his ongoing contempt trial, as an MCSO detective on the so-called “Seattle investigation” explained how Arpaio and Cold Case Posse honcho Mike Zullo used a confidential informant to target federal Judge G. Murray Snow. Sergeant Travis Anglin, who worked…
Whenever federal Judge G. Murray Snow questions Sheriff Joe Arpaio during the sheriff’s ongoing contempt trial, all kinds of muscles tighten at the defense table. And for good reason, Snow knows the case better than anyone. He also remembers in detail what people say in his court, and he most…
