Rumors have floated for years that Sheriff Arpaio’s office ignored suspicious employment activity at Danny’s Family Car Wash while targeting other companies for alleged immigration violations. One fact fueling the gossip is that the Valley chain, founded by Danny Hendon, is the biggest supporter of the MCSO Memorial Fund, which…
Scottsdale-based Go Daddy wouldn’t be the world’s largest seller of Internet domain names — by far — without its stable of scantily clad sex kittens. Now that Christine Jones, former general counsel for the company, is running for governor, we can’t help wondering how she’d look in some of the…
PLEASE SEE UPDATES BELOW Saturday morning, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided 16 locations throughout the Valley associated with Danny’s Family Car Wash and the company’s staffing provider HR Betty. According a statement issued by ICE, members of the agency’s Homeland Security Investigations unit began serving warrants on both companies…
If a judge-appointed monitor is good enough to make the New York City Police Department reform its “stop and frisk” policy, then a monitor should do the trick for Maricopa County’s serial racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the ACLU’s big civil rights case Melendres v. Arpaio. In May, federal Judge…
The Adrienne Salinas death investigation isn’t necessarily a homicide case, as police had indicated yesterday, Tempe police say this afternoon. Investigators saw no obvious signs of foul play during their preliminary look at the 19-year-old Tempe woman’s remains, which were found in Apache Junction last week, says Sergeant Mike Pooley,…
Ricardo Torres Marquez, the creep who broke into a westside home in 2011 and molested a 4-year-old girl, was sentenced to 24 years in prison today. He’s 22 now. When he gets out, he’ll be on lifetime probation…
Former Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman and Republican operative Jason Rose go way back in political circles. Hallman has long relied on Rose for political navigation, including hiring Rose to help him with his 2008 Tempe mayor’s race. And that’s why the tweet above caught our attention — Rose ranking Christine…
I’m not sure which is more obscene: Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s grotesque mockery of migrants who’ve died crossing the Arizona desert, or a compliant and wholly uncritical media’s reporting on Joe’s latest stunt involving white crosses in the desert. There’s nothing the local idiots in the Fourth Estate like more than…
Maricopa County’s most famous disbarred lawyers, Andrew Thomas and Lisa Aubuchon, were slapped down by the Ninth U.S. Circuit of Appeals today in a bid for immunity from a lawsuit. The ruling allows former Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley to proceed with his lawsuit against the former County Attorney, his…
Andre Rison, a former NFL player who blew a fortune trying to look rich, escaped a prison term last week when a federal judge went soft on him for violating probation. Prosecutors with the Arizona U.S. Attorney’s Office wanted Rison behind bars for at least 15 months for failing to…
10. Jeff Flake’s Son Calls Himself “N1ggerKiller” In June, Republican Senator Jeff Flake’s 15-year-old son Tanner was caught playing the iPhone game “Fun Run” using the name “N1ggerKiller.” The teenager’s offensive gaming screen name was just one of the offensive slurs he used. His Twitter account also includes statements of…
Drayton Witt of Tucson spent 10 years behind bars after being convicted in 2002 of shaking to death his girlfriend’s 4-month old son, Steven Holt. And he likely would have served 10 more years for the murder of Steven had the Arizona Justice Project — along with retired British pediatric…
Welcome to Courthouse Update, a weekly rundown of goings-on at the Maricopa County Superior Court.This week, an ex-Phoenix cop accused of murder goes to trial, jury selection starts in re-trial of Buddhist temple massacre suspect, a youth minister is found guilty of molestation, and more:…
Andrew Thomas finally has found the perfect home for his quasi-intellectual, right-wing screeds: The pro-national-sovereignty Selous Foundation. This little-known, Washington-based think-tank, founded by a former Marine turned mercenary/pundit, operates from a hippie-ish office on Pennsylvania Avenue above a wig shop and sandwiched between a bar and a liquor store…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest.This week, all of our alleged offenders have…
There’s a freak-out brewing over a Tucson-area school district’s pledge for parents to sign, asking for them to agree to be responsible gun owners.The completely meaningless pledge asks for such controversial things like teaching children not to shoot someone during an argument…
Brendon Ray Zachary told police he’s a “monster” for video-recording his daughter’s 11-year-old friend while she showered, cops say. But, he told officers, he never attempted to sell the videos he made by placing a spy cam in his family’s bathroom…
Topless women (and men) will be marching down Mill Avenue in Tempe in a couple of weeks.Last year marked the first time a Phoenix-area “Go Topless Day” protest was organized, as about 40 men and women marched in downtown Phoenix in what was billed as a protest against gender inequality…
Skeletal remains found in a wash in Apache Junction may belong to 19-year-old Adrienne Salinas, a Tempe resident who’s been missing since June, police say.Although Tempe Police Sergeant Michael Pooley says the remains were found August 6, members of several police agencies and the FBI currently are out there looking…
The Marijuana Policy Project has named Arizona Republican Representative John Kavanagh the third-worst state legislator in the country.Obviously, the Marijuana Policy Project is taking into account only Kavanagh’s fanatical anti-marijuana crusade, which is just one freaky thing about the guy’s record…
Life is off to a fresh start for the 70-something sons of Arizona legend Barry Goldwater, with Barry Jr.’s divorce and Michael’s bankruptcy wrapping up last month. The Chapter 7 bankruptcy of Michael Prescott Goldwater and wife, Constance, was discharged on July 1, leaving credit-card companies, department stores, and other…
The manager of a Fry’s grocery store in Phoenix took a rotisserie chicken to the face while chasing a theft suspect, police say.The alleged chicken-chucker, 46-year-old Carlos Ramon Guzman, tried to pull off his heist at the Fry’s at 67th Avenue and Indian School Road, according to court documents obtained…
