Taxpayers across the nation are spending millions of dollars to pay the salaries and benefits of government employees to work exclusively for labor unions, an investigation by the Arizona-based Goldwater Institute has found. The practice is called “official time” in
The man accused of initiating the drug buy that led to the 2010 death of a Chandler, Ariz., police officer made a plea bargain with federal prosecutors four months earlier to avoid a long prison term, and worked as an
Police in Chandler, Ariz., have used money seized in drug stings to buy a new vehicle for the agency’s SWAT team, new guns for its officers, surveillance equipment, even a dog for its canine unit. They use it to pay
A single undercover detective and his informant walked into the house full of armed men, ready to close a deal for 500 pounds of marijuana that was supposed to lead to the seizure of a quarter-million dollars in cash for
Part I here. The drug sting was going exactly as planned until the moment an undercover police officer from Chandler, Ariz., was shot through the chest. Detective Carlos Ledesma died a short time later. Two of his fellow officers were
Chandler police Detective Carlos Ledesma was sitting at a card table when the drug bust went sour. He did not even have time to stand before being cut down by four rifle shots to the chest, and he died a