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Arizona Sheriff Joe's head: Mexican drug cartel offers $1M bounty for Arpaio (video)

A chilling audio tape with text, circulating by e-mail, has been reported that puts a million dollar price on conservative hero, Sheriff Joe Arpaio's head. Is it a coincidence that this was reported on the same day that Arizona's immigration law, SB 1070, became effective?

Though the SB 1070 law that has gone into effect is a gutted version of the real bill, yesterday was also the day that Governor Brewer filed an expedited appeal, vowing to fight all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.  Yesterday was also the day that busloads of imported protesters from California chained themselves outside Sheriff Arpaio's jail.

Still, there are those who think the real solution isn't immigration reform  or securing the border. Some feel certain the fact that Arizona is trying to block the drug highway from Mexico, thus cutting off the drug cartel's route to supply drugs to the United States is the primary reason that the drug cartel is allegedly  out to eliminate Sheriff Joe. Therefore, they think the solution is to legalize drugs.

In the message, $1M  reward is placed on Arpaio's head, and for mafia cartel recruiting purposes,  another $1K to join the  cartel.

The information about the tape was provided by a man,  frightened enought to request anonymity, who was disgusted when his wife showed him the tape and followed up by reporting it to the sheriff's office. Death threats aren't uncommon for law enforcement officers who battle the lawlessness of border states,woefully overwhelmed and understaffed, and Sheriff Joe has had more than a few. This threat is considered real and credible, especially because  of its timing.

It is believed this message originated in Mexico. The tape provides an international phone number and investigators are trying to trace the text message.

Ms. Allen from the Sheriff's office is "sure he's concerned... for his family more than anything else."

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  • Ms T-Rius 1 year ago
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    I wonder where all the TROOPS are that the uhbummer promised to send to the border?
    Joe Arpaio has been fighting the war on drugs for a long time(25 years with the DEA included).
    May GOD Bless and Keep him!

  • Marilee 1 year ago
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    Great article as usual. This threat is credible considering what's going on & the violence in Mexico. We need a solution for illegal immigration and drugs. Legalization of drugs opens up another can of worms. The "Just Say No" campaign was a failure and naive.

  • Amy 1 year ago
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    These people are barbarians....

    I hope Joe gets some full time body guards. Scoundrels. Scum is what they are.

  • Joe K. 1 year ago
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    I would love to come down and help,if only to answer phones. I think Sherrif Arpaio is one great AMERICAN. iT IS SO REFRESHING too see a great AMERICAN try to work and get this country great again. I have followed you for years, it's great to see someone
    wear long pant's

  • WL 1 year ago
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    He is just about the only law enforcement officer in Arizona who supports the state's immigration law. The rest of them understand why it won't work, is unconstitutional, and racist. Americans have brought illegals and drugs here, face up to it. And they sell guns to anyone who is breathing, where do you think the cartels get their ammunition?

  • Arizona 1 year ago
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    Standing ovation for Sheriff Joe! Love this man, he is indeed a GREAT AMERICAN!!

    SHERIFF JOE FOR PRESIDENT!!

    My prayers for his safety........

  • Arizona 1 year ago
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    WL,

    You are a fool who has no idea what he/she is talking about. Have you ever heard of Sheriff Paul Babeu, of Pinal County, Az and Sheriff Larry A. Dever of Cochise County, Az, just to name a couple?? Try doing some research.

    Unconstitutional - no. It mirrors the federal law. Again, do some research.

    Racist - that is a ridiculous, laughable, worn out and tired charge, not even worthy of retort. Give it up, its not workin.

    I suggest you think for yourself instead of parroting the lefts talking points, it makes you look ignorant.

  • Bob Bishop 1 year ago
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    We could use a whole bunch more Joes.

  • mx 1 year ago
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    these cartels are not fooling around, they're something serious, if you'd like to see what they're all about you may visit:

    blogdelnarco.com

    i get grossed out

    still i don't like this sheriff.

  • Kirk Muse 1 year ago
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    Perhaps it will take the deaths of several law enforcement officers and U. S. politicians for our
    politicians to realize that the drug war in unwinable.
    The only solution is re-legalization of all the drugs
    the cartels deal in.

  • Betcha 1 year ago
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    That the original source of that "threat" is none other than Ol' Sheriff Joe himself. He's a master at distractin' when things get hot - and the feds definitely have him under the heat lamps these days.

    Joe's nothing but a criminal and a punk.

  • @ Betcha 1 year ago
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    Betcha you are soooo pro-lawbreaking illegals that you would like to rewrite the American constitution and all of the immigration laws presently on the book.

    In that case, betcha O is your kind of man - regarding his current efforts to find a way to have "yours and his" kinda immigration favoring without congress approval.

    Betcha you are in the minority and Elections 2010 will show you where real Americans stand on sovereignty.

  • @ Betcha 1 year ago
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    @ Betcha you're the "criminal and the punk". Why don't you run on down to AZ and lay yourself down in front of the national hero, Sheriff Joe's jail?

    Betcha a far leftie group would send a free bus for you and your friends and subsidize the meds of your choice too.

  • Arizona Law or bust!!!! 1 year ago
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    Goooooooooooo Joe! Goooooooooo Governor Brewer! Goooooooooo Arizona!

    Sheriff Joe is our hero!!!

  • jaime 1 year ago
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    The Poster below "WL" obviuosly supports the Mexican Drug Cartels over the Laws of our country and the citizens of Arizona.

    The Drug Cartels are on your side WL, as the Law abiding social contributers the Drug Cartels are... you should be very proud to stand with them and support them...

    What kind of an American are you??

  • jaime 1 year ago
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    The Federal Agency responsible for upholding Our Immigration Laws and ensuring our safety as Citizens, has a circulated memo to try and enact AMNESTY by "delayed detention and rulings"....this is without consent in congress.

    This all bypasses the very nature of our Constitutional Republic. This Administration is essentially Lawless...we have become a Lawless society where Federalism is being Circumvented and individual rights and safety are being trampled on..as in Arizona.

  • American 1 year ago
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    That's funny

  • KT 1 year ago
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    I don't agree with Sheriff Joe's tactics and his borderline detention camps (tent prisons).

    But that guy is willing to do something about Illegal Immigration and protect his county.

    At least I support him on that.

  • Tony 1 year ago
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    They should smoke that racist piece of s***

  • Recklessdriver 1 year ago
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    i'll put 20 bucks on the head of the Cartel who else is in this.

  • MommyMo 1 year ago
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    HA, you should see tent prisons in Fl too. They works GREAT. I LOVE Sheriff Joe. He's one of the ONLY ones who has a set and FOLLOWS the laws. Our politicians are ruining this country. Sheriff Joe for President 2012!!!!!!!

  • Ms T-Rius 1 year ago
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    While the criminal DOJ punishes Az., behind closed doors;
    "The Obama administration, unable to push an immigration overhaul through Congress, is considering ways it could go around lawmakers to let undocumented immigrants stay in the United States, according to an agency memo."
    (news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100730/ap_on_bi_ge/us_immigration_skirting_congress)

  • Foundations 1 year ago
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    What do you want to bet the people putting up the hit money are the same list of names at the end of any PBS documentary?

  • aiden2010 1 year ago
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    NOTHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THIS SHERIFF!!!!!!!! ii do not understand how many think he is not safe... Sheriff Arpaio will not be getting hurt. i believe this is a scam..why? well usually cartels will leave the name of their cartels to "represent" and it is not happening this way...its a text msg...anyone could have done it as a hoax its a forward...and plus even though cartels are dangerous they are still very educated and that text message is not even spellled correctly....PLEASE TAKE THIS COMMENT INTO CONSIDERATION...SHERIFF IS GOING TO BE OKAY

  • Dev 1 year ago
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    Hi e'one.

    It's simply amazing to me that anyone can write this off as a hoax. And when Sheriff Arpaio is harmed - whoops, they say, I was wrong.

    Does that comfort his wife, his family? If it was you or your loved one, could you shrug this off so cavalierly?

  • Dev 1 year ago
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    Americans who care pray this *is* a hoax. But I wouldn't want to bet Sheriff Arpaio's life on it, or mine, or anyone I love.

  • Dev 1 year ago
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    In a drug cartel crime climate, where heads are literally "rolling" in the streets, this threat is credible. Even if it's a mere act of "terrorism", should we become so callous that we pay it no mind?

  • Dev 1 year ago
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    So, there you go "AIDEN". Thank you, I'm sooooooooo reassured. And I'm sure Sheriff Arpaio appreciates your concern too.

  • Dev 1 year ago
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    Great new article up that we need to support: Lou Gallio, Houston Homeland Security Examiner.

    Drop this title in the Examiner search field and you'll be there.

    Amnesty: next Obama shoe to drop?

  • Juan Carlos 1 year ago
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    The cartels in Mexico do that and for $1 million bucks, they will be successful.

  • Lou Gallio - Houston Homeland Security Examiner 1 year ago
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    Dev, thanks for the plug, and thanks to all for vibrant remarks. Do read my article--the disadvantages of amnesty far outnumber any advantages. You can spin anything to make it sound good, but when you turn the lights on, it can be very ugly.

    I'm curious about dope pushers being "very educated" (comment by AIDEN2010). Drug cartel gangs educated? Not the ones I've seen lately. In case you don't know, there is a war going on on both sides of our border. The atrocities are worse than the wars in the Middle East.

    Semper Fi!

  • bdmg 1 year ago
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    it's funny how people only look, read, watch, or talk about only one side of the story. pro sb1070 people think this country isn't safe and that the border needs to be more secured. So how much more secured do you want the border to be? how much money are you willing to spend on this? I mean you can spend all you want the truth is that no MATTER what you or the gov do there will ALWAYS be a way to cross a fence swim a river or cross a desert. NO MATTER WHAT! the border is more secured now them ever before and GUESS WHAT!? Mexicans and many from south America are STILL crossing. they might be fewer but its still in the high digits. that should tell you ignorant people something right? well for you that haven't gotten the clue I'll help you out. IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW MUCH YOU SPENT $$$$ ON THE BORDERS PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS GET THROUGH...

  • Ms T-Rius 1 year ago
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    bdmg,
    The border is secure?
    What r u SMOKING?
    The most recent MILLIONS of ILLEGAL ALIENS were de facto invitees
    of CORRUPT PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS and the agendas they served.

  • LADY GAGA IN BLACK LEATHER 1 year ago
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    THE MEXICAN MAFIA WILL NOT POST SOMETHING LIKE THAT THEY WILL DO THE JOB. THEN PEOPLE WILL FIND ARPAIO'S HEAD ON THE FRONT DOOR OF THE 4TH AVE JAIL WITH A BIG SING THAT SAY'S DONT FU** WITH OUR BROTHERS.. THEY DON'T HAVE TO PAY THEY WILL DO IT THEM SELVES. THAT'S IT. BUT SOME IGNORANT THAT DID THIS DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW THE MEXICAN MAFIA OPERATES.. WATCH THE REAL MEXICAN NEWS NOT THE BULL FROM OUR COUTRY.. BY THE WAY DO YOU GUY'S KNOW THAT SHERIF ARPAIO WAS THE WARREN FROM A JUARES PRISON...AND HE LIVED IN MEXICO FOR SO MANY YEARS..

  • LADY GAGA IN BLACK LEATHER 1 year ago
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    PEOPLE ARE OMLY FOCUSED ON MEXICANS WHAT ABOUT AFRICAN PEOPLE AND KOREAN PEOPLE AND OTHER COUNTRYES I MEAN LIKE YOU DON'T SEE MEXICANS TERRORISTS LIKE THE 9/11 AND THE OKLAHOMA ARRACK TIM WAS AMERICAN AND THE OTHER FROM PAKISTAN AND WHAT ABOUT BINLADEN? YES MOST OF THE MEXICANS CROSS THE BORDER TO WORK... BUT SOME OF THEM JUST ARE PLAIN WHITE TRASH TOO.. WELFARE DRUGS AND CRIMES.. OUR WORLD IS COMMING TO AN END AND WE WILL ALL DIE IN THE SAME HOLE..

  • Ms T-Rius 1 year ago
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    "BY THE WAY DO YOU GUY'S KNOW THAT SHERIF ARPAIO WAS THE WARREN FROM A JUARES PRISON...AND HE LIVED IN MEXICO FOR SO MANY YEARS"..
    --------------------------------------------------------
    That particular piece of "enlightenment"(LOL!!!!)has the same CREDIBILITY as your grammar.

  • LADY GAGA IN BLACK LEATHER 1 year ago
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    ALSO WATCH OUT BECAUSE IT ALSO STATES THAT THEY ARE PAYING 10,000 FOR AN AMERICAN HEAD.. LOOK AT THE MESSAGE CLOSELY AND IT ALSO SAY'S GOOD LUCK.. BUT THEY DID NOT MENTION THAT ON THE NEWS REPORT WHY IS THAT??

  • Remember 1 year ago
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    Ill put another $1000 on top of the cartels $1M let him rot in the desert.

  • HAVOC27 1 year ago
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    joe will fall... soon AND ILL BE AT HOME LMAO....

  • Amy 1 year ago
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    Havoc, Rudy, and Remember,

    You three idiots are the reason why our country has gone straight to the toilet. You'd better hope no one traces your computer activity, and finds out what type of slime-balls you three truly are....

    Your posts here indicate you're most likely drugged up heroin addicts, with no jobs, no lives, and tripe for brains....

    That means you'll eventually commit another crime, and when you do, I hope they put all three of you away for life, in Mexico....

    I hear prison there is much "sweeter" if you catch my drift.

    As for Joe, I'll bet he'll be laughing at you three foozballs...

    Tah!

  • Ms T-Rius 1 year ago
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    HAVOC27,RUDY,Remember
    Your PINK drawers are SHOWING, PUNKS!!!
    hahaha!

  • Amy 1 year ago
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    Buena Suerte a los tres estupidos....

  • Ms T-Rius 1 year ago
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    Despedida punk estupidos.
    Votre cote feminin sera bienvenu ou vous allez! Hahahaha !

  • Arizona 1 year ago
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    Lady Gaga, Remember, Rudy, Havoc27, et al ~

    Ahahahahahahaha! I’ll bet Sheriff Joe is really, really scared now! NOT!

    You folks are some of the most ignorant and illiterate fools I have seen lately! You can’t spell, use punctuation or construct a proper sentence. And btw, anyone who types in all caps (that means all capitol letters…for you ignorant’s out there) is NEVER taken seriously, and usually not even read.

    The use of profanity screams ‘inadequacy’ (that means LOSER for you ignorant’s) as you feel you cannot make a point in proper English without it. It just adds to your obvious ignorance.

    The only thing ‘scary’ about you fools is the thought you might all be in the US! That means we have a whole generation of STUPID, ignorant and illiterate folks out there.

    You are only good for a laugh. I only pray you can’t vote!

    Come back when you get an education.

  • Amy 1 year ago
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    Ms T,,

    hahahaha they're definitely "pinkos".... LOL

    And you're right Arizona... terribly stupid too aren't they?

  • Ms T-Rius 1 year ago
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    Ya know Amy, it seems that being twisted in some shape, form, or fashion is a prerequisite for acceptance in the libtard cult. LOL!!!

  • CJP 1 year ago
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    Hey, Arizona, you think you're soo smart you try and put everyone down with your grammar lessons? There are far too many immigrants in the US that are more fluent in English than what you appear to be. I'm not talking about mexicans in particular, but I'm including Asians, Europeans, and middle east people. On the other hand just so you know, mexican schools are far more advanced than American school. I was born in Mexico and when I came here I already knew all the math that the kids here were barely being introduced to. Now I attend CAL and all that hard work is paying off. Go ahead and correct my grammar or spelling but one thing I'm a tell you, I do not care, as I am not writing to a professor that will correct my paper.

  • pancho villa 1 year ago
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    ill put 1000 on top too

  • Arizona Law or bust!!!! 1 year ago
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    Let me share some real funny events from the silly protesters in AZ.

    A bunch of the idiots lay down in a circle to block an area in the hopes they would be arrested. The participants connected themselves by means of a tubed cuff which left them unable to scratch their noses, wipe sweat off their brows or to have a drink of water. In fact, they couldn't easily disconnect themselves. There they were in blazing sun - waiting to be quickly arrested.

    Sheriff Joe let 'em broil for hours!

    Ahahahahahaha Go Sheriff Joe!

  • Amy 1 year ago
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    Hey CJP,

    Try actually READING the comments from the folks Arizona was "insulting" and then maybe you'll be offering up an apology? Unless of course, you're all FOR the murder of the Sheriff?

    If you are, get the heck out of my country. You're not wanted here. And even if you have the common sense NOT to support drug cartels and their death threats... you're still not welcome here. We don't want ungrateful jerks like you in our country.

    And yes, your grammar is terrible...

    If schools in Mexico are soooo faulosa, entonces, dime por que estas en MI PAIS..? Y es mas, por que la gente de tu pais parece tan estupios?

    Ciao imbecil....

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