From Governor Janet Napolitano down, Arizona authorities have protected polygamous sexual predators with their indifference
By John Dougherty
Published on August 07, 2003

“This is laughable,” scoffs CindiNannetti, Maricopa County’s sex-crimes bureau chief, as she finishes reading a three-page report prepared by the Colorado City Police Department — an agency controlled by fundamentalist Mormon polygamists along the Arizona-Utah border

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2003-08-07/news/eyes-wide-shut/

Arizona faces a “Waco-level” threat from Mormon fundamentalists.
By John Dougherty
Published on October 03, 2002

Arizona Attorney General Janet Napolitano’s office is covering up information documenting extensive and ongoing criminal activity including rape, incest, assault, kidnapping, forced marriages of underage girls, weapons violations and welfare fraud that is rampant in the remote polygamous community of Colorado City, state records obtained by New Times reveal.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2002-10-03/news/cover-up-arizona-attorney-general-internal-memo/

A bill before the Legislature would allow the state to begin reforming a society that steals public money and abuses underage girls
Commentary
By John Dougherty
Published on April 07, 2005
The Arizona Legislature has the rare opportunity this session to strike a powerful blow to the heart of the fundamentalist Mormon polygamist cult that has dominated life in the isolated communities north of the Grand Canyon for more than 70 years.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2005-04-07/news/derail-polygamy-s-money-train/

The police force in Polygamyland helps fugitive Prophet Warren Jeffs and his cult break the law
By John Dougherty
Published on February 23, 2006

The Colorado City Marshal’s Office is in a state of insurrection. Mark Poutenis
 Utah AG Mark Shurtleff (left) and Arizona AG Terry Goddard have become Prophet Warren Jeffs’ puppets.

And nobody in authority — from Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano on down — seems to give a damn.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2006-02-23/news/rogue-cops/

Governor Napolitano went to Utah, and all we got was some lousy ring kissing.
John Dougherty
Published on October 07, 2004

I’ve got a dreadful message for thousands of young men and women trapped in the horrors of fundamentalist Mormon polygamy in a handful of remote and desolate towns north of the Grand Canyon along the Arizona-Utah border.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2004-10-07/news/janet-s-missed-opportunity/