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Law of the land In the late 1950s, Pinal County Sheriff’s Office built a substation and jail in Maricopa just east of West Garvey Avenue. Even after Maricopa was incorporated in 2003, the city’s law and order mostly came from the county sheriff and justice of the peace. The city contracted with PCSO until it established its own police department in 2007. Once Maricopa Police Department was established in 2007, the substation property was no longer used by PCSO but continued to be owned by the county. In 2012, the building was leased to F.O.R. Maricopa food bank, which remodeled it for a very different use, though the jail cells and outdoor enclosure remained. The building was demolished to clear the path for the John Wayne Parkway Overpass in 2018. Before the sheriff’s office sent personnel to town, the primary law enforcement was a series of justices of the
peace, according to the Maricopa Historical Society. Before the judges, the main turn-of-the-century lawman in Maricopa was John “Maricopa Slim” Powers, a Southern Pacific railroad detective who took policing the whole community upon himself. His main nemeses were the many hoboes who illicitly road the rails into and out of town. He was reportedly killed by a vengeful circus clown in 1914, according to the historical society.
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2009 2014 2019 A woman was booked on pot charges
The First Annual Maricopa Rotary Club Invitational Golf Tournament at The Duke at Rancho El Dorado was part of the 46th Annual Stagecoach Days. Stagecoach Days, a bygone Maricopa tradition, included carnival games and rides, rodeos and a barn dance. The Easter Bunny was a special guest.
Maricopa firefighters extinguished a house fire on West Windmill Drive in Maricopa Meadows that killed four family pets. The fire was accidental, sparking in the kitchen and spreading to the attic.
A Cobblestone Farms resident shot accused home intruder
after her friend dumped her off at Walmart because she was acting erratic and looking for a fistfight. The woman ended up flashing her pot pipe at the cops and chucked it into a garbage can. Trashing the hash heater didn’t spare her a free ride to the Pinal County jail that day.
Kenneth Lewis after he heard glass shattering. Lewis reportedly charged the homeowner, who produced a gun and shot him twice, striking him once in the arm. Lewis, 43, was cleared at the hospital and booked into jail for the break-in. The homeowner wasn’t charged.
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