Pecos Bill Pinal Paul And Other Wild West Stories

By David Kurtz

September 30, 2010 6:24 a.m.

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Even if the wild story of the Arizona sheriff’s deputy getting gunned down by Mexican drug runners turns out not be a hoax, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu — the same one who appeared in the notorious John McCain ad — has a lot of answering to do for the bad information his department released to the press about the alleged incident. A truly remarkable list of misstatements that verges on misinformation.

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