Mesa police concluded their nearly four-month-long investigation into the city's park rangers unit. Here's what they found.

New records detail how Mesa park rangers were praised and promoted months before a criminal investigation was launched into misconduct.

Mesa park rangers under investigation were among top overtime earners compared to seven metro Phoenix cities. Here's what ...

Deputy Christian Dedmon, a member of the "Goon Squad," confirmed that inmates from the Rankin County jail had been working on a poultry farm that belonged to Bailey's mother. Dedmon also noted ...

Members of the squad had patches made, which were a gray shield patch with the words “Ranger,” “Goon Squad,” and “Mesa, AZ” embroidered in black.

6 members of the so-called Mississippi "Good Squad" were sentenced to decades in prison for the torture of 2 Black men. They were Rankin County cops.

Mesa park rangers involved in the "Goon Squad” investigation were paid in overtime up to 19 times more than the median for full-time park rangers across seven of Metro Phoenix's biggest cities.

A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 22, 2025, Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: From Prison, Ex-Deputy Recounts ‘Goon Squad’.

A 60-page police report found a group of park rangers had a stolen firearm, used racial slurs and inappropriate use of force and shared a “Goon Squad” patch. The report also detailed incidents ...

Goon Squad officers broke into his home without a warrant after a woman sold drugs to a confidential informant and then claimed he put her up to it, he said. “I got beat down and tortured for hours.

A federal judge dismissed their $400 million lawsuit Wednesday. A settlement agreement has Rankin County paying $500,000 and the county's insurance paying the policy limit of $2 million. The funding ...