Jimmy Jenkins
@jimmyjenkins.bsky.social
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Department of Justice Reporter, Bloomberg News | Phone/Signal: 812.243.5582 | [email protected]
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I'm excited to join the incredibly talented team at Bloomberg News as a Washington legal reporter focusing on the Department of Justice. Help me expand my source network so I can hit the ground running in D.C.

Email: [email protected]
Phone/Signal: 812-243-5582
Thank you for welcoming me into your homes and your lives. Thank you for supporting the newsrooms I've worked in. Thank you for trusting me. Thank you for teaching me. Thank you for believing in me.

It has been the greatest honor of my life to be your reporter.

Jimmy
Dear Arizona,

Today was my last day with @azcentral.com I am very grateful to have worked at The Republic and @kjzz.org for the past decade.

I have accepted a new reporting job in Washington D.C. I'll have details and new contact info to share soon. Until then, thank you.
Breaking: The brother and sister-in-law of an Iranian asylum seeker on hunger strike in ICE custody have been arrested and indicted on federal charges. Attorney believes they were targeted for helping her with detained relative's case www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
Judge grants request to force-feed Iranian asylum seeker in ICE detention
A federal judge has granted a request from the government to force-feed an Iranian asylum seeker on a hunger strike while in ICE detention in Arizona.
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“She is a young girl,” her attorney said. “She's no danger to anyone. She just wanted to take refuge in the United States to escape from persecution in Iran.” ⬇️
We obtained the Pinal County Medical Examiner's report for Aaron Gunches, who was executed by Arizona in March. Experts warned of a risk of pulmonary edema from the pentobarbital lethal injection, but the examination found no evidence of fluid in the lungs www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
Despite warnings, no sign of excessive lung fluid in executed man Aaron Gunches
Before Aaron Gunches' execution in March, experts warned that pentobarbitol could cause him to suffer. Here's what the medical examiner's report showed.
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NEW: The federal judge overseeing DOC announced Tuesday she will appoint an independent “remediation manager” who will have broad powers and report directly to the court to enact long stalled reforms on Rikers Island.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/13/f...
Federal Judge Wants New Manager to Reform Rikers Island
Fourteen years after the filing of a landmark class-action lawsuit over brutality in city jails, a judge has ruled that a third-party should manage the Department of Correction.
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"We're not letting this administration fear monger us. They want immigrants to be running around scared, looking over their shoulder. We're not going to live like that."

Judge finds Iraq war veteran can be deported, despite decades of lawful residence www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
Judge finds Iraq war veteran can be deported, despite decades of lawful residence
Marlon Parris, who served two Army deployments in Iraq, was detained by immigration officials in January outside of his Phoenix-area neighborhood.
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I cannot overstate how troubling it is to me that law enforcement - our most numerous first responders in this country - do not know what a fentanyl overdose looks like many years into a public health crisis of fentanyl overdoses.

You also cannot overdose on fentanyl when there isn’t any fentanyl!
No evidence of fentanyl exposure in viral K-9 officer incident

@ryanmarino.bsky.social‬: "Law enforcement does not have good information on how drugs work. We have to be careful propping them up as authorities on this subject when it's quite clear they're not." www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
No evidence of fentanyl exposure in viral K-9 officer incident
A Maricopa County K-9 officer and his handler were hailed as heroes after a suspected exposure to fentanyl.
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Reposted by Jimmy Jenkins
No evidence of fentanyl exposure in viral K-9 officer incident

@ryanmarino.bsky.social‬: "Law enforcement does not have good information on how drugs work. We have to be careful propping them up as authorities on this subject when it's quite clear they're not." www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
No evidence of fentanyl exposure in viral K-9 officer incident
A Maricopa County K-9 officer and his handler were hailed as heroes after a suspected exposure to fentanyl.
www.azcentral.com
No evidence of fentanyl exposure in viral K-9 officer incident

@ryanmarino.bsky.social‬: "Law enforcement does not have good information on how drugs work. We have to be careful propping them up as authorities on this subject when it's quite clear they're not." www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
No evidence of fentanyl exposure in viral K-9 officer incident
A Maricopa County K-9 officer and his handler were hailed as heroes after a suspected exposure to fentanyl.
www.azcentral.com