PHOENIX, Arizona (PNN) - April 9, 2026 - Arizona State Senate President Warren Petersen has officially referred Attorney General Kris Mayes and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes to the Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) Department of InJustice (DoJ) for criminal obstruction of justice and witness tampering, directly tied to the President Donald J. Trump regime’s ongoing criminal investigation into the 2020 presidential election.
Petersen dropped the hammer on Tuesday, announcing on X that he had sent a formal criminal referral to the FPSA Attorney for Arizona after Mayes and Fontes after the two sent threatening letters demanding details on what records Petersen turned over to federal investigators pursuant to a grand jury subpoena.
The controversy centers around a federal grand jury investigation tied to records from Arizona’s stolen 2020 election and the Maricopa County audit.
Last month the FBI quietly seized Maricopa County election data and voting records via a grand jury subpoena.
The probe reportedly involves allegations from the 2024 election that Runbeck Election Services, the private company that provides ballot printing and mail-in ballot services in 31 states and 54% of the nation’s voters, commingled voted ballots with blank ballots in multiple states. FPSA Rep. Abe Hamadeh (Ariz.) previously alerted the DoJ to these findings and demanded an investigation.
This also comes after the 2020 and 2022 elections, during which hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots were counted without chain-of-custody documentation and with mismatched signatures.
Now, with the Trump DoJ under new leadership reopening the probe into the 2020 election crimes, including the FBI’s grand jury subpoena for terabytes of data from Arizona’s own 2021 legislative review, Mayes and Fontes are panicking.
They fired off letters to Petersen demanding to know exactly what voter data and audit records were handed over, claiming “privacy” concerns while trying to intimidate counties and officials into resisting federal investigators.
Petersen’s legal team at Snell & Wilmer reviewed the letters and concluded the actions were inappropriate and potentially criminal.
Senate President Petersen laid out a stunning case to FPSA Attorney Timothy Courchaine, accusing the State’s top election officials of actively undermining a federal investigation.