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Was Cochise County Sheriff John Behan a Crook?

by | Jul 23, 2017 | Ask the Marshall, Departments

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Was Cochise County Sheriff John Behan a crook? Rocky Strong – Sherman, Texas. Behan was certainly a glad-handing, backslapping, joke-telling politician in Arizona Territory. But charges of corruption didn’t come up until around 1880, after he moved to Cochise County. He became sheriff in 1881, eight months prior to Tombstone’s famous shoot-out behind the O.K. Corral. He got a little too friendly with the Cowboys and defended their bad behaviors, which included rustling, voter fraud, and


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