To build his highly touted deportation force, President Donald Trump is reviving a long-standing program that deputizes local officers to enforce federal immigration law.
Read More »Arizona sheriff goes back to court – this time as civilian
Former Phoenix-area sheriff Joe Arpaio made his first court appearance Wednesday as a civilian after losing his bid for re-election and heard a federal judge say she's inclined to decide whether he's guilty of contempt-of-court rather than grant his request for a jury trial.
Read More »Reports show Arpaio spent $12.6 million in re-election bid
The final campaign finance reports from the Maricopa County sheriff's election show that Republican Joe Arpaio spent a total of $12.6 million in his unsuccessful bid for a seventh term in office.
Read More »3 best known Arizona sheriffs out in new year
Arizona's three most populous counties now have new sheriffs after the election defeats of top lawmen in Pima and Maricopa counties and the decision by the Pinal County sheriff to make a failed bid for a congressional seat.
Read More »Sheriff Joe Arpaio asks court to throw out contempt ruling
The request came as Sheriff Joe Arpaio's 24-year tenure as sheriff is set to end Sunday.
Read More »Republicans, not Latinos, doomed Arpaio
The fall of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio didn’t result from a surge of Latino voters, despite the opposition he drew from the Hispanic community over his immigration enforcement tactics.
Read More »Sheriff Joe Arpaio wants jury to decide his contempt case
Joe Arpaio's attorney filed court papers saying that an elected official's actions should be decided by an impartial jury of his peers, not a judge.
Read More »Feds want judge to decide whether Arpaio should be convicted
The U.S. Justice Department asked U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton in a filing Thursday to hold a bench trial rather than let a jury decide Arpaio's misdemeanor case.
Read More »Arizona sheriff’s criminal contempt trial moved to April 25
The NCAA men's Final Four basketball tournament scheduled for early April in the Phoenix area has pushed back outgoing Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's trial on a criminal contempt-of-court charge.
Read More »Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Goodbye to posse is ‘last hurrah’
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio stood in a cold parking lot outside Park Central Mall on Monday evening and presided over one of his last press conferences.
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