Oct 29, 2021 · Joe Arpaio, then Maricopa County Sheriff, holds a news conference in Phoenix on Dec. 18, 2013. Nearly five years after Arpaio was voted out, taxpayers are covering one of the last major bills from ...
Jan 12, 2022 · Fountain Hills resident and America's Toughest Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a character witness in a $1 million theft lawsuit against his friend, who worked for a rare coin dealer.
PHOENIX — Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is already fighting federal contempt charges, faces a new legal hurdle on another front, as the lawyer representing him in …
Jul 27, 2019 · Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's lawyer is facing possible suspension over allegations of inappropriate behavior related to a former female client. Larry Klayman appeared in federal ...
Justice Department after federal prosecutors in Arizona asked to be removed because of unspecified conflicts of interest, according to a court filing made public Friday. READ MORE HERE: goo.gl/ByN5pc
Snow says he is “not going to be tolerant anymore.”
Judge Murray Snow orders injunction requiring MCSO to stop enforcing immigration law, further train deputies and make changes to the department. Snow also rules that the lawsuit against MCSO should proceed to trial.
A judge ordered the U.S. Marshals Service to seize a collection of records from Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office and leveled harsh criticism at the sheriff's lawyers for failing to turn over documents that had been requested months ago.
After four days of testimony, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is taking the stand in his contempt of court hearing. Arpaio is expected to testify about his sweeping immigration patrols, as well as allegations that he orchestrated an investigation into U.S. District Judge Murray Snow, who concluded in 2013 that deputies had profiled Latinos during regular traffic stops and patrols.
Arpaio’s chief deputy testifies that it appears deputies may have taken IDs as trophies during immigration patrols. Later, the Sheriff’s former attorney Tim Casey takes the stand, saying, at one point, Arpaio told him “he was the sheriff and would make his own decisions” over the detaining of illegal immigrants.
In a bombshell revelation, Sheriff Joe acknowledged that his office was behind a secret investigation into the wife of the judge presiding over a racial-profiling lawsuit against the brash Arizona lawman known for his anti-immigration patrols.
Stoddard swiped the papers while defense attorney Joanne Cuccia was addressing the court on behalf of her client, Antonio Lozano. The response of Judge Lisa Flores was remarkably understated and restrained given the horrific breach of confidentiality.
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Arpaio was first elected as sheriff in 1992. He was re-elected in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012. Throughout his tenure as sheriff Arpaio sought out media coverage. He was featured and profiled by news media worldwide and claimed to average 200 television appearances per month. In late 2008 and early 2009, Arpaio appeared in Smile...You're Under Arrest!, a three-episode Fox Reality Cha…
Arpaio was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on June 14, 1932, to Italian parents, both from Lacedonia, Italy. Arpaio's mother died while giving birth to him, and he was raised by his father, who ran an Italian grocery store. Arpaio completed high school and worked in his father's business until age 18 when he enlisted in the United States Army. He served in the Army from 1950 to 1954 in the Medical Department and was stationed in Francefor part of the time as a mili…
As of September 2012, Arpaio was a defendant in a federal class action suit and a United States Department of Justice suit, both of which alleged racial profiling.
Arpaio repeatedly denied racial profiling, although the MCSO did not have a policy specifically barring the practice nor any reliable internal method of ensuring it was not taking place.
In 2007 Manuel De Jesus Ortega Melendres, a Mexican tourist who was a passenger in a car sto…
On December 23, 2011, U.S. District Court Judge G. Murray Snow enjoined Arpaio and the MCSO from "detaining any person based only on knowledge or reasonable belief, without more, that the person is unlawfully present within the United States," halting anti-illegal immigration enforcement by MCSO in its current form.
Arpaio filed an appeal with the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The court up…
Federal Judge Neil V. Wakeruled in 2008, and again in 2010, that the county jails violated the constitutional rights of inmates in medical and other care-related issues. This ruling was a result of a lawsuit brought by the ACLU which alleged that "Arpaio routinely abused pre-trial detainees at Maricopa County Jail by feeding them moldy bread, rotten fruit and other contaminated food, housing them in cells so hot as to endanger their health, denying them care for serious medical …
In June 2008, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division began an investigation of Arpaio amid accusations of discrimination and unconstitutional searches and seizures. The investigation was conducted under the authority of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which forbids discrimination related to programs that receive federal funds.
On July 7, 2009, Arpaio held a press conference and announced that he would not cooperate wit…
At two press conferences held in March 2012, Arpaio and members of his Cold Case Posse claimed that President Barack Obama's long-form birth certificate, released by the White House on April 27, 2011, is a computer-generated forgery. The Posse also claimed that Obama's Selective Service card was a forgery. The allegations regarding the birth certificate were repeated at a July 2012 news conference in which Arpaio stated that Obama's long-form birth certificate was "defi…