Arizona sheriff faces judge after defying court orders
Source: AP
By JACQUES BILLEAUD
PHOENIX (AP) — The sheriff in the nation's sixth-largest city faces a new round of contempt-of-court hearings Thursday for openly disobeying a judge's order to stop carrying out his signature immigration patrols.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio could face fines as a result of the hearings and could later be called into criminal court on the same grounds.
The sheriff has acknowledged violating court orders by conducting immigration patrols for 18 months after he was ordered to stop, failing to turn over traffic-stop recordings before the 2012 racial profiling trial, and bungling a plan to gather videos once they were publicly revealed.
Other subjects to be examined include allegations the sheriff launched an investigation of the judge in the profiling case in a failed bid to get him disqualified and that Arpaio's officers pocketed identification and other personal items seized from people during traffic stops and safe-house busts.
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FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2013, file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks at a news conference at the Sheriff's headquarters in Phoenix. The sheriff faces a new round of contempt-of-court hearings Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015, for openly disobeying a judge's order to stop carrying out his signature immigration patrols. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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I hope everyone has had enough of his crap by now. Time to put him in his place. And welcome to DU! 
Thanks for the warm welcome, msLeopard, by the way. I was actually curious on whether or not what I said was true, though I'd believe it was. Due to my typing these messages out of a public computer, I paused and asked a few people beside me what they thought- I've yet to find a 'No, he shouldn't be bothered.'. 
