Sheriff Joe Arpaio to undergo deposition in lawsuit by Sen. Jeff Flake’s son over kennel dog deaths

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is scheduled to be interviewed in a lawsuit that alleges his office pursued animal-cruelty charges in 2014 against U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake’s son to politically damage the senator.

Arpaio is scheduled for a deposition Thursday in Austin Flake’s lawsuit over the investigation into the heat-exhaustion deaths of more than 20 dogs at a kennel operated by his in-laws.

The younger Flake and his wife were in charge of the dogs while the in-laws were out of town.

The in-laws initially said the animals died after a dog chewed through an air-conditioning wire.

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