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Reporting from Phoenix - The day after the federal government told Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio that he could no longer use his deputies to round up suspected illegal immigrants on the street, the combative Arizona sheriff did just that. He launched one of his notorious "sweeps," in which his officers descend on heavily Latino neighborhoods, arrest hundreds of people for violations as minor as a busted headlight and ask them whether they are in the country legally. "I wanted to show everybody it didn't make a difference," Arpaio said of the Obama administration's order. Arpaio calls himself "America's toughest...

ASH, N.C. -- Brunswick County Sherriff John Ingram announced in an emailed statement today that he is shifting his political affiliation to the Republican Party. Ingram could not be immediately reached for comment. "Though my career in law enforcement as a Democrat has brought me to this place in time," Ingram said in the statement, "it is my humble choice to live as my conservative principles and discipline desire."

PHOENIX — The best bet for Republicans to keep the governor’s office would be to choose Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio as the party’s nominee, a new statewide poll shows. According to Rasmussen Reports, a head-to-head race between incumbent Republican Jan Brewer and presumptive Democratic nominee Terry Goddard would result in her ouster. The survey of 1,200 likely voters earlier this month found 44 percent of those asked favor Goddard, currently the state’s attorney general, against 35 percent who said they would vote to give Brewer a term of her own. Also, 9 percent wanted someone else, with the balance...

BUCKHORN, Mo. (Nov. 7, 2009) — A Halloween alternative party at Grace Covenant Church of Buckhorn, near Fort Leonard Wood, has raised $2,300 for bullet-resistant vests and other equipment in the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department. Sheriff J.B. King, who is a Southern Baptist, said he and his deputies greatly appreciate the help from the independent charismatic church. “It’s been a godsend,” King said. “During the past four years, this has amounted to a very healthy amount of money. We placed this donation into our equipment fund and it has helped us buy all kinds of equipment for our vehicles; for...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. – A sheriff says a Colorado couple's report that their 6-year-old son was in a balloon that was hurtling away from their home was a publicity stunt. Sheriff Jim Alderden says Richard and Mayumi Heene "put on a very good show for us, and we bought it." The sheriff says no charges have been filed yet, and the parents aren't under arrest. But he says he expects to recommend charges of conspiracy and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. – A Colorado sheriff said he was pursuing criminal charges in the case of a 6-year-old boy who vanished into the rafters of his garage while the world thought he was zooming through the sky in a flying saucer-like helium balloon. The boy's parents, Richard and Mayumi Heene, met with Larimer County investigators for much of the afternoon, but Sheriff Jim Alderden didn't say who would be charged or what the charges would be. Alderden didn't call Thursday's hours-long drama a hoax, but he expressed disappointment that he couldn't level more serious charges in the incident, which...

"Sheriff Joe Arpaio wants Maricopa County residents to know he’s not changing how he conducts his crime suppression sweeps, in spite of the federal government’s limitation of the sheriff’s officers to act as federal immigration agents. “We will continue to do what we have been doing, and target human smuggling, employee sanctions and any criminal activity we come across,” Arpaio told a group of reporters on Friday evening at the District 3 substation in Surprise. “I will be doing the same job, which is to enforce state laws, arrest (criminals) and book them into the county jail.” TAKE OUR POLL...

BILLINGS - American Police Force officials showed up in Mercedes SUV's that had "Hardin Police" stenciled on the vehicles. The twist, the city of Hardin doesn't have a police department. Two Rivers Authority officials say having APF patrol the streets was never part of their agenda. "I have no idea. I really don't because that's not been a part of any of the discussions we've had with any of them," said Two Rivers Authority's Al Peterson. As it stands now the Big Horn County Sheriff's Department is contracted to patrol the city and APF has no jurisdiction. If that was...

WILKES-BARRE - Luzerne Sheriff Michael A. Savokinas abruptly resigned Tuesday afternoon, ending a 20-month stint in office that often was plagued by controversy and clashes with other county officials. "At this time, my presence seems to be a distraction for my already over-worked staff," Savokinas wrote in a three-page resignation letter to Gov. Ed Rendell. Savokinas, 36, complained about a "witch hunt" and smear campaign "orchestrated by county officials" to drag his "reputation through the mud," and claimed drugs found in his vehicle "were planted as a possible political vendetta." Savokinas added he "can no longer do justice to my...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Marion County Sheriff's deputies arrested one of their own after an undercover operation. Now, a deputy who worked as a guard at the jail, is himself behind bars. "You know there is 775 deputy sheriff's in this department full time police officers and when one gets out of line the other 774 don't care for it," Col. John Layton with the Marion Co. Sheriff's Department said, When women complained about that one sheriff's deputy, Paul Wagner, fellow deputies began a month long investigation. Wagner worked part-time security at a Speedway gas station on the city's east side....

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SPOKANE, Wash. -- When Donald Ross's sister passed, more than 100 people attended her funeral mass in Spokane. The burial was scheduled for a nearby cemetery, but Ross and his family only made it a quarter of a mile when flashing lights forced them to the side of the road. "Harold, his (my husband's) brother, said, 'You pulled us out of a funeral procession,'" said wife Shirley Ross. But the deputy kept them there, writing up five citations because the driver and the passengers were not wearing a seat belts. And the sheriff's department says he had every right. "We're...

Can you guess which person said the following quote this week? "If they're afraid to go to church, that's good." If you guessed "Osama Bin Laden," you'd be wrong. But your answer would be understandable, as they certainly sound like the words of a terrorist. No, the man who said this is actually somewhat of a hero on the right. Conservatives fancy him as a sort of cowboy sheriff, fearlessly rounding up lawbreakers and treating them as prisoners should be treated: no cable, pink underwear, and oh yeah...the chance that they'll die needlessly from lack of the appropriate health care...

Federal agents have launched an investigation into the Luzerne County Sheriff's Department following a dispute over the handling of an internal probe into the discovery of drugs in a department vehicle, county officials said Monday. A sheriff's deputy tipped officials off to the drug discovery while complaining about the department's failure to file a formal report with the district attorney's office or police, Commissioner Maryanne Petrilla said. "(The) deputy came to the administration and said that this was discovered and not reported," Petrilla said. County officials confronted Sheriff Michael A. Savokinas, who claimed he had made a report to the...

The good news: in this instance the Secret Service had the grace to contact the Official Constitutional Authority-the Sheriff-and have his office properly observe the habeas corpus requirements. The bad news: The Sheriff went into instant grovel sheeple mode when confronted by his Imperial Feral Government Overlords and sent a SWAT Team to arrest a man with NO “previous history with law enforcement” on the basis of unspecified AND unpublicized allegations of threatening behavior.

It has been said that director Howard Hawks made Rio Bravo (1959) as a reaction to two popular westerns which angered him - High Noon (1952) and 3:10 to Yuma (1957). His comment on the former was, "I didn't think a good sheriff was going to go running around town like a chicken with his head off asking for help, and finally his Quaker wife had to save him." Hawks also considered 3:10 to Yuma, which had outlaw Glenn Ford playing psychological games with lawman Van Heflin, "a lot of nonsense." So Rio Bravo was the director's take on heroism...

I received some interesting feedback regarding the petition to "Draft" Sheriff Joe Arpaio to run against the RINO McCain. Most of it was positive and a few against. One that pops up is his age. I can see where that would be an issue under most circumstances but he seems to be quite lucis and I don't think we need career politicians anyway. One term in this critical time in history would be perfect. In fact, we'd probably do better if we drafted all of our candidates these days because the people who WANT the job seem to be ambitious...

Latino advocates alarmed by sheriff's talkBy Jordan Green Wednesday, April 29,2009 Sheriff BJ Barnes, considered by some to be the most powerful Republican politician in Guilford County, has found himself at odds with a black-Latino coalition led by clergy and lawyers over his plans to implement the controversial 287(g) program, which delegates federal immigration enforcement authority to local deputies. Meanwhile, the Obama administration is reviewing the program for possible civil rights violations, as members of Congress, including Rep. David Price, the Democrat who represents parts of the Triangle, demand stronger guidelines and accountability. Barnes’ description of his plans for immigration...

So Arlen Specter saw the writing on the wall and defected to save face. People like these should be welcomed under our "big tent" with ASYLUM – if they want to support conservative candidates. They should never again be allowed positions of leadership. It is unacceptable to have leftists undermining our platform. No individual seat is worth preserving at the expense of our conscience. Allowing their nonsense to endure has cost us many more seats than the few we gained in tolerating them as they have disillusioned so many, causing them to defect to other parties with no chance to...

Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik stood by his assertion that schools should be asking about the immigration status of students but said he planned to take no action nor make changes in the way Pima County deputies do their job. At a Tuesday afternoon press conference, Dupnik said he made the comments at a Senate hearing in Phoenix on April 20 because he wanted to seize the opportunity to weigh in on a sensitive topic he believes needs to be addressed. "It's wrong for the taxpayers in this country to spend the millions and millions and millions of dollars that...

I told them I was a US citizen. I told them I was on a business trip. I told them I had no drugs or humans in the car. That wasn't enough. They wanted to search the car, and I invoked my 4th am...

Sadly, after only a few years in office, Donnie Harrison has gone completely native and taken up the bad habits of his predecessor *Socialist Sheriff John Baker*with a letterhead shakedown solicitation of the public to fund the increasingly senile and predatory NC Sheriff Association.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that Cuyahoga County Sheriff Gerald McFaul, a long-time opponent to gun rights in Ohio, has tendered his resignation after months of allegations about his misconduct in office. McFaul has been under fire since the beginning of the year over questions of improper fund-raising activities, including having deputies sell tickets for his fund-raisers while on county time, for doing special favors for friends and relatives, and most recently for not reporting gifts he is reported to have accepted from employees. The anti-gun Sheriff has long-been an anathema to Ohio gun owners. In 2004, McFaul had...

Sheriff Gerald McFaul *Democrat (*=lvd added) . Cuyahoga County Republicans have asked the governor to remove County Sheriff Gerald McFaul from office. "The need for McFaul to resign or be removed from office is now painfully apparent, yet not a single elected county officeholder has called for McFaul to step down," Republican Chairman Rob Frost said in a news release. "If the governor or his fellow Democrats will not act, the people of this county must take action." Frost called on Gov. Ted Strickland to remove McFaul for official misconduct. UPDATE: Amanda Wurst, a spokeswoman for Strickland, said the governor...

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CNSNews.com) - The Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched an investigation of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Arizona following requests by congressional Democrats and allegations by liberal activists that the department has violated the civil rights of illegal aliens.

CHICAGO (AFP) - An Illinois sheriff filed a lawsuit against Craigslist on Thursday calling the popular website the largest clearing house for prostitution in the United States. Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart sued the owners of the classified ad site in US District Court for facilitating prostitution by failing to block blatant offers to trade sex for money. "Craigslist is the single largest source of prostitution in the nation," Dart said at a press conference in Chicago. "Missing children, runaways, abused women and women trafficked in from foreign countries are routinely forced to have sex with strangers because they're being...

The list of abuses of power by city and county officials in Cleveland is long and distinguished - so much so that each individual report barely raises eyebrows anymore. For example, 23 years after telling an employee (whom he was dating) how to avoid a subpoena so she wouldn't have to testify against him in a sexual harassment suit, Cuyahoga County Sheriff Gerald McFaul is finally being investigated, and could face criminal charges. McFaul has been under fire since the beginning of the year over questions of improper fund-raising activities, including having deputies sell tickets for his fund-raisers while on...

St. Clair County Sheriff Mearl Justus is backing a bill to allow Illinois residents to carry a concealed weapon. "In today's society the citizens should be able to protect themselves and their families," Justus said in a prepared statement. "As a law enforcement officer with over 54 years of service it is my opinion that anyone wishing to carry a concealed handgun, for their personal protection, must participate in a training course," he said. "I believe to be successful the key to concealed carry is training." House Bill 245, the Family and Personal Protection Act, was introduced Jan. 20 by...

The ongoing dispute between Sheriff Sandra Hutchens and the Orange County Board of Supervisors centers on the release of security tapes from the Jan. 13 board meeting that show deputies using the video cameras to zero in on the notes of two supervisors. The action was part of the department's disturbingly heavy-handed security efforts as gun-rights supporters sought to speak out against the sheriff's gun policies. ------------------------------cut----------------------------- Ms. Hutchens had been trying to revoke the CCW (carrying a concealed weapon) permits of people issued them by the previous sheriff. ------------------------------cut----------------------- At a previous board meeting, Supervisor Janet Nguyen pointed out...

Decatur, Ala. (AP) --A federal judge ordered an Alabama sheriff locked up in his own jail Wednesday after holding him in contempt for failing to adequately feed inmates while profiting from the skimpy meals. U.S. District Judge U.W. Clemon had court security arrest Morgan County Sheriff Greg Bartlett at the end of a hearing that produced dramatic testimony from skinny prisoners about paper-thin bologna and cold grits...

"Smile, You’re Under Arrest" — that’s the name of a new reality TV show starring none other than Sheriff Joe Arpaio of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO). Yet Maricopa County citizens aren’t smiling as Arpaio’s tactics have wreaked a lot of havoc, and fought little crime. Arpaio has transformed his police department into an immigration-enforcement agency, gaining international notoriety in the process. Armed with a 287(g) agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and a mandate to enforce immigration law, Arpaio has taken the pursuit of undocumented immigrants to “unconstitutional extremes

Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested four activists from ACORN Wednesday for allegedly disrupting a Maricopa County Board of Supervisors meeting. Protesters from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now were at the meeting to criticize Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s policies, including his focus on illegal immigration. ACORN and other critics say the immigration focus takes away from other priorities. Arpaio said the four were warned by deputies not to disrupt the meeting and that Wednesday’s disorderly conduct charges follow the arrest four ACORN protesters Monday. “They’re always griping about me,” said Arpaio. ACORN political coordinator Teresa Castro...

Sheriff Joe to make those in the county Jail/Tent City Jail pay $1.25 per-day for a county savings of more than $900,00. Now who says crime doesn't pay.

CAMP VICTORY, Iraq, Nov. 5, 2008 – One would think that with all the hats a camp sheriff has to wear, at least one of them would be a cowboy hat. Army 1st Sgt. Willoughby Mercer of Aberdeen, Md., is the Camp Victory sheriff and noncommissioned officer in charge of the mayor cell on Camp Victory, Iraq. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Michel Sauret  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. But the only headgear Army 1st Sgt. Willoughby Mercer wears around here is a patrol cap; all his other hats are tipped to the servicemembers living on Camp...

LEE COUNTY: Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott is standing by some controversial comments he made at Governor Sarah Palin's rally on Monday - comments already gaining national attention. While speaking on stage, Scott referred to the Democratic presidential candidate by his full name, Barack Hussein Obama. Those comments didn't go over well with the McCain Campaign, but Scott says he meant no harm by his remarks.

Across Pennsylvania, open-carry advocates — those who support the right to openly carry a holstered firearm — are paying close attention to Lebanon after a woman’s concealed-weapon license was revoked for wearing a loaded handgun on her hip at her daughter’s soccer game. Lebanon County Sheriff Mike DeLeo revoked Meleanie Hain’s license this week after he received complaints from a parent who attended a game played by 4- and 5-year-olds on Sept. 11 at Optimist Park. DeLeo’s action will not prevent the Lebanon woman from carrying a gun in the open, but she will not be allowed to wear it...

The Richland County, South Carolina Sheriff's Department (that's them above) just obtained an armored personnel carrier, complete with a belt-fed, .50-cal turreted machine gun. Sheriff Leon Lott has charmingly named the vehicle "The Peacemaker," and insists that using a caliber of ammunition that even the U.S. military is reluctant to use against human targets (it's generally reserved for use against armored vehicles) will "save lives."

SAN JACINTO, Calif. — With 9 reservations and 10 casinos, Riverside County is a major center of Indian gambling in California. But a standoff between county sheriff’s deputies and leaders of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians has led to an unusual effort to close one of the casinos because of safety concerns. Three Soboba members were killed in gunfights with deputies on the reservation in May, and the authorities say tribal members have shot at deputies in patrol cars and helicopters with high-powered assault rifles over the past nine months. In July, citing what it called heavy-handed treatment by...

LANCASTER - Garrard County Fiscal Court voted to strip two constables of their badges and blue lights Wednesday after the men reportedly overstepped their authority... "Because constables are elected into office, they report to the voters...

Eldorado, Texas -- For those inside the fence on a West Texas ranch populated by members of a polygamous faith, Wednesday was a holy day. For those on the outside, it was a day that passed without a hint of the apocalyptic scenario forecast by people in and out of Texas, including some former members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. .... The ranch now includes 11 dormitory-style residences, several workshops, a chicken coop, a limestone-mining quarry, a cement plant, a garden and crop fields. It has its own ambulance, firetruck and garbage truck, as...

Authorities are investigating the shooting death of an off-duty sheriff's deputy at sunrise today in the gang-ridden Cypress Park area of Los Angeles, authorities said. Police chief William Bratton and sheriff Lee Baca rushed to the scene, and Baca called this "a difficult day." Baca said "we know that the public at large is grieving the loss of a deputy sheriff, a new deputy sheriff who was in the department for just two years, working at our central jail." The name of the slain deputy sheriff has not been released, although neighbors told Los Angeles station KNX that the victim's...

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio came to Tucson on Thursday evening, but the wildly polarized greeting he got at a Midtown book signing probably made him feel right at home. America's toughest sheriff was the hottest draw at the Barnes & Noble bookstore since the last Harry Potter book came out. Outside the store's front door, a sign read "Tonight! Joe Arpaio, America's Toughest Sheriff" over a solemn-looking shot of Sheriff Joe from his new book, "Joe's Law."

A San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy fatally shot a man who turned toward him holding a gun late Tuesday, officials said.

Former Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona used racist and sexist language during secretly recorded conversations disclosed in court records this week, and also boasted that the benefits of public office included rubbing elbows with billionaires, drinking fine wine and getting "phenomenal" sex. ... Carona uses the "n" word several times and discusses various sexual escapades as he talks to former Assistant Sheriff Don Haidl, who was wired and cooperating with federal authorities in a corruption investigation of Carona. ... "You're right, I've had a life that's been absolutely blessed," he says. "I've met millionaires, billionaires, I've traveled on personal...

Sheriff Sandra Hutchens was publicly sworn in as Orange County’s first female top cop today in a large public ceremony held under sunny skies with calls for an end of dark days.

Deputies kill 2 in gunbattle on SoCal Indian reservation Associated Press - May 14, 2008 12:24 AM ET SAN JACINTO, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say at least 1 of 2 people who died in a gunbattle with sheriff's deputies on an Indian reservation was a member of the tribe. The Riverside County Sheriff's Department says 36-year-old Joseph Arres and a woman whose name has not been released opened fire with assault weapons last night on guards at an entrance to the reservation of the Soboba band of Luiseno indians. They then exchanged fire with sheriff's deputies and both were killed....

Sheriff Arpaio conducted another crime suppression operation in Fountain Hills on Tuesday. A total of seven traffic stops and fourteen contacts were made throughout a seven-hour patrol period. This resulted in ten arrests, nine of them being of undocumented immigrants, and three felony warrants cleared.

PHOENIX – For some, Cinco de Mayo meant a chance to take a bat to the likeness of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Cinco de Mayo also represented a celebration for the opening of a new youth center near 13th Street and Van Buren in downtown Phoenix. Part of the celebration was beating two Sheriff Joe Arpaio piñatas, which was a part of a fundraiser. People bought tickets for a chance to take a swing at the sheriff. A lot of the people in attendance said they took the chance in fun because they are living in fear as the sheriff continues...

Published in the Springfield, MO "News-Leader": Believe it or not, Greene County Sheriff Jack Merritt on Tuesday said the following to a crowd of onlookers at a rally in the rotunda of the state Capitol: "The way I hear Jason sing the national anthem makes you want to go out and kill a communist." ........ Thirty-year-old Tony Pecinovsky, a 10-year member of the party living in St. Louis, called Merritt's comment "mind-boggling." "It is unfortunate that one person's sense of patriotism leads them to talk of murder while ours leads us to fight for peace and democracy and equality and...