Authorities in Arizona say they intercepted a package on Thursday that had been filled with explosives and mailed to controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Someone took Sheriff Joe Arpaio's credit-card information and went on a supermarket sweep, and unlike his obsession with Obama's birth certificate, it sounds like he might actually take it easy on this slightly less important fraudster.
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio knows how to get headlines, that much is clear, but based on a Joe Hagan's Rolling Stone profile of the Maricopa County, Arizona, lawman, posted on Thursday, it appears Arpaio's knack for controversy-fueled coverage is starting to erode his actual political influence.
The Justice Department has been threatening since at least December to sue Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio for civil rights violations against Latinos if he and his officers didn't clean up their act, and on Thursday the feds finally did.
Doing his best to shift attention from the Federal investigations into his office's discrimination against Latinos and abuses of power, Arizona's notorious sheriff Joe Arpaio is resorting to a well-worn headline-grabber: birtherism.
Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio got into even more hot water on Thursday: the U.S. Department of Justice issued the results of a three-year investigation finding that his office exhibited discriminatory policies toward Latinos and violated civil rights
The GOP hopeful met with the lawman with a reputation for tough treatment of illegal immigrants
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