Joe Arpaio
American former law enforcement officer
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| 2024 | Fails again in his attempt to become mayor of Fountain Hills, Arizona. |
| August 2 2022 | Arpaio ran for mayor of Fountain Hills but was defeated by incumbent Ginny Dickey, receiving 5,207 votes (49.0% of the total). |
| 2021 | Arpaio's wife Ava passed away from cancer complications. |
| October 5 2021 | Joe Arpaio announced his candidacy for mayor of Fountain Hills, Arizona, following preliminary comments about running for the office in September. |
| 2020 | Fails in his attempt to become Maricopa County Sheriff again. |
| February 27 2020 | The Ninth Circuit Court ruled to deny the appeal, affirming Judge Bolton's refusal to vacate Arpaio's conviction. |
| October 23 2019 | The case was heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. |
| August 25 2019 | Joe Arpaio announced his candidacy for Maricopa County Sheriff in 2020, promising to reinstitute his previous strict prison conditions. |
| 2018 | Arpaio filed defamation lawsuits against The New York Times, HuffPost, Rolling Stone, and CNN. These suits were subsequently dismissed by a federal judge who ruled that Arpaio could not prove actual malice. |
| 2018 | Arpaio appeared on Sacha Baron Cohen's satirical TV show 'Who Is America?', participating in a controversial segment about gun control. |
| October 15 2018 | Special prosecutor Christopher Caldwell was appointed by the Ninth Circuit to review the case after the Trump Justice Department declined to defend the verdict. |
| August 28 2018 | Arpaio participated in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, competing against Martha McSally and Kelli Ward. He was defeated, receiving 19% of the vote compared to McSally's 52% and Ward's 28%. |
| January 2018 | Arpaio announced his intention to seek the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. |
| 2017 | Concluded his tenure as Maricopa County Sheriff after 24 years in office. |
| October 19 2017 | Judge Bolton issued a four-page order denying Arpaio's motion to vacate all rulings, maintaining that the pardon did not revise the historical facts of the case. |
| September 2017 | Joe Arpaio gave an interview to American Free Press, indicating he would consider running for public office again if requested by President Donald Trump. |
| September 21 2017 | Department of Justice filed a court document requesting formal nullification of Arpaio's guilty verdict due to the presidential pardon. |
| August 25 2017 | Pardoned by President Donald Trump for his criminal contempt of court conviction. |
| August 13 2017 | Trump told Fox News he was 'seriously considering a pardon' for Joe Arpaio during a rally in Phoenix, Arizona. |
| July 2017 | Convicted of criminal contempt of court for continuing to conduct immigration round-ups after a federal court injunction. |
| July 31 2017 | Arpaio was found guilty of criminal contempt of court by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton for willfully violating court orders and failing to stop illegal detentions. |
| April 2017 | Newly elected Sheriff Paul Penzone announced the closure of Tent City jail. |
| 2016 | Loses re-election as Maricopa County Sheriff to Democratic candidate Paul Penzone. |
| December 15 2016 | Arpaio holds a news conference with posse member Mike Zullo, detailing '9 points of forgery' supposedly found on the digital image of Obama's birth certificate. |
| October 25 2016 | Criminal contempt charges were officially filed against Arpaio, two weeks before his re-election campaign. |
| October 11 2016 | Federal prosecutors announced criminal contempt of court charges against Arpaio. |
| September 2016 | Arpaio continues investigating Obama's birth certificate, claiming it is a 'forged document'. |
| August 19 2016 | The court requested the federal government file criminal contempt charges against Arpaio and his subordinates. |
| May 13 2016 | The court held Arpaio in contempt on three counts. |
| September 15 2015 | The Ninth Circuit denied Arpaio's request to remove Judge Snow and halt the lower court's proceedings. |
| August 7 2015 | Arpaio requested the Ninth Circuit to remove Judge Snow from the case. |
| July 24 2015 | U.S. marshals were directed by the court to seize potentially destructible evidence related to contempt of court charges from the sheriff's office. |
| July 15 2015 | Maricopa County's board of supervisors voted to settle the lawsuit, though the partial settlement did not resolve all claims of discriminatory policing. |
| June 15 2015 | Senior United States District Judge Roslyn O. Silver entered partial summary judgment for the DOJ against Arpaio on central racial-profiling allegations. |
| May 14 2015 | During a status conference, Judge Snow revealed documents from the 'Seattle Operation' that suggested an attempt to construct a conspiracy involving the court, DOJ, and other officials. |
| April 2015 | The lawsuit filed by Sabrina Morrison was settled for $3.5 million. |
| March 2015 | Arpaio admitted to violating several court orders and consented to a finding of civil contempt. |
| December 2014 | U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow warned Arpaio about potential criminal prosecution for contempt of court due to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office's failure to stop racial profiling practices. |
| September 11 2014 | Judge Snow granted over $4.4 million in attorney's fees to four legal organizations that litigated the Melendres v. Arpaio case: ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, ACLU of Arizona, MALDEF, and Covington & Burling. |
| June 4 2014 | Phoenix New Times reported that Arpaio had initiated a criminal investigation of Judge Snow and the Department of Justice. |
| March 2014 | Judge Snow held a hearing where he criticized Arpaio and Chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan for defying and mocking his order to stop singling out Latinos during patrols and stops. |
| January 2014 | Judge Snow appointed Robert Warshaw, former Rochester police chief, as an independent monitor over the MCSO. |
| 2013 | The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors voted to settle Lacey and Larkin's lawsuit for $3.75 million. The journalists used the settlement to establish an endowed chair professorship at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and the Lacey & Larkin Frontera Fund. |
| 2013 | National Geographic Channel featured Arpaio's jail in the 'Raving Arizona' episode of Banged Up Abroad, highlighting the story of Ecstasy dealer Shaun Attwood. |
| 2013 | Found to have unfairly targeted Hispanics in conducting traffic stops in a racial-profiling case. |
| October 2013 | Judge Snow issued a 59-page final order mandating reforms and requirements for the MCSO. |
| June 2013 | The U.S. Department of Justice recommended the appointment of an independent monitor to assess MCSO's compliance with court-ordered remedial measures. |
| May 30 2013 | A recall attempt by Respect Arizona and Citizens for a Better Arizona failed to gather the required 335,000 valid voter signatures by the 5 p.m. deadline, occurring just one week after a federal judge ruled that Arpaio's sheriff's office had systematically discriminated against Latinos. |
| May 24 2013 | Judge Snow issued a decision finding Arpaio and his office's policies discriminatory, violating the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. |
| 2012 | Arpaio was re-elected for his sixth term as sheriff, further solidifying his long-standing position in Maricopa County law enforcement. |
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