Thread: AZ: Sheriff Announces 2-Day County-Wide Crime Sweep

Sheriff Announces 2-Day County-Wide Crime Sweep

Updated: Monday, 16 Nov 2009, 4:08 PM MST
Published : Monday, 16 Nov 2009, 4:08 PM MST

PHOENIX - Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he will conduct a 2-day long, county-wide crime sweep starting Monday at 5 p.m.

The crime suppression and illegal immigration operation will be conducted by deputies, reserves, and about 200 volunteer posse members.

Posse helicopters will also be brought in to assist ground crews.

Arpaio says this operation will focus on human smuggling, which is different than previous operations.

Since March 2006, MCSO has arrested 1,710 smugglers and co-conspirators under the felony human smuggling laws.

In October, federal authorities limited Sheriff Arpaio's authority to enforce federal immigration law. He can still make arrests under state laws.

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Go Sheriff Joe!

Arpaio launching crime and immigration sweep
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Bill Bertolino

November 16, 2009 - 11:39AM



Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced Monday he plans to conduct a countywide crime-suppression and illegal-immigration sweep beginning this evening.

It would be the second such operation since the federal government stripped Arpaio of street-level immigration patrols under the direction of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Arpaio contends he still can seek to identify illegal immigrants during street patrols using state laws against human smuggling and sanctions for employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.

Monday’s sweep will entail 200 members of Arpaio’s volunteer posse and reserves, as well as sheriff’s office deputies. Helicopters will also assist in the operation, which Arpaio said will have will have a “substantial focusâ€

Arpaio launches new 2-day long crime sweep in Valley
Reported by: Katrina Wessman
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MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ – Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has launched a new immigration and crime suppression sweep in the Valley.

Lieutenant Brian Lee said about 200 volunteer posse, reserves and deputies will participate in the two-day sweep that started at 5 p.m. Monday.

Part of the sweep appears to be taking place in an area of South Phoenix near Lower Buckeye Road and 35th Avenue.

Arpaio said this operation will take advantauge of posse helicopters to visually assist ground crews in locating possible "load vehicles."

Arpaio said this operation will have a substantial focus on human smuggling.

The sheriff's sweeps in some heavily Latino areas of metro Phoenix have drawn criticism that Arpaio's deputies racially profile people.

Arpaio said people pulled over in the sweeps were approached because deputies had probable cause to believe they had committed crimes and that it was only afterward that deputies found many of them were illegal immigrants.

Since March 2006, Sheriff's deputies have reportedly stopped hundreds of load vehicles concluding in the arrests of 1,710 smugglers and co-conspirators, under the felony human smuggling laws.

The undocumented immigration enforcement by deputies has netted a total of 3,532 arrests on state and federal charges since March 2006.

In October, the Obama administration took away Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s authority under the 287g program, which grants power to local authorities to enforce federal immigration laws.

Under the program, 100 sheriff's deputies had been trained to arrest people suspected of being in the country illegally.

However, now, those deputies must call ICE agents to make those arrests.

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Sheriff Joe is a true patriot and a man that takes no BS! We need more Sheriff's across the country to duplicate Joe's methods!

Body-shop raided in Arpaio crime sweep
by Sandra Haros
(November 17th, 2009 @ 10:15am)


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PHOENIX -- Maricopa County sheriff's deputies served a search warrant Tuesday at Airport Enterprises Inc. in Phoenix as part of a two-day crime suppression sweep aimed at human smuggling.

The Sheriff's Office said deputies had received information that people working at the business were engaged in identity theft and might be in the country illegally.

It said the company was under investigation for violations of the state's employer sanctions law aimed at employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.

Airport Enterprises is an auto-body collision repair business near Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.

Tuesday's raid came as deputies continued their 13th immigration and crime sweep.

"We're going to do what we can to see if we can spot anyone coming from the border through the county, violating the immigration laws and any other crime," Sheriff Joe Arpaio said as he launched the operation Monday evening.

"I want the word to get out that we're out there and, if you're in this country illegally, maybe you ought to get a bus ticket and go back where you came from and get out of this county," Arpaio added.

Two-hundred deputies and posse members were involved, along with helicopters.

Past sheriff's sweeps in some heavily Latino areas of metro Phoenix have resulted in claims of racial profiling, which Arpaio has denied.

Arpaio said people pulled over in the sweeps were approached because deputies had probable cause to believe they had committed crimes and that it was only afterward that deputies found many of them were illegal immigrants.

The sheriff's office recently lost its power to make federal immigration arrests, but continues to focus on illegal immigration by enforcing a state immigrant smuggling law.

The sheriff's office reported that 27 arrests were made Monday night. Eighteen of those people were suspected of being illegal immigrants.


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You would think that Texas would have such sheriffs as Sheriff Joe. Surprising how we don't after listening to Rick Perry's big mouth. Just another politician grandstanding and ignoring Texas laws. Seeming more and more like that is the plan.