The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has pledged its cooperation in an ongoing Title VI investigation by the Department of Justice involving allegations of civil rights and racial profiling by the sheriff’s office during crime sweeps, according to a letter from the its attorney.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office continued its employer’s sanction investigation into Mesa’s Golfland Sunsplash by netting at least two arrests, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.

A Maricopa County Sheriff Office’s detention officer accused of stealing more than $7,000 from a safe in the Lower Buckeye Jail is facing charges of felony theft.

Over the past week, many have asked why the Goldwater Institute - a policy group that strongly supports effective law-enforcement - would issue a critical report entitled "Mission Unaccomplished: The Misplaced Priorities of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office." The answer: because no government agency, particularly one entrusted with protecting the public, should be immune from public scrutiny.

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office says 11 people have been arrested in an operation targeting false identifications used to gain employment.

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu announced Friday night that he'll be hiring special outside counsel and other expert staff to assist him in an investigation into alleged misconduct by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu says a six-month investigation into alleged misconduct by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office has been completed. However, Babeu says his office is prohibited by law from releasing any details of the probe.

Maricopa County sheriff's deputies arrested a Cave Creek man in the slaying of a woman whose body was found inside a burned house earlier this month.

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is warning its deputies to reconsider eating at McDonald's after an incident reported Thursday at a Mesa restaurant.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has identified a man  killed in a deputy-involved shooting in Guadalupe Thursday morning.

Four months after it lost its power to make federal immigration arrests, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said Monday it plans to train all 881 of its deputies in enforcing federal immigration law.

The Goldwater Institute, a conservative public policy research organization, is blasting the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office for falling short in its three core missions: law-enforcement services, support services and detention.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has signed up 55 state and local law enforcement agencies to help enforce immigration laws, including an Arizona country sheriff under investigation for racial profiling, the Homeland Security Department announced Friday.

Tens of thousands of fugitives have remained on the lam for years across Arizona. A year ago, law enforcement launched an array of operations to investigate and serve thousands of additional warrants.

Imagine for a moment you’re a child. Your life isn’t normal. It’s controlled by fear and pain. It’s that way because you’re being raped by your 43-year-old uncle who lives in your home with you and your family.

The federal government issued a report Thursday, Dec. 15, outlining how the Maricopa County Sheriff's has committed a wide range of civil rights violations.

PHOENIX -- A scathing U.S. Justice Department report released Thursday found that Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office carried out a blatant pattern of discrimination against Latinos and held a “systematic disregard” for the Constitution amid a series of immigration crackdowns that have turned the lawman into a prominent national political figure.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office tries to stifle almost anyone checking on its operations. It keeps secret the most basic data about its police work that other departments publish every year. It refuses to release public records — or tries to remove information from those records — without any legal right to do so.

It was the system.

Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies raided a Mesa dry cleaning business and arrested six employees on charges of having fake immigration documents.

For more than two years, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has dispatched his deputies to arrest hundreds of illegal immigrants as he’s retooled his force into an immigration enforcement agency.

The pilot of a Pima County Sheriff’s Department helicopter died on Monday, Jan. 31, when the aircraft he was flying crashed in a remote area on the far northwest side of Tucson.