The self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff in America” admitted to violating a a court order to stop detaining people suspected of being in the country illegally, and he has offered to pay a fine and apologize. The admission comes a month before a hearing that could disclose details of his department.
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The admission, filed in federal court Tuesday by Arapio and his lawyers, comes a month before Arpaio and Chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan were scheduled to appear in court for an evidentiary hearing that could disclose the inner workings of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.
The motion to vacate the hearing said "a 4-day evidentiary hearing, which would cost the county taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, and which would consume significant time of the Court is, unnecessary."
In the court documents filed Tuesday Arpaio offered to work on creating a $350,000 fund to pay at least five people who were held in violation of the Dec. 2011 injunction.
IN the filing, Arpaio also publicly acknowledged that he violated the court's orders and made a $100,000 payment to a Latino civil rights organization based in Maricopa County.
U.S. District Judge Murray Snow will have to decide whether to call off the hearings scheduled for April 21 to April 24. Last year, Snow found that Apraio and his sheriff's department racially profiled Latinos.
Attorneys representing Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office could not be immediately reached for comment.
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