Arpaio lawyers chastised - Mohave Valley News
The judge also focused on the agency’s refusal to turn over 50 hard drives from Arpaio’s secret investigation involving the judge. Arpaio attorney John Masterson said an official who is monitoring the sheriff’s office on behalf of Snow had resorted to threatening to have a court hearing called in a bid to get the records turned over. Robert Warshaw, the official monitoring the sheriff’s office for the judge, said he learned the ID documents were slated for destruction and that there was an order at the sheriff’s office that the existence of the ID records shouldn’t be... The court monitor said the unit of the sheriff’s office that stores evidence is a lockbox for keeping unflattering documents from public or court scrutiny. Five years ago, the agency acknowledged that its officers had deleted emails on the sheriff’s immigration patrols and destroyed officers’ records of traffic stops. Source: www.mohavedailynews.com
