{"id":88173,"date":"2017-08-26T00:30:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T00:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/sheriff-joe-arpaio-wins-pardon-from-trump.html"},"modified":"2017-08-26T00:30:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T00:30:26","slug":"sheriff-joe-arpaio-wins-pardon-from-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/sheriff-joe-arpaio-wins-pardon-from-trump.html","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff Joe Arpaio wins pardon from Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">President Trump granted a presidential pardon to Joe Arpaio, the former Sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Arpaio, 85, was recently found guilty of criminal contempt for defying a judge&#8217;s order to stop traffic patrols that allegedly targeted immigrants. He had been\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">charged with misdemeanor contempt<\/a>\u00a0of court for allegedly willfully defying a judge\u2019s order in 2011 and prolonging his patrols for another 17 months. <\/p>\n<p>He was expected to be sentenced on Oct. 5 and faced up to six months in jail if convicted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sheriff Joe Arpaio is now eighty-five years old, and after more than fifty years of admirable service to our Nation, he is worthy candidate for a Presidential pardon,&#8221; the White House said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.foxnews.com\/~r\/foxnews\/politics\/~3\/Sc2JivXbp2o\/sheriff-joe-arpaio-wins-pardon-from-trump.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump granted a presidential pardon to Joe Arpaio, the former Sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., on Friday.\u00a0 Arpaio, 85, was recently found guilty of criminal contempt for defying a judge&#8217;s order to stop traffic patrols that allegedly targeted immigrants. He had been\u00a0charged with misdemeanor contempt\u00a0of court for allegedly willfully defying a judge\u2019s order in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-88173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}