Both questioned Obama's birthplace"So was Sheriff Joe convicted for doing his job?" Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona from 1993 to 2016, presides over his office in Phoenix in October 2016. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announces newly launched program aimed at providing security around schools in Anthem, Ariz. His controversial tenure as sheriff brought Arpaio national headlines for massive roundups of suspected illegal immigrants and for the way he ran the Maricopa County jail. Prisoners dressed in striped inmate uniforms walk under the hot Arizona sun at tent city jail opened near Phoenix by then-Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. (Jean-Loup Sense/AFP/Getty Images)Critics said as sheriff Arpaio spent too much time courting publicity and not enough on basic policing.

Source: CBC News August 26, 2017 00:23 UTC