Sheriffs peers to make this decision. Reporter prosecutors are seeking a maximum sentence of six months in jail and a bench trial. Defense attorneys want a jury trial. Prosecutos are seeking to charge him with contempt. Trial is set to begin december 6. Tonights as he is seeking a seventh term in always. Andrew hasbun is following this case for us and how it could affect his bid for reelection. Reporter polls show he has a fivepoint lead but 10 say they are undecided. This has turned this reelection effort into the sheriffs and Sheriff Joe Arpaio as close. The sheriff behaves as if he is above the law. He has put his needs in front of the safety of the community. Reporter the sheriff spent millions on this Campaign Running brutal attack ads. Penzone remains confident. His priority has been himself over us. The court spoke loudly. Reporter arpaio spoke out saying in part, it is c the corrupted Obama Justice department is trying to influence my reelection. It is a play tapbtd abuse of po
Power back tonight. Pretty loud protests going on today. This is the other top story, it is a case that has cost maricopa taxpayers 50 million and it could cost Sheriff Joe Arpaio his job. Federal prosecutors sending the sheriff a firm message she is not above the law. They are filing criminal contempt charges against arpaio raids even after he was ordered to do so. They can investigate anything they want. Im confident they are not going to find anything. Federal prosecutors are seeking jail time and seeking a bench trial while Defense Attorneys are hoping for a jury trial. Sheriff joe arpaio is running for his seventh term on what may Andrew Hasbun is live with how the sheriff is reacting to the charges and more important the timing of the movement today. Reporter well, kari, we should also mention, too, that if the sheriff the convicted of a felony, he could be removed from office, not if he is convicted of a misdemeanor. This could be a moot point if the sheriff doesnt win in novemb
Sheriffs peers to make this decision. Reporter prosecutors are seeking a maximum sentence of six months in jail and a bench trial. Defense attorneys want a jury trial. Prosecutos are seeking to charge him with contempt. Trial is set to begin december 6. Tonights as he is seeking a seventh term in always. Andrew hasbun is following this case for us and how it could affect his bid for reelection. Reporter polls show he has a fivepoint lead but 10 say they are undecided. This has turned this reelection effort into the sheriffs and Sheriff Joe Arpaio as close. The sheriff behaves as if he is above the law. He has put his needs in front of the safety of the community. Reporter the sheriff spent millions on this Campaign Running brutal attack ads. Penzone remains confident. His priority has been himself over us. The court spoke loudly. Reporter arpaio spoke out saying in part, it is c the corrupted Obama Justice department is trying to influence my reelection. It is a play tapbtd abuse of po
To tempe or 16th street. It is shut down so a huge backup. The backup goes back to 59th avenue. If youre heading downtown from the west valley, you might want to use surface streets or do Something Else right now. We dont know when the deck park tunnel will reopen. A Small Plane Crashes in north phoenix. You can see the fuselage of the plane hid into a building. Here is a live look from cure on the ground. The plane went down more than hand hour and a half ago. Two people were in serious condition but stable. It is not clear what caused the plane to go down. Planes are not designed to take an impact like this. You have to imagine a the people are seriously injured. We will keep you updated. Police in the west valley trying to track down a man they police in avondale release a sketch of a suspect who they say sexually assaulted a woman there. Reporter you guys, the assault happened late last month about 10 30 p. M. At Kimberly Park is on the corner of garden lakes parkway and Lakeshore
Rightway auto on september 21 near 25th avenue and broadway and then more than a week later skeletal remains were found a block away. Police say the two sets of human remains belong to the same victim and that victim is 45yearold jason collins. The detectives now trying to determine how collins died. Well, it was quite a mess along part of i10 today. You might have gotten caught up in this through phoenix this afternoon. Take a look. The eastbound lanes right here going into the tunnel. They were all shut down after a truck that was hauling a high trailer went through that tunnel and damaged at least 12 lights inside. Adot crew had to close that tunnel for emergency repairs. It was all shut down. As you can see, look at this. This caused a huge backup. What a mess. Cars were trying to head into downtown from the west valley and that backup stretched for miles while it was an inconvenience for a lot of drivers. The good news here is nobody was happened. If people were trying to get into