
Left: Jose Angel Valadez (Maricopa County Sheriff's Office). Right: President Donald Trump speaks successful the James Brady Press Briefing Room astatine the White House aft an unspecified menace astatine the yearly White House Correspondents' Association Dinner successful Washington, Saturday, April 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon).
A antheral successful Arizona is accused of threatening to termination a section sheriff — and past requesting immunity from President Donald Trump aft doing so.
Jose Angel Valadez, 30, has been charged with threatening and intimidating and usage of an physics instrumentality to threaten, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office announced connected Thursday.
The sheriff's bureau said Valadez posted "direct threats" to termination its sheriff, Jerry Sheridan, connected Wednesday connected the societal media level X (formerly Twitter).
"Our Threat Management Unit conducted a accelerated probe that located and took Valadez into custody the aforesaid day," deputies added.
Authorities accidental that successful his threats, Valadez asked for "full statesmanlike immunity." They did not elaborate connected the nonstop quality of his words.
"The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office enforces the regularisation of instrumentality without objection and volition not tolerate threats oregon unit against elected officials, delivering swift and decisive consequences to anyone who attempts to intimidate this bureau oregon its personnel," the instrumentality enforcement bureau added.
Sheridan was elected sheriff of Maricopa County — Arizona's largest, containing Phoenix — successful 2024. His campaign bio said helium "brings implicit 4 decades of deep-rooted instrumentality enforcement experience, organization knowledge, and a servant's bosom to his enactment of 1 of the largest sheriff's offices successful the nation."
The bio adds: "After securing a decisive triumph successful the 2024 wide election, Sheridan was sworn into bureau with a wide mandate: reconstruct stability, professionalism, and nationalist spot portion prioritizing nationalist information and worker enactment passim Maricopa County."

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