By Megan Cassidy, The Republic | azcentral.
U.S. marshals raided the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office on Friday in search of evidence after a court-appointed special monitor said the agency had withheld hundreds of documents a federal judge had ordered to be turned over months ago.
Nearly 1,500 identification cards seized by sheriff’s deputies had been marked for destruction in direct violation of U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow’s February order that the cards be turned over, the monitor said in a hearing Friday.
Further, the monitor said, sheriff’s officials had been instructed not to volunteer information to the monitors that the evidence existed.
