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TIL in 1999, James Saville was arrested and charged with plotting to kill Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio with a pipe bomb. Saville was acquitted four years later when it was discovered that Arpaio’s detectives had purchased the bomb parts themselves and framed Saville in a publicity stunt.

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