.<\/span><\/p>\nAs of now, there are five Republican contenders vying for the position, including Frank Crawford, Jerry Sheridan, Joel Paul Franklin Ellis, and Joe Melone.<\/p>\n
The contenders for Maricopa County sheriff from the Democratic party include Tyler Andrew Kamp, Jeffrey Scott Kirkham, and Rus Skinner, who is presently acting as the interim sheriff for the department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Frank Milstead Frank Milstead, who served as the director of Arizona Department of Safety for five years, announced his retirement in 2020 has expressed interest in becoming the next sheriff of Maricopa County. Last week, he submitted a statement of interest and shared his intentions in a social media post on Wednesday. Milstead, on X […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theumphx.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theumphx.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theumphx.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theumphx.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theumphx.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theumphx.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32088,"href":"https:\/\/theumphx.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32063\/revisions\/32088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theumphx.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theumphx.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theumphx.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theumphx.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}