Two of three Maricopa County sheriff's employees implicated in a heroin smuggling ring have been released from custody after posting bail.
Read More »Napolitano, others to unveil plan to combat drugs
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and other Obama administration officials will use an Arizona border city as a backdrop to unveil their latest plan to confront drug smuggling.
Read More »Brewer signs bill to punish drop house operators
Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law a proposal that would make it a felony to use forgery to rent or buy a home to be used as an immigrant-smuggling "drop house."
Read More »House endorses bill to combat ‘drop houses’
The Arizona House gave preliminary approval to a proposal that would make it a felony to use forgery to rent or buy a home to be used as an immigrant-smuggling "drop house."
Read More »Border agents find smuggling tunnel in Nogales
U.S. Border Patrol agents say they have discovered a partially completed smuggling tunnel west of the border crossing in Nogales.
Read More »Unfinished border tunnel found in Arizona city
U.S. Border Patrol agents and Mexican law enforcement discovered an unfinished smuggling tunnel this week in the Arizona border city of Nogales.
Read More »White House says no to emergency AK-47 regulation
The U.S. agency that monitors gun sales has suffered a setback in its effort to increase scrutiny of the bulk sale of high-powered assault rifles in border state gun shops that are a chief source of weapons smuggling into Mexico.
Read More »Border Patrol set on turning kids away from crime
Money, fancy cars and nice clothes a�� things that most young people desire. According to law enforcement, smugglers use promises of just that to lure middle- and high-schoolers into illegal activity such as smuggling drugs, people and even firearms.
Read More »Pinal County deputy suspended over drug cartel comments
A deputy who came under scrutiny earlier this year after claiming he was wounded by drug smugglers in the Arizona desert has been suspended over comments he made to a weekly Phoenix newspaper, the Pinal County sheriff's office said Wednesday.
Read More »‘Major’ human smuggling cell busted in Arizona
Authorities have dismantled a major cell of a human smuggling ring that may be responsible for the transportation of thousands of illegal immigrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to Phoenix and other parts of the country, investigators said Wednesday.
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