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It was a strange turn of events took place in downtown Phoenix: A sword wielding suspect swung his weapon towards several officers, forcing them to shoot and kill him. This happened near 19th Avenue and McDowell not far from the Arizona State Fairgrounds Tuesday morning. Police tape stretched across Culver Street — evidence, including [...] Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is fighting back against increasingly violent criminals who are armed with the latest high powered weapons. He’s now arming his deputies with AR-15 style rifles. Not only that, he’s ordering them to protect themselves even when they’re not on the job. Arpaio says the rifles will ensure his officers are [...] Authorities in Flagstaff, a city in Northern Arizona, x-rayed the box and determined it contained an explosive device. A bomb squad was deployed and neutralized it. Flagstaff Police, the FBI and U.S. Postal inspectors are working the case and authorities there say they already have investigative leads. This follows a string of [...] A suspect accused in a string of armed pharmacy robberies is now behind bars — but police are still looking for his accomplice. Officers say James Johnson robbed 3 valley pharmacies, diagnosis each time demanding Oxycontin or Percocet pills at gunpoint. In the first robbery, sildenafil which occurred on March 25 at J & J [...] Police have identified a man who was killed during a dispute between an off-duty Arizona Department of Transportation officer and his neighbor Sunday night. The officer’s name has not been released, but police say the man killed was 43-year-old Quentine Barksdale. Phoenix police Sgt. Steve Martos said the incident happened around 9:15 p.m. near Central [...] Two brothers have been booked into jail after a third brother was shot and killed outside an apartment in Phoenix. Phoenix police say officers were called to an apartment complex near 17th Street and Indian School Road about a fight in which shots were fired around 11:15 p.m. Saturday. Once there they found the two [...] Police say a home invasion suspect was shot and killed during an attempted break-in near 28th Avenue and Acoma Wednesday morning, just before 2 a.m. According to police, the suspect went to one home and the owner heard the alarm in his truck go off. That homeowner grabbed baseball bat and went outside to find [...] The family of a slain Border Patrol agent has sued federal officials over the botched “Fast and Furious” gun operation. Agent Brian Terry was mortally wounded on Dec. 14, 2010, in a firefight north of the Arizona-Mexico border between U.S. agents and five men who had sneaked into the country to rob marijuana smugglers. Federal [...] More than 68 percent of the weapons recovered at Mexican crime scenes over a five-year period were traced to U.S. manufacturers or U.S. dealers who import firearms, according to statistics of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Between 2007 and 2011, Mexican law enforcement submitted 99,691requests to the ATF for tracing, and 68,161 [...] Two guns linked to the Obama administration’s gunwalking operation were found at the site of a gun battle in Mexico that took the life of model and beauty queen Susana Flores Maria Gamez. Only one of the weapons was purchased by a federal agent: Mexican beauty queen Susana Flores Maria Gamez and four others died [...] |
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