New Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens says the influx of record numbers of people at the southern border “isn’t sustainable.” The influx takes Border Patrol agents away from their primary job of securing the border. While they are tasked with processing illegal foreign nationals into the country, cartels exploit open access into the U.S., he
The suspects are described as follows: One suspect was a male in his twenties, wearing a black hoodie, black mask, and blue jeans. The other suspect was male in his twenties, wearing a black hoodie, black mask, and gray pants. The suspects took narcotics from the pharmacy. Fortunately, no employees were injured. Officers, including a
During the first week of August, Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office K-9 unit, with the help of Partners Against Narcotics Trafficking (PANT) taskforce, conducted two traffic stops within an hour of each other in Camp Verde. The first stop resulted in the seizure of 8 pounds of meth and 10 pounds (40,000 pills) of fentanyl pills,
Around mid-day June 1, 2022, a Prescott Police officer made a traffic stop in Dewey on 31-yr-old Amber Dawn Lee of Dewey. During the stop the officer noticed that Ms. Lee was acting in an excessively nervous manner. This prompted the officer to deploy a K9 around her vehicle, which resulted in the finding of
Partners Against Narcotics Trafficking (PANT) are ridding the streets of deadly narcotics. First, PANT Detectives received information that Becky Comstock, 39, of Chino Valley was involved in the ongoing sale of fentanyl in the area. On April 11, 2022, during investigations, Ms. Comstock was stopped by Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office K-9 units near Dewey. The
Yesterday (3/29) around 2 pm, a Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office K-9 unit made a traffic stop on the I-17 North Bound just North of Cordes Lakes, which resulted in the confiscation of approximately 11 lbs. of fentanyl and one arrest. The Deputy pulled the driver, Maximilano Gonzalez-Beltran, over for having a view obstruction hanging from