Last week the Food and Drug Administration advisory panel unanimously voted to recommend the agency approve Narcan (known in generic form as Naloxone), a life-saving drug for opioid overdoses, be made available to purchase over the counter without a prescription. Greater access to Naloxone, law enforcement has argued, has the potential to save countless lives.
The Partners Against Narcotics Trafficking (PANT) are asking for the public’s help in locating fugitive Ryan James Hauser. On November 29 of this year, a Yavapai County K-9 Deputy along with PANT Detectives located the suspected drug trafficker driving a pickup truck northbound on State Route 69 near Dewey. After multiple traffic infractions, a deputy
The illegal narcotics epidemic shows no sign of slowing down, but neither are the efforts of the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office, including the operations of the Partners Against Narcotics Trafficking (PANT) and the YCSO K9 Interdiction Division. The two units have removed hundreds of pounds of narcotics off the streets of not only Yavapai County,
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
Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office SWAT, in conjunction with Coconino County Sheriff’s Office, Verde Valley Regional SWAT, Prescott and Cottonwood Police Departments, and the US Marshalls were involved in a dramatic standoff Wednesday with a man wanted for multiple violent felonies in Maricopa County. At approximately 12:45 p.m. YCSO was asked to assist in executing a