Man sentenced to 40 months for attempting to smuggle fentanyl
A 32-year-old man living in Mexico as a U.S. citizen was sentenced to 40 months in prison for attempting to smuggle fentanyl pills for payment on…
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Jury has 1st trial of man accused of killing 2 Tucson girls
Deliberations resumed Thursday in the first of two trials for a man accused of abducting and killing two young Tucson girls separately and dumping…
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New report: More firearms, weaker gun laws driving violent crimes in Arizona, but what does this mean for Yuma County?
Arizona has become one of the most dangerous states for criminal gun…
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Cracking down on cartels recruiting teenage Arizonans through social media
In Washington, Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema introduced the Combating Cartels on Social Media…
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Southwest High School receives alarming social media post
In the early evening hours of Tuesday, September 27, officials at Southwest High School became aware of a social media…
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Over $2 million of narcotics seized over the weekend
Over the weekend, the El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a U.S. citizen and three Mexican natives accused of smuggling…
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Calexico Police looking for second suspect in homicide
On Saturday, September 24 around five in the morning, the Calexico police officers found a man with two stab wounds in the 100 block of Rockwood…
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UPDATE: Two bodies found in Yuma County
According to the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office (YCSO), two bodies were located around County 13th street and Avenue F on Thursday, September 22,…
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Border Patrol agents seize cloned Border Patrol vehicle
On Sunday, September 25, El Centro Border Patrol (BP) agents arrested a U.S. citizen and seized a cloned BP…
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Man charged for assaulting a Border Patrol agent
A 54-year-old man was arrested on one count of assault on a federal officer with the use of a deadly weapon and was charged by criminal…
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One man dead and son injured in Winterhaven shooting
One Yuma man is behind bars after being accused of murdering a father and injuring that man’s son.…
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Homicide in Winterhaven as ICSO investigates
On Saturday, September 24, 2022, Imperial County Sheriff’s Deputies from the Winterhaven station responded to shots fired in the 1800 block of…
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YSCO issues Level 2 sex offender notification
On Monday, September 26, the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office (YCSO) issues a Level 2 sex offender…
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Three people suffer injuries following car accident on Friday
On Friday, September 23, 2022, three people suffered injuries following a car…
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Kentucky Parole Board votes to have Paducah school shooter serve out life sentence
The Kentucky Parole Board on Monday denied parole to Michael Carneal, a man serving a life sentence for killing three students in a school shooting…
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Mother settles lawsuit over 2016 Texas arrest that was captured on video
The City of Fort Worth, Texas, has reached a settlement with Jacqueline Craig, a Black woman whose 2016 arrest after she called the police for help…
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Once nicknamed ‘Murderapolis,’ the city that became the center of the ‘Defund the Police’ movement is grappling with heightened violent crime
Marnette Gordon was doing laundry at home in Minneapolis one summer morning last year when a call came from her 36-year-old…
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Schiff says any criminal referral for Trump by the January 6 committee should be decided unanimously
US Rep. Adam Schiff, who serves on the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection, says that if the panel makes a criminal…
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Anchor dead, family hurt in domestic incident
A Detroit radio news anchor is dead following an apparent domestic dispute that left four others…
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This ‘CSI: Miami’ actress was threatened by a stalker for 12 years. The FBI caught him after he left his DNA on a fast-food straw
The threatening letters began in March…
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