ADEQ Has Spent $10.7 Million on the Cleanup to Date PHOENIX - Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) Director Steve Owens announced on July 2 that ADEQ has issued its formal Record of Decision (ROD) on the Water Quality Assurance…

Phoenix, Arizona - The Attorney General's Office announced the indictments of 48 members of two human smuggling organizations. The indictments followed an eight-month investigation by a task force comprised of the Attorney General's Office, Phoenix Police Department, Department of Public…

Washington, DC - Paul Merle Eischeid -- the newest addition to the U.S. Marshals famed 15 MOST WANTED fugitives list -- is sought in connection with the brutal murder of a Phoenix, AZ, woman. The former Charles Schwab stockbroker who…

While reading the article in this issue titled, "Arizona's Exports on Track for Record Year," I wondered why the U.S. does not do more in the way of tax breaks for the film industry. During the interview with Diane Ladd…

The Department of Justice and FBI announced the results of an ongoing cyber crime initiative to disrupt and dismantle "botherders" and elevate the public's cyber security awareness of botnets. OPERATION BOT ROAST is a national initiative and ongoing investigations have…

STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX A new law makes residential mortgage fraud a felony punishable by up to ten years in prison. The Legislature overwhelmingly passed and the governor signed the legislation that prosecutors say will make it easier to convict predators…

Special training allows agricultural inspectors to spot organized crime activities (Sanders, AZ) -- On Monday, June 18, 2007, two Arizona Department of Agriculture (ADA) port inspectors caught individuals trying to smuggle $ $1,011,630.00 in U.S. currency in a commercial truck-tractor…

Baltimore, MD - Carl J. Kotowski, Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) of the Baltimore District Office of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), along with Baltimore City Police Commissioner Leonard D. Hamm and Baltimore City States Attorney Patricia Jessamy, have…

Defendants global munitions empire included deals with factions in Iraq, Bosnia, Somalia, Nicaragua, Brazil, Cyprus, Bosnia, Croatia, and Iran NEW YORK DEA Administrator Karen P. Tandy and Michael J. Garcia, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New…

by Karon Schneider On the set While Phoenix has been well on its way to following in the footsteps of the booming metropolis of Los Angeles, the small community that comprises Jake's Corner has shied away from the all the…

WASHINGTON United States Congressman William J. Jefferson was indicted today by a federal grand jury on charges including bribery and racketeering for allegedly using his office to corruptly solicit bribes and for paying bribes to a foreign official, Assistant Attorney…

Plot Targets Airports Jet Fuel Supply Tanks and Pipeline Defendants Include Extremists in United States, Guyana, and Trinidad BROOKLYN, NY Four individuals, including a former member of the parliament of Guyana and a former airport cargo worker at New Yorks…