Flags will be flown at half-staff on Thursday to honor Border Patrol Agent Daniel P. Cox, who died in a head-on collision with another vehicle on Saturday near Sells, Arizona.... Read more»
Although the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona has been ravaged by COVID-19 — at one point serving as the world epicenter of infections — the Tohono O’odham Nation has not been hit as hard. Thanks to income from four casinos, including two near Tucson’s million residents and one in the Phoenix Valley surrounded by more than 4 million people, the tribe offers health care to all members. There are four clinics spread across the nation’s 11 districts.... Read more»
Officer Bryan Brown of the Tohono O'odham Police Department died after he was shot during an altercation Thursday morning near a casino 100 miles west of Tucson, officials said. ... Read more»
A helicopter crew with the Arizona Department of Public Safety airlifted a 24-year-old woman from a remote section of the Tohono O'odham Nation Wednesday morning after she collapsed attempting to elude Border Patrol agents. ... Read more»
A Tohono O'odham Police officer arrested a man Wednesday afternoon near the village of Santa Rosa, about 63 miles northwest of Tucson, when he discovered him leading two horses carrying burlap sacks stuffed with narcotics worth more than $123,000.... Read more»
Border Patrol agents rescued three hikers in the rugged Baboquivari Mountains on Wednesday after a 911 call for help on Tuesday, authorities said. ... Read more»
A helicopter crew from the Arizona Department of Public Safety airlifted an injured Guatemalan man after he was apprehended by Border Patrol agents on Tuesday. ... Read more»
A 911 call led to the rescue of a Mexican man and four teenagers on Monday afternoon by U.S. Border Patrol agents near Sells, about 56 miles southwest of Tucson. The group told the agents they had been walking in the desert for a week before they were rescued. ... Read more»
Suffering from a gunshot wound to his left leg, a Honduran man was airlifted to a Tucson hospital after Border Patrol agents found him near the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday morning southwest of Sells, authorities said. ... Read more»
A 47-year-old Sells woman was sentenced to 11 years in prison in the deaths of her daughter and granddaughter in a 2013 car wreck fueled by alcohol, cocaine and high speed. ... Read more»
Border Patrol Agent Manuel Alvarez was killed in a motorcycle crash Thursday on the Tohono O'odham Nation near Sells.... Read more»
Agents with the Tucson Sector's elite Border Patrol rescue team hiked two miles into rugged terrain to rescue a stranded Mexican man in the Baboquivari Mountains late Tuesday night. ... Read more»
Discussing a Tuesday shooting case, Border Patrol officials told TucsonSentinel.com on Wednesday that the agency's elite BORTAC team took part earlier this month in another incident: a shootout with five suspected drug smugglers.... Read more»
A Border Patrol agent fired his weapon as agents attempted to apprehend a group of suspected marijuana smugglers and were assaulted with rocks Tuesday afternoon on the Tohono O'odham Nation west of Tucson, authorities said.... Read more»
Seizures by Border Patrol agents on the Tohono O'odham Nation and at a Nogales-area warehouse brought in nearly $3.8 million in marijuana weighing more than 7,000 pounds in a single week.
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Border Patrol agents working in the desert corridor west of Tucson seized more than 2,300 pounds of marijuana worth more than $1 million over the weekend and arrested six Mexican nationals for smuggling, officials said.... Read more»
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