Yuma News
U.S. Citizens Arrested for Heroin Smuggling
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- Written by Border Scope Border Scope
- Published: 15 July 2018 15 July 2018
Nogales, Arizona - Nogales Station Border Patrol agents arrested four females, and one male from a commercial shuttle Sunday for attempting to smuggle narcotics through the Interstate 19 Immigration Checkpoint.
Border Patrol Agents Arrest Deported Rapist
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- Published: 15 July 2018 15 July 2018
Nogales, Arizona - Nogales Border Patrol agents apprehended a 30-year-old Mexican man west of Nogales and later identified him as a previously-deported convicted sex offender.
Nogales CBP Officers Make Near Record Hard Drug Seizure
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- Published: 15 July 2018 15 July 2018
Nogales, Arizona - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Arizona’s Port of Nogales arrested two Mexican nationals involved in separate failed smuggling attempts of methamphetamine, fentanyl, oxycodone, and heroin into the United States over the weekend.
Yuma Border Patrol Agents Continue to see Spike in Meth and Fentanyl Seizures
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- Published: 15 July 2018 15 July 2018
Yuma, Arizona - U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Blythe Station Highway 95 and Wellton Station Interstate 8 Immigration Checkpoints seized two loads of methamphetamine and a significant number of suspected fentanyl pills over the weekend.
NIH researchers identify sequence leading to release of malaria parasites from red blood cells
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- Written by Meredith Daly Meredith Daly
- Published: 15 July 2018 15 July 2018
Washington, DC - The vacuole, a compartment inside human red blood cells in which malaria parasites reproduce and develop, takes on a distinct spherical shape just minutes before its membrane ruptures, leading to the release of parasites into the blood stream, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions. Their study appears in Cellular Microbiology.
Ex-Town Clerk Will Serve One Year in Prison for Stealing Town Funds
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- Written by YNN YNN
- Published: 15 July 2018 15 July 2018
Pinetop-Lakeside, Arizona - A former town clerk of Pinetop-Lakeside will spend one year in prison after pleading guilty to stealing more than $32,000 from the town.
Investing In Arizona's Border Strike Force
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- Published: 15 July 2018 15 July 2018
Phoenix, Arizona - Governor Doug Ducey, joined by Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Colonel Frank Milstead, Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels, Pima County Sheriff Mark Napier and Chief Patrol Agent Rodolfo Karisch, highlighted increased investments in the Arizona Border Strike Force for FY 2019.