TUCSON Az ( ROAD Rage man DIES SHOT) Gotham city -Police need help

An incident of road rage was elevated to a homicide case overnight when a man died of injuries from the Oct. 4 shooting.
David Uribe, 22, died Monday night at a local hospital. Tucson Police Department investigators are asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect in the shooting, said Sgt. Maria Hawke, a Tucson police spokeswoman.

The night of the shooting, Uribe was a passenger in a white pickup truck headed west on East 22nd Street about 7:30 p.m. When the driver stopped at the intersection of 22nd Street and South Tucson Boulevard the occupants of a red passenger car “began to engage in an altercation with the occupants of the white pickup truck,” said Hawke, who did not know the nature of the confrontation.
Both vehicles continued in the same direction and near the intersection of East 21st Street and South Highland Avenue someone in the red car shot at the pickup truck. More shots were fired near the intersection of East 21st Street and South Mountain Avenue before the red car sped away.
Anyone with information can call 911 or 88-CRIME.

DALLAS ( Mother who SUPER glued 2 yr old to wall) Faces Life in prison

DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas woman who super-glued her 2-year-old daughter's hands to a wall also beat the girl so badly that she suffered bleeding on her brain, a doctor testified Monday during the mother's sentencing hearing.

Elizabeth Escalona faces up to life in prison after pleading guilty in July to attacking her daughter, Jocelyn Cedillo, last September. Police say the 23-year-old mother attacked the toddler due to potty training problems.

UPDATE : Judge throws book at her (99 years in prison) justice served.

During a sentencing hearing that began Monday, prosecutors presented gruesome photos and details of the attack.

Jocelyn was hospitalized for about one week with injuries that included bleeding on her brain, a fractured rib, severe bruises and others likely caused by direct blows, according to Dr. Amy Barton, a former child abuse specialist at Children's Medical Center of Dallas.

"When I think about the time involved in that and what that scene must have looked like, it's overwhelming," Barton said.

Dallas Police Sr. Cpl. Abel Lopez, who interviewed Escalona after the attack, showed a bottle of super glue taken out of the family's apartment as well as a section of an apartment wall with Jocelyn's handprints.

The sentencing hearing is scheduled to continue Tuesday. Escalona's attorney, Angie N'Duka, said she hadn't decided if her client would take the stand. A state district judge will decide her punishment.

MEXICO (Salvador Alfonso Martinez ARRESTED) Los Zetas "The Squirrel"

The Navy presented Salvador Alfonso Martínez Escobedo, "Ardilla", alleged regional commander of Los Zetas in Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon and Coahuila, considered responsible for more than 320 executions, including those of the narcofosas of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, and the "release" of than 280 inmates in the last two years.

During their presentation in the la Subprocuraduría de Investigación Especializada (SIEDO), Martinez Escobedo spent time 'mugging" to mass media

The zeta leader, arrested on October 6 in Nuevo Laredo, hours after an attack on Marines in the city, had been imprisoned in Veracruz in 2008, but was released by a group of assassins, reappearing the same year in the dispute for the places of Durango and Chihuahua.

Martinez Escobedo, 31 years of age, is held responsible for killing with his own hands 50 people in several States of the country, as well as the recent "release" of 131 inmates of the criminal of Piedras Negras and the 151 prisoners of prison again Laredo, so far largest evasion in criminal in the country.

TUCSON Az (Man Capsized Boat) Night Fishing-Rescued by Fire Department

A 58-year-old man was rescued by firefighters after he fell into Kennedy Park Lake Sunday while night fishing.
Several 911 calls were received about 6:30 p.m. from the park reporting that someone out on the lake was yelling for help, said Capt. Jeff Langejans, a Tucson Fire Department spokesman.
Firefighters arrived within four minutes to the lake at the park, 3700 S. Mission Road, and learned that a man had lost his only oar and when he tried to grab it from the water he fell into the lake, Langejans said.

When he tried to climb back into the boat, the boat capsized and the man held onto the boat and began yelling for help, said Langejans.
One firefighter put on a floatation device and swam out to the man who was about 50 feet from the shoreline. The firefighter aided the man and both made it back to shore, Langejans said.
The rescue took eight minutes. The man, who did not suffer any injuries, was treated at the scene, and firefighters assisted him in getting home, Langejans said.
Langejans said water activities should not be done alone. He said if no one had heard the man yelling for help, the incident "could have resulted in a tragic ending."

TEXAS (U.S woman GETS JUSTICE after HUSBAND KILLED) DRUG Cartel member Arrested

Mexican authorities have arrested an alleged drug cartel leader known as Commander Squirrel who they say is linked to the 2010 murder of American jet skier David Hartley on a border lake, as well as to more than 200 other deaths in Mexico.

After a gunfight on Saturday evening in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexican Marines captured Salvador Alfonso Martinez Escobedo, AKA the Squirrel or Commander Squirrel, who earned his odd nickname for his permanent smile and allegedly helped direct operations for the violent Zetas cartel in Coahuila, Tamalapais and Nuevo Leon states.

David Hartley's wife Tiffany says that she and her husband were jet skiing on Falcon Lake on the Texas-Mexico border on Sept. 30, 2010, when unknown assailants shot David Hartley in the head. Tiffany Hartley says she sped back toward the U.S. shore of the lake, and was unable to pull her husband's body onto her jet ski.

Hartley's body has never been recovered, and a Mexican official who attempted to investigate the death was found beheaded. Authorities speculated that the Hartleys had interrupted a drug transaction on the Mexican side of the lake.

In a written statement, the Mexican Navy did not elaborate on Martinez Escobedo's alleged role in the Hartley killing, but did say he was believed linked to hundreds of deaths. They alleged that he ordered the killing of 72 undocumented migrants who were found dead on a ranch in Tamaulipas state in August 2010, and was responsible for hundreds of other deaths.

"Squirrel is credited with being the mastermind of the deaths of 72 undocumented migrants in San Fernando," said the statement. "[He] is the alleged perpetrator of the narco graves found in Tamaulipas state, with more than 200 bodies and the execution of more than 50 people by his own hand in different parts of the republic, [as well as] the murder of David Hartley, an American citizen killed at Falcon Dam on September 30, 2010."

IN and OUT BURGER (ABUSE of CATTLE Meat COMPANY) Shut Down

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investigating "disturbing evidence of inhumane treatment of cattle" at a California meat supplier, the agency said.

After receiving video from an animal welfare group, the USDA sent investigators to the Central Valley Meat Co. and found violations of humane handling, the agency said in a statement.

Jane Velez-Mitchell: Slaughterhouse video shows USDA needs to clean up its act

 

"We have reviewed the video and determined that while some of the footage provided shows unacceptable treatment of cattle, it does not show anything that would compromise food safety," said Al Almanza, administrator of the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service.

The USDA suspended inspections at the Hanford-based company, effectively halting slaughter operations there.

The agency said Wednesday it bought 21 million pounds of beef for federal food programs in fiscal year 2011, nearly one-sixth of its beef purchases.

Would you eat a burger grown in a lab?

Company officials have not seen the video, Brian Coelho, president of the Central Valley Meat Co., said Tuesday. He said he was "extremely disturbed" to learn that inspections were suspended.

COLORADO (AMBER Alert) Missing- Jessica Ridgeway

Authorities in Colorado are reviewing recent phone calls and social media clues in the disappearance of a 10-year-old girl.

Jessica Ridgeway left home at 8:30 a.m. on Friday to walk three blocks from her Westminster, Colo., home to meet friends for the walk to school. It was a route she took every day, but this time she never got there.

UPDATE (police have recovered her body 7 miles from the house) sad ending.

On Saturday, an army of eight hundred volunteers scoured trails and hillsides near Jessica's home.

"Right now they're just asking us to find anything that's out of the ordinary, any kind of evidence we could find," said volunteer Monty Yanker.

Police officers and FBI agents manned road blocks, asking drivers if they had seen or heard anything out of the ordinary.

Officers also canvassed neighborhoods, however the day yielded a frustratingly few leads.

No organized searches are planned for today, authorities said.

An Amber Alert was issued Friday night for the 10-year-old, nearly eight hours after she disappeared.

When Jessica didn't show up for class, school officials called her home.

But Jessica's mother, who works the overnight shift at a tech company, was asleep. She didn't get the message, which delayed her calling police.

"When we start with an eight-hour delay, or a delay as substantial as this, the distance that she could have wandered even on her own just gets huge," Westminster Police Detective Trevor Materasso said.

Police say that Jessica's father, who lives out of state, is in a custody battle with Jessica's mother. Police do not believe Jessica is with him, but are not ruling anyone out.

"We don't have a person of interest. And we are going to look at every angle multiple times," Materasso said.

Jessica was last seen wearing blue jeans, black boots, a black puffy jacket, and pink and purple glasses, ABC affilate KMGH-TV in Denver reported.

TOMBSTONE Az ( Deputy KILLS armed SUSPECT) Marshal's office

A man was fatally shot by a Tombstone Marshal's deputy early this morning after he was caught breaking into a home, authorities said.
The Marshal's office received a 911 call at about 4:40 a.m. from a resident who said that someone was trying to break into their home, according to a Cochise County Sheriff's Office news release.

The deputy responded to the home and encountered a man who appeared to be armed.
The deputy shot the man, fatally wounding him.
No further information was available.
The Cochise County Sheriff's Office is investigating the shooting

Cochise County Sheriff (Driving Drunk) When he crashed (Sad ending)

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- Preliminary toxicology results regarding the death of Larry Dever suggest the late Cochise County sheriff was driving drunk when he crashed his truck.

The Coconino County Sheriff’s Office announced on Friday that the Coconino County Medical Examiner’s Office received lab results that indicate that Dever’s blood contained a level of alcohol associated with impairment.
The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office also announced on Friday that the Dever family had been informed of the toxicology results, and expressed “great sorrow at the findings.”
Larry Dever had lost his mother just four days prior to crashing his truck. Dever's family believes he was still struggling to deal with the loss of his mother at the time of the accident.
The Dever family added that they appreciate the support they’ve received from people all over the state and the country.
It was also revealed on Friday that the cause of Dever’s death was multiple injuries, and the manner of death has been ruled an accident.
Larry Dever died on the night of September 18 while driving near the town of Williams. He had been driving on a dirt road when he lost control of his vehicle and it rolled off the road.

FBI (CONFIRMS Border Patrol Agent killed by Friendly Fire)

BISBEE, Ariz. — Investigators into the shooting death of Border Patrol agent Nicholas Ivie are preparing to announce that he died as a result of friendly fire, NBC News is reporting.
George McCubbin, president of the National Border Patrol Council, a union representing about 17,000 border agents, said Friday that he has learned new details that make him believe friendly fire could have played a part in the shooting.

"The only thing I can say is that the possibility of friendly fire is a higher likely scenario," McCubbin told The Associated Press, declining to elaborate on the new details.
NBC Sources reported Friday afternoon that a comparison of ballistics indicates Ivie was killed by friendly fire and also indicates no criminals were in the area.

TUCSON Az (WALMART shoplifter Beats on Security) Stole $150 worth of Beef

TUCSON - Pima County Sheriff's deputies are looking for a shoplifter who stole $150 worth of beef from a southwest-side Walmart Neighborhood Market after getting into a physical confrontation with the store's security guard.

Pima County Sheriff's Department deputies responded to the Walmart Neighborhood Market at 2823 W. Valencia Road at about 9:15 p.m. on September 26, according to a news release from PCSD.
The store manager told deputies he saw a man enter the store, grab a shopping basket, then walk to the meat department and load up on $150 worth of beef. When the suspect tried to leave the store without paying, the security manager confronted him by the store's exit, and a "brief physical altercation ensued," the PCSD release states.

SAN JOSE ( PUPPY taken from HOME BURGLARY) Family seeks Help

                                               UPDATE (DOG FOUND 100 miles away) Girl got it back!

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During a press conference on Oct. 3, 2012 in San Jose, Marissa Mabanag, 10, center left, and her mother, Marie, center right, hold photos of their family puppy, which the family believes was taken when their home was burglarized on Monday. Standing with them are Marissa's sister, Marianna Mabanag, behind center, and her cousin, Roseanne Agulto, left. The conference was joined by San Jose councilmembers, Ash Kalra and Nancy Pyle. (Dai Sugano/Staff)

TUCSON Az (BILLY the KID and gang ) Arrested Armed Robbery Spree

A 16-year-old police have called a ringleader is one of four young people booked into the Pima County jail on felony charges related to a string of armed robberies in Tucson over the last several months.

Steven Robles, 16, was arrested this week on suspicion of robbing eight businesses beginning July 7 at a Quickmart convenience store, said Sgt. Chris Widmer, a spokesman for the Tucson Police Department. Other businesses robbed were a hair salon, a fast food restaurant, a video game store, a tobacco shop and a pawn shop. Robles was booked on eight counts of armed robbery and six counts of aggravated robbery.
Others arrested Wednesday night are: Alexandria Gallego, 15, one count each of armed robbery and aggravated robbery; Samuel Torres-Garcia, 19, on four counts each of armed robbery and aggravated robbery and one count of aggravated assault; and Orlando Robles, 22, on one count each of armed robbery and aggravated robbery.
Steven Robles and Orlando Robles are brothers. Gallego is the girlfriend of Steven Robles, according to Widmer.
The minors implicated in the case are being named by the Star because they are being charged as adults on serious felony counts.

SAN DIEGO STATE (Employee KILLED) Mary Louise Shojai

SANTEE — A woman who was stabbed to death in her Santee home on Sunday has been identified as Mary Louise Shojai, a 37-year employee at San Diego State University.

SDSU officials said Wednesday that Shojai, 66, was director of student disability services for several years.

Mary Louise Shojai — Courtesy San Diego State University

Paul Carl Tomasini, 64, a Santee handyman acquainted with Shojai, was found at her home with a stab wound and was arrested hours later on suspicion of murder, sheriff’s officials said.

Investigators are trying to determine whether there was a romantic relationship between the two, as some neighbors had said, sheriff’s Capt. Duncan Fraser said Wednesday.

Shojai was praised on a San Diego State website as a dedicated professional and a gentle, fun-loving person.

“She was an amazing advocate for diversity and inclusion,” Aaron Bruce, SDSU’s chief diversity officer, said on the site. “Every day, Mary worked to insure that the rights of all students were respected and supported.”

SDSU officials said Shojai secured and administered multimillion-dollar grants for disability services. She also was described as an accomplished cellist and organist who was not above playing Bach on kazoo at a recent holiday party.

SAN DIEGO (Woman Killed by border Patrol was in Drug House) She was on probation for drug charges

A woman who was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent after hitting him with her car had moments earlier been in an apartment known for drug activity where the agents were trying to arrest a felon, according to new details released by Chula Vista police Tuesday.

Valeria "Munique" Tachiquin Alvarado

Police said Valeria “Munique” Tachiquin Alvarado, 32, struck the agent Friday as she pulled the car away from the curb. A second agent reached into her Honda to remove the keys from the ignition, and she pulled forward and struck the first agent again, this time driving with him on the car’s hood.

The agent, fearing for his life, yelled “Stop!” and then pulled out his gun, firing several rounds to halt the car, officials said.

Alvarado, a married mother of five, was on probation for a 2011 drug-related conviction, police said.

The information from police provides the first detailed look at how the incident unfolded, and aimed to address the questions of family members and residents who doubted the Border Patrol’s initial account.

Several people in the area witnessed parts of the incident, though some of their accounts differed.

The Border Patrol declined to comment Tuesday, citing the ongoing investigation.

According to police, who are leading the investigation into the shooting, a group of plainclothes agents went to an apartment on Moss Street near Oaklawn Avenue shortly before 1 p.m. with an arrest warrant for a felon who had been previously deported and had a history of drug charges.

The unit was known to have prior complaints of drug activity, police Capt. Gary Wedge said.

Alvarado was one of several people inside the apartment when four of the agents approached and identified themselves as law enforcement, Wedge said.

She replied that the man they wanted was in the shower in back, then she brushed past the agents and walked toward her car, Wedge said.

TUCSON Az ( ROBBED Compass BANK ) Left in white Van

TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) -

The Pima County Sheriff's Department has released photos of a man they say robbed a Compass Bank on Tucson's northwest side yesterday.

According to a news release, the robbery suspect is described as a Hispanic man in his late 20s or early 30s. He had medium-length dark hair, a mustache and was wearing dark sunglasses. He was last seen wearing a gray or brown plaid shirt.

 

He is believed to be the same suspect from other recent bank robberies.

He used a note to demand money from a teller at the Compass Bank at 5085 N. La Canada Blvd., then left with an undisclosed amount of cash.

He left in what is possibly a white van, which was waiting for him when he left the bank.

Anyone who can identify the suspect or has information about the case is urged to call 911 or 88-CRIME.

MEXICO (2 MEN ARRESTED for KILLING BORDER PATROL AGENT) Naco Nicholas Ivie

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MEXICO CITY/PHOENIX (Reuters) - Mexican troops arrested two men on Wednesday suspected of involvement in the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot dead in Arizona while responding to a tripped ground sensor, Mexican security officials said.

The agent who died was among three who were patrolling on foot about 5 miles north of the international border when gunfire erupted well before daybreak on Tuesday. A second agent was also wounded while the third, a woman, was unharmed.

The agents involved in the incident had been patrolling in an area near the border town of Naco, well-known as a corridor for smuggling, and the Cochise County Sheriff's department has said that tracks were found heading south after the shooting.

The two suspects detained in Mexico were arrested in a Mexican military operation in the city of Agua Prieta, in Mexico's northern Sonora state, a few miles (km) from the spot where Nicholas Ivie, 30, was shot dead, a Mexican Army officer, who declined to be named, told Reuters.

A Mexican police official in Naco, across the border from the Arizona town of the same name, confirmed the arrests, which occurred in the early hours of Wednesday.

The killing marked the fourth death of a Border Patrol agent in a violent confrontation in Arizona in less than two years and reignited concerns about border security in a state that is already at the forefront of the national immigration debate.

TUCSON Az ( MAN Found shot in CAR DIES at Hospital) Police need publics help

TUCSON - Tucson Police have identified a man that was found shot in a car in midtown Monday, and confirmed that he has succumbed to his injuries and died.
Henry Amado, a 46-year-old Tucson resident, died shortly after his arrival at a local hospital after being found shot in his car in midtown Monday afternoon, TPD officials state in a news release.

On October 1, at about 1:15 p.m., officers responded to the 200 block of East Yavapai Road, located near Stone Ave. and Prince Rd., after a citizen called 911 to report that a male was slumped over the steering wheel of a car in the area. Tucson Fire arrived at the scene first, and while treating him, noticed obvious signs of trauma and transported him to a nearby hospital, police state in the news release.
Detectives from the Homicide Unit confirmed the man suffered from gunshot trauma and collected evidence at the scene, officials state.

TUCSON Az (BUS STOP murder SUSPECT Arrested) 21 yr old BUSTED

 

TUCSON - A 21-year-old man has been charged with one count of 1st degree murder.

Tucson police say Eric Jones shot 41-year-old Robert Chance at a bus stop at Broadway Boulevard and Alvernon Way Monday.
He ran away after the shooting.
An-off duty officer later saw him driving more than 100 miles per hour.
Jones' vehicle passed a Department of Public Safety Officer, and the DPS Officer stopped him.
The vehicle Jones was driving turned out to be stolen.
Officers also found a handgun on the driver's seat of the vehicle.
The officers were unaware that Jones was the suspect in the earlier homicide.
Through their own investigation, Tucson Police Homicide Detectives identified Jones as the suspect in the homicide Monday.
Detectives also determined the handgun DPS recovered from Jones was the weapon used in the homicide.

TUCSON Az (Man shot at bus stop DIES) The New gotham city

A man was shot at a bus stop Monday afternoon on Broadway at Alvernon Way, and later died at UA Medical Center-University Campus.
A 911 caller reported shortly after 3 p.m. that a man shot another man at the bus stop at the southwest corner of the intersection, said Sgt. Chris Widmer, a Tucson Police Department spokesman.
Police K-9 units and a police helicopter searched the surrounding neighborhood for the shooter into the evening, but did not find him, Widmer said.

The shooter was described as an African-American man, 6 feet 1 inch tall, with a thin build. He is thought to be 18 to 25 years old, and was wearing black clothing and a blue shirt that he possibly took off while running from the bus stop, Widmer said.
He was last seen running southeast into a neighborhood, Widmer said.
Witnesses said the shooter was nearly struck by a work truck traveling north on Alvernon when he ran in front of the truck while fleeing. Detectives would like to talk to the truck's driver, and any other witnesses who saw the man running away from the bus stop, Widmer said.
Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or 88-CRIME