NOGALES (Tucson News Now) - Three big methamphetamine busts at the border have landed three people in jail, and more than $1 million in drugs in the custody of Customs and Border Protection agents.
All three busts happened Wednesday.
The first seizure occurred after officers referred a 50-year-old Sierra Vista woman for additional questioning and a vehicle search when she attempted to enter the United States. A drug-sniffing dog detected drugs in the vehicle's fuel tank, and officers found 12 packages of crystal meth weighing nearly 19 pounds.
A couple of hours later, a 31-year-old Nogales, Sonora, Mexico man was selected for additional inspection of his Ford truck when he attempted to enter the U.S. Once again, a drug dog sniffed trouble, and officers found 20 packages of meth weighing almost 29 pounds.
A third seizure occurred last night after a 20-year-old Mexican national man living in Tucson was referred for additional inspection of his Chevrolet truck and a K9 alerted to drugs in the truck's tank. Officers found 20 packages of methamphetamine weighing more than 26 pounds.
Kendra St. Clair, 12, was at home alone in Oklahoma, when loud banging began on the door to her family's home. Soon, the glass shattered and an intruder had entered.
"I was scared and I didn't know what to do next," Kendra told ABC News.
Petrified, she called her mom Debra.
"I said Kendra get the gun and go get in my closet now. And call 911."
The young 6th grader followed her mom's orders to the tee.
The 911 tapes tell the story as it unfolded.
Kendra: "I'm at my house. I'm in my closet. And I ran away from (inaudible) someone's trying to get into my house and I do not know who they are." Dispatcher: "Ok I have a deputy en route, I want you to stay on the phone with me. Ok?" Kendra: "Ok. Please. I think they are in the house."
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Kendra St. Clare, 12-year-old Oklahoma girl, shoots an intruder during a home burglary.
Kendra had taken shelter in a closet, clutching her mother's .40 caliber glock gun while she listened to the intruder make his way around her home.
Kendra: "Please help me. Please." Dispatcher: "Alright, alright. I understand. Do you still have your mom's gun there?" Kendra: "Yes I do. I have it in my hand."
Her fear intensified to sheer terror, when she saw the knob of the closet door beginning to turn.
At that point, that for the first time in her life, Kendra fired a gun.
Police said the bullet traveled straight through the closet door and struck 32-year-old Stacey Jones in the shoulder, scaring him out of the house.
They arrested him a few blocks away and charged Jones with first degree burglary.
"When I had the gun, I didn't think I was actually going to have to shoot somebody," the 6th grader recalled. "I think it's going to change me a whole lot, knowing that I can hold my head up high and nothing can hurt me anymore."
Her mother Debra agrees.
"I think that she did something that most grown-ups wouldn't be able to do in a frightening situation. I think she handled herself amazingly."
Jones was treated at the hospital and released into the custody of authorities. Police said he has not yet entered a plea but that bond has been set for $250,000.
Divorces are never pretty, but this one is pretty ugly. A man from northern China divorced and sued his wife for being ugly. He won $120,000 in the lawsuit and has once again made the world question the validity of phrases like “marriage” and “love”.
The northern Chinese man, Jian Feng, married his wife and was reportedly absolutely in love with her. Soon, as will happen, she became pregnant and gave birth to a baby girl, which was when the problems arose for Feng.
He thought the baby was incredibly ugly, to the point where it horrified him. The baby resembled neither of her parents, so Feng demanded to know who the father was, because jumping to conclusions about your wife’s faithfulness is the obvious thing to do when you have an ugly baby.
As it turns out, his wife didn’t cheat, but did gloss over the fact that she had spent $100,000 on intense plastic surgery to severely change how she looked before she met him. It’s the kind of thing that can slip your mind on the first date. After his wife revealed this to him, Feng took the only right-minded course of action and divorced and sued her, claiming that she got him to marry her under false pretences. The false pretence presumably being that she was good looking. Incredibly, the (presumably male) judge sympathized with Feng and he won $120,000 in the case.
It’s usually the victim of court cases that you’re supposed to feel sorry for, but it’s kind of difficult to feel sorry for the man who is angry at his beautiful wife for being ugly at some point in her life. If you’re going to feel sorry for anyone, feel sorry for their child, whom will forever be known as the baby that broke her parent’s marriage – with her face.
NEW YORK (AP) -- A city police officer was charged Thursday
with plotting to kidnap, rape, torture and kill women he had identified and
catalogued on his computer, and then cook and eat their body parts.
Gilberto Valle sent numerous emails and other Internet
communications about the ghoulish torture and cannibalism scheme, according to a
criminal complaint. There was no information that any women harmed.
"I was thinking of tying her body onto some kind of
apparatus ... cook her over low heat, keep her alive as long as possible," Valle
allegedly wrote in one online exchange in July, the complaint says.
The officer was to appear later Thursday in federal court in
Manhattan to face kidnapping charges. The name of his attorney was not
immediately available.
A search of Valle's computer found he created records of at
least 100 women with their names, addresses and photos, the complaint says. Some
of the information came from his unauthorized use of a law enforcement database,
authorities said.
"The allegations in the complaint really need no description
from us," said Mary E. Galligan, acting head of the FBI's New York office. "They
speak for themselves. It would be an understatement merely to say Valle's own
words and actions were shocking."
There was no immediate response to a message left with the
NYPD on Thursday.
Valle met one potential victim over lunch, authorities
said.
The complaint alleges that in February, Valle negotiated to
kidnap another woman for someone else, writing, "$5,000 and she's all
yours."
It says he added: "I will really get off on knocking her
out, tying up her hands and bare feet and gagging her. Then she will be stuffed
into a large piece of luggage and wheeled out to my van."
Cellphone data revealed that Valle made calls on the block
where the woman lives in March, the complaint says. An FBI agent interviewed the
woman, who told them that she didn't know him well and was never in her
home.
Valle, 28, lives in Queens. He had been assigned to a
Manhattan precinct before his suspension on Wednesday.
PHOENIX (CBS5) - Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne has been ticketed following an investigation for a hit-and-run incident that happened March 27 in Phoenix.
Police cited Horne for one count of leaving the scene of a collision/unattended vehicle, a class three misdemeanor.
The hit-and-run happened about 12:45 p.m. at 202 W. Roosevelt St. and involved property damage only, according to officers.
The investigation was turned over to the Phoenix Police Department by the FBI on Oct. 1.
Horne said that he bumped into someone's bumper while in a downtown parking garage last March. He was driving a borrowed car. Horne said he didn't remember doing it but sent a letter about it to Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery.
Horne released the following statement late Wednesday afternoon:
"Today, I have received from the Phoenix Police Department a misdemeanor citation alleging that I apparently caused minor paint damage to the bumper of an unattended parked vehicle while leaving a parking lot on March 27, 2012.
"I first learned of my possible involvement in this incident several months ago, and requested from investigating authorities the name of the owner of the vehicle so I could immediately pay for any damage I may have caused.
"For some unknown reason I received no response. Hopefully, I can now obtain this information or the owner will contact me so I can pay for any damage that I may have unknowingly caused."
The allegation came up during an FBI investigation into allegations that Horne had broken state campaign finance laws.
Montgomery announced several weeks ago the allegations in a planned civil enforcement action stem from the FBI investigation into $500,000 of spending by a group that was led by a Horne ally.
Horne said the allegations are completely false.
Officials with the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office says it was a gruesome scene. They responded to an emergency call on Milton Road in Walker, LA around 11:15 a.m. Tuesday. They report that a kitchen knife was used to cut the woman's throat and sever her belly and then the baby was forcibly removed from her womb. She was about seven and a half months pregnant.
The woman survived, but the baby did not. At last check, the woman is in critical but stable condition. Her name has not been released. According to reports, when officers arrived on the scene, Reynolds was found kneeling over the victim.
Jeffery Reynolds, 31, has been charged with first-degree feticide and second-degree attempted murder.
Deputies and neighbors described the attack as vicious, but added it is hard to put into words.
"I have no words right now on how she must feel losing a child she was pregnant with," said Ana McDonald, whose parents live across the street from the victim. "I've carried a child. "You get attached and someone doing that, I can't explain how she feels right now."
"I've seen crime scenes before, but this one was very challenging," said Sheriff Jason Ard. "They all are, but this one was one that I don't think I've ever seen anything like this. We're doing everything we can to put all the pieces of the puzzle together, so this may take some time and try to get answers. We don't know motive or the cause. We just know we have a man that committed this crime."
Deputies said Reynolds was combative during the arrest. Steele said he did not suffer any injuries, but was taken to a hospital to be evaluated. A toxicology test was run on Reynolds, but the results have not come in yet.
Ard added he has no record of any problems from the home before Tuesday.
Reynolds is being held in the Livingston Parish Jail on a $500,000 bond.
A gang member pleaded guilty to murder Tuesday in the fatal shooting of an L.A. County sheriff's deputy in 2008 and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Carlos Velasquez, 28, pleaded guilty to murder and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in the Aug. 2, 2008, slaying of Dep. Juan Abel Escalante, right. The plea was accepted by Superior Court Judge Ronald S. Coen.
Velasquez was originally charged with capital murder and could have faced the death penalty. He admitted he killed the deputy as he was leaving his parents' Cypress Park home to head to work at the Men's Central Jail.
Escalante was shot in the back of the head as he reached into his car to adjust a child’s car seat.
Deputy Dist. Attys. Phillip Stirling and John Colello say Velasquez wrongly believed he was killing a gang rival and shot the deputy numerous times.
After a joint investigation by the LAPD and the sheriff's department, Velasquez was arrested in December 2008. Three alleged members of the Cypress Park gang, Jose Renteria, Armando Albarran, and Roberto Salazar have also been charged in the killing and their trials are pending.
Escalante had been a member of the sheriff's department for 2½ years and had served in the Army Reserve. He worked at the Men's Central Jail guarding some of the county's most dangerous inmates.He and his family had been living with his parents while waiting to move into a new Pomona home.
The suspects are alleged members or associates of the notorious Avenues gang, which has long feuded with the Cypress Park gang, whose territory includes the northeast Los Angeles neighborhood where Escalante lived.
The Avenues is among the most powerful gangs in the city and retains strong ties to the Mexican mafia, known as the Eme, which is a dominant force in California prisons.
The Cypress Park neighborhood where Escalante grew up had experienced a lull in gang violence in recent years until rival groups began feuding in 2007. The violence led to a raid mostly targeting the Avenues gang by police and federal agents, who stormed an area around Drew Street, about a mile north of where Escalante was killed.
Downey police are investigating a shooting at a business in an industrial neighborhood Wednesday morning.
Authorities did not provide many details, noting that it remains an "active scene." KABC 7 reported that four people were shot. NBC 4 is reporting that there may be three people fatally wounded.
Dean Wright, owner of House of Wright next door, said many police are gathered outside the business, United States Fire Protection Services.
He did not hear gunfire, but was told that a woman was fatally wounded and another was injured.
“It’s just unbelieveable," Wright said. "It’s just horrible.”
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At least three people are dead and two others have been wounded in shootings in Downey, according to Downey Fire Department Capt. Robert Hohn.
The events surrounding the shooting are unclear, but authorities are working two active crime scenes on Cleta Avenue. One is a home and the other is a business. It is unclear whether the two incidents are related.
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — A surfer was killed Tuesday by a shark off a beach at coastal Vandenberg Air Force Base after a summer of shark sightings along California's central coast, authorities said.
Francisco Javier Solorio Jr., 39, of Orcutt was killed in the attack off Surf Beach in Lompoc, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department said.
He was bitten by the shark in his upper torso.
Solorio "had a friend who he was surfing with who saw the shark bite or hit the man," said sheriff's Sgt. Mark A. Williams. "His friend ended up swimming over and pulling him from the water where he received first aid."
The friend started first aid while another surfer called for help, but Solorio was pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene.
The Air Force said Solorio was not affiliated with the base, which allows public access to some of its beaches.
The type of shark involved and other details were under investigation.
It was the latest shark attack fatality at Surf Beach, about 150 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
In October 2010, Lucas Ransom, a 19-year-old student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, died when a shark nearly severed his leg as he body-boarded.
Hundreds of miles south near the coast of San Diego, a 15-foot great white shark is believed to have killed triathlete David Martin in 2008.
There were no shark warning signs posted Tuesday at Surf Beach, said Lt. Erik Raney, adding that beaches don't typically post such notices unless the location had a recent shark sighting.
"We've had shark sightings up and down the Santa Barbara coastline pretty frequently recently," said Raney, adding that the sightings are well-publicized. Last month, warning signs were posted at Santa Barbara Harbor, about 65 miles southeast of Surf Beach, after a 14-foot great white shark was spotted by a surfer.
In July, a man escaped injury near Santa Cruz after being thrown from his kayak by a great white shark that bit through the vessel. An almost identical incident occurred off the coast of Cambria in May.
Death by shark attack is rare. An average of 65 shark attacks occur each year around the world that typically result in two or three deaths, according to the Pew Environment Group.
A community college student has been arrested for the abduction, murder and dismemberment of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway, Colorado police said today.
Austin Reed Sigg, 17, was arrested and charged with two counts of first degree murder and kidnapping. Sigg is a student at Arapahoe Community College, according to his arrest report.
"Law enforcement received the major break in the Jessica Ridgeway investigation they have been hoping for," the Westminster Police said today. "Late Tuesday evening police received a call that led them to a home near the Ketner Lake Open Space."
After Sigg was contacted in relation to Ridgeway's case, he was handcuffed and taken to the Westminster Police Department for interviewing and booking. He was "cooperative," according to the police report.
Two 20-year-old Camp Pendleton Marines were arrested this weekend on suspicion of a short but far-reaching BB-gun shooting spree across four south Orange County cities, an Orange County sheriff’s spokesman said Tuesday.
Store and car windows were shot out during the spree, which ran late Saturday night to early Sunday morning, Orange County Sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino said. At least 31 victims were identified.
Amormino named the two Marines as Joseph Nahale of Fremont, and Jesse Ivie of Gresham, Ore. The two men were booked in jail on suspicion of shooting into a vehicle and felony vandalism.
He said officials turned the two men over to Marine base officials and plan to ask the Orange County District Attorney’s Office to file charges.
According to Amormino, at least one victim was a night-shift worker who was resting in her car in Dana Point just before midnight Saturday when she heard gunshots and saw glass flying inside her car.
He said the woman popped up to find her rear and passenger windows blown out and spotted a red Ford Explorer driving away, Amormino said.
A short time later in Laguna Beach, several cars and the storefront windows of seven businesses along Coast Highway were shot out.
One person in Newport Beach and three more in San Clemente also reported destroyed windows and damage.
“We believe all of this happened in a very short time frame,” Amormino said.
Not long after the reports of damage started rolling in, a patrol deputy spotted a red Ford Explorer with two Marines inside, the spokesman said.
A search of the sport-utility vehicle turned up two high-powered BB guns, which the two Marines said they had bought hours earlier at a Walmart, Amormino said.
SAN DIEGO — A man suspected in the death of a Riverside County woman whose body was found inside a suitcase at a Poway hotel has been arrested.
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Joseph David Dorsey, 28, was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon by Mexican law enforcement near Rosarito, Mexico, Riverside County District Attorney spokesman John Hall said.
Dorsey was wanted in connection with the death of Christine Stewart, 47, who worked as a behavioral health specialist at a drug rehabilitation facility in Hemet, Hall said. Authorities said the two were dating.
Stewart was reported missing from her Canyon Lake apartment Aug. 6. Her body was found two days later at the Best Western Country Inn on Poway Road.
Dorsey had checked into the hotel but did not check out leaving property, including a large, rolling suitcase, behind, Hall said.
The luggage was 3 feet long and 18 inches wide and deep. Stewart’s 5 feet 2 inch body was found stuffed inside.
Investigators said evidence found in Dorsey’s apartment led them to believe that Stewart was killed in Riverside County, Hall said.
Dorsey, who is on parole for attempted burglary, has a criminal record that includes assault with a deadly weapon and battery on a peace officer.
He has been charged with one count of murder as well as allegations of a strike prior and two prison priors, Hall said.
Dorsey is being processed for extradition back to the U.S. where he will be booked and prosecuted, the spokesman said.
An infant girl, who was in good condition, was placed
in a duffle bag and left at a northside apartment complex Saturday
night. Police responded about 8 p.m. to an apartment complex in the 200 block
of East Prince Road after a 911 call about the abandoned infant, said Sgt. Maria
Hawke, a Tucson Police Department spokeswoman, on Monday. Investigators
learned that the newborn — about four to six days old — was left outside of the
manager’s apartment, Hawke said.
The manager reported that someone rang the
doorbell, and when the manager opened the door, the “duffle bag was found with
the baby inside of it,” said Hawke. Tucson Fire Department paramedics took
the baby to a hospital for evaluation, and the baby appeared to be in good
health, said Hawke. The infant is now in the custody of Child Protective
Services. Police do not know the identity of the mother, but “would like to
conduct a check of her welfare to ensure that she is not in need of medical
attention or other services,” Hawke said. Anyone with information about the
mother’s identity or whereabouts is asked to call 911 or 88-CRIME, Hawke
said. Police would like to remind the public that newborns can be anonymously
handed off to health care workers at all Tucson-area hospitals, Tucson Fire
Department stations and Casa de los Niños.
A Mexican woman was arrested at the border after 310 vials of a common 'date-rape' drug were found inside her vehicle.
According to Customs and Border Protection officers, Josefina Irene Dominguez, 51, was trying to enter the United States at the Mariposa Port. Officers found 310 vials of ketamine in her car after a search and addition questioning was conducted.
Ketamine is an animal tranquilizer often used during sexual assaults. It is a clear odorless and tasteless liquid anesthetic.
The drugs were seized and Dominguez was apprehended.
The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office is currently investigating an alleged kidnapping of a 14-year-old juvenile in the 35000 block of North Richardson Drive, San Tan Valley. The juveniles name is Samantha White. She is 4’11” tall, weighs 98 pounds, has blonde hair and blue eyes.
According to her aunt, Samantha left the residence for school this morning. A short time later, the aunt left the residence to go for a walk and discovered her school books and backpack scattered on the sidewalk in front of the residence. There was also a note which was left at the scene indicating she was possibly kidnapped. We have checked with her school and she did not arrive this morning.
At this point, we are investigating this case as a possible kidnapping. Currently we have deputies and detectives working the case and following up with any possible leads.
If anybody has any information on the whereabouts of Samantha White they are asked to contact the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office at 520-866-5111.
A Tucson man who tried to kidnap a jogger at knife-point last year was sentenced Monday to 11 1/4 years in prison.
Zachary Angelo Erickson, 22, was on probation in a theft case on Dec. 10, 2011, when he flashed a knife at a woman and ordered her to come to him as she ran along Old Spanish Trail on the city's east side. She ran away, and Erickson fled when she flagged down a passing bicyclist.
Erickson ran through the desert, circled back to a truck and drove off.
Four days later, detectives spotted a truck matching the suspect's and chased it. Erickson evaded capture, fleeing after the vehicle hit a curb in the Rita Ranch area.
Dozens of officers flooded the area, blocking streets, searching homes and checking vehicles.
Eighteen hours later, Erickson was captured after he was spotted riding a bike near East 22nd Street and South Harrison Road.
Erickson was indicted on charges of attempted kidnapping, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and fleeing law enforcement in connection with the case.
In addition, Erickson was indicted for stealing a Nissan Titan from a Tucson couple on Nov. 24, 2011, and then going back the day of the kidnapping and stealing a Nissan Frontier using the key he found in the first truck.
When detectives found the stolen Nissan Frontier, they found a roll of duct tape, ropes, several knives and a large plastic drop cloth, according to court documents
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) - A Flagstaff police officer who used his baton, boot and a cable to kill an injured dog after a fellow officer accidentally hit the animal with his car has resigned.
The Arizona Daily Sun reports (http://bit.ly/TvHyi6) that Cpl. John Tewes delivered his resignation letter Friday.
Tewes was called Aug. 19 after another officer hit a loose dog with his police car.
Both officers decided the dog needed to be euthanized, but Tewes was concerned about using his gun in the neighborhood.
Authorities say the animal didn't die after Tewes bludgeoned it and jumped on its skull.
Finally, he used a hobble, which is like a metal cable, to strangle the dog.
Tewes told investigators he regularly clubbed animals to end their suffering while he was hunting.
An Arby’s Restaurant assistant manager in Dayton, Ohio was fired after she jumped through the store’s drive-through window in order to escape a knife-wielding robber. The fast food chain says she violated a company rule, specifically being alone in the store after hours.
Mary Archer, 56, told WHIO-TV in Dayton, Ohio that she had been closing up the restaurant when someone rang the doorbell. Thinking it was her co-worker who had just left, she unknowingly opened the door for an armed robber.
“Give me the money,” the robber reportedly demanded.
“I really thought I was going to die,” Archer told WHIO-TV. As she told herself “I’m not going to die at Arby’s tonight,” Archer pushed the burglar away and made her way towards the drive-through window.
After jumping through the window, her loud cries for help eventually attracted the attention of police.
Surviving an apparent near-death experience is tough enough, however, when Archer returned to work the next day she was shocked to find out that she had been fired after 23 years with the company.
“I just never thought that would happen to me, since my life was at stake,” Archer said.
“I don’t want my job back,” she continued. “I just want everybody to know what kind of company this is. They said I was not supposed to have been alone in the store.”
Autumn Pasquale, 12, of Clayton was reported missing Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012.
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CLAYTON — Authorities are asking for help finding a 12-year-old Clayton girl reported missing on Saturday.
Autumn Pasquale was last seen leaving her home on West High Street around 12:30 p.m. Saturday, borough Police Capt. Lisa MacDonald said.
She was riding her white Odyssey BMX bicycle, MacDonald said, adding her relatives reported her missing around 9:30 p.m.
Pasquale is white, about five feet, two inches tall (although a Facebook post says she's five feet, four inches tall) and weighing about 120 pounds. She has blue eyes and blonde hair, which she was wearing in a pony tail or bun when last seen, police said. BODY FOUND
CLAYTON, N.J. (AP) — The small New Jersey town where a missing girl's body is believed to have been found has turned from desperate searching to mourning.
Officials say a body preliminarily identified as 12-year-old Autumn Pasquale (pas-KWAHL'-ee) was found in a recycling bin in Clayton around 10 p.m. Monday.
That was about 48 hours after her family reported her missing and two hours after community members gathered blocks away for a candlelight vigil filled with both tears and hope.
On Tuesday morning, Clayton Mayor Thomas Bianco asked that the family be given room to grieve.
An autopsy was to be conducted Tuesday. No arrests have been announced in the case.
PARIS (AP) — France will move surveillance drones to West Africa and is holding secretive talks with U.S. officials in Paris this week as it seeks to steer international military action to help Mali's feeble government win back the northern part of the country from al-Qaida-linked rebels, The Associated Press has learned.
France and the United Nations insist any invasion of Mali's north must be led by African troops. But France, which has six hostages in Mali and has citizens who have joined al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, is playing an increasing role behind the scenes.
Lone wolf "kills 800 terrorists a year"
Many in the West fear that northeast Mali and the arid Sahel region could become the new Afghanistan, a no-man's-land where extremists can train, impose hardline Islamic law and plot terror attacks abroad. And France, former colonial ruler to countries across the Sahel, is a prime target.
"This is actually a major threat — to French interests in the region, and to France itself," said Francois Heisbourg, an expert at the Foundation for Strategic Research, a partially state-funded think tank in Paris. "This is like Afghanistan 1996. This is like when Bin Laden found a place that was larger than France in which he could organize training camps, in which he could provide stable preparations for organizing far-flung terror attacks."
An infant girl, who was in good condition, was placed in a duffle bag and left at a northside apartment complex Saturday night.
Police responded about 8 p.m. to an apartment complex in the 200 block of East Prince Road after a 911 call about the abandoned infant, said Sgt. Maria Hawke, a Tucson Police Department spokeswoman, on Monday.
Investigators learned that the newborn — about four to six days old — was left outside of the manager’s apartment, Hawke said.
The manager reported that someone rang the doorbell, and when the manager opened the door, the “duffle bag was found with the baby inside of it,” said Hawke.
Tucson Fire Department paramedics took the baby to a hospital for evaluation, and the baby appeared to be in good health, said Hawke.
The infant is now in the custody of Child Protective Services.
Police do not know the identity of the mother, but “would like to conduct a check of her welfare to ensure that she is not in need of medical attention or other services,” Hawke said.
Anyone with information about the mother’s identity or whereabouts is asked to call 911 or 88-CRIME, Hawke said.
Police would like to remind the public that newborns can be anonymously handed off to health care workers at all Tucson-area hospitals, Tucson Fire Department stations and Casa de los Niños.
An Anorthosis player was receiving treatment from medical staff during a match against Omonia Nicosia in Cyprus on Sunday when a fan apparently decided that the delay wasn't up to his standards of entertainment, so he threw an explosive directly at the downed player. The blast cleared the scene as players and physios all rolled away covering their ears.
There seemed to be some debate as to whether the original player receiving treatment was faking and maybe the explosive was some sort of test for that. Luckily, the result of the explosion appeared to be more shock and terror than physical harm.
It's unclear whether the person who threw the explosive was caught, but there should be punishments to come.
A Mexican national was arrested Friday for attempting to smuggle more than $77,000 worth of heroin through the Dennis DeConcini Port in Nogales.
Customs and Border Protection officers selected Beatriz Adriana Torres-Valenzuela, 28, for an additional inspection when she attempted to enter the U.S. through a pedestrian lane, the agency said in a news release.
During the search, a female CBP officer found nearly six pounds of heroin wrapped around Torres’ mid-section, the release said.
Torres-Valenzuela was turned over to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
