Tribe seizes car after finding joint on driver

SCOTTSDALE, AZ - An ASU student says her car was seized by police after she admitted to having a joint in her pocket.

Experts say normally those kinds of forfeitures happen after big drug busts.

But Kayla was driving on Indian land.

She was on the 101 near Scottsdale Road when she got pulled over for speeding.

Technically she was on Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community land and their sovereign laws apply.

So Kayla started a legal battle to get her car back.

After Kayla got pulled over for speeding by Salt River police, officers were suspicious she was driving under the influence.

She says she admitted she had a joint in her pocket.

Kayla was arrested for DUI, but they also seized her SUV because of the joint.

“I was shocked, I didn't realize that my vehicle could be seized over such a miniscule amount of marijuana. I thought they seized vehicles from drug dealers,” she said.

Under tribal law, police can then turn around and sell that car.

Her attorney says such extreme measures are usually reserved for drug dealers or other felonies under state law.

“What's really unfair is how it's applied. Because most people don't realize by driving on the 101, they're subjecting themselves to the laws of a sovereign entity that has nothing to do with the state of Arizona,” said Craig Rosenstein.

But since the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community is a sovereign nation, its own laws apply.

It's something Kayla wants to make sure other drivers understand.

She spent thousands of dollars and eventually got her SUV back after a few months.

“I don't want this to happen to anyone else. It wasn't fair what they did to me,” she said.

A spokeswoman for Salt River tells us cases like this are not out of the ordinary.

The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community determines and initiates forfeiture once the Salt River Police Department determines that a crime has been committed according to Community law and Salt River Ordinance Article V Section 14-32. In this instance, the individual was stopped for a routine traffic violation – speeding.  Officers smelled marijuana within the vehicle.  The subject was found to have drug paraphernalia and several varieties of marijuana in their possession.  The subject’s vehicle was seized pursuant to Salt River Ordinance Article V Sect. 14-32 and was later released to the lien holder who was an innocent owner.

Candace Romero, media relations specialist

Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community

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Oct 14, 2014 — Dear supporters,

The Ghoncheh's trial took place today. It was private so our family waited outside. It took one and half hours. 

My mother met Ghoncheh briefly before the hearing, held her and gave her confidence. After the hearing the judge allowed everyone into the courtroom. It was an emotional family reunion. Ghoncheh met our beloved grandfather after 110 days and embraced him and cried. Aunt, uncle, grandparents and another relative were present. Since the court was not public Ghoncheh and the lawyer didn't say much about what happened. But she was calm after the hearing. 

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DALLAS – A second Texas health care worker who treated Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan has become infected with the deadly disease, health officials announced early Wednesday.

The hospital employee reported a fever on Tuesday and was immediately isolated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, officials said. The woman's name, age, and position have not released.

“This is a heroic person, a person who has dedicated her life to helping others and is a servant leader,” Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said during a press conference.

The woman was among 76 hospital workers who cared for Duncan, a Liberian citizen who died from Ebola at Texas Health Presbyterian a week ago.

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Nurse Nina Pham and Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan. (AP Photos)

Jenkins called the second employee’s diagnosis a “gut shot” to the hospital staff. He acknowledged officials are making contingency plans that others who treated Duncan may develop Ebola as well.

“That is a very real possibility,” he said.

It wasn't immediately known how the second worker contracted the disease, but the hospital's chief clinical officer said but “it’s clear there was an exposure somewhere, sometime in their treatment of Mr. Duncan.”

“We’re a hospital that may have done some things different with the benefit of what we know today,” said a bleary eyed Dr. Daniel Varga said during a news conference. “Make no mistake, no one wants to get this right more than our hospital.” The second Ebola infection at the hospital is "an unprecedented crisis," he said.

The latest positive test for Ebola was determined at about midnight Tuesday at a state laboratory in Austin. Results from a second testing by the CDC in Atlanta are expected later Wednesday.

A hazardous-materials team is now decontaminating the worker’s Dallas apartment in a popular community not far from the hospital. City officials said she lived alone and had no pets.

The woman becomes the third person to be diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas since Sept. 30. City officials addressed the public early Wednesday.

“I continue to believe that while Dallas is anxious about this — and with this news this morning the anxiety level goes up a level — we are not fearful,” Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said. “It may get worse before it gets better, but it will get better.”

Duncan, who had travelled from West Africa to Dallas days before becoming ill, was the first person to ever be diagnosed with the virus in the United States. The disease, for which there is no known cure, has killed more than 4,000 people in West Africa in 2014, the World Health Organization estimates.

Duncan, 42, was treated at Texas Health Presbyterian for 10 days before his death. Last Friday, 26-year-old nurse Nina Pham began running a fever while at home and went to the hospital where she was isolated. She tested positive for Ebola on Sunday. Hospital officials reported that she was in good condition as of late Tuesday.

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Her 45-year-old son, Steven Pratt, was detained at the scene and charged with murder.

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Jesus Antonio Gamboa Urias disappeared on Friday night from a business owned by one of his brothers and his whereabouts is unknown.

His relatives reported the journalist’s disappearance to the prosecutor’s office in Ahome.

The 39-year-old Gamboa never returned home, has failed to answer his cell phone and has not been seen, his brothers said.

“We searched for him in the places that he more or less frequents and nothing ... we searched for him with the police (on Sunday) in different places and we are desperate and without news,” Gamboa’s family told prosecutors.

“The last time we saw him was Friday around midnight at his brother’s business. He was there a good while, left and we never heard from him again,” a friend of the journalist told Efe.

The Sinaloa state legislature scrapped a law in August limiting press coverage of crime that was opposed by the media and human rights groups.

Sinaloa is home to the powerful drug cartel that bears the state’s name.

The Sinaloa cartel, sometimes referred to by Mexican officials as the Pacific cartel, is a transnational business empire that operates in the United States, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia, intelligence agencies say.

Joaquin “El Chapo” (Shorty) Guzman, the cartel’s leader, was captured on Feb. 22 by marines at the Miramar condominium in Mazatlan.

Guzman, the world’s most notorious and powerful drug lord, was captured without any shots being fired.