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."
