AZDPS News
Release Date:
Friday, November 2, 2018
Wickenburg, Ariz. — On Friday, October 12, 2018, a 53-year-old woman lost control of her vehicle along US 60 near milepost 117. The vehicle traveled through the right-of-way fence and dropped 50 feet, landing in a mesquite tree where it remained suspended above the ground.
Release Date:
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Media Availability:
State Trooper Intentionally Collides with Wrong-Way Driver in Tucson
Release Date:
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Casa Grande, Ariz.— The Arizona Department of Public Safety (AZDPS) will set up a collection site for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) National Take Back program:
When: Saturday, October 27th, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Release Date:
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Tucson, Ariz – On October 14, 2018, at 7:33 p.m., Arizona Department of Public Safety (AZDPS) troopers received reports of a white wrong-way vehicle traveling east within the westbound traffic lanes of Interstate 10, near Avra Valley.
Release Date:
Friday, October 19, 2018
El Mirage, Ariz — On September 24, 2018, Frank Gallas Mendoza was arrested by authorities in Fresno, California for the 2001 murder of El Mirage resident Richard Cacero Lucero.
Release Date:
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Phoenix — On Wednesday, September 12, at about 9:17 a.m., Via’a Alaimalo, 25, from California was taken into custody by detectives with the Arizona Border Strike Force (BSF) Vehicle Theft Task Force (VTTF) in the area of McDowell and 52nd Dr. in Phoenix.
Release Date:
Friday, September 21, 2018
Update: September 21, 2018 at 9:15 a.m.
Release Date:
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Tucson, Ariz — The Arizona Border Strike Force, led by the Arizona Department of Public Safety in partnership with the United States Border Patrol’s Operation Stonegarden initiative, seized 224.9 pounds of methamphetamine and one pound of fentanyl during three successful operational deployments l
Release Date:
Monday, September 17, 2018
Pinal County — During the morning of September 2, 2018, two DPS helicopters, Ranger 54 and 58, were requested by the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) to aid with the extraction of 16 hikers who became stranded on cliffs and ridgelines due to flooding within Aravaipa Canyon.
Release Date:
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
