By Linda Bentley | NOVEMBER 11, 2015
Cave Creek seeks to fix inequities of consolidated court agreement
CAVE CREEK – Call to the Public brought Lester Rechlin to the podium on Monday night to say council was making a mistake by selectively enforcing the town’s zoning code.
He referred to an editorial in Sonoran News about Tom Lehman, whose property was the subject of his comments and claimed the town was allowing Lehman to blade the desert in violation of the zoning code without a permit.
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
Cave Creek Business Owner sentenced to prison for misappropriating more then $860,000 in Federal Payroll Taxes that had been withheld from employees
PHOENIX – Today, David Leon Barker, Jr., 51, of Cave Creek, Ariz., was sentenced by Senior United States District Judge James A. Teilborg to 15 months in prison for failing to remit to the IRS the federal payroll taxes he had withheld from his employees’ paychecks. Barker previously pleaded guilty to Willful Failure to Pay Over Taxes.
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision blocking President Obama’s lawless executive amnesty
Washington, D.C. – Rep. Matt Salmon (AZ-05) released the following statement after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the President’s lawless executive actions on immigration.
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
Border Report
Douglas CBP Officers seize $253K in marijuana
Customs and Border Protection officers arrested two people in separate incidents Nov. 4 at the Raul Hector Castro (RHC) Port of Douglas, and seized just more than 506 pounds of marijuana. Officers arrested Yaneli Denisse Valencia-Gallardo, 32, of Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico, after finding more than 274 pounds of marijuana, worth more than $137,000, hidden throughout her Ford SUV.
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
Dr. Kelli Ward releases detailed plan to repeal ObamaCare
Dr. Kelli Ward, who is running in the Republican primary against John McCain for the U.S. Senate, has created and just released a comprehensive healthcare road map -- The Patient Power Plan, to totally repeal ObamaCare. She points out “people who were happy with their healthcare, as well as doctors, have been forced to switch; premiums have gone up with no end in sight; doctors are leaving the profession; and according to the latest authoritative estimates, 30 million Americans remain uninsured.”
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
21 smugglers arrested, 40 eluded capture, 1737 pounds of marijuana seized
The morning of Nov. 5, Pinal County Sheriff’s detectives worked with the U.S. Border Patrol in the western desert of Pinal County to interdict and seize 1737 pounds of marijuana and arrest 21 drug smugglers from Mexico.
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
Grand Canyon State home to nearly 3.3 million voters
Phoenix – The latest voter registration figures have been released and according to Secretary of State Michele Reagan, the number of registered voters has grown to 3,299,906, an increase of 47,219 since the last report in July.
Of the state's 3.29 million voters, 34 percent are Republicans, 28 percent are Democrats and 36 percent have either registered with independent parties or not designated a party preference.
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
Dark money group continues to flout court order
Phoenix – Following up on her call for a dark money group to comply with a court order, Secretary Reagan and Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery have filed a motion which seeks to hold the Committee for Justice and Fairness (CJF) in contempt of court.
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
DEA executes warrants on Arizona Indian Reservation
PHOENIX – Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman recently announced the execution of federal arrest warrants stemming from a federal grand jury indictment of a methamphetamine trafficking organization operating in the Colorado River Indian Tribes Indian Reservation. Eleven subjects have been taken into custody and additional arrests are anticipated.
The tortoise pictured here from the Nov. 4 issue is an African Spurred/Sulcatta tortoise and is not native to Arizona. Sulcatta are not capable of handling the winter by themselves without a heat source and will perish from the conditions. If anyone sees this tortoise, please call Sonoran News at 480-488-2021 and we will contact the people who have lost a tortoise. Please let as many people as possible know to be on the look out for it!