By Howard Fischer
Capitol Media Services
PHOENIX Taking a new slap at the Biden administration, Gov. Doug Ducey said Thursday he is prepared to send the Arizona National Guard to the border even if it means at state expense. We re going to use every tool, authority and resource that we have, the governor said after announcing his pick of Kerry Muehlenbeck as the new state adjutant general. The attorney and former deputy Pima County attorney will be the first woman in charge of Arizona s 8,300 Guard soldiers. To be successful on the southern border, we need to work in partnership with the federal government, Ducey continued. But Arizona s going to act regardless.
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In a quaint, affluent neighborhood near the Catalina Foothills, weeks of harassment against a Pima County judge culminated in the justice of the peace firing his handgun as a warning shot to the perpetrator, who was once a plaintiff in his courtroom.
Judge Adam Watters, the justice of the peace for Precinct 1, fired a bullet at the ground to scare off a landlord, Fei Qin, 38, who was part of an eviction case he presided over in January.
The judge claims for weeks, the man dumped trash on Wattersâ property and slashed his truck tires on two separate occasions.
In an incident report from the Pima County Sheriffâs Department, Watters, 59, told officers he went to leave for work on the morning of Feb. 5 to find the tires of Ford F-150 sliced open and deflated.
Graduates from Pima Countyâs Drug Court and DTAP celebrate their second chance
Drug Court Graduation By Karly Tinsley | March 4, 2021 at 10:15 PM MST - Updated March 5 at 10:18 AM
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Pima County residents celebrated a special graduation from Pima Countyâs Drug Court and Attorneyâs Office DTAP (Drug Treatment Alternative to Prison).
One of the graduates was Natasha Kofira, a mom of two, who has battled addiction for years.
âI ended up homeless and living on the streets for a couple years. I was so far in a hole that it was impossible for me to get out of,â said Kofira. âIt started out with pills and went to cheaperâheroin.â