Senate mulls next step in auditing 2.1M ballots
These are the 2.1 million ballots cast in November in Maricopa County, loaded onto a truck and ready for delivery to the Senate which may not be able to handle them. PHOTO COURTESY MARICOPA COUNTY
Pallets of ballots sit on trucks in Phoenix as senators figure out what to do next, three months after they declared they wanted their own audit of the presidential election.
The 28 tons of paper packed in hundreds of neatly stacked boxes with nowhere to go serve as a visual representation of the Senate’s audit attempt, which has been full of setbacks and false starts since it began. Republican senators have alternately plunged ahead drafting a resolution to arrest the Maricopa County supervisors who blocked their way and announcing they hired an auditor and fallen back, losing a vote on their contempt resolution and denying they ever selected an auditor after public pressure.
Man robbed six Arizona banks to pay off Mexican cartel debt, police say
The suspect would hand a note to bank tellers saying he owed money to a Mexican cartel and they would hurt his family. Author: 12 News Updated: 10:39 PM MST March 4, 2021
PHOENIX A man is in custody after he allegedly admitted to robbing six Arizona banks over the past month, telling police he was trying to pay off a debt owed to a Mexican cartel.
Jeffrey Patterson, 45, is facing charges stemming from robberies at six Arizona banks as well as two Nevada banks, according to the FBI.
No one was physically injured during the bank robberies.
A law enforcement task force found and arrested a man who it believed to be responsible for six bank robberies throughout Arizona.
Jeffrey Patterson, 45, was arrested Tuesday by officers from the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force without incident Tuesday following a bank robbery at a Chase Bank near North Cave Creek and Bell roads in Phoenix, according to Brooke Brennan, an agency spokeswoman
Patterson faces charges in connection with six bank robberies throughout the state, including two additional Chase Banks, two Wells Fargo locations and one National Bank of Arizona location. The banks were located in Phoenix, Chandler, Tempe, Tucson and Scottsdale.