Thread: BREAKING NEWS- Pinal Co. deputy shot in desert found

BREAKING NEWS- Pinal Co. deputy shot in desert found

UPDATE - Authorities in southern Arizona have found a deputy who radioed for help and said he had been shot with an AK-47 assault rifle in a remote desert area.

His condition is unknown.

Pinal County Sheriff's Lt. Tammy Villar says the deputy called in Friday to say he had encountered a group and been shot in the abdomen.

The area is used by drug- and human-smugglers from Mexico.

However, the circumstances that led to the shooting are unclear.

Villar says the deputy was near Interstate 8 and Arizona 84 about 50 miles south of Phoenix.

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Pinal County sheriff deputy shot in desert near Casa Grande

by The Associated Press

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Posted on April 30, 2010 at 5:18 PM

Updated today at 6:03 PM


CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (AP) -- Authorities in Pinal County are searching for a deputy who radioed for help and said he had been shot in a remote desert area about 50 miles south of Casa Grande.

Pinal County Sheriff's Lt. Tammy Villar says the deputy radioed in to say that he had encountered a group in the desert and had been shot with an AK-47 assault rifle in the abdomen.

Villar says law enforcement officers from across the area were trying to find the deputy, who apparently was in the desert somewhere near Interstate 8 and Arizona 84 south of the town of Casa Grande.

The area is used by both drug- and human-smugglers who bring their wares through the remote desert from Mexico north to Phoenix. The circumstances that led up to the shooting are unclear.




Report: Deputy shot by undocumented immigrant in desert
Reported by: Deborah Stocks
Email: dstocks@abc15.com
Last Update: 6:04 pm

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PINAL COUNTY, AZ -- A Pinal County Sheriff's deputy has been rescued after being shot in the Arizona desert, apparently by an undocumented immigrant.

The deputy is now being transported to Casa Grande Regional Medical Center in an unknown condition.

According to Pinal County Sheriff's Lt. Tamatha Villar, the deputy said in a radio transmission around 4:30 p.m. that he had been shot by an undocumented immigrant.

Villar said the deputy was working alone in the search for undocumented immigrants when he stopped five suspects southwest of Casa Grande, near Interstate 8 and Arizona 84.

One of the suspects reportedly pulled out an AK47 assault rifle, shooting the deputy in the abdomen.

The suspects apparently then took off with a "load of marijuana," and remain on the loose right now.

Authorities spent over an hour searching for the deputy, who was able to communicate with authorities via his radio.

Just after 5:30 p.m., Air15 video showed a Department of Public Safety helicopter crew landing in the desert and walking the wounded deputy to the chopper.

Crews are now searching the desert for the suspects.

Stay with ABC15.com for updates.

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Pinal County Sheriff's deputy shot after traffic stop
Apr. 30, 2010 06:22 PM

A Pinal County Sheriff's deputy was shot in the stomach Friday by an undocumented immigrant off Interstate 8, according sheriff's officials.

Lt. Tami Villar told 12 News that the search and rescue deputy was investigating a load of marijuana in the desert and was confronted by five suspects.


Deputies believe at least two people were armed with long guns and at least one handgun. The deputy, whose name was not released, was patrolling alone in what is considered a high-traffic drug and human-smuggling corridor.

Villar said the deputy radioed dispatch about 4:30 p.m. to say he had been shot off Interstate 8 and Arizona 84, but he could not be found when authorities arrived at the scene.

The deputy was located more than an hour later and taken to the Casa Grande Medical Center for treatment.

His condition was not available.

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office dispatched a helicopter and members of its SWAT team to Pinal County to assist in the case, said department spokesman Lt. Brian Lee. Lee said at 5:45 p.m. there were reports over the police scanner that suspects were shooting at a police helicopter. Lee did not know which agency was operating the helicopter.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was headed to Pinal County to assist in the investigation, Lee said. The Border Patrol has sent agents to assist the Pinal County Sheriff's Office with the investigation, said Mario Escalante, a Border Patrol spokesman assigned to the Tucson sector.

"We are headed out to assist," he said.

Escalante said he had no further details about the shooting.

The nearest Border Patrol station in the area is located in Casa Grande.




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that round leaves a nasty path. god be with the LEO. didnt the head of the dept there just say he objected to the new law? wonder how he feels now.

one more reason to enact even tougher laws nationwide

Drugs furnished by the ILLEGALS, Drug Wars by the ILLEGALS, United States Citizens murdered by the ILLEGALS but not to worry the Pro-ILLEGAL Open Borders advocates who support Sanctuary Cities and States will continue to furnish Cheap ILLEGAL Labor for the Elitist Political Contributors and Special Interest Groups who of course they feel safe in their Gated Communities. If you venture out and you are murdered by an ILLEGAL Drunk Driver or you are a Police Officer murdered by an ILLEGAL during the commission of a crime or a traffic stop or a United States Citizen is in the "wrong" place (ILLEGAL Sanctuary) and caught in the cross fire just remember Our Elitist Politicians and their Elitist Political Contributors consider these murdered as a SMALL SACRIFICE for THEIR CHEAP LABOR!

PHOENIX, April 30, 2010
Illegal Immigrants Sought in Ariz. Cop Shooting
Deputy Found Wounded 1 Hour after Shootout with Suspected Group of Illegal Immigrants
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After a frantic hour-long desert search, authorities found a deputy wounded in a shootout Friday with suspected illegal immigrants apparently hauling bales of marijuana along a major smuggling corridor in southern Arizona.

The deputy was found with a superficial wound - a chunk of skin torn from just above his left kidney - after being shot with an AK-47 on Friday afternoon, Pinal County sheriff's Lt. Tamatha Villar said. He was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Casa Grande, about 40 miles south of Phoenix.

Villar said the deputy was doing smuggling interdiction work and found bales of marijuana in the desert. He then encountered five suspected illegal immigrants, two armed with rifles, and was shot.

"He was out on his routine daily patrol in the area when he encountered a load of marijuana out in the desert. He obviously confronted the individuals and took fire," Villar told The Associated Press. "I was speaking with him just a bit ago, and he's doing fantastic."

The deputy was alone about five miles from a rest stop along Interstate 8, about halfway between Phoenix and Tucson. The area is a well-known smuggling corridor for drugs and illegal immigrants headed from Mexico to Phoenix and the U.S. interior.

"Over the past 12 months we've seen an increase in the amount of drugs, and an increase in violence that has been going on in this particular corridor," Villar told KPNX.

"We've had increasing concerns in this area about being outmanned and outgunned, and unfortunately this evening, this is coming true," he said.

The shooting came as Arizona grapples with backlash over its enactment of a tough new law targeting illegal immigration. Civil rights activists, concerned the law will lead to racial profiling, have called for a boycott of the state.

The law signed by Gov. Jan Brewer last week is supported by many in the state, which has become a major gateway for drug smuggling and human trafficking from Mexico.

Its passage came amid increasing anger in Arizona about violence, drug smugglers, drop houses and other problems caused by poor border security.

Villar said the search for the suspects involved numerous helicopters from state and federal law enforcement agencies and scores of officers near Interstate 8 and Arizona 84 about 50 miles south of Phoenix.

"The deputy is a search-and-rescue deputy, so its not uncommon for them to work those areas A) looking for drugs and B) looking for people who need assistance out there," Villar said. "Obviously its a high-traffic area for drug- and human-smuggling."



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