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TweetPinShareContributed Photo/Courtesy GCSO: Juan Mares, 33, has been charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, threatening or intimidating, criminal damage, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct/fighting, disorderly conduct with a weapon, …
Family get-together ends in drunken knife assault at fairgrounds Read More
TweetPinShareContributed Photo/Courtesy GCSO: The driver of this crashed UTV is being investigated for DUI. One of his passengers was flown to a Tucson hospital for head trauma. Teen flown to …
Alcohol believed to be a factor in UTV crash off Frye Mesa Read More
TweetPinShareJon Johnson File Photo/Gila Herald By Jon Johnson jonjohnsonnews@gmail.com SAFFORD – The death of a man who was found deceased in a friend’s bathroom has been ruled accidental due to …
Man’s death attributed to fentanyl, alcohol intoxication Read More TweetPinShareJon Johnson File Photo/Gila Herald By Jon Johnson jonjohnsonnews@gmail.com SAFFORD – A Safford man was arrested on June 19 after allegedly leaving the scene of a collision at about 2:38 …
Man arrested for DUI after leaving the scene of a collision Read More
TweetPinShareJon Johnson File Photo/Gila Herald: The Graham County Sheriff’s Office reported that Abram Mendez Jr.’s blood-alcohol level was more than twice that of the threshold for a standard DUI charge …
Alcohol likely contributor in teen’s fatal crash Read More
TweetPinShareJon Johnson File Photo/Gila Herald: One juvenile was arrested and another referred in the incident. By Jon Johnson jonjohnsonnews@gmail.com SAFFORD – Officers from the Safford, Thatcher, and Pima police departments, …
Juvenile arrested in early morning incident involving alcohol and discharging firearms Read More
TweetPinShareContributed Photo/Courtesy GCSO: Sebina Nichole Kidwell, 24, was arrested and booked into the jail on two charges of aggravated assault and criminal damage. Woman allegedly assaulted her mother and father …
Thatcher woman jailed for assault in domestic incident after a day of drinking Read More
TweetPinShareContributed Photo/Courtesy GCSO: Patrick Davis, 21, was arrested and booked into the Graham County Adult Detention Facility on charges of aggravated assault and criminal damage early Sunday morning after allegedly …
Night of drinking ends with fight and man being run over Read More
TweetPinShareJon Johnson File Photo/Gila Herald By Jon Johnson jonjohnsonnews@gmail.com SAFFORD – A 24-year-old woman with three young children all still in diapers claimed that the two males she was with …
Woman claims males she was with made her steal alcohol from Walmart Read More
TweetPinShareContributed Photo/Courtesy GCSO: Louie Gonzales was booked into the jail for assault, disorderly conduct, and consuming alcohol in public. By Jon Johnson jonjohnsonnews@gmail.com SAFFORD – A man who was previously …
Man jailed for assault after harassing patron at the Valley Motel Read More