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Third Arrest in Yarnell Fire Burglary
22 year old Thomas Adams of Yarnell arrested for burglarizing home evacuated during Yarnell Hill Fire
Sedona AZ (July 15, 2013) – Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office deputies and detectives have continued their investigation into the burglary of a Yarnell home evacuated during the Yarnell Hill Fire. On July 12, 2013, detectives received an anonymous tip that 22-year-old Thomas Adams was in...
American Heritage and Folksville USA Develop Role Models
Sedona AZ (July 13, 2013) – Welcome to the beautiful Verde Valley! Look around and enjoy the area. As you enter Camp Verde and begin driving down Finnie Flats Road, what do you notice? Do you see the beauty or do you see trash?
When students enroll at the Camp Verde, Arizona, campus of the American Heritage Academy, its handbook requires participation in community service activities. This...
Sedona Eye in a State of Trivia
Sedona AZ (July 12, 2013) – It’s a hectic day. It’s monsoon season and it’s muggy. It’s TGIF. Let’s have fun and learn something new, or not, because Spam rules this day!
Illinois was the first state to ratify the 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery in 1865.
Des Plaines is home to the first McDonald’s.
The Sears Tower, Chicago, was the tallest...
Seventy Three Year-Old Husband Shot by Young Wife
Sedona AZ (July 9, 2013) – Coconino County Sheriff’s Deputies and Detectives are investigating a domestic violence incident between a seventy three year-old man and his twenty nine year-old wife during which the husband was shot one time in the chest from close range with a small caliber handgun.
On Sunday, July 7, 2013, Deputies responded to the report of a shooting in the residential community...
Car Pedestrian Collision Claims Life of Child
Coconino County
Sedona AZ (July 9, 2013) – Coconino County Sheriff’s Deputies and Detectives are investigating a fatal pedestrian and car collision that occurred Monday on Pioneer Valley Road in the Doney Park subdivision east of Flagstaff, Arizona.
On July 8, 2013, at about 4:41 in the late afternoon, CCSO deputies responded to the report of a car and pedestrian collision. The pedestrian,...
Woman Dies in Supai Canyon
Sedona AZ (July 9, 2013) – Coconino County Sheriff’s Detectives are investigating the death of twenty seven year-old Danielle Marie Harris of Mesa, Arizona, who was struck by a falling tree branch in Supai Canyon.
On Saturday July 6, 2013, at about 4:15 in the afternoon, the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Officers assigned to law enforcement...
Lotteries and Sweepstakes Scams
Sedona AZ (July 8, 2013) – The following is a good crime prevention reminder about lotteries and sweepstakes received from the Attorney General of Texas, writes Anthony Palermo of the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office:
Sidney, living outside Tyler, Texas, found his dream letter waiting for him in the mail. It was an announcement that he had won the El Gordo lottery in Spain. All $817,000...
Phoenix Attorney Takes Money and is Disbarred
Phoenix AZ (July 5, 2013) – The Presiding Disciplinary Judge of the Arizona Supreme Court issued an order disbarring Raya Tahan of Phoenix, Arizona, on April 9, 2013.
During the State Bar of Arizona’s investigation, Tahan was found to have failed to abide by three clients’ decisions concerning the objectives of the representation. She also failed to reasonably communicate with her clients...
Hundred Twenty Nine Homes and Structures Lost in Yarnell Fire
Andrew Ashcraft texted this photo to wife Juliann of the Yarnell Fire in Arizona as the Granite Mountain Hot Shots set out to help – photo courtesy of Juliann Ashcraft via FB posting
Sedona AZ (July 3, 2013) – The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office has compiled a list of homes and structures in the Peeples Valley and Yarnell communities lost as a result of the Yarnell Hill Fire. The 129...
American Prisoner of War Remembers Stalag 17
WWII Veteran Benjamin Clark Jr.
Sedona AZ (July 4, 2013) – He was there.
On this Independence Day consider the experiences of Benjamin Clarke Jr. who paid a very high price to help assure our freedom and independence.
Clarke Jr. spent three years of his life in the infamous Stalag 17-B prison camp in World War II.
His career started with flight training in 1943 in Walla Walla, Washington. Overseas...

