Sedona AZ (March 3, 2016) – The Coconino County Sheriff’s Office is providing a two hour class that will provide participants assistance tools in surviving Crisis Situations, such as Active Shooter incidents. This training is offered free of charge and is open to all community members ages 18 and older. The first portion of the class will address techniques to improve personal safety through... 

Sedona AZ (March 3, 2016) – In 2015, the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office developed a unique program allowing attorneys the opportunity to advertise their services at the Coconino County Detention Facility. Attorneys choosing to invest in this advertising were able to reach individuals in need of legal services. At the same time, the advertising purchase assisted in funding important... 

Sedona AZ (February 25, 2016) – United States Forest Service law enforcement and the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office are seeking any information on a string of suspicious human-caused fires that have occurred over the last two days in Oak Creek Canyon. On Monday (February 22), from approximately 7:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., four fires – named the Briar, Snake, Rock and Switchback fires... 

Sedona AZ (February 4, 2016) – The American Rehabilitation Ministry, a Missouri based non-profit organization, donated a new full immersion portable baptistery valued at $1,700 to the Coconino County Detention Facility, Flagstaff, AZ. The Coconino County jail staff will schedule the use of the baptistery on a regular and frequent basis to inmates. Inmates requesting a baptism will meet with... 

Sedona AZ (November 9, 2015) – A deceased man found near the Fat Man’s Loop Hiking Trail, Flagstaff (AZ), on November 5, 2015, has been identified as Carl Lee Shetler, 60. Investigators were unable to determine a home city or state for Mr. Shetler and he has been listed as a homeless transient. Investigators have not been able to identify or locate any next of kin for the deceased victim. At... 

Sedona AZ (November 7, 2015) – On Thursday, November 5, 2015, at 9:10 in the morning, a woman contacted several Arizona Department of Public Safety officers on North Highway 89 and informed them she had discovered the body of a deceased person at a temporary campsite off Fat Man’s Loop trail, Flagstaff. The officers accompanied the woman back to the campsite and found the body of a deceased... 

Sedona AZ (October 20, 2015) – Coconino County Sheriff’s deputies have seen an increase in the occurrence of “secret” underage alcohol parties occurring in unimproved wooded areas throughout Coconino County. These “Woods Parties,” as they are often referred to by the participants, can be very hazardous and, at times, life threatening to underage party goers. Deputies have seen numerous... 

Sedona AZ (October 13, 2015) – At 5:20 p.m. on the evening of October 11, 2015, the National Park Service at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area near Page, Arizona, received a report of an unresponsive man in a vehicle parked outside the Wahweap Lodge, Lake Powell. The man, 56, from Shonto, Arizona, an employee of the Wahweap Lodge Rainbow Room Restaurant, was found by coworkers who spotted... 

Sedona AZ (October 6, 2015) – On October 5, 2015 at 4:30 in the afternoon, approximately sixteen Coconino County Sheriff’s deputies, Search and Rescue team members, and U.S. Forest Service responders were forced to higher ground during a flash flood in Oak Creek Canyon, north of the Sedona city limits. The responders were conducting a body recovery after a jumper committed suicide off the... 

Sedona AZ (September 30, 2015) – Please refer to the missing person flyer below about 17 year-old Renae Beam, a white female, approximately 5’ 4” in height and weighing approximately 130 pounds, with blue eyes and long brown hair. She was last seen August 22, 2015, when she walked away from her home in the Timberline neighborhood. In the past, Renae has frequented the Sunnyside neighborhood...