Grand Canyon rescue Sedona AZ (November 4, 2014) – An injured female hiker, 68, was rescued Monday by a team composed of the  National Park Service, Coconino County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue, Arizona Department of Public Safety Air Rescue Helicopter and Flagstaff Fire Department. On Sunday, November 2, a female hiker from Tucson, Arizona was hiking the Clear Creek Trail in the Grand Canyon... 

Sedona AZ (October 10, 2014) – At 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 9, 2014, the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office responded to an overdue hiker call. The hiker, a 55 year old male, accompanied by his dog, had taken the Kachina Trail, Flagstaff, Arizona. After he failed to return as expected, a friend called CCSO. Coconino County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Unit members responded and conducted... 

Coconino County AZ Cold Case Unit members Joe Sumner, Amy Kelly and Chuck Jones (l to r) stand with the skull of an unidentified set of remains that bears the entrance wound from a single gunshot. The remains were originally found below Shoshone Point at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in 1933. (photo courtesy of Jake Bacon/AZ Daily Sun) Sedona AZ (September 29, 2014) – Coconino County Arizona... 

Sedona AZ (September 24, 2014) – The Forest Service officer involved shooting on Friday, September 19, 2014, in the Clint Wells, Arizona, Blue Ridge area, resulted in the death of the man who attacked the officer. The investigation is ongoing. The deceased man has been identified as Courtney James VanRiper, 66, also spelled Van Ripper, with a last known address in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It... 

Sedona AZ (September 2, 2014) – On Thursday, August 21, 2014, at about 10:30 in the morning, Coconino County Arizona Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) received a call reporting discovered multiple improvised explosive devices in a Valle, Arizona, mini storage unit. Deputies learned that the caller had been asked to clean the unit and, while doing so, found what he believed to be the IEDs. Flagstaff... 

Sedona AZ (August 29, 2014) – Today, a motorcycle accident at approximately 9:50 in the morning on Lake Mary Road at Mile Post 327, east of the Flagstaff city limits, claimed the life of Glenn Gelman, 60, of Yorba Linda, California. Dispatchers of the Coconino County Regional 911 Center, Flagstaff, received a call within minutes of the accident. CCSO deputies and detectives dispatched to the... 

Sedona AZ (August 19, 2014) – On Saturday, August 16, 2014, the Flagstaff Arizona Police and Coconino County Sheriff’s 911 Dispatch center received a cell phone call from a motorist, driving in the area of Old East Route 66 by the Market Place retail outlets, after being waved down by a woman saying she had just been physically and sexually assaulted. The 35-year-old female victim declined... 

Monsoon clouds often bring lightning and thunder with rain Sedona AZ (August 17, 2014) – On Saturday, August 10, 2014, at about 4:00 in the afternoon, a Coconino County Sheriff’s Office deputy assigned to the Forest Lakes Community and the Forest Lakes Fire Department was dispatched to the Spillway Campground at Woods Canyon Lake after receiving a call that an adult male had been struck by... 

Sedona AZ (August 4, 2014) – On August 3, 2014, the Arizona Coconino County Sheriff’s Office received a call about trespassers on a houseboat in Antelope Point Marina on Lake Powell, near Page. The marina security staff reported over a dozen people on a docked houseboat who appeared to be using the privately owned 65-foot vessel without permission. National Park Service Rangers and a CCSO... 

Page Arizona Police Department Sedona AZ (July 25, 2014) – Clinton Lee Davis, 49, of Idaho, was discovered hanged in his Arizona cell on Wednesday evening, following an apparent suicide. Mr. Davis has been an inmate at the Coconino County Detention Facility since April 13, 2014, after booking by the Page (AZ) Police Department for multiple criminal offenses including burglaries, thefts, criminal...