Debra Schwartz missing in Sedona area Sedona AZ (May 6, 2016) – The Coconino County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public for help in locating an Arizona State University professor reported missing in Oak Creek Canyon. Debra Schwartz of Tempe, Arizona, was last seen camping by herself the morning of May 4 at Pine Flat Campground. According to the Sheriff’s Office, she was supposed to... 

Sedona AZ (April 22, 2016) – On April 21, 2016, at 8:30 in the morning, the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office and Search and Rescue responded to a lost hiker report on Humphrey’s Peak, Flagstaff. The male hiker, 59, was off trail at approximately an 11,700 foot elevation and in an area known as Temptation Gully. He was cold, tired, disoriented, with some underlying medical conditions. CCSO... 

Sedona AZ (April 16, 2016) – On Thursday, April 14, 2016, at about 3:30 in the afternoon, 911 dispatchers received a call from a woman reporting a burglary in progress. Responding to the Mount Elden Lookout Road home, Coconino County Sheriff’s Office deputies met with the caller and learned she had not been assaulted by the suspect and was uninjured. According to the victim, she exited... 

Sedona AZ (March 31, 2016) – On Thursday, March 31, 2016, around 9:48 in the morning, the Flagstaff Police/Coconino Sheriff 911 Dispatch Center received an emergency call from a distraught man en route to the Flagstaff Medical Center with his approximately two year old son. The man told dispatch that the child had been struck by his truck as he was leaving his driveway. Officers in the field... 

Sedona AZ (March 30, 2016) – On Monday, March 28, 2016, at 4:49 p.m., a woman residing at a Winchester Drive, Flagstaff, Arizona home reported a suspicious person. According to the caller, a male approached her in the garage saying he needed help. He told her that people were after him and then ran away from the property. Due to his physical appearance and his actions, she believed the man was under... 

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...