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Red Cross Kingman Shelter Open During Heavy Snow
Snow causing traffic issues about 4 miles north of Black Canyon City on Arizona I-17 at approximately 7:00 a.m. today. For updated information on Arizona traffic conditions, visit ADOT website.
Sedona AZ – From record snow to the north, to intense rains to the south, Arizona is experiencing its most intense winter storm of the season.
Due to heavy snow closing Arizona I-40, at Stockton Hill near...
Sedona Winter Storm Information
Article submitted by City of Sedona AZ
Sedona AZ – The city of Sedona storm update for Thursday, February 21, 2019 received at 1:30 p.m.:
UPDATE
Thur., Feb. 21, 1 p.m.
The city continues to plow and cinder our primary emergency routes / state routes as this winter storm event continues. We appreciate the assistance we are getting from Tiffany Construction Company of Sedona.
Significant snowfall...
Phoenix Attorney suspended after using Trust Account for Investor Scheme
Sedona AZ – The Presiding Disciplinary Judge of the Arizona Supreme Court along with a Disciplinary Hearing Panel ordered that Phoenix attorney Rodrick S. Carter be suspended for six-months and one day after he provided client trust account access to his half-brother for an investor-related scheme.
Carter knowingly allowed his half-brother to use his law office name, phone number, email address,...
ADOT Pecos Road Loop 202 to close nightly to relocate rock
Sedona AZ – A portion of Pecos Road and the new Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway lanes in Ahwatukee will close nightly, beginning Sunday, February 24, through late April, to allow crews building the South Mountain Freeway to haul large amounts rock remaining from controlled rock blasting near Desert Foothills Parkway.
Pecos Road, including the recently opened temporary configuration that has traffic...
Eddie Maddock: Puzzlements
SedonaEye.com columnist Eddie Maddock takes time for puzzlements.
Sedona AZ – “My mom washes the dishes before she puts them in the dishwasher. So what does the dishwasher do?” asks the little girl in the TV ad. This brings up a multitude of age old questions beginning, but not ending with, a small child asking his own mother “Where did I come from?”
As we commence to...
Arizona Backcountry Snow Activity Requires Permit
Sedona AZ – On February 17, 2019, at approximately 2:00 in the afternoon, Coconino County Sheriff’s Office received a report of an adult skier and an adult snowboarder, both from the Phoenix area, who were lost outside of the Arizona Snowbowl Ski Area boundary. An approximate location was determined from their 911 call which indicated that they were east of Viet Springs at the top of a cliff.
Two...
Sun City Attorney Scott A. MacLeod Disbarred
Sedona AZ – The Presiding Disciplinary Judge of the Arizona Supreme Court ordered that attorney Scott A. MacLeod of Sun City be disbarred after abandoning clients, keeping client funds, and failing to comply with the State Bar of Arizona investigation.
In the first matter, MacLeod was retained by his client to represent her in divorce proceedings and simultaneous order of protection against her husband,...
YCSO K9 Team Arrests Smuggler with 18 Pounds of Meth
Jhampier Mendoza Torez of Mexico arrested for drug smuggling on Arizona I-17 northbound.
Sedona AZ – On February 12, 2019, around 1:30 a.m., Jhampier Mendoza Torez, 20, the driver of a car pulled over for a traffic stop on AZ I-17 northbound, near mile marker 276 at Cordes Lakes, Arizona, was arrested and is being charged with Transportation of Dangerous Drugs (18 pounds of crystal meth), Possession...
Sedona Presidents Day Weekend Winter Storm Alert
Sedona AZ – The National Weather Service is tracking a series of winter storms expected to bring ice, snow and snow showers to Sedona beginning Friday evening and continuing through President’s Day. The NWS calls for 1-4 inches of snow accumulation possible through this period at elevations around 4,000 feet, accompanied by blustery winds.
The city of Sedona, ADOT and surrounding counties...
AZ State Gang Task Force arrests eighty five gang members and other suspects
Photos courtesy AZDPS
Sedona AZ – The Arizona Department of Public Safety’s (AZDPS) Arizona State Gang Task Force, in collaboration with the Globe Police Department, the Gila County Sheriff’s Office, the Show Low Police Department and the Gila County Attorney’s Office, crippled an organized criminal network which sold illicit drugs within Gila and Navajo Counties.
The investigation code...

