2018 Press Releases

PHOENIX --- The Attorney General’s Office will be training faith leaders from across Arizona on how to administer Narcan, a life-saving opioid overdose reversal medication. The training is part of a toolkit created by the…

TUCSON -- Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a State Grand Jury indicted Patrick Michael Winkler in a sexual exploitation of children case.  The indictment includes ten counts of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, four…

TUCSON – Through a civil forfeiture proceeding, the Attorney General’s Office has recovered $28,000 for a vulnerable adult who fell victim to a dark web phishing scam. The investigation was conducted by the Attorney General’s…

PHOENIX -- Attorney General Mark Brnovich filed an Arizona Antitrust and Consumer Fraud lawsuit against dental supply company, Benco, for its alleged anticompetitive and deceptive acts that stifled competition in the Arizona…

PHOENIX -- Attorney General Mark Brnovich is warning consumers about a scam involving the purchase of vehicle history reports through suspicious websites.

The scam starts when you post your car for sale online. The…

Announces New FinTech Partnership with Taiwan

PHOENIX - Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced today the first Arizona FinTech Sandbox participant is Omni Mobile Inc., a mobile…

PHOENIX - Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced Daniel Barraza Nevarez has plead guilty to two felony counts of Fraudulent Schemes & Artifices and Money Laundering. Between November 2017 and February 2018, Nevarez…

Attorney General Shares Six Tips to Protect Arizonans

PHOENIX – Ready to work from home, be your own boss and make a fortune? That’s what some scammers are promising people in return for…

PHOENIX – Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced Jason Siebert-Thomas, who admitted to using credit cards of deceased individuals, will spend more than four years in prison. On October 3, 2018, the Honorable Judge Douglas…

PHOENIX – The Arizona Attorney General’s Office (AGO) and the Governing Board of the Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD) reached an agreement on October 4th that satisfies the State's civil claims related to the selection…