2018 Press Releases

MESA – Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced seven members of a Mesa-based drug diversion ring have been sentenced. The two key leaders were siblings, Tammy Wade and Terry Wade, Jr.

Investigators say the ringleader,…

PHOENIX - Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a State Grand Jury indicted 12 Arizona men on various charges including child sex trafficking and luring a minor for sexual exploitation. 

The indictments…

PHOENIX - Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced former CEO of Valley Metro, Stephen Banta, has pled guilty to one count of Fraudulent Schemes and Practices, a class five felony.

The Office of the Auditor General…

TUCSON – Today, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich took legal action against Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of the prescription opioid painkiller OxyContin.  The filing in Pima County Superior Court alleges that Purdue…

PHOENIX - Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced Steven Watson, who stole from bank customers’ dormant accounts, was convicted by a Maricopa County jury on one count of Fraudulent Schemes and Artifices and seven counts of Theft…

NAVAJO COUNTY - Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a State Grand Jury indicted Leah Chavez, a former town clerk, for allegedly stealing more than $30,000 from the Town of Pinetop-Lakeside. Chavez, 39, is charged with…

FLAGSTAFF - A forensic interviewer, who has testified in several Arizona cases, pled guilty to embezzling from her employer by falsifying documents to conceal side work.

On Friday afternoon, Carli Moncher entered a plea…

PHOENIX – Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a State Grand Jury indicted Jon Richard Rattray, from Gilbert, on felony counts of Fraud Schemes & Artifices, Money Laundering, Controlling an Illegal Enterprise, Computer…

QUARTZSITE - Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a judge sentenced Christy Conley, a former evidence technician with Quartzsite Police Department, who stole thousands of dollars of cash in impounded evidence.…

PHOENIX – Attorney General Mark Brnovich is warning consumers that they should beware of false and misleading advertising relating to the “2018 Women EmpoweredUp Conference,” which supposedly will take place in late…