Improved Upon Third Place Ranking in Previous Year
PHOENIX – The Office of the Arizona Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) is ranked second highest in the nation according to…
2019 Press Releases
PHOENIX - Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced Lynwood Jennet pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Fraudulent Schemes and Artifices, Two Counts of Theft, and Failure to File a Tax Return. With two pending cases filed…
TUCSON – Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a State Grand Jury indicted 11 individuals accused of shipping illegal drugs and contraband across the country through the United Parcel Service (UPS). Collectively the defendants…
TUCSON - Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced Gustavo Chavez was recently arraigned for his alleged involvement in the theft of donations from the Toys for Tots Foundation. Chavez and his co-conspirators, Lloyd Jorgenson,…
GLENDALE - Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced 22-year-old Israel Carrasco and his older brother 24-year-old Enrique Luna pleaded guilty in the 2016 murder of 21-year-old Christopher Gonzales Cummings inside his Glendale…
PHOENIX - Attorney General Brnovich joined a bipartisan coalition of 27 attorneys general in an amicus brief before the full U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to defend the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) in Brackeen v.…
PHOENIX – Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced 30-year-old Robert Hood will spend 108 years in prison for forcing a 16-year-old girl to engage in prostitution for six months.
A jury found Hood guilty on 11 felony…
TUCSON – Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced 40-year-old Jesus Gabriel Rodriguez-Valenzuela was sentenced to 10 years in prison after he was convicted of selling $7,800 of methamphetamine in the parking lots of Tucson area…
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Arizona Attorney General’s Office argued to uphold the death penalty sentence for James McKinney before the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday morning. In 1991, McKinney and his half-brother murdered Christine…
PHOENIX - Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced today that his office obtained a $600,000 consent judgment against a Sun City vacuum sales business and its owners. Last year, the Attorney General filed a lawsuit alleging that…