202008

PHOENIX – The Arizona Attorney General’s Office (AGO) filed a special action with the Arizona Supreme Court today asking the Court to resolve whether the City of Tucson’s ordinance, which calls for the next City Council election, and any special local elections, to be held “off-cycle” in 2021. The AGO is requesting the Court to declare that the Tucson ordinance violates state law and is therefore null and void.

400,000 fentanyl pills found during traffic stop

All 56 State and Territorial AGs Call for Increased Funding and More Flexibility

PHOENIX – Attorney General Mark Brnovich joined a coalition of state and territorial attorneys general of all 50 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories urging Congress to adopt key changes to the Victims of Crime Act that provide critical financial support to victims of violent crimes and their families.

MESA– Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced that Sharon Ashcroft, of Mesa, was sentenced to six years in prison for stealing over a thousand insurance company checks issued to doctors she worked for in Tempe between 2011 and 2017.

KINGMAN — Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced 65-year-old Michael Thomas DeArmond, a former caretaker who worked in the Kingman area, was sentenced to five years in prison for Escape and Theft.

In 2018, DeArmond was originally arrested for violating the terms of his probation stemming from a 2015 case (CR-2015-00159). DeArmond was released from custody in May 2018, but ordered to return to the Mohave County Jail by a specific date. When DeArmond failed to return, the charge of Escape in the Second Degree was filed in August 2018.

PHOENIX – Attorney General Mark Brnovich today announced that the Arizona Attorney General's Office (AGO) obtained a $22.5 million judgment and a permanent injunction against vaping peddler Eonsmoke, LLC.

PHOENIX - Attorney General Mark Brnovich is warning Arizonans to look out for COVID-19 test result scams. COVID-19 testing providers and patients are reporting a possible imposter scam. Fraudsters may be calling consumers claiming that they have COVID‑19 test results, but are really trying to acquire patients’ pers

PINAL COUNTY - Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a State Grand Jury has indicted Theresa Cook of Apache Junction with charges of filing fraudulent Arizona Income Tax Returns. Cook is accused of failing to pay Arizona personal income tax on money earned from her business selling puppies between 2016 and 2017.