2020 Press Releases

PHOENIX – Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced 38-year-old Sergio Ortiz-Godinez, of Phoenix, was charged with Conspiracy, Illegally Conducting an Enterprise, Transportation of a Dangerous Drug (methamphetamine) for Sale…

PHOENIX - Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich issued a cease-and-desist notice last Friday to Phoenix-based YiLo Superstore Dispensary to stop YiLo from advertising products as a treatment or cure for COVID-19. According…

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PHOENIX - Attorney General Mark Brnovich wants Arizonans to be on the lookout for scams related to the…

PHOENIX – Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced today that his Office has sent letters to three gyms with locations in Arizona – Life Time Fitness, Mountainside Fitness, and Planet Fitness, encouraging them to change in-…

PHOENIX - Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a State Grand Jury indicted nine Arizona men accused of soliciting illegal sex acts from undercover agents who were posing as minors on various social media websites…

PHOENIX– Attorney General Mark Brnovich issued a formal legal opinion today regarding the lawful authority of local law enforcement and county sheriffs to enforce emergency declarations. In short, the Attorney General’s Office (…

Phoenix – Attorney General Mark Brnovich released a formal legal opinion today regarding what information state government, including public universities, can release to the public related to positive COVID-19 cases. In…

TUCSON - Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced Phillip Johnson, a Tucson man, was sentenced to 15.75 years in prison for orchestrating a scheme to defraud the Pima County Superior Court to obtain firearms as a prohibited…

PHOENIX – Attorney General Mark Brnovich and Senator Kyrsten Sinema are teaming up to remind Arizona seniors to be on the lookout for new COVID-19 related scams. Both offices have reported an increase in communications …

PHOENIX - In response to the respiratory virus COVID-19, Attorney General Mark Brnovich reminds businesses and individuals that his office will hold them accountable if they exploit the virus and try to scam Arizonans…