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PHOENIX - Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced 57 year old Mary Louise Gonzalez was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for stealing and pawning her patients’ valuables. Gonzalez also forged and cashed a check stolen from a patient’s home.
Friday, January 27, 2017 - 2:22pm
PHOENIX - Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a jury found Michael Duane Mullet guilty of multiple counts of Fraud and Theft. Mullet used a plumbing fraud scheme to steal more than $16,700 while working at Lawson Family Plumbing.
Friday, January 27, 2017 - 3:24pm
PHOENIX - Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced the first criminal prosecution resulting from Arizona’s new telemarketing statute. Lukeroy Rose, the owner of Rose Marketing, pleaded guilty to making unlawful telephone solicitations and operating a fraudulent telemarketing business. The Arizona Telephone Solicitations statute, amended in August 2016, makes it a class 5 felony for unregistered telemarketers to make unlawful calls to in-state AND out-of-state consumers.
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 - 11:29am
PHOENIX - Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced 47 year old Patcharin Koibuchi was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison and 3 years of probation for her role in a Tempe-based sex trafficking operation. In December 2016, Koibuchi pleaded guilty to Attempted Illegal Control of an Enterprise and Attempted Money Laundering, both class 4 felonies.
Wednesday, January 18, 2017 - 10:05am
PHOENIX - Attorney General Mark Brnovich today announced his office filed an Arizona Consumer Fraud lawsuit against Adobe Carpet Cleaning, LLC, a Phoenix-based business. Adobe Carpet Cleaning allegedly made telemarketing calls to consumers on the National Do Not Call Registry.
Wednesday, January 18, 2017 - 1:18pm
PHOENIX – Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a State Grand Jury indicted Roy Eugene Ramey III on 4 counts of Unlawful Sexual Contact with an Inmate, a Class 5 felony.
Tuesday, January 17, 2017 - 7:39am
PHOENIX – Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced Aaron Blodgett and Matthew Blodgett pleaded guilty to 4 felony charges for their involvement in a craigslist employment and credit improvement scam. The Blodgett brothers each pleaded guilty to 1 count of Fraudulent Schemes & Artifices, 2 counts of Theft, and 1 count of Securities Fraud.
Monday, January 9, 2017 - 2:21pm
PHOENIX – Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a State Grand Jury indicted a former Eloy Elementary School District payroll clerk on 14 felony counts for alleged theft and misuse of public monies. Denise Burden is accused of stealing approximately $23,504 from the school district by paying herself unapproved overtime.
Thursday, January 5, 2017 - 1:44pm
PHOENIX – Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich today announced the appointment of Dominic Draye as Solicitor General. Draye replaces John R. Lopez IV who left office to serve as an Arizona Supreme Court Justice.
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - 3:34pm
PHOENIX – Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a State Grand Jury indicted Derrick Thompson AKA Abu Talib Al-Amriki on charges related to supporting a foreign terrorist organization. Thompson, 30, is charged with Participating in a Criminal Syndicate, Assisting a Criminal Syndicate, and Attempted Misconduct Involving Weapons.
Friday, December 30, 2016 - 8:09am
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