Fire east of Tucson nearly contained
The Redington Fire burning east of Tucson was 80 percent contained Monday and had burned less acreage than initially estimated.
The human-caused fire consumed 30 acres in Redington Pass since it started Saturday, and crews were working Monday to complete a containment line and mopping up hot spots, said a news release from the U.S. Forest Service.
It was initially estimated the fire burned 125 acres.
Crews used measuring devices to get a better estimate of the burned area, the release said.
Redington Road has been reopened, but motorists were asked to use caution as large vehicles used to fight the fire may be on the road.
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A Tucson police officer was bitten on the fingers and another was hit in the head with a rock in a scuffle Monday with two suspects on Tucson’s south side.
Officers in the Tucson Police Department’s Targeting All Graffiti, or TAG unit, were following up on recent graffiti incidents near 17th Avenue and Nevada Street around 1:45 p.m. when they saw six people spray-painting in the nearby Arizona Department of Transportation parking lot, said Officer Brandon Tatum, a police spokesman.
Two officers approached the group to detain them and four ran off, but two fought with police, Tatum said.
One of the officers was hit with a rock and the other was bitten on the fingers during the fight, he said.
The two vandals ran away and officers set up a perimeter to find all the people involved.
Police detained four suspected taggers — the two males who were involved in the fight with officers and two females, Tatum said.
One of the males was bitten by a police dog and taken to a hospital.
The officers had minor injuries and were taken to a hospital as a “precautionary measure,” Tatum said.
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Inmate, unresponsive in Tucson prison, dies
A New York state man sentenced to 37 years in prison in a child pornography case has died after being found unresponsive in his prison cell in Tucson.
The federal Bureau of Prisons said an autopsy will determine the cause of death of Benet Schmidt of Cohoes, N.Y., who died Sunday, a day after he was found unresponsive at the federal prison in Tucson.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Shreveport, La., Schmidt pled guilty in April 2012 to engaging in a child-exploitation enterprise.
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