Local recap: Shot in foot; cicada facts; craft beer bar

Customs and Border Protection officers in Nogales found more than just ice and sodas in a cooler coming across the border, officials said.

Officers at the Dennis DeConcini crossing arrested Roberto Patino-Perez, 31, of Nogales, Sonora, after a drug dog alerted to his Isuzu SUV.

Officers on Wednesday found an ice chest in the vehicle and discovered that it was hollowed out to conceal drugs, the CBP said in a news release. Inside the cooler officers found nearly five pounds of heroin, worth about $68,000, and more than four pounds of meth, worth about $12,000.

Officers seized the vehicle and drugs and turned Patino-Perez over to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations.

A 24-year-old was arrested early Friday morning, after a man was shot in the foot outside the Lazy V Bar, authorities said.

At about 2:30 a.m., deputies responded to a reported shooting in the area of South Cardinal Avenue and West Drexel Road, arriving soon enough to hear the gunshots as they were fired, said a Pima County Sheriff's Department press release.

They found the victim, a 33-year-old man who had been shot in the foot, and apprehended a suspect shortly after about a block away from the bar.

Aaron Anthony Adams was booked into the Pima County jail on charges of aggravated assault, weapons misconduct and possession of marijuana, according to the news release.

The investigation is ongoing, but detectives have learned that before the shooting, two men were harassing a woman at the bar who went outside to smoke. A male friend of the woman went out to check on her and got into a verbal altercation with the men.

During the argument, Adams pulled out a revolver and shot the victim in the foot, the release said.

The investigation is ongoing.

Normally at this time of year, Sean Miller would be finishing up his youth camps, going home at a reasonable hour and taking a few breaths before the July recruiting season heats up.

Instead, he’s headed to Colorado Springs to coach USA Basketball’s U19 team and won’t be back until July 6, after the Americans compete in the U19 World Championships in Greece.

But he wasn’t about to turn the offer down.

“USA Basketball – all coaches have a special place in their heart when you say that,” Miller said. “I had an opportunity to win a gold medal as a player in the World University Games and to me that was one of the great experience I’ve had in sports. … representing your country, I don’t know if it’s something any of us can say no to.”

Besides, Miller said, the commitment is really only about three weeks, with some extra prep work already having been done before camp starts Saturday. Miller said he thinks it’s also “healthy” for the head coach to leave a program for a while, forcing others to get used to running things.

USA Basketball's U19 roster has already been trimmed from 24 to 21, with Michigan commit Tyus Battle, 2016 guard Malik Monk and Maryland commit Diamond Stone all having withdrawn from the original list. (A USA Basketball spokesman said injuries and family reasons were cited).

The team is expected to be trimmed down to about 15 players by Monday and will get to the final 12 sometime before leaving for Greece on June 21.

Arizona target V.J. King has committed to Louisville.

Steve Kerr may have lied about his Game 4 starting lineup, but it paid off when he went with Andre Iguodala.

We have some highlights of Iggy's game here.

T.J. McConnell might have had a chance to dish to Frank Kaminsky, of all people, at a Pacers workout today.

Sporting News says Stanley Johnson would be an ideal fit for Charlotte.

OSU's Gary Payton II was invited to a new high-level Nike camp.

NJIT finally has a conference home.

A Chicago Tribune columnist is lamenting the lack of quirky, non-commercial radio stations in Chicago and cites Tucson's KXCI-FM as an example of great music radio.

Steve Johnson writes:

More eclectic still — and even more enticing to my ears — is KXCI-FM 91.3 in Tucson, which I've come across because my parents retired to that area.

KXCI is like a college radio station, but professionalized so that you don't lose patience. It's like a public-radio station, but applying the principles of inclusiveness to music instead of to reporting stories on Third World infrastructure.

Read the whole column here, which includes quotes from KXCI's program director. 

It is summer in Tucson and along with the heat comes the first high-pitched buzzzzzz. Find out more about our cicada friends.

1. Tucson’s cicadas are Cactus Dodgers and Apaches

The cicadas most common to Tucson are part of a group called Dog Days. Because (as you might have guessed) they appear during the dog days of summer. Peter Warren, the urban horticulture agent for the Pima County Cooperative Extension at the University of Arizona, says the dog day cicadas here include Apache cicadas (Diceroprocta apache) and Diceroprocta semicincta. “Cactus dodger is a common name attributed to several species, two of which are found in Arizona,” he says.

2. They bust out of the ground like a bug zombie army

Cicadas lay their eggs in tree branches, the babies make their way into the ground, stay there for about three years while they shed, feed on tree roots, get bigger and then bust out. Warren says he wouldn’t describe them as zombies since the cicadas have never been dead and they are looking for mates not brains.

3. Cicada husks make good jewelry

The cicadas continue to shed once they emerge from the ground. People make jewelry from the fragile exoskeletons, proving the point that you can buy anything on Etsy. “Beetles are more durable,” Warren says. “I once purchased caddisfly case earrings for my special lady friend.”

4. Cicada buzzing heralds the approaching monsoon

Warren says many insects — such as ants, termites and palo verde beetles — emerge with environmental markers like the monsoon. 

The cicadas are out a couple of weeks before the monsoon begins.

5. The buzzing is from wobbling abdomens

Warren says the male cicadas have “drum-skin like membranes inside their abdomens that they wobble with their muscles and amplify inside their bodies.” A mating call that’s better than Netflix and chill.

6. Yum

Cicadas are edible. Called the “shrimp of the land” it’s best to harvest them early in the morning while they are still soft and fresh after emerging from the ground. Learn how to make cicada dumplings and El Chirper Tacos in “Cicada-licious” — a recipe book available for free online (this is totally a thing that is real.) Warren says they’re “delish, a nice nutty flavor.”

7. They fill the trees

Warren guesses there are thousands in the area during a season.

8. Bug sweat

Cicadas are able to stay out during the heat of the day because they have the ability to sweat.

9. Folklore

Cicadas are a symbol of rebirth, transformation and beauty in many different cultures. Kokopelli is a cicada. Warren says, “Many insects get this reputation because of their dramatic metamorphosis. See 'Silence of the Lambs.' ”

10. Wasps are their worst enemies

If you are a cicada, you do not want to be stung by a cicada-killer wasp because it will take you hostage and lay its eggs in your body. How unfortunate.

Peter Warren is the urban horticulture agent for the Pima County Cooperative Extension at the University of Arizona. He writes the Ask the Garden Sage column for Tucson.com and the Arizona Daily Star. Send insect, plant and other questions to plwarren@cals.arizona.edu

Ex-Wildcat Steve Kerr — now the head coach of the Golden State Warriors — made a bold move Thursday night and started former Arizona basketball standout Andre Iguodala for the first time of the whole season in Game 4 of the NBA Finals.  

And, boy, did it pay off. 

Rather than coming off the bench for the Warriors like he's done all season, Iguodala started and provided a spark from the opening tip. 

Iguodala posted a season-high 22 points on 8-of-15 shooting from the field. He shot an impressive 4 of 9 from beyond the arc and sank both of his free-throw attempts. 

His 22 points was tied for the most on the Warriors. Stephen Curry also dropped 22 in Golden State's 103-82 win over the Cavaliers to tie the series at 2-2. 

Iguodala didn't just boost the Warriors with his offense, though. He grabbed eight rebounds and had one steal in 39 minutes of action. He outscored Cleveland's LeBron James — who had 20 points — and played outstanding defense on James as well. 

After Iguodala's stellar performance, Steve Kerr likely won't think twice about starting Iggy for Game 5 of the NBA Finals, which is Sunday at 5 p.m. The game will be broadcast on ABC. 

Check out video highlights of Iggy's contribution below. 

Former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords will attend the christening of a Navy ship named in her honor.

Giffords, of Arizona, will be at the Saturday christening of the USS Gabrielle Giffords in Mobile, Alabama.

Giffords was gravely wounded in the 2011 Tucson shooting that left six dead and 13 injured. She gave up her seat in Congress and later founded an organization that aims to increase gun control.

Officials say the aluminum vessel is 419 feet long and seven Littoral Combat Ships are currently under construction at Austal's shipyard.

Tucson's growing legion of craft beer lovers and homebrewers now have a new place to hang their hats. The bar and beer garden Tucson Hop Shop  brings 20 rotating taps to the Metal Arts Village on East Fort Lowell Road and North Dodge Boulevard.  

The project is led by local homebrewers David and Jessie Zugerman, who want to create a community space for brewers pick up supplies and take classes to learn the craft. They plan to sell grains, hops and yeast, as well as one-gallon "all-grain" homebrewing kits for about $50. 

"(Brewing beer) is one of the oldest artforms, one of the oldest professions," David said. "There's so much creativity and ingenuity that’s coming into it every day."

The Hop Shop at 3230 N. Dodge Blvd also sells take-home bottles of Arizona and national beers, as well as harder-to-find Belgian and German beers. There won't be a kitchen, but the two are working with food trucks to provide bar eats. 

The Southern Arizona Girl Scouts sold 934,104 boxes of cookies this year, including 31,293 to send overseas to military service men and women.

Pima County’s top seller this year was 9-year-old Brianna “Bri” Ahmad of Troop No. 2981, who sold 6,116 boxes, nearly 2,000 boxes more than the second most successful seller.

Bri did it by “working hard, selling every day and treating it like a mini-business,” says her mom, Nichole Ahmad. “She was professional and she made relationships with a lot of businesspeople in town” who bought cookies from her this year and last.

“She’s a chill kid, laid back, but when it comes to wanting to be at the top of her class, or to be the top cookie seller, she’s competitive,” the mother added, chuckling.

Bri, who is home-schooled and wants to be a veterinarian, says prizes are one motivation — she won a GoPro, an iPad and Taylor Swift concert tickets from the Girl Scouts, among other rewards.

Her sales goal for next year? Seven thousand boxes of cookies in seven weeks.