Smuggler of humans given nearly 4 years
A Marana man received a 46-month federal prison sentence Monday for his conviction on alien-smuggling charges.
Darrell Wayne Dempsey, 50, was convicted in February in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, according to court records.
Dempsey was arrested on Aug. 24 in Pinal County after a sheriff's deputy tried to pull over Dempsey's pickup on westbound Interstate 10 near Casa Grande, court records show.
Dempsey slowed his truck down, allowing 10 men to jump out and run into the desert, court records show. Deputies found five more people hidden inside the truck, four of whom were trapped inside the truck bed under a flat, screwed-down cover that prevented them from opening the tailgate from the inside, court records show.
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Dempsey, who faced up to 10 years, has filed an appeal.
Brian J. Pedersen
Man, 76, found dead after fire in Nogales
A 76-year-old Nogales man was found dead inside his home Sunday night after a fire, authorities said.
Hector Carillo was found inside a bathroom in his home in the 900 block of East Morley Avenue after Nogales firefighters responded to a fire at the home, said Lt. Octavio Gradillas, a Nogales Police Department spokesman.
The fire started in Carillo's bedroom, but the cause is unknown, Gradillas said.
Carillo's cause of death is to be determined by the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office, he said.
Brian J. Pedersen
I-10 crash near Bowie kills two, injures two
Two men, including one from Prescott, were killed Monday in a multivehicle crash on Interstate 10 east of Tucson, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
A 2007 GMC truck driven by 29-year-old California resident Nicholas R. Bourgeois was headed west on I-10 near Bowie when the truck had a tire blowout, causing Bourgeois to lose control and veer into the eastbound lanes, DPS said. Bourgeois' truck crashed into two vehicles, one of them a 1997 Buick driven by 83-year-old Prescott resident Aljomor Moore, according to DPS.
Bourgeois and Moore both died in the crash. Two passengers in Moore's car were flown to University Medical Center for treatment, DPS said.
The driver of the third vehicle, a 2004 Ford pickup truck, was not injured.
Brian J. Pedersen
Police seeking man in May bank robbery
Tucson police have obtained an arrest warrant for a man suspected of robbing a west-side Wells Fargo Bank branch last month, police said.
Adiyia Sundiata, 38, is accused of robbing the Wells Fargo at 2150 W. Grant Road on May 24, according to a Tucson Police Department press release.
He is described as being about 6 feet tall and weighing about 200 pounds.
Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or 88-CRIME.
Jamar Younger
