Victim of killing on north side is ID'd
A man stabbed to death during a fight Friday on Tucson's north side has been identified as James Powell, 39.
Police said Powell and another man believed to be a roommate were fighting at about 5:30 p.m. at a trailer park in the 1400 block of West Prince Road.
Powell was found wounded inside the trailer home. He died a short time later at a hospital. Witnesses told officers that one of the men involved in the fight boarded a Sun Tran bus. Officers stopped the bus near North Flowing Wells Road and detained a man.
Norman N. Mixon, 33, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of first-degree murder in connection with the attack.
3 held in teen's death moved to Pima jail
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Three men linked to the shooting death of a 15-year-old girl in August 2009 have been transferred to the Pima County jail.
The three were arrested Saturday at the DeConcini Port of Entry in Nogales, police said.
Christian Betza Vasquez, 26; Orel S. Vasquez, 20; and Juan Carlos Leon, 29, surrendered to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, a Tucson Police Department news release said.
The three were sought in the shooting death of Brenda Arenas, police said.
Arenas was shot by one of at least six assailants who were fleeing a home invasion in the 6100 block of South Southland Boulevard, near South Park Avenue and East Drexel Road.
Church bans firearms after deaths of Jan. 8
In response to the mass shooting of Jan. 8, a United Methodist church in the Foothills has voted to become a "no-guns campus."
The church council at St. Francis in the Foothills, 4625 E. River Road, voted unanimously Thursday to ban guns from its campus in the aftermath of the shooting that left six dead and 13 injured, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
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Man receives 13 years for role in drug ring
A Mexican man was sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for his role in trafficking tons of marijuana across the Arizona border.
Federal prosecutors said Mopnday that Jose Paul Gastellum-Chavez, 57, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Tucson. He had earlier been convicted of two counts of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute marijuana and one count of possession with the intent to distribute marijuana.
Gastellum-Chavez was part of a drug ring that used tractor-trailers to haul more than 14 tons of marijuana from Mexico to various warehouses just across the Arizona border in Nogales and Rio Rico between February 2007 and June 2008, prosecutors say. Gastellum-Chavez was one of 22 people indicted the case.
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