Law Enforcement

Hemp advocates and the Arizona Attorney General’s Office are due in court Friday for an hourslong hearing on whether a crackdown on unlicensed sellers of hemp products should be halted.

Arizona’s Democratic attorney general has now joined with Republican legislative leaders in a bid to quash a legal challenge to Proposition 314, which allows state and local police to arrest those who are not citizens who enter the country at other than a port of entry.

The Phoenix City Council has denied a citizen petition aimed at keeping local police from doing immigration enforcement.

The U.S. Treasury Department is sanctioning leaders of another of Mexico’s notorious drug cartels. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control is targeting five individuals it says are leaders of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the fentanyl was confiscated over the course of three separate seizures over the course of one month.

The Phoenix City Council on Wednesday is scheduled to consider a citizen’s petition aimed at stopping police from doing immigration enforcement. City records say such a complex request should have come from within the government.

Phoenix is one step closer to having a permanent police chief for the first time in years after a trio of finalists for the job took part in a public forum Monday.

For the first time anywhere in the U.S., Transportation Security Administration officers at Sky Harbor Airport are learning how to help travelers living with dementia.

The Phoenix Police Department says Valley residents may notice low-flying helicopters, simulated gunfire, and controlled explosions, mostly after dark.

Three finalists to become chief of Phoenix police are set to take part in a public forum at 5 p.m. Monday in the City Council chambers and streaming live on YouTube.