Cochise County News

With funding assistance from the Governor's Office of Highway Safety and in an effort to reinforce the seriousness of drinking and driving, Sheriff Mark Dannels announced the deployment of the Southeastern Arizona D.U.I. Task Force in Cochise County over the Cinco de Mayo Holiday.

A plea agreement has been reached in the State of Arizona's case against local resident Cecil Jones.

Deputies from New Mexico's Hidalgo County and Arizona's Cochise County are now certified to enforce laws in either county.

According to Carol Capas, Information Officer for the Cochise County Sheriffs Department, on Thursday April 25th at 8:16am, a person house sitting for a Tombstone resident called the Sheriff's Department and reported that the house they were checking on had been broken into.

In this June 12, 2010 file photo, a P2V Neptune air tanker drops fire retardant near a home on the Memorial Fire near Sierra Vista, Ariz.

As the warm weather arrives, many head outside to enjoy all that Cochise County has to offer.

According to Cochise County court records Cecil Jones was indicted on April 18th by a Grand Jury on five criminal counts, No 1. AGGRAVATED ASLT-DEADLY WEAPON/DANG INST .

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has opened a period for public comment on a proposed resource management plan for the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area in southeastern Arizona.

Crews responded to several fires along Kansas Settlement Road Tuesday after a trailer caught on fire and continued to start fires as the driver continued.

While Arizona conjures up desert images of parched landscapes and nothing but Saguaro cactus for miles, the Verde Valley in the northern part of the state has emerged as a prime location for vineyards.

Ten people are under arrest after federal and local agencies found more than 500 pounds of pot inside a home in the 9400 block of Kedron Road in Hereford.

A message of thanks is posted to the Cochise County Sheriff's Office Facebook page : "We congratulate Sgt.

The Arizona Daily Star reports that Judge Carmine Cornelio was censured for behavior during settlement conferences in two separate cases.

According to Tombstone Marshal Cloud, on April 10, 2013 at approximately 3:25pm local Tombstone resident Cecil Jones attempted to ram the vehicle of his estranged wife with his vehicle at Highway 80 and Bruce Street.

Kirby Fulton, 38, has been on the wanted list since 2010 when authorities indicted him on charges of making, possessing and storing explosives inside a Sierra Vista home.