Phoenix News: Arrests In Phoenix Home Invasion Cases
Recent attempts to fight against a wave of home invasion, robbery style in Phoenix, in cooperation with agents of the federal police has led to the arrest of 70 people since May and set with various crime groups, authorities said Tuesday.
Home invasion robbery and kidnapping, especially drug smuggling and people at the Mexican border, are persistent problems in Phoenix and other cities near the border.
Officials with the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said the “single” unit of federal agents who worked with detectives in the Phoenix flight crew, the assailants in dark uniforms and similar masked police dressed in tactical units were added at the break.
The study, entitled “Operation Gideon, using techniques and other means of ending the occupation – the charge of possession of firearms and other crimes – before they are flown. The operations have included the seizure of several firearms, body armor, plastic limit, tape, gloves and masks and thousands of dollars in cash.
The people arrested face federal firearms, drug trafficking and other charges.
“The results are amazing and meaningful,” said Mayor Phil Gordon in a statement. “These people are really the worst of the worst. And now they have disappeared from the streets. ”
However, it is unclear what effect was sweeping. During the past month, said Jack Harris, said the chief of police, kidnapping and home invasion robbery, without “any significant reduction of one of them will continue”, ” The Arizona Republic.
In addition to the 70 arrests made by the federal government team of special police unit of the police in Phoenix, more than 300 arrests since its inception in September last year, “said Harris.
A total of violent crimes in the city of Phoenix, according to the Federal Office of Statistics, but the police did in the robberies home invasions and kidnappings, victims of age have been alerted to 13 are generally Victims, held in drug debts or charges for smuggling across the border will be paid.
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