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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Phoenix police have been about 5 hours in the house of the 1900 block of E. Illini Street, Phoenix said Sgt. Andy Hill.

A witness told police that about 2 hours, Juan Jose Avitia, 37, had a confrontation with someone in the apartment. Avitia would have taken her 5-year-old daughter and left the residence.

Nobody called the police at that time, “said Hill.

Avitia in 5 hours to return home, neighbors told police they had heard about Windows a break, people screaming and shots from inside.

Avitia then left the child with a 20-year-old mother, who lived in an apartment with her daughter.

As police searched the woman and child Avitia, said local hospitals at 9:49 of the mother and children treated for injuries that are not disclosed, said Hill.

Police Avitia was at home in 3200, page 73-block walk, where he was arrested without incident

Avitia was restricted to two terms for sexual offenses and crimes of forgery. He now faces two counts each of kidnapping, aggravated assault, burglary and reckless to the threat of the incident Sunday.

Jock Coker, 18, was developed by staff, Eric Gomez Coker houses near the road, Dobbins Street and 7th, according to a press release from James Holmes, an officer with the Police Service of Phoenix.

At about 5 pm, Gomez responded to a call for a burglary in the Coker home. After reviewing tape from video surveillance, he noticed a man who is living where he reported the burglary, said in a press release.

Gomez then told the woman in the house, and she said Gomez, “Jok is not at home.”

Gomez had the same name as the names of suspects in two armed robberies of stores on May 31 Metro, after the press release.

Police also suspect Coker stole a Chevrolet pick-up in 1997, the same day. When police checked the house of the registered owner of the vehicle, Tony R. Ortega, 74, they found his death, said the press release. Coker was a suspect in the murder of Ortega.

Gomez quickly decided that the house and requested more help to create a perimeter around the house. Phoenix special police forces arrived on the scene and took custody Coker.

Coker was sent to prison for second degree murder, rape, armed robbery, kidnapping, and after the press release.

Saenz, police say, in the opinion of the leader of the invasion and the kidnapping of origin banda responsible for at least eight invasions in the valley.

“It was really with eight counts of armed robbery and home invasion, aggravated assault eight, seven counts of kidnapping, and the number of robberies,” said Phoenix Police Sergeant Tommy Thompson.

Two other men were arrested on charges, not when they were found in the region of 75 Saenz in the street and Camelback. One of two illegal immigrants and a convicted criminal is a deposit premium Hunter Valley companies.