The U.S. Marshal’s Service of Arizona is holding an auto auction on Saturday featuring vehicles that have been forfeited to the government.

Appliances, furniture, televisions and more can be found at the City of Mesa surplus store, which is open 8 a.m. to noon Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7041 E. Adobe.

The obvious need for efficient law enforcement and its attendant societal benefits at times have an unfortunate side effect: they are cited as justifications for unjustifiable police practices.

Chandler police Detective Carlos Ledesma was sitting at a card table when the drug bust went sour. He did not even have time to stand before being cut down by four rifle shots to the chest, and he died a short time later.

The Mesa City Council is expected to decide tonight if it will authorize the creation of a new center aimed at better tracking gangs and criminal operations across city lines.

 NEW YORK  — Federal prosecutors took steps Thursday to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.

The Mesa City Council is scheduled to decide Tuesday if police can spend nearly $163,000 to buy more than 150 Tasers for plainclothes detectives.

Mesa police are asking the City Council today to approve a crime-fighting program that can be described as a sophisticated form of Google.

Citing concerns over liability and potential for abuse, Mesa officials have prohibited police employees from accepting off-duty consulting jobs with other law enforcement agencies.

Citing concerns over liability and potential for abuse, Mesa officials have prohibited police employees from accepting off-duty consulting jobs with other law enforcement agencies.

Thousands of consumers who bought pills from a Scottsdale company that were supposed to enlarge male sexual organs and women’s breasts will be getting their money back.

Thousands of consumers who bought pills from a Scottsdale company that were supposed to enlarge male sexual organs and women’s breasts will be getting their money back.

A lucrative civil racketeering case involving an East Valley gambling investigation is being sent to Pima County prosecutors by Attorney General Terry Goddard, a move prompted by his decision to sever any ties to cases brought to him by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

A Superior Court judge effectively threw out the cases of nine men indicted in March in a massive illegal-gambling probe.

A federal judge Monday sentenced a Scottsdale physician to 12 years in prison and ordered him to pay nearly $30,000 on 185 counts of prescribing highly addictive drugs such as OxyContin and morphine to patients without a legitimate medical purpose.

December 21, 2004

A Scottsdale man was sentenced to five years in prison, followed by seven years probation and more than $3.1 million in restitution for operating elaborate investment schemes that defrauded at least 42 people of more than $3 million since 2005.