A Mesa tailor who admitted he tried to smuggle an Iranian across the U.S.-Mexico border was sentenced to five years’ probation Tuesday.

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit brought by Somos America against Maricopa County, arguing the immigrant-rights group failed to show how the county attorney’s prosecutions under the state anti-human smuggling law are unconstitutional.

A Maricopa County Superior Court judge sentenced a 23-year-old illegal immigrant Tuesday to three years of probation for his conviction on a human smuggling charge.

A program designed to snare millions of dollars in human smuggling proceeds is stalled as Western Union and Arizona officials disagree on whether the state has the authority to broaden its dragnet to other states.

A program designed to snare millions of dollars in human smuggling proceeds is stalled as Western Union and Arizona officials disagree on whether the state has the authority to broaden its dragnet to other states.

The case against three immigrants accused of conspiracy to smuggle humans is at a precarious point as a judge decides today whether a jury should hear the men’s confessions.

Illegal immigrants charged with violating Arizona's anti-human-smuggling law spend months in jail waiting for their cases to move through court.

County Attorney Andrew Thomas’s office noted its 500th prosecution under the state’s anti-smuggling statute on Sunday.

People who hire "coyotes" to get them into this country can be prosecuted under a state law aimed at the smugglers, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.

Before leading the way for other states to pursue immigration laws, Arizona passed a ban on human smuggling in 2005 that has led to more than 2,100 arrests and drawn criticism for a tactic in which people who pay to be sneaked into the country are charged as conspirators to the crime.

Maricopa County sheriff candidate Dan Saban said Tuesday he would dismantle the sheriff's controversial human smuggling unit and reassign the personnel to several multiagency task forces.

While a surge of humans and drugs flows north across the border, assault rifles and other high-powered weapons flow south.

The number of suspected illegal immigrants arrested under the state’s felony human smuggling law surpassed 1,000 when Maricopa County deputies arrested 25 suspects earlier this week.

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, sheriff and county attorney became the focus of a class-action lawsuit Tuesday for their interpretation of a state law aimed at cracking down on human smugglers.

Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas said Wednesday he intends to keep prosecuting illegal immigrants despite a judge’s ruling that his first case under the new state antismuggling law — and perhaps future ones — lack the legally required evidence.

Seven times every second, someone sends money through Western Union, and hidden among that flow are the riches of coyotes, who charge about $1,600 a head to smuggle illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.

Migrants who pay others to smuggle them into this country can’t be charged with conspiracy, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday. Judge Thomas O’Toole overturned Arizona’s first jury conviction under a 2005 state law that makes human smuggling a crime.

Defense attorneys on Tuesday urged Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas to stop prosecuting illegal immigrants as co-conspirators in smuggling until the case for 44 illegal immigrants is resolved.

A sophisticated human smuggling ring that was running as many as 40 illegal immigrants per day from the Mexican border near Naco to safe houses in Phoenix was broken up after a seven-month investigation by a multiagency task force, according to a 232-count indictment announced Thursday.