TUCSON - A Mexican woman suspected of trying to smuggle six children into the U.S. using false documents has been arrested at a southern Arizona border crossing, federal authorities said.

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

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

They were in a two-van caravan with about 50 other illegal immigrants on a rarely used dirt road in the middle of nowhere.

Mesa police have arrested a 23-year-old Mexico resident accused of smuggling nine people across the border and raping one of them.

Four Mesa residents are among eight people facing federal charges as part of a scheme to illegally purchase semiautomatic rifles and smuggle them into Mexico, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

TUCSON — Federal officials and members of a special border crime detail are busy looking for powerful weapons that could fall into the hands of dangerous drug cartels operating in Mexico.

A special task force created a year ago has been successful in combating human smuggling rings and sending their leaders to prison, according to the commander of the multiagency unit.

A Chandler woman who smuggled three children into the U.S. was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

NOGALES - U.S. and Mexican law enforcement agents executing simultaneous raids discovered a recently completed smuggling tunnel linking the two countries, officials said Friday.

The Arizona Attorney Gerneral’s Office indicted 48 members of two human smuggling organizations following an eight-month investigation.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is in the middle of an investigation surrounding a detention officer arrested for delivering drugs to an inmate at the Fourth Avenue Jail.

TUCSON - A Phoenix woman was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in prison for trying to smuggle two Mexican children into the United States by pretending they were hers.

Maricopa County’s top prosecutor and sheriff got a legal victory Wednesday in their efforts to prosecute illegal immigrants on allegations they conspired to smuggle themselves.

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.

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 Mesa tailor admitted guilt Monday in federal court to trying to smuggle an illegal immigrant from Iran across the U.S.-Mexico border.

A suspected human smuggler was arrested Wednesday after trying to run over a motorcycle officer and then leading police on a highspeed chase through Gilbert with 24 illegal immigrants in the back of a stolen pickup truck, police said.