Pinal County News

The Pinal County Sheriff's Office has declined to conduct forensic tests on evidence from a shooting incident involving Deputy Louie Puroll despite statements from forensic experts that the lawman's bullet wound could not have occurred as he described.

By now many of you have been forwarded the below photo of a billboard placed on the property of Frank Pierson and Mary Ellen Kazda of Oracle. The billboard was not placed nor approved by Sheriff Babeu. Sheriff Babeu does not know the family nor did he direct the message stated on the billboard to the family.

The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office - Citizens on Patrol (COP) Program will be conducting an informational meeting regarding the implementation of an Arizona City Citizens on Patrol Unit. Lieutenant Ruben Leos and COP Program Director, Pat Prince, along with volunteers from the Gold Canyon C.O.P. Unit and the San Tan Valley C.O.P. Unit will be addressing Arizona City residents interested in volunteering their time to serve as the "eyes and ears" of their community.

There's a new sheriff dominating Arizona's airwaves.

There is little tolerance in Pinal County for parents who don't pay child support.

A debate is brewing over Sheriff Paul Babeu's request that Pinal County supervisors fund seven new law-enforcement positions to battle escalating violence associated with illegal immigration and drug smuggling.

Pinal County Animal Care and Control officers, working in conjunction with the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office and the Pinal County Attorney’s Office, seized 152 cats and 19 dogs from a Hidden Valley home Monday afternoon.

Thanks to the nearly 27,000 people who went online to vote, the Arizona Trail Association has won a $50,000 grant for trail improvements in Pinal County.

The Pinal County Regional Narcotics Task Force has arrested 147 suspects in drug related offenses so far this year, according to a report released today.

Animal Care & Control officers seized 26 medium sized dogs and other animals from a home yesterday.  The property was located in rural Pinal County’s Thunderbird Farms area, south of the city of Maricopa near the Ak-Chin Indian Community.  The animals were kept in a double-wide manufactured home on a large rural lot.