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Gina Celaya
Gina Gail Celaya sorts palm fronds she trimmed from a tree at the Arizona State Prison, Perryville unit, in Goodyear where she is an inmate 7/31/01. Celaya fatally shot 50-year-old Trinidad Lopez in 1992, days after she turned 14, and stole his truck. She's serving a 30-year sentence but is …
Child molester receives 3+ years in prison
A 30-year-old man who pleaded guilty to molesting two girls inside stores in two separate incidents was sentenced to more than three years in prison Monday.
Man's bellybutton stuffed with heroin, border officers say
A Tucson man was arrested Tuesday after he tried to cross into Arizona with heroin wrapped around his waist and a small package of the drug tucked into his bellybutton, border officers said.
Law & Order Briefs
Tucson police officers work near yellow evidence markers in front of the Walmart Neighborhood Market at Grant and Alvernon, where a man was shot and killed early Wednesday.
Horne: 18 in copper theft ring indicted
State Assistant Attorney General Mike Jette discusses the copper thefts. Mine workers are accused of selling the copper to recyclers at a fraction of the price. The recyclers would then resell it to Chinese importers, investigators say.
Border task force seizes pot, ATVs
About 1,700 pounds of marijuana, several two-way radios and four ATVs were seized last week in joint agency operations that focused on smuggling groups operating in Southern Arizona's western desert, border officials said in a news release.
Horne: 18 in copper theft ring indicted
Eighteen people are facing charges in a multimillion-dollar copper theft ring involving Asarco employees, state law-enforcement officials said Tuesday.
Border officers find 200 lbs. of pot in car
A 24-year-old woman was arrested Friday after border officers found 144 packages of marijuana hidden in the Dodge sedan she was driving into Douglas from Mexico, officials say.
Police: Man tried to lure girl at library
A 46-year-old man was arrested on charges of trying to lure a minor for sex, Tucson police said.
Man resentenced for pipe-bomb killing
Ronald Young, the man convicted of building and setting off a pipe bomb that killed Tucson businessman Gary Triano in November 1996, was resentenced Monday in Pima County Superior Court.
Tucson men get prison for warehouse fire
Two Tucson men were sentenced to prison Tuesday for setting a vacant south-side warehouse on fire.
Wildfire near Nogales is nearly contained
A wildfire west of Nogales, Ariz., was nearly contained.
Tucson man given 3 years in prison for crash that killed brother
A Tucson man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter for a crash that killed his older brother was sentenced to three years in prison Monday.
Border officers arrest 2 on drug-smuggling counts
A Sonora man was arrested Sunday after border officers say they found $951,000 worth of methamphetamine hidden in his car.
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