State Glance
Teen suspected of sending school threat arrested
PHOENIX — Arizona authorities have arrested a teenager after a threatening message to schools was posted online.
Local news stations report that the Tempe Police Department arrested a 14-year-old Friday believed to be responsible for sending the messages Thursday.
Authorities say an investigation into the threats began after the messages of a school shooting were being shared with students at Mountain Pointe High School.
School officials say the messages did not mention the high school, but parents were alerted.
Tempe police say the school remains operational and they will provide additional officers around the campuses “out of an abundance of caution.”
Authorities say the teen is facing several charges.
Authorities say students and parents should alert police immediately of threatening messages instead of reposting and sharing them.
Tucson man convicted of murder, burglary in fatal shooting
TUCSON — A Tucson man accused in a fatal shooting last year has been convicted of first-degree murder.
Pima County prosecutors say a jury also found 21-year-old David Eagle Bear Turner guilty of kidnapping, first-degree burglary and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Turner is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 16.
Tucson police found 24-year-old Javier Quiroz unresponsive inside the apartment with signs of gunshot trauma in March 2018 and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
They say Turner’s girlfriend was visiting Quiroz at his apartment.
According to police, Turner forced his way into the man’s apartment and fatally shot him.
Explosive devices found in home of Arizona man who had died
OATMAN — Mohave County Sheriff’s officials say they have disposed of explosive devices found in the home of a man who recently died in the western Arizona community of Oatman.
They say a man told sheriff’s deputies that he was cleaning out his late father’s residence and found what looked to be several pipe bombs.
Deputies confirmed the devices and contacted Bullhead City police and the Kingman Police Department’s Explosive Ordinance Division.
The two agencies went to the home and authorities say the devices were taken to a desert area to be disposed of properly.
The name of the man and his deceased dad weren’t released.
Project widens more of I-10 between Phoenix and Tucson
CASA GRANDE — Another stretch of Interstate 10 between Phoenix and Tucson has been widened to three lanes in each direction.
The Arizona Department of Transportation said Thursday the widening of 4 miles between Early Road and Interstate 8 in Casa Grande was part of a $43 million project that included replacing I-10 bridges over Jimmie Kerr Boulevard.
A separate $72 million project nearing completion elsewhere in Pinal County will widen 4 miles of I-10 to three lanes in each direction between Eloy and Picacho.
Widening all of I-10 between Phoenix and Tucson would be completed by a project now in the planning and design stages for 23 miles of I-10 between points near Casa Grande and Chandler.