Arizona Guard airmen to deploy to Afghanistan
minding boaters to clean, drain Tom McMahon of the Game Reyes-Acosta and another man and dry their crafts to prevent and Fish Department says the after they crossed the Colorado the spread of invasive mussels. recent discovery isn’t enough River near Somerton on ThursPHOENIX day.ThirteenmemScottsdale The warning comes after 14 tosuggestanestablishedrepro
— SCOTTSDALE — bers of an Arizona Air National police say a 16-year-old student adult quagga mussels were ducing population of mussels. records check revealed Guard unit are preparing for a at Chaparral High School is in found last month at Lake PowStill, the Park Service dive Reyes-Acosta was an aggravatsix-month mission to Afghanitrouble after selling brownies ell, which straddles the Arizoteam is continuing to check ed felon with an extensive stan. and cookies laced with marijuana-Utah border. boats, docks and cables, and bicriminal history that included a
The National Guard says the na to fellow students. The mussels have multiplied ologists are gathering more inconviction of sexual misconairmen from the 161st Air RefuThe teen was booked Friday quickly in other waterways formation. duct with a minor in 2005 and eling Wing Security Forces will on multiple marijuana charges across the West, clogging pipes child abuse and intimidation of be providing base security as on suspicion of selling the potand water intakes and depleta witness in 2003. part of their mission. laced treats to 11 students, acing food sources used by aquatAuthorities say Reyes-Acos
Since September 2001, officording to officials. ic creatures. ta had spent18 months in prison cials say, more than 10,000 AriOfficers with the National in New Mexico and was deportzona Army and Air National Park Service found the mussels ed to Mexico. Guard soldiers and airmen attached to moored vessels and Authorities say he’s now fachave been ordered to federal docks at the Wahweap Marina. ing prosecution by the U.S. Atactive duty in support of severThey say the mussels were too torney’s Office in Arizona. al different operations. far apart to mate.
Police: Student, 16, sold pot-laced food to others Boaters warned to avoid invasive quagga mussels
The Arizona Game and Fish Department is re-
Border agents arrest convicted pedophile
YUMA — A man convicted of sex crimes against a child in New Mexico is in trouble with federal authorities in Arizona.
Border Patrol agents in Yuma say they captured Jose