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District of Arizona
Border Security Facts
June 2010

The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona has a strong history of responding to border-related criminal activity. Recent increases in this office’s resources have contributed to significant public safety successes against the drug cartels and criminal enterprises that take advantage of Arizona’s highway infrastructure and desert terrain to bring drugs and illegal aliens into the United States and to move money and weapons out of the United States.

Read Entire Border Security Fact Sheet

Case statistics include:
• 99% increase in drug filings since 2008
• 91% increase in drug defendants since 2008
• Approx 3,200 felony and 22,000 misdemeanor illegal immigration cases filed in fiscal year 2009
• Bulk currency exportation cases up 236% in Fiscal Year 2010 compared to a year ago, involving over $3 million
• 50% increase in federal wiretaps

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Arizona Violent Crime Trends, CY2000-2008(PDF)

Arizona Criminal Justice Commission

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U.S. v. State of Arizona

SB 1070 Lawsuit
Judge Bolton's Preliminary Injunction Order
Complaint
Dept. of Justice Press Release
Motion for Preliminary Injunction (Lodged)
Declarations of Arizonans in SB 1070 Lawsuit
USAO Southwest Border Security Fact Sheet- June 2010
President's Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy
U.S. Attorney Dennis K. Burke's Congressional Testimony on Border Security

Arizona Border News

LEADERS SENTENCED FOR CONSPIRACY THAT SUPPLIED WEAPONS TO SINALOAN CARTEL (PDF)

HIGH PRIORITY TARGET INDICTED FOR HEROIN TRAFFICKING, ARRESTED IN MEXICO (PDF)

THREE MEXICAN NATIONALS CHARGED WITH HOLDING JUVENILES HOSTAGE IN PHOENIX DROP HOUSE(PDF)

COMMERCIAL TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES IMPLICATED IN SWEEPING ICE INVESTIGATION TARGETING ARIZONA HUMAN SMUGGLING NETWORKS (PDF)

District Summary

• The United States Attorney’s Office (USAO) for the District of Arizona has experienced a dramatic increase in resources to investigate and prosecute border-related crimes. Presently we have 152 Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs) on board after having added 42 positions since 2006. The number of AUSA positions in the District of Arizona has increased by 62% in the past 10 years.

• The increase in resources followed a dramatic increase in the number of U.S. Border Patrol and other federal law enforcement agents in Arizona since 1995. The Border Patrol employs over 60 percent of the more than 6,400 federal law enforcement agents in Arizona.

• The USAO works closely with its federal law enforcement partners to police the border through the use of reactive drug and immigration prosecutions while at the same time confronting the criminal organizations operating on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Although Arizona’s 389-mile border with Mexico largely defines the district’s caseload, the caseload is as diverse as the many communities in Arizona.

• The USAO also handles cases ranging from firearms trafficking to fraud relating to tribal gaming, and from bank robberies to theft of artifacts, protected plants, wildlife and cultural resources, as well as violent crime in Indian Country and mortgage fraud.

 

Serving the District of Arizona

Phoenix
Two Renaissance Square 40 N. Central Avenue, Suite 1200
Phoenix, AZ 85004-4408
(602) 514-7500

Tucson
405 W. Congress Street, Suite 4800
Tucson, AZ 85701-5040
(520) 620-7300

Flagstaff
123 N. San Francisco Street, Suite 410
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
(928)556-0833

Yuma
4035 S. Avenue A
Yuma, AZ 85365
(928) 344-1087