Hensley, JJ 1/1/1997 - 31/12/2024
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1US AZ: Legal Fight Brews On Impairment In Medical-pot DUIsThu, 08 Aug 2013
Source:Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ) Author:Hensley, JJ Area:Arizona Lines:Excerpt Added:08/09/2013

More Drivers Arrested With Drug in System Appeal Cases in Ariz.

Medical-marijuana cardholders in Arizona who drive after using the drug may face a difficult legal choice: their driver's license or their marijuana card. If they use both, they could be charged with DUI.

Valley prosecutors say that any trace of marijuana in a driver's blood is enough to charge a motorist with driving under the influence of drugs and that a card authorizing use of medical pot is no defense.

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2US AZ: Case Built On Informer Falls ApartThu, 06 Jun 2013
Source:Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ) Author:Hensley, JJ Area:Arizona Lines:Excerpt Added:06/07/2013

The concerns with federal drug informant Andrew Chambers Jr. have existed for years. They have been the subject of national TV news programs, newspapers around the country chronicled his activities, and a report from the Drug Enforcement Administration documented his lies and betrayals.

Those concerns did not discourage federal agents in Phoenix from using Chambers as an informant in a heroin-smuggling case in which DEA investigators labeled him as reliable.

But federal prosecutors on Tuesday asked a federal judge to dismiss the charges against Luis Hernandez-Flores and Saul Sandoval, accused of smuggling in a case in which Chambers was the key informant. The motion was filed at 6:16 p.m. Tuesday just hours before The Arizona Republic published a story on the DEA's use of Chambers on the front page and on azcentral.com.

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3US AZ: 'N-Bomb' Drug Stirs Fear In ValleySat, 04 May 2013
Source:Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ) Author:Hensley, JJ Area:Arizona Lines:Excerpt Added:05/06/2013

Police Investigating 2 Deaths Possibly Tied to Synthetic

A drug marketed as an alternative to LSD or mescaline could be among the most powerful and potentially deadly of the synthetic drugs that have inundated the market in recent years, police and physicians believe.

A 19-year-old from the West Valley was in a medically induced coma for four days after taking the drug, a synthetic hallucinogen known as "n-bomb," and would have died if he had not received treatment when he did, according to a physician.

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4US AZ: Heroin Industry Growing In ArizonaFri, 09 Dec 2011
Source:Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ) Author:Hensley, JJ Area:Arizona Lines:Excerpt Added:12/11/2011

Arizona has earned a well-deserved reputation as a nationwide hub for marijuana smuggling and distribution, with nearly 50 percent of the pot smuggled into the U.S. coming through the state, but authorities say smugglers are increasingly adding heroin to the mix.

The results of that shift are starting to show up in hospitals and emergency rooms around the state.

The trend was enough to catch the attention of federal authorities, who noted in the Justice Department's annual drug-market assessment that estimates of Mexican heroin production rank that country behind only Afghanistan as the top producers in the world, leading to an increase of Mexican heroin in U.S. markets where the drug had never before appeared.

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5US AZ: Task Force Patrols Drug CorridorSun, 03 Apr 2011
Source:Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ) Author:Hensley, Jj Area:Arizona Lines:Excerpt Added:04/04/2011

With the U.S.-Mexico border the starting point and the Valley the end zone, there is a strategic game played every night between police and smugglers for control of the 50-yard line, a rugged stretch of desert that straddles Interstate 8 between Gila Bend and Casa Grande.

The area has become the focal point for the state's war on drug trafficking.

A group of specially trained deputies and police officers confront smugglers nightly in the same cat-and-mouse game the two sides have played for decades, officials say. But as traffickers have become more sophisticated, police have been forced to expend more resources and create new partnerships in an attempt to keep up.

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6US AZ: Maricopa County Shifting Meth Strategy, TargetingMon, 28 Mar 2011
Source:Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ) Author:Hensley, Jj Area:Arizona Lines:Excerpt Added:03/29/2011

There was a time when methamphetamine was the biggest drug menace in Maricopa County and resources against meth use were aligned appropriately.

Millions of dollars were spent on public-relations campaigns to highlight the dangers of meth, through televised specials, public-service announcements and those ominous-looking posters depicting a meth user's decline through the years.

Although meth use is still a concern in Arizona, the drug's production has declined enough that a county task force charged with eradicating meth has started to concentrate on a new menace: organizations smuggling meth and other drugs through a well-traveled corridor along Interstate 8 to get their cargo from Mexico to locations across the United States.

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7US AZ: Arizona Police Can Do Little to Prepare for State's New Pot LawFri, 24 Dec 2010
Source:Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ) Author:Hensley, JJ Area:Arizona Lines:Excerpt Added:12/25/2010

With state health officials still designing rules to regulate the cultivation, distribution and possession of medical marijuana, police departments in Arizona say there is little they can do to prepare to enforce the law until those guidelines are complete.

Until then, police officials are working with local governments to craft zoning laws that prevent clusters of marijuana dispensaries from popping up in the same areas, and they are taking other measured steps to ensure that Arizona does not repeat mistakes other states have made in regulating medical marijuana.

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8US AZ: Ariz. Aims to Cut Prison Costs; in Texas, a New ApproachSun, 18 Apr 2010
Source:Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ) Author:Hensley, Jj Area:Arizona Lines:Excerpt Added:04/18/2010

While the U.S. prison population is declining for the first time in nearly 40 years, Arizona is headed in the opposite direction.

Unlike in some other states, mandatory-sentencing laws keep Arizona inmates in prison for nearly all of their sentenced time. And state lawmakers say rewriting sentencing guidelines to grant shorter prison terms is politically unlikely.

Amid a historic budget shortfall, some lawmakers are intent on finding ways to reduce the $880 million bill taxpayers foot each year for locking up convicts, nearly 10 percent of the state's $8.9 billion budget. A look at other states with similar challenges shows some ways prison populations - and costs - can be cut.

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9US AZ: Family's Nightmare Started With PotThu, 01 Nov 2007
Source:Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ) Author:Hensley, JJ Area:Arizona Lines:Excerpt Added:11/03/2007

Like many families, the Krahs' horror started with a little pot, and like most families, they didn't recognize it as a nightmare at the time.

Mason was 15 and a student at Highland High School in Gilbert when his parents, Donna and Bill Krah, found out he was smoking pot.

"I was just ignorant, like a lot of parents," Donna said. "We thought pot was the worst thing we were dealing with."

It would get much worse before Mason died of a heroin overdose in a bus bathroom between Phoenix and Casa Grande.

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