Amado News

Two people were arrested this week for attempting to smuggle 5 pounds of narcotics inside their undergarments.

Border agents say they found heroin tucked into the four girls' waistbands. Agents seized 7.75 pounds of heroin valued at an estimated $90,000. Four teen-aged girls were taken into custody Monday after agents at the Border Patrol checkpoint south of Amado say they caught them allegedly trying to smuggle heroin.

Don't you hate when you park near Mexico for a few minutes and end up with 35 pounds of weed in your car's spare tire? When Rucker pulled up at the northbound U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 19 near Amado, a drug-sniffing dog alerted to his Chevy pickup truck's spare tire.

The trail to Agua Caliente Saddle in the Santa Rita Mountains, south of Tucson, is a challenging trail, so if you are looking to work off those post Thanksgiving calories, don your hiking gear and head out.

Wholesum Family Farms Inc. started November with its first harvest of organic tomatoes on the vine from a new 12-acre greenhouse site in Amado, Ariz.