Lukeville News

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers say two Scottsdale men are in custody after allegedly trying to smuggle nearly 2,000 pounds of marijuana across the border into Arizona.

After 14 hours of tracking in a desolate area of southwestern Arizona, Border Patrol agents out of Camp Grip seized nearly $170,000 worth of marijuana, said a spokesman with the agency.

On Monday morning, the Pima County Sheriff's Department responded to Lukeville, Arizona at the request of Border Patrol.

Deputies from Ajo have opened a homicide investigation following the discovered of a body near the border Lukevile Monday , a Pima County Sheriffa s Department spokesman said.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent checks the border with Mexico near the Lukeville port of entry in Arizona.

The arrival of fall and lower temperatures may also be ushering in the season of drug and immigrant smuggling in the Yuma area.

Three major Arizona-Mexico border stations, including one notorious for making truckers and tourists wait for hours - and even overnight - to cross back into Arizona, are finally expanding.Construction is about to begin to enlarge the Mariposa Land Port of Entry at Nogales, the nation's third-busiest border station, over the next 3 1/2 years, with ...

Customs spokesmen say they'll be doing their best to keep delays to a minimum for holiday weekend travelers returning from Mexico through Arizona's ports, but some backups are likely.

Three of Arizona's six border crossings are reporting normal or lighter traffic and no problems for Americans returning from Mexico on the first day of stricter identification requirements.

U.S. Border Patrol agents recovered the bodies of two illegal immigrants and rescued several others over the first 100-degree plus weekend of the year.

A Tucson man was sentenced to five years in prison plus a consecutive three years' probation Monday for killing a motorcyclist last June.

SAN LUIS, Ariz. Various city councils met to find a way to ensure federal funding is available for expansions to ports of entry.