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Renowned forensics experts say a Pinal County, Arizona deputy's high-profile tale about getting shot after encountering drug smugglers doesn't add up

By Paul Rubin
Sep 23, 2010

A Pinal County sheriff's sergeant is discussing Deputy Louie Puroll, who famously claimed on April 30 that a Latino drug smuggler shot him in the desert. "I can't speak for our sheriff ," Dave Hausman says, "but I can speak for our unit, and the sheriff can slap me later...
Cowboy Down: Rob Krentz's Family Talks About the Life and Death of the Murdered Arizona Rancher

By Paul Rubin
Jun 10, 2010

Sue Krentz answered the phone about 6 p.m. It was March 27, a Saturday, and she was in Phoenix, tending to her aged parents as a sister attended a conference. Sue usually doesn't stray from her family's venerable cattle ranch in Cochise County for too long at a stretch. But...
Badlands: From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border

By Paul Rubin
Jun 3, 2010

On April 27, Janet Napolitano pronounced that the border separating the United States from the Republic of Mexico is more secure than ever. "I say this again as someone who has walked that border," the former Arizona governor told a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the oversight of the...

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