Saturday, November 28, 2009

Bill's Daily Roundup: 21 DUIs, Planning & Zoning, Sundogs

The Arizona Sundogs have acquired two more players. The Central Hockey League team has announced they have added Thomas Roussel and Marek Jancek to their roster for the upcoming season. Roussel has skated in France his entire playing career. The 6 foot, 187 pound France native set career highs last season, including 3 goals, 11 assists and 99 penalty minutes. He also appeared in 6 games with Team France during the 2009 International Ice Hockey Federation World Championships in Switzerland, tallying one assist and two penalty minutes in 6 contests. Jancek has played in Hungary and his native Slovakia. Last season the 6 foot 6, 216 pound defenseman tallied 3 goals, 1 assist and 103 penalty minutes in 26 games with Dijon of the French League.

Prescott National Forest officials have planned 2 slash pile burns. Fire managers plan to burn accumulated slash piles today through Friday, weather conditions permitting. The first location includes 100 acres of piles in Ponderosa Park, southwest of Prescott. The second location includes 3 slash piles in the town of Crown King at the gravel pit. Specific days to burn are determined by current and expected weather patterns. These piles will be monitored and allowed to completely burn themselves out. Smoke may be visible in the surrounding area.

Twenty-one DUI arrests have been made following saturation patrols and a checkpoint in the Verde Valley. According to the Cottonwood Police Department, the patrols ran from last Friday to Sunday. 57 officers participated and 818 contacts were made. Out of the DUI arrests made, 5 were extreme and 3 were aggravated. Three people were cited for underage DUI and 6 Drug Recognition Evaluations were completed. 116 other citations were issued as a result of the patrols.

Multi-agency coordination leads to the arrest of an alleged sex offender. On Labor Day, the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office responded to a reported indecent exposure incident that occurred at the Boynton Canyon trailhead outside of Sedona.

Sheriff’s Office spokesman Dwight D’Evelyn says 2 sisters provided a detailed description of the suspect, including a vehicle description, license plate and last seen direction:Sheriff’s Office Communications personnel sent out an attempt to locate notice to area law enforcement agencies. Within 20 minutes, Sedona Police officers and US Forest Service Law Enforcement personnel stopped the suspect vehicle on Dry Creek Road and Highway 89A. The driver was identified as 30 year old Phoenix resident Joshua Boyd, who admitted inappropriate contact with the two victims. He has been arrested on 2 counts each of public sexual indecency and indecent exposure and DUI drugs.

The Prescott Planning and Zoning Commission meets at 9 tomorrow morning. The Commission will hold a public hearing on a request for a Special Use Permit, which is for modifications to an existing wireless communications site. According to Community Development Director Tom Guice, Verizon Wireless has submitted an application to reconstruct and modify the existing cell phone site on East Willis Street. The meeting will be held in Council chambers.

At 5:30 tonight, the City Open Space Acquisition Advisory Committee meets to hear an update from the Priority Matrix Working Group and for discussion on establishment of a Volunteer Open Space Management Working Group. That meeting will be held at the Grace Sparkes Memorial Activity Center on East Gurley Street.



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Sunday, November 15, 2009

Cardinals game sees typical 38 arrests

There were 38 arrests at the University of Phoenix Stadium and its surrounding area Sunday during the Arizona Cardinals season opener.

Glendale police spokeswoman Karen Gerardo said the charges included illegal ticket scalping, assaults, liquor and alcohol violations, disorderly conducts and one DUI.

She said that number is typical for a Cardinals game day.

The Cards lost the season opener to San Francisco 20 to 16. They play the Jacksonville Jaguars in Florida next weekend.