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Tucson, Ariz. (KVOA) – One of Arizona’s largest government embezzlement cases concluded that former Santa Cruz County treasurer Elizabeth Guffer had learned her sentence. Gutfahr pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $40 million from taxpayers. Gutfer will spend the next 10 years in prison after being sentenced to 10 years in

Former Santa Cruz County Treasurer sentenced to 10 years in federal prison

Tucson, Ariz. (KGUN) – Ariz. 10 years of stole taxpayer funds at the federal prison of former Santa Cruz County treasurer Elizabeth Gutfer. She stole over $38 million from taxpayers in Santa Cruz County. Elizabeth Guffer pleaded guilty to embezzlement and tax evasion in November. As she headed to federal

Border wall project in southern Arizona raises environmental concerns

Santa Cruz County, Arizona (Az Family) – A new boundary wall is set up for construction in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, with 27 miles planned through remote, ecologically sensitive areas. Ministry of Homeland Security He was awarded Fisher Sand & Gravel, a North Dakota-based company. The project will pass through

“One of the dumbest…crimes in Arizona state history”

Tucson, Ariz. (KGUN) – Over $38 million stolen from taxpayers. No one who stole the money by a former Santa Cruz County treasurer would object. Elizabeth Guffer is scheduled to rule on Monday. Her lawyers provide an explanation of what she did. “It’s one of the stupidest, unthinkable, shortsighted and

$300 million contract to build southern Arizona border wall awarded to North Dakota company

Tucson, Ariz. (13 News) – The US Customs and Border Patrol has awarded the company a more than $300 million contract to build a 27-mile border wall in Santa Cruz County. Fisher Sand & Gravel Co. has won the contract for $309,463,000, funded with CBP’s 2021 funding. The area is

DHS awards contract for 27 miles of new border wall in Arizona; issues waiver to accelerate construction in Texas

Contributing Files Photos/Courtesy US Customs and Border Security: This video still shows some of the new Bollard wall along with the legacy border wall. Contributing Articles/Courtesy US Customs Border Security Washington DC – US Customs and Border Patrol awarded another contract For the construction of the border wall, the second

Acrow Bridge Installed to Improve Access to Mine

PALSIPPANY, N.J., June 12, 2025 (Glove Newswire) – Acrow, a leading international bridge engineering and supplier, said today that one of the modular steel bridges has been installed to access the Patagonia Mountains mining site in Santa Cruz County, southern Arizona. The bridge is necessary to promote access to the

Embezzling south Arizona treasurer sentenced to 10 years

Phoenix – The 63-year-old woman who served as treasurer for Santa Cruz County in southern Arizona has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, authorities said. The judge declared Elizabeth Gutfar on Monday of embezzling about $38.7 million. US Lawyers’ Office in the Arizona Area. For more than a decade,