Concert venues ripe with drugs

Lanre Akomolafe, a local Tucson entertainment filmer and photographer, sees it now more than ever. “I was at Mad Decent Block Party, a music festival in Phoenix, Arizona, last year and a man fell to the ground and started seizing right in front of me,” says Akomolafe. Akomolafe brought medical personnel to help. Later, Akomolafe…

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A day of Bisbee justice

A jangle fills the room, overpowering the rattling air vent. Five men and one woman in striped inmate uniforms, “Cochise County Jail” on their backs and shackled limbs, enter Judge Wallace R. Hoggatt’s courtroom. The room silences. One inmate waves to a woman in the audience. She smiles. U.S. and Arizona flags stand tall on either side…

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