An Arizona woman was sentenced today to 102 months in prison for her role in a fraudulent scheme that assisted North Korean Information Technology (IT) workers posing as U.S. citizens and residents with obtaining remote IT positions at more than 300 U.S. companies. The scheme generated more than $17 million in illicit revenue for Chapman and for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea).

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WASHINGTON — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has issued three new waivers for border wall construction, ensuring expeditious construction of approximately 36 miles of new border wall in Arizona and New Mexico. This is in addition to the waiver that was signed by Secretary Noem and published in the Federal Register in April 2025 for border wall construction in California.

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PHOENIX, Ariz. – During this week of enforcement operations from April 26, 2025, through May 5, 2025, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona brought immigration-related criminal charges against 287 defendants. Specifically, the United States filed 107 cases in which aliens illegally re-entered the United States, and the United States also charged 156 aliens for illegally entering the United States. In its ongoing effort to deter unlawful immigration, the United States filed 21 cases against 24 individuals responsible for smuggling illegal aliens into and within the District of Arizona.

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PHOENIX – With increasing fire danger across Arizona, Tonto National Forest officials will implement emergency stage 2 fire restrictions and recreational shooting restrictions for the entire forest beginning Thursday, May 1 at 8 a.m.

These emergency stage 2 fire restrictions also include recreational shooting restrictions to protect the public, wildland firefighters, and our natural resources from the risk of a recreational shooting-caused ignition due to very high fire danger conditions across the forest. Restrictions will remain in effect until Forest Service officials determine that conditions have changed sufficiently to reduce the risk of human-caused wildfires.

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PHOENIX, Ariz. – During this week of enforcement operations from April 19, 2025, through April 25, 2025, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona brought immigration-related criminal charges against 232 defendants. Specifically, the United States filed 110 cases in which aliens illegally re-entered the United States, and the United States also charged 110 aliens for illegally entering the United States. In its ongoing effort to deter unlawful immigration, the United States filed 9 cases against 11 individuals responsible for smuggling illegal aliens into and within the District of Arizona. The United States also charged one individual with failing to register, as required by law.

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TUCSON, Ariz. – Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested three suspected cartel scouts, and one foot guide associated with the Los Memos transnational criminal organization, a faction of the Cártel de Sinaloa, in southern Arizona this week.

The first arrest occurred Monday morning near the town of Maricopa, when Casa Grande Station agents patrolling an area south of the Maricopa Mountains, north of Interstate 8, encountered and apprehended a man illegally present in the country. As they conducted an immigration inspection, the Mexican national admitted he had crossed the border illegally. Agents further discovered communication and observation devices commonly used by cartel scouts in the man’s possession.

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