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Published/Last Modified on Saturday, January 5, 2008 3:01 PM MST


Supreme Court adopts new rules for lower courts on employer sanctions


PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona Supreme Court has adopted new rules detailing how lower courts must handle complaints filed under the state’s new employer sanctions law.

The court rules require that complaints be heard in most cases by a judge, not a jury. The law made no mention of juries.

A case must be brought in the county where an illegal immigrant was employed.

If the employee worked in more than one county, the case can be brought in any county where the immigrant worked.

The law prohibits businesses from knowingly employing illegal immigrants. Violators would face business licenses suspensions for up to 10 days. A second offense would trigger permanent revocation.



Police arrest man for forcing underage girls into teen prostitution

PHOENIX (AP) -Phoenix police on Thursday arrested a California man accused of forcing underage girls into prostitution.

Sgt. Joel Tranter said the suspect was arrested early Thursday after an officer saw a teenage girl walking alone in the area of 27th Avenue and McDowell Road.

Tranter said the girl admitted that she was working as a prostitute, and that her pimp was nearby.

Tranter said police arrested Deon Richerson, 25, after making a traffic stop, and that led them to a Mesa hotel near U.S. 60 and Dobson, where they found three more underage girls.

The girls range in age from 15 to one who had just turned 18, and that three of them were runaways from the Los Angeles area and the other was a runaway from Oregon, according to police.

Tranter said the suspect arrived in the Phoenix area on Tuesday from Las Vegas.

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Comments

    James Kinney wrote on Jan 8, 2008 4:56 PM:

    " The authorities ought to nail this Richerson guy hard! It's bad enough that runaway teens have troubles, but to be "forced into" prostitution... totally inhuman and degrading! As a former runaway myself, some twenty-odd years back, my heart truly goes out to those who are exploited in such ways. Thanks for the quality reporting here, I'd like to see follow up stories on the outcome. "

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