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Rachel Mitchell: “She is pursuing a master's degree that will help her to…”

Featuring: Rachel Mitchell, Republican | Maricopa County Attorney | Arizona

Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell holds bi-weekly press conference

Published March 20, 2024 | Video Starts at 07:19

She was on one of the very last planes to leave, and I'm very grateful. She now lives in another state, and she is a student again. She is pursuing a master's degree that will help her to continue the career she wants to continue. So welcome, and I'm going to step out of your way. Thank you for joining me today. This is Nadia Mahmoudi, and I'm. (07:19–07:26)

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Asserts that [Nadia Mahmoudi] is pursuing a master's degree to continue her career.

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“This group is a multinational crime syndicate that operates out of Chile as well as several other countries.”
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“They are using an immigration loophole to get here.”
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“Because Chile and the US are friendly nations, you need only an inexpensive tourist visa to travel between the two countries.”
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“Our understanding is that largely they fly into Los Angeles, and once there, they are able to obtain fake IDs and fan out across the United…”
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“They tend to take high value objects that are hard to trace, like cash and jewelry.”
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“Scottsdale police report that since November of 2023, they have seen more than 100 of these types of burglaries.”
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“The adults in this case are being held on $200,000 cash only bonds.”
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“Estimates are that at least 1500 of these attorneys remain in the country.”
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“Many, if not most, frankly, if not all, live in hiding.”
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“Many have been killed already.”
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“I have been working with the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, the APA, on a project called Prosecutors for Prosecutors.”
Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell holds bi-weekly press conference | Uploaded March 20, 2024 | 06:09-06:18
“We raised enough money to rescue a prosecutor and his family.”
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“She was on one of the very last planes to leave.”
Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell holds bi-weekly press conference | Uploaded March 20, 2024 | 07:08-07:12
“She now lives in another state, and she is a student again.”
Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell holds bi-weekly press conference | Uploaded March 20, 2024 | 07:14-07:20
“We are going to have a press release issued later today that's going to have information about this program, prosecutors for prosecutors.”
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“If you want immediate information, you can go to the association of Prosecuting Attorneys website, APA, and then you'll see a link there to…”
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“Any law that's allowing people to come in and immediately switch identities and just go unchecked throughout our country committing crimes…”
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“It's across the country where bands of individuals like this are coming and committing mass numbers of burglaries.”
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“I would certainly urge the federal government to look at how easily it is for these people to come over and do that.”
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“My understanding is all five of them, of the adults, are still in custody because of that bail.”
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“We were down about 20%, pretty much in every category.”
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“We have seen an uptick in applications across the board, which has enabled us to hire more.”
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“Attrition is down.”
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“We are in fighting shape right now, which really was not the case when I took over.”
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“It will take, I would estimate, at least a year for any of these cases to certainly go to trial, possibly to the point where they resolve.”
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“We have a couple of other things that we're looking at related to the Preston Lord case. The investigation is still ongoing.”
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“We've seen, for example, one of the suspects indicted on some aggravated assaults who was also indicted in the Preston Lord case.”
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“Our investigators from this office are working with Gilbert to make sure that we cover all of the cases that need to be covered.”
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“There was an arrest made Friday, and I anticipate that that will continue on at some point.”
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“There is a mandatory reporting law under Arizona law that makes it a criminal offense not to report this type of thing.”
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“That case is still under review, but it is within my office.”
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“That individual has been indicted... for second degree murder as well as failure to stay in an accident.”
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“In the case that was presented to the grand jury concerning the Preston Lord investigation, they were. It was a thorough and complete…”
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“At this point, the suspects are facing first degree murder under a felony murder theory and second degree murder in the alternative, as well…”
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“Three of the individuals are facing aggravated robbery.”
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“They come from jurisdictions where below a certain dollar amount is not being prosecuted, they're not being held on bail, and then they come…”
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“They certainly should avoid coming here because they will be held accountable.”
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“I have seen a completely open border that fentanyl is pouring over.”
Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell holds bi-weekly press conference | Uploaded March 20, 2024 | 35:06-35:12
“Biden's own DEA tell us that in 2022 and 2023, that over half of the fentanyl seized in the United States was seized in Arizona.”
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“The estimate of the number of pills that contain a fatal dosage has gone from six out of ten, and this is by the DEA, not mine, to seven out…”
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“We have seen an almost 6000% increase in overdose deaths, most from fentanyl, or it's increasing toward most being from fentanyl.”
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“A lot of it [fentanyl] is seized here in Maricopa county.”
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“Scottsdale police department [recently] seizing a large amount [of fentanyl].”
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