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Arizona’s nearly 9,000 homeowners associations go virtually unregulated even as they hold immense power over their residents.

While they’re responsible for annoying but trivial matters such as dictating paint colors and enforcing landscaping requirements, these HOAs also manage large sums of money and can foreclose on homeowners.

Unlike other industries that operate within the conÿnes of state or federal rules, Arizona’s HOAs operate with few checks and balances: z The people who serve on HOA boards and make all of the community decisions — including the cost of dues and how that revenue will be spent — are homeowner volunteers who need not receive any training on ÿnance or budgets. z The professionals whom HOA boards hire to help manage their communities are not required to be licensed or have any speciÿc training.

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“Durazo was the El Chapo of his time. We knew he was under indictment. Why is he not getting arrested when he comes here?”

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ACÁMBARO, Mexico — Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos sits on her bed, plugs in her phone and gets ready for the highlight of her night.

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A ‘Jr.’ by any other name would smell alike to a quail Valley 101 Clay Thompson Arizona Republic USA TODAY NETWORK

Today’s question: If a daughter, at birth, is given the exact name as her mom, is the daughter then a “junior,” a 2nd, or some other unnecessary identiÿer?

And if, at the time of his birth, a male child is named exactly the same as his paternal grandfather, but di“ erent than his father, is he then tagged as a “junior,”

the 2nd, or anything at all?

In a male-dominated society it has been assumed — for better or for worse — than a woman might marry and take her husband’s surname so a Jr. or II sort of title would be sort of pointless.

Is this fair?

Probably not.

So if you want to name your daughter for her mother go ahead. It’s a free country.

Consider, among others in history, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Jr. She was the only daughter of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Anna Eleanor

Roosevelt. She was referred to in court documents as “2nd,” and her mother was referred to as “Sr.” As for the grandfather-grandson thing, I’d say no.

In some cultures two people with the same name might have been labeled Jr. or Sr. to tell them apart even if they weren’t related.

However, in our culture a child given his grandfather’s name but not his father’s name is not a Jr. We were sitting on our patio shelling peanuts and the quail, who normally hang around the quail block around 20

feet away, came right over.

Are quail known to have a good sense of smell?

For a long time, people thought birds didn’t have a sense of smell at all. I don’t know why.

Turkey vultures, for one, have an excellent sense of smell.

I don’t know where quail stand in the ranks of good smellers, but some studies have shown the sense of smell is important to them, even in mating.

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The hours that led to Shooter’s expulsion Yvonne Wingett Sanchez Arizona Republic USA TODAY NETWORK

J.D. Mesnard, the speaker of the House of Representatives, was barreling toward the state Capitol in his Honda Civic hybrid after a restless night.

He dreaded the day ahead.

Don Shooter, a lawmaker from Yuma, had been found by an investigation to have sexually harassed seven women and Mesnard had already stripped him of his committee positions. Days earlier, after researching punishments meted out at statehouses across the U.S. for such behavior, Mesnard called for a censure of him.

Such action had not happened in decades, if ever, according to his team’s research.

At best, he would have enough votes to issue the embarrassing public condemnation.

At worst, the chamber he presided over would go further, and remove Shooter from office, a political deathblow that had not happened in 70 years.

It would be a close vote either way, he ÿgured.

Somewhere on Interstate 10 headed west, Mesnard’s Samsung Galaxy phone rang.

It was the House Republican senior sta‘ with a heads-up: The day was about to get worse.

Moments earlier, Shooter had sent an email to all members of the House of Representatives that asked them to stall a vote on him.

He claimed a part of the investigation was whitewashed and wrote he wanted the full details of sexual-harassment allegations involving another elected official, Rep. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, R-Scottsdale, to be made public.

In his missive, Shooter used explicit language to describe the nature of the allegations, and claimed investigators had disrespected an alleged victim by not fully publicizing the nature of the wrongdoing.

When he got to the Capitol, Mesnard stormed into the three-story House building through a back door.

Beyond the Shooter problem, it was his job to protect the credibility of the institution and the public’s conÿdence in it, he said during an interview this week with The Arizona Republic about the chaotic hours leading up to Shooter’s expulsion.

A former Senate intern who once hunched over a computer in a basement cubicle, Mesnard would much rather be discussing the complexities of tax reform or education policy than be mired in this tawdry mess.

He gathered his team, aides barking in his ear.

They were in damage-control mode and had little time to sort through what would come next. A vote was scheduled for 11:30 a.m., less than two hours away.

State police manned the chamber and lobby.

Their presence was much heavier than normal, with officers stationed in the House parking lot, throughout the lobby and a seating area reserved for guests.

Shooter had spent part of the morning walking the narrow halls at the House and was overheard ’ippantly saying that it was either “A good day for a hanging” or “A good day for a lynching.”

Those who knew him well, and considered him a friend, ÿgured it was gallows humor, and that he was talking about himself.

Others took it as a threat, given the heightened emotions around the place — that Shooter would be doing the hanging.

“It showed a lack of sensitivity to what was happening,” Mesnard said.

Then, he read Shooter’s two-page letter in its entirety.

It referenced an anonymous young woman who spoke to investigators about her claims of harassment involving others at great personal cost. He wrote her claims were “dismissed and hidden” by the report.

Mesnard got on the phone, this time calling the person who is only described in the report as “Interviewee 2.” Up until that moment, he had not talked to the woman about her claims.

He wanted to see if she had given Shooter permission to pull her into his defense.

“If it was true, it was concerning because the report is indeed incomplete, or apparently there was going to be a Part 2,” Mesnard said.

“If it wasn’t true, then it was concerning because he had brought this person in as a pawn, further jeopardizing her anonymity.”

Mesnard was told Shooter was not speaking for her.

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Did Reagan regret ‘amnesty’ law?

‘To humanely regain control of our borders’

On Politics Dan Nowicki Arizona Republic USA TODAY NETWORK

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kelli Ward has made the point several times: President Ronald Reagan’s “biggest regret” was granting amnesty as part of 1986 immigration-reform legislation and then counting on Congress to secure the border, which never happened.

Ward, a former state senator from Lake Havasu City, and her campaign attribute the claim to Ed Rollins, who served in the White House as an aide to Reagan and who was national director of Reagan’s 1984 re-election campaign.

Rollins also now is serving as Ward’s campaign chairman as she pursues Arizona’s GOP Senate nomination in a three-way race against former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and U.S. Rep. Martha McSally, a Tucson-area congresswoman.

Ward’s argument: President Donald Trump and Congress should learn from the failure of the 1986 law as they move forward with the debate on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and additional border-security upgrades and immigration system changes.

The DACA program — created in 2012 by then-President Barack Obama to protect from deportation undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children — is set to expire March 5.

In an interview on Breitbart News’ satellite radio show, Ward said: “In 1986, Ronald Reagan — great president, amazing conservative, lover of liberty and of America — granted amnesty; and Ed Rollins, who is helping me with my campaign, told me that President Reagan’s biggest regret as president was granting amnesty and then trusting Congress to deliver on border security. It didn’t happen then, and it’s not going to happen

Kelli Ward speaks to supporters during her Senate campaign kickoff event on Oct. 17 in Scottsdale. MICHAEL CHOW/THE REPUBLIC

now if we do this in the wrong order.”

Did Reagan regret amnesty?

The suggestion that Reagan regretted the amnesty law is not new. But previous versions of this story usually attribute the claim to his longtime friend Ed Meese, who served as Reagan’s attorney general.

David Bier, now an immigration policy analyst with the libertarian Cato Institute, researched the matter in 2013 and concluded the former president’s so-called regret was an “internet myth.”

Bier quoted Reagan as suggesting in a 1980 candidates forum that it would be better to allow immigrants to come in and out of the country legally with work permits instead of “talking about putting up a fence.” “... It seems that Reagan would understand that his law failed to stop illegal immigration, not because we allowed people to stay, but because we refused to allow more to come — in his farewell address, he said he wanted an America

‘open to anyone with the will and heart to get here,’ ” Bier wrote for the Daily Caller website. “That doesn’t sound like regret to me.”

In an email exchange with The Arizona Republic, Michael Reagan, the former president’s son, said that his father never regretted the amnesty part of the 1986 compromise, but did regret that there was no follow-through on the enforcement measures or border security.

“He would hold the Dems’ (Democrats’) feet to the ÿre this time because he would have learned,” Michael Reagan wrote in one message.

The Cato Institute’s Bier remains skeptical.

“I checked it as much as I could, and I tried to trace the development of it, and it looks like one of these things that is just an internet myth,” Bier told The Republic. “It certainly did not originate with anyone who was close to Reagan. If you follow the Google development of this thing, somehow it ended up in Ed Meese’s mouth, but he told us back in 2013 that that didn’t come from him, that he never heard that from Reagan.”

The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, signed into law by Reagan on Nov. 6 of that year, provided amnesty to nearly 3 million undocumented immigrants who proved that they had been in the United States prior to Jan. 1, 1982.

The law’s sanctions against employers who hired undocumented immigrants were never vigorously enforced and, when they were, received a strong backlash from business interests.

The law also didn’t include a mechanism to allow for the legal entry of lowskilled foreign workers. So when the U.S. economy boomed in the 1990s and early 2000s, the labor demands were met by new undocumented immigrants.

“Our objective is only to establish a reasonable, fair, orderly, and secure system of immigration into this country and not to discriminate in any way against particular nations or people,” Reagan said upon signing the legislation. “... Future generations of Americans will be thankful for our efforts to humanely regain control of our borders and thereby preserve the value of one of the most sacred possessions of our people: American citizenship.”

Reagan, who died in 2004, indicated that he considered the 1986 law’s employer-sanctions program to be crucial in preventing future illegal immigration.

“It will remove the incentive for illegal immigration by eliminating the job opportunities which draw illegal aliens here,” he said.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is the only member of Arizona’s current Capitol Hill delegation who was in Congress in 1986.

Though he later became a champion of comprehensive immigration reform, McCain voted against the 1986 immigration law as a then-member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Nowicki is The Arizona Republic’s national political reporter. Follow him on Twitter, @dannowicki.

Montenegro’s path shapes immigration views Ronald J. Hansen Arizona Republic USA TODAY NETWORK

Like other Republicans running for a vacant West Valley congressional seat, Steve Montenegro vows to “build the wall,” oppose “amnesty” for undocumented migrants and support other “America ÿrst” immigration policies.

Unlike the other 8th District candidates, Montenegro could easily have been on the other side of the wall he favors.

Montenegro, 36, is a minister, a former state senator, and an immigration hardliner who came to this country — legally — at age 5 from then-war-torn El Salvador with his parents. He expects other migrants to do the same.

“I think it’s kind of crazy, or I’ll even use the word insane, to suggest that the moral or Christian or even right thing to do is to simply let everybody in who wants a better life because no country could survive with that level of immigrants,” Montenegro said. “I think it’s safe to at least think there ought to be limits.”

Montenegro got to the U.S. because his father was a minister, a work-related provision in immigration law that allowed the family a path not open to everyone.

His ideas have helped put him in the running to replace Trent Franks, a fellow Republican who quit his congressional seat in disgrace after 15 years and several allegations by his staff of sexual misconduct and retaliation.

“I often tell people ... I don’t believe that I am more special than anybody else because easily my life could have been different,” Montenegro said. “But God’s mercy and grace and the United States giving us the paperwork to immigrate was life-changing. I can’t tell you enough how much I value that and why this is personal to me.”

But his views have also put him at odds with others in the immigrant community.

Yasser Sanchez, who has known Montenegro professionally for years, is also a Hispanic immigrant and a conservative Republican.

They have very different views on immigration, however.

“I ÿnd it inspiring that a family like his was able to come to Arizona and the United States and establish roots. I wish that we could have the same compassion and love and mercy for other people who can’t ÿnd that loophole,” said Sanchez, a lawyer who handles immigration cases.

“Why is he not willing to extend the same mercy to others that his family got?

It ba‘es me as a Latino Christian.”

El Salvador is the smallest and most densely populated country in Central America, with a population today of 6 million. It is about the size of New Jersey.

In 1979, a coup toppled the government and sparked a civil war that lasted until 1992. It killed 75,000 and displaced millions.

In 1980, for example, a death squad raped and killed three American nuns and a lay worker in El Salvador in an incident that raised awareness in the U.S. of the unfolding mayhem in Central America.

A year later, Salvadoran government soldiers, who had been trained by the U.S. military, massacred more than 800 villagers in El Mozote over three days.

About half of the victims were children.

Montenegro’s father traveled the country as a minister and had brushes with the violence.

“Numerous times they had to come to those stops, those checkpoints. The danger of driving someplace where bullets were ’ying, that’s not because you’re involved politically. That’s just because the environment in the country is so dišcult,” Montenegro said.

Montenegro admits he is hazy on his family’s immigration from El Salvador.

His grandfather immigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s, but Montenegro’s father couldn’t stay because he was already an adult by that time, Steve Montenegro said.

Montenegro’s father returned to El Salvador, met the woman he married, worked in a church and started raising four children, Steve Montenegro said. His parents sought visas to immigrate to the U.S. Montenegro’s Salvadoran passport shows he arrived in Los Angeles on Aug. 23, 1986.

The record shows Montenegro was admitted as an SD-3, or the child of a minister. It is a long-standing work-related provision that allows ministers with sponsoring congregations to immigrate to the U.S., and bring their families.

Today, Montenegro still thinks of his family’s move as a miracle from God. “It’s one of those things that you’re grateful to the Lord,” he said.

It also was fortunate timing.

On Oct. 10, 1986, an earthquake in the capital city killed more than 1,000 people and left 200,000 homeless. Meanwhile, the civil war raged for another six years.

Ro That same year, a national debate over U.S. immigration policy took its ÿnal turns.

On Nov. 6, 1986, President Ronald Rea-

gan signed into law immigration legislation that toughened employment-veriÿcation laws while granting amnesty to millions of undocumented immigrants who had already spent years in the U.S. Montenegro, who had turned 5 a month before his arrival, was admitted “for permanent residence” and became a naturalized citizen on Dec. 20, 1993, when he was 12 years old, according to passport and naturalization records he showed The Arizona Republic.

But the family didn’t immediately ÿnd success in their new homeland.

“It’s not like you all of a sudden arrive and they say, ‘Here’s a pastorship. Here’s a church, go and be a pastor,’ ” Montenegro said. “My dad actually got a job as a truck driver and my mom was the secretary in an ošce. If they had any extra time on weekends, they would sell World Book Encyclopedias. They did that for the ÿrst two years until there was a church in Colorado that they were asked to go.”

Four years later, they moved to Detroit to minister before settling in Arizona in 1995.

If the Montenegros found their lives in the U.S. challenging, other Salvadorans encountered far worse.

As the Salvadoran civil war escalated, refugees ’ed to the U.S. by the thousands. They came, but were rarely welcomed.

The Reagan administration, which supported the Salvadoran government’s efforts at defeating leftist rebels, treated incoming Salvadorans as economic migrants, rather than as asylum seekers ’ eeing rampant human-rights abuses.

That limited the number who could legally immigrate to the U.S. Immigrants from con’ict in Guatemala faced the same political dynamic.

Only 3 percent of Salvadoran and Guatemalan asylum applicants were approved in 1984, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute. By contrast, 60 percent of Iranian applicants and 4 0 percent of Afghans ’ eeing the Soviet invasion received asylum at that time.

As awareness of conditions in Central America grew, a sanctuary movement began in 1982 at Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson, then led by the Rev. John Fife. The church deÿed federal immigration ošcials and took in about 13,000 refugees. Other churches, notably in Texas, did the same.

“When refugees from that repression started arriving on our border, we began by forming a legal aid organization helping refugees apply for asylum,” Fife, now 78, said. “What we learned was that no

one from El Salvador or Guatemala was being granted asylum. We were taking in people with torture marks on their bodies. Immigration judges would order them deported the next day.”

In May 1986, three months before the Montenegros arrived, Fife and ÿve other church workers were convicted in federal court of conspiring to smuggle aliens. It was a high-proÿle legal victory for the government but brought even more attention to the plight of the refugees.

By the end of the year, Reagan had signed the immigration bill that granted amnesty to longstanding undocumented immigrants. In 1990, Congress created temporary protected status as a way of dealing with groups like the 200,000 Salvadoran refugees who were already living in the U.S. at the time.

President George H.W. Bush extended their protected status in 1992. President Bill Clinton extended it again in 1993.

While the Salvadoran civil war ended in 1992, the hardship there did not.

In 2001, El Salvador suffered two major earthquakes, a month apart, that killed more than 1,200 people and displaced more than 1 million.

After the quakes, President George W. Bush declared new temporary protections for the Salvadorans who had remained in the U.S. illegally.

That temporary protection was extended throughout the Bush and Obama administrations.

President Donald Trump said last month he would end the temporary protection in 2019 in a move that affects 200,000 Salvadorans already in the U.S. It is a move Montenegro said he supports.

“Every country has the authority and the sovereignty to decide what its immigration policy will be,” Montenegro said.

“It is also morally correct to have policy that’s in the best interest of its citizens.

For President Trump to be looking out for the interest of Americans, and the people under that civil jurisdiction, is actually the right thing.”

It is a decision that could have serious economic consequences for the Salvadoran economy. Remittances is estimated to make up 20 percent of the Salvadoran economy.

In the U.S., Sanchez said Salvadorans losing their temporary protection “are in shock. It’s more dangerous now than it was when they left. That’s the reality. ...

At the same time, you can’t run a program indeÿnitely.”

Fife is equally blunt: “We’re certainly blind to the current conditions in Central See MONTENEGRO, Page 11A

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HOAs Continued from Page 1A

z The ÿnancial documents that detail how HOAs spend the sometimes millions of dollars they collect from homeowners each year are not publicly reported.

“Homeowners associations really are privatized government without accountability. We can control everything from what you paint your home to when you cut your yard, but we aren’t accountable to you and don’t have to respond to you,” said Phoenix lawyer Jon Dessaules, who represents homeowners in lawsuits against HOAs. As a result, homeowners are left with little recourse when an HOA decides to take their home, or a management company embezzles hundreds of thousands of dollars intended to repair roads or replace roofs.

Some housing advocates are pushing for reforms — and more oversight. But most of their e“ orts have found little traction.

Karen Whiting, who owns community-management association Method Real Estate, went to prison in mid-January for stealing more than $300,000 from four Valley HOAs she managed. The water and electricity were almost turned o“ in the Gilbert Fincher Creek community Whiting was hired to manage because she hadn’t paid the bills, according to Maricopa County Superior Court documents.

Whiting pleaded guilty to theft and fraud for taking almost $21,000 from that HOA, $177,000 from Gilbert’s Greenÿeld Lakes HOA, $117,000 from Phoenix’s Paradise Park HOA and $2,4 4 5 from Phoenix’s Gold Key Racquet Club.

Board members from those HOAs testiÿed about how the thefts hurt their communities, including home sales falling through and property-tax liens.

When HOA members began to suspect wrongdoing, there was no regulatory agency for them to turn to for help.

Instead, members themselves reKaren searched and documented the thefts Whiting and then notiÿed Gilbert police.

In October, federal prosecutors accused the owners of Phoenix-based Eagle Property Management of taking almost $1.3 million from several Valley homeowners associations.

Harlow White; his wife, Nancy; their daughters Rachel Ellerbrock and Kelsey Powell; and Powell’s husband, Michael Powell, were indicted on money-laundering and conspiracy charges.

Prosecutors allege the group used funds from the HOAs it managed to pay personal bills and mortgages.

Eagle Property managed 4 0 Valley HOAs, including the upscale Scottsdale communities Edge at Grayhawk, Skye Top at Troon and Mission de los Arroyos.

Harlow and Nancy White have a September trial date. Kelsey Powell, Michael Powell and Rachel Ellerbrock have sentencing hearings scheduled in July, according to court records. The Powells and Ellerbrock — who face ÿnes of up to $250,000, ÿve years in prison and restitution — pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit transactional money laundering.

About half of Phoenix-area homeowners live in a community run by one of Arizona’s HOAs, according to industry estimates. There’s no way to know for sure, because the state does not track them. This lack of oversight is typical of HOAs throughout the country, according to Ron Cheung, an associate professor at Oberlin College who specializes in HOA research.

“Very, very few localities even know how many HOAs there are, and I think that is a huge problem,” Cheung said. “We’re underestimating the importance of the thing by not knowing anything about them.”

When a homeowner buys into an HOA, he or she agrees to live by the covenants, conditions and restrictions, or CC&Rs. Those documents outline everything from required maintenance to how much a homeowner must pay the association — along with what could happen if they don’t.

Homeowners sign these documents at closing, but in the ‘urr y of reading loan and title documents, homeowners can miss important provisions.

“Most homeowners don’t understand the foreclosure process and don’t know their HOA can foreclose,” said Arizona Real Estate Commissioner Judy Lowe.

A 2017 Arizona Republic investigation found HOAs are foreclosing on a record number of homeowners.

Since 2015, HOAs have started foreclosure actions on more than 3,000 Phoenix-area homeowners with at least $1,200 in unpaid HOA maintenance payments.

During the recession, many Valley homeowners owed more to their lenders than their houses were worth. Because of the negative equity, investors had no incentive to buy foreclosed properties, and the HOAs let the debts ride.

As home prices rebounded, investor interest returned and HOAs began to use foreclosure to collect debts more aggressively.

Lowe’s department o“ ers an arbitration process for disputes between homeowners and HOAs, but it doesn’t have jurisdiction over HOA foreclosures.

“Community associations are private entities,” said Mark Stapp, director of the master of real estate development program at Arizona State University. “Government can’t come in and tell them what to do, but is that a good thing for homeowners?”

Real-estate agents must complete 90 hours of classes and pass a test to sell homes in Arizona. Mortgage loan o’cer s must have 20 hours of education and pass a criminal background check. Contractors are required to take a test and post a bond. Property managers of rental homes must have a real-estate license.

Homeowners ÿghting with HOAs are often shocked to learn there’s no one overseeing their community association’s actions. HOA board members generally have no experience at running a community, and they rely on management companies to collect and manage fees, ÿne homeowners and foreclose on them when

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But management companies aren’t regulated, and community managers aren’t required to take training or education classes like real-estate agents are.

“I couldn’t believe there was nowhere for me to go for help,” said Marie De Sanna, who has been ÿghting her Chandler HOA for a few years over its move to foreclose on her for late payments. “My HOA sued me, didn’t respond to my requests for information or even update my account when I caught up on payments.”

She said her only option was to hire an attorney, often a di’cult ÿnancial move for homeowners already struggling to make HOA payments or pay ÿnes.

Arizona’s largest group of community managers believes it can do a better job of regulating itself than the state can. The Arizona Association of Community Managers o“ ers a training program with classes and certiÿcation for managers. Linda Lang, executive director of the AACM, said some communities will only hire community managers with their certiÿcation.

The AACM can, and has, revoked certiÿcation when managers violate the association’s code of ethics, which prohibits bad ÿnancial practices like commingling funds and requires community managers to act in the best interest of associations.

Many managers seek out the certiÿcation, but it is not a requirement to be hired to manage a community in Arizona. About 60 percent of community managers are members of the group.

“Although there is great concern over no oversight for HOAs, not much can be done without the governor’s help,” said Susan Sweetow, founder of the Southwestern School of Real Estate and author of the book “Arizona HOAs and All That Jazz.” “Licensing for HOA managers would be a great start in protecting the associations.”

But most HOA community managers don’t think they should be regulated like real-estate agents.

Nick Ferre, a vice president with Community Association Management in Phoenix, said community managers don’t close sales or sign leases like real-estate agents or property managers, so they shouldn’t be regulated the same way. “We don’t have control of HOA boards,”he said. “It is up the board members to manage the community association and prevent any wrongdoing like embezzlement.”

Fincher Creek homeowner Cindy Butters went to her ÿrst HOA meeting in early 2015, and only two people were there. She was appointed to the board that night, and within a few months, the HOA’s manager, Whiting, had stolen the community’s last $7,000.

“I never would have gone to an HOA meeting, but Whiting kept telling me she would ÿx a security light by my house and then wouldn’t do it,” Butters said.

“When I walked into the meeting, I could feel something was wrong right away.”

Butters eventually become president of the HOA and spent the following 18 months acting as an unpaid forensic accountant, trying to track where her community association’s money had gone. She found checks Whiting had written to casinos out of the account.

Butters also found through her accounting research that Whiting had taken money from three other Valley HOAs, and Butters alerted those boards.

The police found that most of the money Whiting took went to gambling. Her Gila River Casinos players card showed Whiting gambled nearly $380,000 between 2013 and 2015, according to court documents.

Gary Haenel had a similar story. He took on the presidency of his HOA board at Paradise Parks when two other board members resigned in 2014 . A year later, Whiting was a no-show at the community’s annual meeting. A few days later, it was clear she had cleaned more than $117,000 out of Paradise Parks HOA accounts. “I didn’t hire Whiting; a previous board did,” Haenel said. “We have a lot of other senior citizens in our community, and it was devastating what she did to our community.”

He was there for her sentencing in early January.

“The judge told her she had choices, and she still stole the money,” he said. “She left a lot of victims.”

The Arizona Homeowners Coalition sprouted a few years ago from a group of homeowners irked with their HOAs. The group educates homeowners about their rights and spends most of its spring at the state Capitol, lobbying legislators to increase protection for owners and ÿghting bills they believe would hurt people living in HOAs. Dennis Legere, a lobbyist for the coalition, said pursuing licensing for community managers is the Legislature’s “token e“ ort to try to do something” about HOA complaints.

It comes up — and then fails — almost every year,

but has yet to be introduced this session.

He said there are some legitimate reasons why managers should be licensed — “they manage a lot of money” — but he said it’s not the most e“ ective way to root out bad-acting HOAs and community managers.

“It won’t help homeowners,” Legere said. “If it doesn’t help homeowners, it just adds more bureaucracy to a system that’s already ÿlled with bureaucracy.”

Plus, Gov. Doug Ducey has made it clear that he won’t support licensing, he said. Last April, Ducey said in a veto letter that his administration would not be in the business of regulating homeowners associations.

Instead, the coalition is ÿghting for increased ÿnancial disclosure and foreclosure protections.

One of the bills Legere is pushing, but has yet to ÿnd a sponsor for, would require HOAs to disclose ÿnancial documents, including their balance sheets with expenses and losses, to interested buyers before they enter the contract to buy the property.

“The current legislation stipulates that the only time homebuyers are required to be provided any information on associations … is after they’ve already signed the contract to buy the house. That’s just fundamentally wrong,” Legere said.

Sen. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, initially agreed to sponsor the disclosure bill but backed out before the legislative session began. In an interview with The Arizona Republic, Kavanagh said he realized the bill would have been too burdensome on HOAs. He said it would force HOAs to produce documents every time a potential buyer “nibbles,” which could become expensive to the association.

Rep. Paul Mosley, R-Lake Havasu, introduced a bill that would clarify the HOA foreclosure process and make it more di’cult for HOAs to take people’s homes.

The bill would allow HOAs to foreclose only on missed assessments — not the attorneys fees that usually get rolled into a homeowner’s total debt. It also would require HOAs to accept partial payments on the debt, as opposed to mandating a homeowner pay o“ the total amount owed all at once.

Legere said the bill could e“ ectively end HOA foreclosures and force HOAs to work with homeowners instead of immediately seeking foreclosure.

The advocacy group is also pushing for legislation that would clarify the HOA-initiated foreclosure process and add protections for homeowners.

Real-estate attorney Diane Drain, who fought against unethical and illegal Arizona foreclosures during the housing crash, said there should be legislation to force HOAs to make the foreclosure process clearer.

“All we need is one sheet, with big letters saying that their HOA can foreclose if they miss $1,200 in payments, that homebuyers must sign,” she said.

But so far, the only HOA bill that’s gotten any traction at the Legislature would have actually made it easier for HOAs to foreclose, allowing associations to start the process after six months with no minimum debt. Currently, an HOA can foreclose only after one year of missed payments or if a homeowner accumulates a $1,200 debt, whichever comes ÿrst.

Kavanagh, who sponsored the bill, eventually withdrew it after a barrage of media coverage and backlash.

He said he believes his bill would have actually helped homeowners, because those with dues of more than $200 per month would have been granted more time before a foreclosure. “My bill was going to give people with moderate to high assessments ... six months to get their act together,” Kavanagh said.

Homeowners can pay $500 to ÿle complaints against their HOA with the Arizona Department of Real Estate. The agency handles arbitration and can recommend cases for administrative hearings.

Administrative-law judges hear arguments and review the community’s governing documents, and then decide if a homeowner or the HOA board violated the CC&Rs. Disputes heard through the hearing process in the past include: z What maintenance an HOA is required to perform. z Whether an HOA can remove someone as president of a community pickleball club. z Alleged mishandling of HOA board elections.

Homeowner complaints against HOAs were up 30 percent last year, according to the agency.

Criminal cases like HOA managers embezzling from communities are handled by police and prosecutors.

Butters and another Fincher Creek HOA board member called the Gilbert police to report Whiting’s theft and then turned over their investigation to them.

“We had nowhere to go for help. There are no government agencies handling HOAs,” said Butters. “We could barely a“ ord to hire a lawyer, but we had to.”

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The 5 things you should know about homeowners associations Jessica Boehm Arizona Republic USA TODAY NETWORK

About half of Valley homeowners live in homeowners associations, but many don’t realize the responsibilities that come along with that. If you live in an HOA or are considering buying into one, make sure you know these ÿve basic things to avoid headaches and potentially high-dollar penalties.

What is an HOA? An HOA is exactly what it sounds like — a mandatory association made up of the homeowners in a neighborhood.

If you buy into a neighborhood with an HOA, you agree to live by a set of rules called the covenants, conditions and restrictions, or CC&Rs. These documents are unique to each HOA but can include landscaping and maintenance requirements for the outside of the home and limitations on things like street parking. HOAs also come with mandatory dues.

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HOAs usually have control over anything on the outside of the home. Speciÿcs can vary and are outlined in the CC&Rs, but here’s a look at what an HOA typically manages: z Condominium: Condos usually come with heftier HOA fees, but that’s because the association will take care of everything outside of your unit. That means if your paint starts to wear or your roof gets leaky, the HOA likely bears the cost. But condos also can have stricter limitations than other HOAs. They’re known to control the number (and sometimes type of) pets you can keep in the unit and the numbers of renters and vehicles you can have. z Single-family home: In a traditional neighborhood HOA, the homeowner is responsible for the upkeep of the outside of the home, and the HOA has the power to make sure they do so. HOAs can ÿne homeowners for things like excessive weeds or holiday decorations left up for too long. They can also require the owner to repaint the house (in a color that ÿts the neighborhood’s character) or replace broken rooÿng tiles.

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nance of common areas, enforcement, etc. Sometimes these are due monthly, while others are only owed once a quarter. The costs can range from $50 to $1,000, and the board can vote to raise them to account for rising costs. z Special assessments: If there’s an emergency cost (a condo roof breaks, a pipe bursts in the community park, etc.), the board can ask the homeowners to approve a special assessment, which is due on top of the regular assessment.

If enough homeowners approve the additional cost (it depends on the HOA, but usually 51 percent is required), then the additional fee will be levied. z Late fees: If you don’t pay your assessments on time, the HOA can charge late fees, rolled into your balance. z Fines: If you break one of the association’s rules (leave your garbage can out too long, don’t pull your weeds, etc.), the association can slap you with a monetary penalty.

What happens if I don’t pay?

If you don’t pay the regular or special assessments, the HOA can take drastic steps to recoup its money.

When a homeowner falls behind, an HOA can take the individual to court and get a judgment for the money the association is owed. Then, it can use a variety of tactics, including garnishing wages, to retrieve the money.

If the amount owed is more than $1,200, or if a homeowner hasn’t paid an assessment in more than 12 months, the association can seek foreclosure and sell the home at auction. A 2017 Arizona Republic investigation found HOAs are foreclosing on a record number of homeowners — more than 3,000 in the Phoenix area since 2015.

Why are there so many HOAs? There are at least 9,000 HOAs in Arizona, and about half of all Valley homeowners live in one. Why? Because HOAs save cities money.

Neighborhoods are more than just groups of houses. They also have streetlights, paved streets, retention basins and sometimes parks.

Those things cost money that cities don’t have — or don’t want to use. Instead, they encourage residential developers to take on that cost, and the developers create an association to pay for and maintain these features throughout the existence of the neighborhood.

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Seitchik responded, saying Reagan’s “attack machine is already in overdrive” the day after Gaynor jumped in the race.

He had considered a run since late last year.

“The fact is, Arizona voters have lost conÿdence in Secretary Reagan’s ability to manage and administer safe and secure elections,” Seitchik said. “Steve Gaynor wants to restore trust and conÿdence in Arizona’s election process …”

Gaynor, a Paradise Valley resident who owns an investment ÿrm and printing business, has never run for public ofÿce.

Two other Republicans have also ÿled to run: Lori Klein Corbin, a Republican Party national committeewoman and former state senator; and Kevin Gibbons, a home loan officer.

Because they jumped in the race after the start of the year, Gaynor, Corbin and Gibbons aren’t required to ÿle their ÿrst campaign-ÿnance reports until April 15.

Two Democrats vying for their party’s nomination reported raking in far less cash than Reagan: state Senate Minority Leader Katie Hobbs, D-Phoenix, raised about $201,550; and attorney Mark Robert Gordon raised just over $60,000.

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Arizona Secretary of State Michele Reagan’s new opponent in the Republican primary could give her a run for her money — literally.

Wealthy businessman Steve Gaynor has officially jumped into the race for secretary of state, the state’s No. 2 elected office and next in line to the governor.

Gaynor ÿled paperwork to run on Thursday.

He enters the race with an apparent ÿnancial edge: Gaynor has put $620,000 of his own money into the campaign, according to Brian Seitchik, his political strategist.

Reagan, by comparison, raised nearly $520,000 through the end of last year, her campaign-ÿnance report states. She personally loaned her campaign $85,000.

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There are signs that is already happening. In 2017, there were 17,000 unaccompanied children from there apprehended at the U.S. border. That was up 87 percent in one year.

Montenegro acknowledges his immigration views upset some who presume he must think di‘ erently because of his background. But, he said, there are many immigrants who went through the process legally and want to see that upheld.

“I think there’s irony that most people who advocate for illegal immigration or for amnesty, or who do so on the basis that these people deserve a better life, are usually the same liberal voices that demonize the very values that make America so great.”

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On Saturday, the serial sex abuser was listed as an inmate at U.S. Penitentiary Tucson, a high-security facility that houses 1,387 inmates along with a 149-inmate minimum-security satellite camp in Pima County, according to its website.

Operational since 2007, the prison — among 17 highsecurity federal lockups in the country — is part of a federal correctional complex near the Arizona State Prison Complex in south Tucson, about 2 miles from Interstate 10.

Nassar, identiÿed as federal inmate No. 21504-040, isn’t the ÿrst high-proÿle inmate at the facility in the southern Arizona desert Brian David Mitchell, the Utah street preacher convicted of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart, who later wrote about surviving her nine-month abduction and Mitchell’s brutal assaults as a teen, is currently serving a life sentence there.

So is Louis Eppolito, a former New York Police Department detective-turned-hit man who worked on behalf of the Maÿa.

James J. “Whitey” Bulger, the south Boston crime boss, resided at the Tucson facility before being transferred to a facility in Florida. Convicted mass shooter Jared Loughner also spent time in the prison before being transferred. Loughner is now serving a life sentence at the Federal Correctional Center in Rochester, Minnesota, for a shooting rampage in 2011 near Tucson that killed six people — including a child and a federal judge — and left 13 others, including former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, injured.

And former U.S. Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham, R-Calif., was released from the prison in 2013 after serving a seven-year sentence for tax evasion and conspiracy to commit bribery and fraud that funded an extravagant lifestyle.

Nassar, 54, was transferred Thursday morning from the Eaton County jail near Lansing, Michigan, to the Milan Federal Correctional Institution near Ann Arbor. He was sentenced on Monday in Eaton County on sexualassault charges.

A judge in January sentenced Nassar to 4 0 to 175 years in prison on seven sexual-assault charges. Another judge sentenced him on Feb. 5 to 40 to 125 years in prison on three sexual-assault charges. He must serve the entirety of his federal sentence before he can serve his state sentences.

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Curling fans took to the ice Saturday in Tempe with a local club to learn about the sport that’s being watched on millions of televisions around the world during the Olympics.

The Coyotes Curling Club hosted the lessons to teach beginners how to curl. About 15 more sessions will be held within the next two months.

Steve Leavitt attended the event with his wife, Dawn, and 8-year-old son Aries.

Aries said he wants to be a professional curler. Saturday was his ÿrst time getting on the ice to try the sport known for its curious yet elegant gliding, crouching and sweeping moves.

Aries said he hopes curling takes him to the Olympics one day.

“I just want to have fun and not slip on the ice or break my head open or hurt myself,” he said of his newbie e“ ort in Tempe.

“It sounds phenomenal,” Steve Leavitt said of his son’s Olympic-curling career plans. “I always hoped I would have a son who would grow up to be a professional curler. I’m just going with it.”

Aries said curling is about “teamwork and friendship.” He hoped trying the sport would introduce him to new friends.

Steve Leavitt said if the Saturday venture was a success, he’d look into joining a league.

“Anything we can do to have fun together as a family, we’re always looking for that,” Leavitt said.

Flagsta“ police o‘cer s shot and killed a 78-yearold man on Friday night who they say brandished a gun at them and a bystander while ignoring law-enforcement commands to drop the weapon.

O‘cials have identiÿed the man as Flagsta“ resident John Hamilton.

A woman called police about 8:52 p.m. and said a man with a gun confronted her in the 700 block of West Coconino Avenue. Police responded and encountered an armed man who ÿt the description, Flagsta“ police said in a news release.

For “several minutes,” o‘cer s demanded that Hamilton drop the gun and not point it at anyone, police said, but he disobeyed their commands.

After several minutes, O‘cer s Daniel Beckwith and Travis Rowden both ÿred their weapons at Hamilton, who fell. After receiving medical aid, he was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the police release.

No one else was injured.

Beckwith and Rowden have been placed on paid administrative leave pending the results of an investigation, o‘cials said, which is standard procedure.

Republic reporter Derek Hall contributed to this article.

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A Phoenix ÿreÿghter was arrested Friday on suspicion of stealing money from other ÿreÿghters at stations around the city, o‘cials said.

Ryan Donahue, 36, is suspected of stealing money at eight ÿre stations in the city, said Phoenix police Sgt. Alan Pfohl.

Pfohl said the man also is suspected of starting two dumpster ÿres in order to divert ÿreÿghters away from stations so he could take money while they responded to the calls.

There were no injuries from the two ÿres, Pfohl said.

Cash was taken from other ÿreÿghters’ wallets and from a pool of funds they contribute to for purchasing food or other station needs, Pfohl said.

Investigators arrested the ÿreÿghter after they observed him taking money from a station at 43rd and Virginia avenues, Pfohl said. Police followed the man and made the arrest at a parking lot at 19th Avenue and Bell Road.

During an interview with police, the man admitted taking money from the eight stations and starting the ÿres, Pfohl said.

Phoenix Fire Department Capt. Larry Subervi said the department is focused on helping police with the ongoing investigation.

“We had noticed a pattern,” Subervi said. “When there is a theft, that gets reported through the battalion chief, so we work closely with Phoenix PD on this.”

Subervi said ÿre stations around Phoenix have started taking more security precautions.

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He’d had it. He realized that a censure would not be enough. He had already warned Shooter he would move to oust him if his misbehavior continued.

“At that moment, in my mind, and I think in the eyes of many, this was another violation, another harassment, creating a much more toxic environment, from the joking he was doing to bringing this person in,” he recalled thinking.

“And I’m a man of my word.”

The night before, Mesnard ÿelded text messages and emails from lawmakers about the looming vote. They wanted to make sure he was implementing extra safety precautions.

Mesnard didn’t consider Shooter a threat, but he didn’t want to take any chances. An Arizona Department of Public Safety o“cer was summoned from the Senate for extra protection.

Mesnard then walked to Shooter’s ofÿce with a police detail in tow.

Sitting across the desk from Shooter, Mesnard told him he was scaring people with this reference about “a hanging.” He said Shooter seemed surprised. “ ‘I know you’re trying to add levity,’ ” Mesnard recalled telling Shooter.

It didn’t seem to matter.

Still, he continued his months-long quest to convince Shooter to resign to spare his colleagues a hard vote. He told him an expulsion vote could tear the House apart. And, he said, Shooter was doing a disservice to those he was asking to defend him because they could be perceived as soft on sexual harassment.

Shooter wouldn’t budge.

“Finally, I said, ‘OK, I’m moving to expel you,’ ” Mesnard said.

Shooter responded: “You gotta do what you gotta do.”

Then, Mesnard asked Shooter for his display gun, a .38-cailber.

Shooter was asked if he had any other guns.

He sat for a moment, and then opened a drawer in his desk and took out a box that held a small .22-caliber handgun.

Mesnard took the display gun and the police o“cer took the other.

Mesnard left Shooter and headed back to his o“ce .

The speaker instructed his sta‘ to modify his resolution for a censure.

Around the corner, the Clerk of the House of Representatives tweaked one word in Mesnard’s House Resolution 2003. It now carried the short title, “Don Shooter; expulsion.” “… with concurrence of two-thirds of its members, hereby expels Representa-

tive Don Shooter,” the resolution read.

The word “censure” had been removed.

About 11:30 a.m., as other members mingled on the ’oor , Mesnard’s team blasted out a news release. Shooter’s letter, he wrote, was “a clear act of retaliation and intimidation, and yet another violation of the House’s harassment policy.”

The speaker was seeking expulsion.

Mesnard and senior sta‘ began pulling lawmakers into Mesnard’s o“ce from the House ’oor — some had not seen Shooter’s email.

Moments later, Mesnard walked from his o“ce to the ’oor to the wooden dais overlooking the chamber, and gaveled the session in.

“It’s a monumental moment, it’s a historic moment — unfortunately,” he remembered thinking. “But at that point, I was in implementation mode.”

He stepped o‘ the dais onto the turquoise carpet, and walked to his desk to introduce the resolution. Then, he returned to the rostrum.

With voting underway, he gave Shooter the ’oor .

In the front row of the gallery, directly above Shooter, sat one of his accusers, Amy Love, a lobbyist for the Arizona Supreme Court.

Love had provided investigators with one of the most graphic incidents about a 2013 encounter in his o“ce, back when he was in the Senate.

Shooter deÿantly defended himself before voting against his own expulsion.

He had apologized for his behavior, he told them. And he’d stood on that carpet and “took it like a man.”

He then dropped his microphone on his desk and abdicated his seat, walking through the low-lit members’ lounge to the House parking lot, escorted by state police. He got in his Mercedes sedan and drove away.

He missed the sometimes tearful, sometimes testy ’oor speeches from his onetime peers.

The vote was 56 to 3 for expulsion.

After the vote, Mesnard walked the halls to make sure the members who were still around were OK. Not long after, Shooter’s nameplate came o‘ his o“ce door.

That night, relieved the vote was over, Mesnard got on a plane to visit his sister in Missouri.

Shooter’s former assistant and House pages spent the next day packing up the o“ce, and their former boss returned to the Capitol on Saturday, escorted by state police, to collect.

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A year later, Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos is living with her parents and extended family in Acámbaro, the same colonial town in central Mexico where she grew up before crossing the border illegally into the U.S. when she was 14.

It has been a rough year for the 36year-old mother.

She struggles daily with depression, unable to earn a decent living despite help from the Mexican state government opening a tortilleria — tortilla shop — while coping with the emotional pain of being separated from her husband of 18 years and their two children, 17-year-old Angel and Jackie, all of whom remain 1,400 miles away in Mesa.

At night, she is tormented by the hard choices the family must face: Should her husband and American children come live with her in Mexico? Or should they stay in the United States, separated perhaps forever, clinging to hope that she may one day be allowed to return?

In the meantime, barred from returning to the U.S. even for visits, Garcia de Rayos continues her life here.

She usually rises at 6:4 0 a.m. each morning to open the tortilleria, located a short walk from her family’s adobe and cement house. She spends several

hours making and selling corn tortillas with help from a single employee.

She opened the shop in July, after the governor of the state of Guanajuato sent her a check for 320,000 pesos after her deportation received widespread news coverage in Mexico and the U.S. With the money — the equivalent of about $17,000, a small fortune in Mexico — Garcia de Rayos purchased three pieces of equipment: a large vat to cook dried corn, an industrial-size grinder to turn the corn into masa, and a machine that spits out fresh tortillas on a conveyor belt after the dough has been stu“ ed through a funnel.

To draw in customers, she also bought a yellow awning with the name of her business, Tortilleria Lupita’s, in black letters. The tortilleria sits o“ a sidewalk on a narrow street, lined with adjoining houses, a few blocks from the town’s central plaza. Garcia de Rayos can hear the bells from the main cathedral toll every hour. She had the awning hung outside the store, above the doorway, and to add a touch of beauty, she placed two plants on the front step.

Because the tortilleria is inside an empty house owned by her uncle, Garcia de Rayos doesn’t have to pay rent.

But so far, the tortilleria has been a bust. Within a few blocks, there are several other tortillerias, each with their own established clientele. As the newest tortilleria, Guadalupe de Rayos’ business can’t compete.

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So now she is looking for a better location closer to the center of town.

On a recent morning, however, the tortilla-making machine, still shiny and new-looking, sits idle. A part had broken loose and jammed the motor, knocking the machine out of service.

Garcia de Rayos doesn’t have money to pay a repairman. So instead of making tortillas, she is at home, nursing a cold.

Sheets covering the window in her room flap loudly as a ÿerce wind blows in from outside. A series of cold fronts had swept through the area, dropping temperatures at night into the high 30s, unusual for this subtropical region.

Garcia de Rayos is sure she caught her cold from sleeping in her unheated room. The glass covering the window broke months ago. But Garcia de Rayos couldn’t a‘ ord to replace it. Her nose red from her illness, she sits on the edge of her bed, next to a mound of blankets, wearing a blue hoodie to keep warm.

Her second-floor bedroom overlooks a small courtyard in the center of the house she shares with her mother and father, her sister and brother-in-law, her three nieces and two aunts — 10 family members in all.

To reach her room, Guadalupe must climb a set of uneven cement stairs that wind treacherously around the inner walls of the courtyard. With no railing, a fall from the top could be fatal.

The house lacks many of the comforts she grew accustomed to in Arizona. The cement shower and dishwashing basin are outdoors, exposed to the sun and rain. The kitchen is so small, family members take turns sitting at the wooden table during meals.

After she was deported, Garcia de Rayos was reunited with her family members, many of whom she had not seen in years, including her mother and father, a sister and a brother. Some she had never met, including her three nieces, who were born after she left Mexico for the United States 21 years earlier.

Being surrounded by their love helps her get through the pain of being separated from her husband and children.

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But when darkness falls, she dreads

returning to her bedroom alone.

“It is very di’cult, even though I am pretty happy to be with my family here,” she says. “But once nighttime comes, I miss my children dearly.”

She points at a bed on the other side of the room, below a poster of Jesus, blond and blue-eyed, raising his hand as if giving a blessing.

“That is where my children sleep when they visit,” she says.

Angel and Jackie have visited their mother three times in Mexico: for a week in March during spring break, for a month in July and for two weeks during Christmas break. As U.S. citizens, they are free to travel back and forth between the U.S. and Mexico.

To get there, they must travel ÿrst from Phoenix to Guadalajara, Mexico’s second-largest city, a nearly three-hour flight, and then drive four more hours to Acámbaro, a bustling railroad hub with cobblestone streets, known throughout Mexico for its sweet bread.

Angel and Jackie live with their father in a comfortable split-level home with a two-car garage and a large yard in east Mesa. Their father has not seen his wife since she was deported. He asked that his name not be published, because he fears his family could be targeted by “racist people.”

He works at a restaurant as a cook.

After his wife was deported, he said, he took on a second job at a shoe store to make up for the loss of income from her job at Golfland Sunsplash, an amusement park in Mesa where she earned about $12.75 an hour cleaning the pools and doing other maintenance work.

Even though it means living apart, Garcia de Rayos says she doesn’t want to raise her two children in Mexico. They will receive a better education and have more opportunities in Arizona, she says.

She worries about her children getting sick here. The week before, her pregnant sister-in-law lost her baby because the hospital didn’t see her in time.

She doesn’t want her children exposed to the violence in Mexico. She hears about people getting killed daily on the news, and even witnessed a shooting while walking in the center of her town. “Do you think this is a safe place for my kids? It’s not,” Garcia de Rayos says. “I know people criticize me and say, ‘Why doesn’t her family go live over there (in Mexico)?’ They have no clue how bad it is over here.”

Garcia de Rayos was deported the day after she had gone to the Phoenix ofÿces of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for what, until then, had been a routine check-in.

In March 2009, Garcia de Rayos pleaded guilty to a felony charge of

criminal impersonation for using someone else’s Social Security number to work illegally. The charge stemmed from a work-site raid conducted by former Maricopa County Sheri‘ Joe Arpaio in 2008 at Golfland Sunsplash.

After three months in the Estrella Jail, she was transferred to ICE custody and spent three more months at a federal detention center in Florence before she was released on a $6,000 bond.

Garcia was deemed a low deportation priority under the Obama administration, and ICE declined to deport her for eight years, even though she was issued a ÿnal order of removal in 2013, as long as she checked in annually and stayed out of trouble with the law. The temporary reprieve also made her eligible for a work permit, which she used to return to her job at Golfland Sunsplash, this time legally.

Then Trump was elected. Days after the inauguration, on Jan. 25, 2017, Trump signed one of three executive orders related to border security and immigration, following through on a campaign promise to greatly expand deportation priorities. During a major speech on immigration Trump delivered in Phoenix in August 2016, the candidate had declared, “No one will be immune or exempt from enforcement.”

Garcia’s annual check-in with ICE fell on Feb. 8, just two weeks after Trump ordered ICE to take a more aggressive stance toward immigration enforcement. Her deportation drew international attention, and reflected a sudden and dramatic shift in U.S. immigration policy from the Obama administration.

During Trump’s ÿrst nine months in o’ce, from Jan. 20 to Sept. 30, 2017, ICE made 110,668 arrests, a 4 2 percent increase over the same period a year earlier, according to a report last month by the Migration Policy Institute on Trump’s immigration record.

Of the 110,568 arrests, 29 percent were people with no criminal conviction, the report said. By comparison, 90 percent of people removed by ICE from the interior of the U.S. in 2016, under the Obama administration, had been convicted of serious crimes. “This is a sharp break from the end of the Obama administration, during which interior enforcement focuses almost exclusively on criminals,” the report said.

Before going to her check-in, Garcia de Rayos said she knew there was a possibility ICE would arrest and deport her.

But in the back of her mind, she thought the agency might not follow through so quickly on Trump’s order.

The Rev. Ken Heintzelman, the pastor at Shadow Rock United Church of Christ, o‘ ered to let Garcia de Rayos

take sanctuary from ICE inside the church, where six immigrants facing deportation have lived since June 2014.

But Garcia de Rayos said she declined. She needed to keep working to help support her family.

The other option was to try hiding from ICE. But ICE knew where she lived.

And she said she didn’t want to be always looking over her shoulder.

Looking back, Garcia de Rayos says she doesn’t have any regrets about turning herself in to ICE. Showing up for the check-in was the right thing to do, she said. A devout Catholic, she prayed before the ICE check-in that she wouldn’t be deported. Now she prays that she will be reunited with her family in Arizona.

But that won’t be easy.

Garcia de Rayos’ felony conviction virtually destroyed her chances of ever returning to the U.S. legally, even though a sister who is a U.S. citizen applied for her to get a green card 15 years ago. Her children could also sponsor her for a green card once they turn 21.

But Republican-led proposals in the House and Senate, backed by Trump, would eliminate Garcia de Rayos’ children and sister from sponsoring her for a green card.

“I think only a miracle can help me,” Garcia de Rayos says, back in her bedroom. “I hope God touches those people’s hearts so that they may take that felony o‘ my record.”

Later that night, Garcia de Rayos slowly navigates her way up the cement stairs in the darkness to her bedroom.

She is returning from a walk with her brother-in-law’s sister, ready for the highlight of each night.

Garcia de Rayos picks up her phone and presses the keys, calling her daughter in Mesa. Jackie appears.

For several minutes, Garcia de Rayos is no longer separated from her family.

She asks her children in Spanish how their day has gone. Jackie tells her she’s been sick and stayed home from school.

Garcia de Rayos asks what their grandma brought over for them to eat, since their father is out that night attending a prayer meeting at church.

“She made me the noodle soup you used to make,” Jackie tells her.

In the background, Angel is clowning around. “Angel, stop!” Jackie yells, in English. Angel then gets on the phone.

He’s also been sick, with allergies, he tells his mom. I love you so much, Garcia de Rayos repeats over and over in Spanish. Take care of yourselves. “Los quiero mucho. Cuidense. Adios.” Then the screen on her phone goes dark.

Garcia de Rayos suddenly looks very alone, sitting on her bed, holding the phone in her hand.

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A Los Angeles Police Department informer close to Durazo — a former Colombian police officer who immigrated to the United States — had set up the entente. And a police cavalcade had brought the detectives to their meeting with the chief.

Then, immediately after the introductions, Durazo leveled an accusation: The American guests were CIA agents posing as cops. Through a translator, Durazo brushed o“ their denials and began talking about arms shipments and drug smuggling.

“You know what I do for the CIA and the Contras?” he asked.

That comment, which made no sense at the time, echoes in Rothmiller’s memory. Only years later would Americans learn about a secret U.S. campaign, then underway, to arm insurgents ÿghting Nicaragua’s leftist government.

In that moment, however, it seemed that Mexico’s top cop was trying to sidetrack their negotiations.

Rothmiller and Hamilton tried to steer the conversation to counterterrorism. There were reports that a Colombian organization known as the 19th of April Movement might be plotting an attack on the Olympics. The detectives wanted help from Mexico to prevent an attack. Again, El Negro played tough. He said he might be willing to share information — but only if the detectives would get him access to a U.S. database of stolen vehicles.

Rothmiller balked. Before heading south, he had run a background check and learned that Mexico City’s police chief was dirty. Durazo had been indicted by a Florida grand jury seven years earlier for cocaine trafficking. And, to Rothmiller’s bewilderment, those charges were somehow erased from the U.S. justice system.

Knowing the value of stolen-vehicle data to Mexican crime syndicates, Rothmiller told El Negro that a detective could never make such a deal — then held his breath.

Durazo eventually abandoned his demand. He agreed to share information on terrorist groups. And he gave the two LA cops badges with credentials identifying them as majors on the Mexico City police force.

On the ’ight back to LA, Rothmiller’s head swirled with questions: What was all the CIA talk? How did someone make a federal drug indictment disappear?

And who was this guy?

Now a silver-haired author living in Prescott, Rothmiller never saw Durazo again. But he kept watching, and kept wondering.

El Negro would become the most notorious lawman in Mexican history, a fugitive from his own government. And the target of a frantic, worldwide manhunt by the FBI, trying to stop a presidential assassination. That drama, previously hidden in classiÿed U.S. government ÿles, is partly revealed in Rothmiller’s recently published book, “Secrets, Lies and Deception.”

But here is the full story, never told before. (While each detail of Rothmiller’s account could not be independently veriÿed, all key facts were corroborated by FBI reports, news archives, books, interviews and other records. Some FBI documents cited in this story were obtained independently by Virginia Colwell, an architectural historian in Mexico City, whose father, Jack Colwell, was among the FBI agents who captured Du-

Mike Rothmiller is an ex-policeman and a proliÿc author. TOM TINGLE/THE REPUBLIC

razo.)

Rothmiller worked in the LAPD’s Organized Crime Intelligence Division. After the Mexico trip, he continued planning Olympic security, aided by a pair of Durazo’s police colonels, plus the Colombian snitch. Over time, Rothmiller says, those sources assured him Durazo was, in fact, tied to the CIA, and they alluded to U.S. government involvement not just with Nicaraguan rebels, but with drug smugglers.

Although skeptical, Rothmiller developed an appreciation for his informer’s savvy and his connections.

The informer had once served as a police officer in Bogota, and seemed to have tentacles everywhere. But he would learn years later, while reading FBI ÿles on El Negro, just how far they reached. Those documents contain dozens of references to an informer known as “Source Two.” The person’s name is blacked out, but the identity unmistakable: the Colombian.

FBI reports say Source Two was so close to Durazo that he served as a personal aide when El Negro moved to Los Angeles, even registering the former chief ’s vehicles to his home address in Southern California.

The FBI records mention that Source Two, as a Bogota police officer, became a conÿdante to Colombia’s most powerful politicians in the late 1960s. After the adult son of a politician was involved in a fatal shooting, FBI records say, Source Two agreed to take the blame. In return, the Colombian government helped him ’ee to the United States to avoid arrest.

The Arizona Republic recently tracked down Source Two at his modest California home. Clear-eyed, feisty and articulate, the balding 82-year-old sipped co“ ee at a kitchen table, conÿrming the FBI reports and asking not to be identiÿed for security reasons.

He said he began working for Colombia’s secret police as a teenager and advanced in rank, becoming close with President Guillermo Valencia Muñoz.

Source Two said he and the son of an important political ÿgure went out with two women one evening. He fell asleep in the car and was awakened by gunÿre: For reasons that are unclear, his friend had shot one of the women.

To avert a national scandal, Source Two said, he agreed to become a scapegoat. “I was so stupid. Unfortunately, I’m a very loyal person,” he explained. “I say, ‘Well, I was drunk. I did it.’ ” Source Two vanished to Miami, then New York, where he got a job at a customs house. During the early 1970s, he was approached there by a Colombian government official o“ ering $250,000 for help with a cocaine-smuggling oper-

ation.

Source Two said he has always hated drugs and terrorists, so he went to federal prosecutors and agreed to be the frontman for an undercover sting.

When the case broke, he said, Colombian cartels posted the $250,000 bribery sum as a bounty on his head. The Justice Department gave Source Two U.S. citizenship and a new identity, placing his family under witness protection with names they still use today. The government also helped launch his new career as informer.

He worked primarily on salary as a contract operative for the FBI, with additional jobs for the Customs Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the IRS, the U.S. Marshals Service and local law enforcement. His civilian job, distributor for a body-armor company, served as cover while he traveled the world gathering intelligence and setting up criminals.

As suggested in FBI ÿles, Source Two was a shadow — running stings without being publicly exposed. There were exceptions, however: Court records show he led a 1,500-pound cocaine seizure by the Mohave County Sheri“ ’s Office in Arizona. And he put a major narcotics trafficker behind bars in Texas.

Source Two said he has never counted up the investigations or criminal convictions, but there were many brushes with death. “I’ve been in the middle of very, very, very bad people. Many times I got set up and everything,” he said, pointing skyward. “And I got protection from the Lord.”

In the late 1970s, Source Two said, FBI handlers asked him to target Durazo. At the time, El Negro had not yet been convicted of orchestrating cocaine

shipments from Colombia through Mexico to Miami, but was suspected.

Source Two said he came up with a ruse, persuading an international police association to give El Negro an award for law enforcement in Washington, D.C. Source Two arranged to be Durazo’s guide on tours of the FBI Academy and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Soon, Source Two was making trips to Mexico City to visit his new friend, who not only gave him a badge as police major, but also made him a general in Mexico’s military — a title he ’aunt ed during sting operations.

Source Two said he had no part in Durazo’s Miami indictment but isn’t surprised the criminal charges simply vanished: “Like (Manuel) Noriega in Panama, he dealt with all the (U.S.) agencies because they needed his cooperation in Mexico.”

Portions of Source Two’s account are substantiated not just by FBI records, but by Albert Zapanta, now president and CEO of the U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce. Zapanta, who has held numerous U.S. government positions, became acquainted with Source Two and Durazo during the 1970s in Mexico City, where the chief gave him credentials as a police major.

Zapanta says he suspected Durazo was a CIA asset, adding, “I had to believe it had to do with arms and drugs.” He also wondered about Source Two, a “promoter of relationships” who seemed to work for U.S. intelligence.

“He was a likable guy,” Zapanta adds, “but would I trust him? No.” Rothmiller’s impression of Source Two at the time: “U.S. agents, spies and cops buzzed around him like gringo bees. And there was no doubt he had access to the deepest secrets within the Mexican intelligence community.”

In fact, Source Two became one of Rothmiller’s most valuable assets, putting him onto major cases that involved cocaine shipments into California and weapons trafficking out of the country.

Those investigations were underway on Aug. 10, 1982, when Rothmiller — driving near his home — was ambushed by a gunman on a motorcycle. Six shots from a machine pistol peppered his unmarked police car. Rothmiller was not hit. But he crashed, injuring his back, and the gunman escaped.

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Rothmiller, but ripped the Police Department, which was headed at the time

by Chief Daryl Gates. Rothmiller received compensation for the injury and stress caused by an LAPD campaign of harassment and false charges.

Despite the outcome, Rothmiller’s law-enforcement future was over, and he resigned from the department.

But there would be another chapter in his personal conflict with Chief Gates.

And the strange story of El Negro would get more tangled.

In 1982, Mexico elected a new president, Miguel De La Madrid Hurtado, who vowed to root out corruption. Durazo lost his job.

Within months, one of his top aides published a best-selling book, “Lo Negro del Negro Durazo” (”The Dark Side of Blacky Durazo”), which in chilling detail revealed the former chief ’s role in murders, bribery, drug dealing and other crimes.

By early 1983, with rumors spreading through Mexican media that Durazo would face criminal charges, he went underground. He began jetting around the world, with a home base in California.

Rothmiller knew El Negro had a condo in Marina del Rey’s oceanfront towers, frequented a plush LA restaurant, and hung out with American judges and law o“cer s.

Once again, the reality made no sense. “Durazo was the El Chapo of his time,” Rothmiller recalls. “We knew he was under indictment. Why is he not getting arrested when he comes here?”

The questions remained unanswered for years, overshadowed for Rothmiller by career developments. After leaving the police force, he worked in television, eventually hosting a show on ESPN called “The Gamesman,” where he wrestled alligators, soared with the Blue Angels and took on other challenges.

He also began writing books.

The ÿrst, “LA’s Secret Police,” was published amid a furor over the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Rothmiller described the attempt on his life, suggesting a link with his investigation of drug cartels and arms shipments. He also mentioned his Colombian snitch. But the volume focused on a police spy campaign waged by Gates against California political ÿgures and Hollywood celebrities. Rothmiller’s revelations helped force the closure of the LAPD’s Orga-

nized Crime Intelligence Division — and, along with the riots, contributed to Gates’ departure as chief.

Rothmiller wrote more than a dozen books. He began paying attention to the Iran-Contra scandal, which included allegations that Reagan administration operatives coordinated with cocaine tra“ck ers to ÿnance military shipments to Nicaraguan insurgents. The Kerry Report of 1988, a U.S. Senate investigation, spelled out the Contra collaborations.

Rothmiller also followed investigations into the Mexico City torture and assassination of DEA Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena. Although the 1985 slaying initially was blamed on cartel leaders and corrupt Mexican o“cials, two former DEA o“cials in 2013 went public with claims that the CIA played a role.

Phil Jordan of Scottsdale, former head of the DEA’s El Paso Intelligence Center, and Hector Berrellez, a retired agent who oversaw the investigation into Camarena’s death, contend a CIA operative named Felix Rodriguez was present during Camarena’s torture, and the murder was carried out in part because the DEA agent had uncovered connections between cartels and Mexican airstrips used to ferry drugs and weapons for the Contra operation.

The CIA has denied involvement in Camarena’s death. Via email, an agency spokeswoman declined to provide records or answer questions about ÿgures in this story. However, the spokeswoman conÿrmed Rodriguez was a CIA operative.

Against that backdrop, Rothmiller ÿnally acted on his curiosity about El Negro, ÿling public-records requests with the FBI, the State Department and other agencies. Inquiries were stonewalled or denied, he says. Then, inexplicably, the FBI mailed him a CD full of classiÿed reports. The documents read like a spy novel with a stunning twist.

El Negro’s legend began in Cumpas, a Sonoran village about 100 miles south of the Arizona border, where Arturo Durazo Moreno grew up. López Portillo, the future Mexican president, was his neighbor and close friend.

Both entered government service. El Negro became a member of Mexico’s right-wing Guardias Blancas (White Guards), a militia notorious for violently quashing reformists during the 1960s.

When López Portillo ran for president in 1976, Durazo became his personal security chief.

That relationship proved troublesome for American authorities.

According to records obtained by

Rothmiller, just before López Portillo was sworn in, then-U.S. Ambassador Joseph Jova met with the presidentelect to warn about Durazo’s Florida cocaine indictment. Jova told López Portillo that Durazo could face arrest in the U.S. and urged him not to give El Negro a prominent government job. López Portillo ignored that request, creating a potential diplomatic nightmare.

But, as Rothmiller puts it, something very odd happened: “The U.S. agencies then conspire to remove the warrant from the Look-Out system. They keep the indictment secret and allow this cocaine tra“ck er to travel freely in and out of the U.S. during the next six years. ...

He (Durazo) held meetings with senior U.S. o“cials and, during the term of his appointment, continued his cocaine tra“cking, engaged in extortion, kickbacks and murder.”

By all accounts, Durazo used Mexico City’s federal police department as a personal crime syndicate. His o“cial salary was reportedly $1,000 per month, yet he amassed a fortune. There were mansions in Mexico and getaways in the U.S., Canada, Spain and elsewhere. One Mexican compound featured a horseracing track, a man-made lake, a casino and a discotheque. Another, replicating Greece’s Parthenon, is now a popular museum of corruption.

When López Portillo left o“ce in December 1982, the new president, De La Madrid, fulÿlled a reform promise by replacing the capital city’s police chief.

El Negro already was a subject of Mexican movies, books and ballads.

Now, a criminal probe was underway.

But the target, tipped o’ by insiders, slipped away — with help from a Colombian pal in Los Angeles.

Source Two conÿrms FBI reports that describe how he helped Durazo import vehicles to California, cash checks, seek visas and set up business meetings as an aide and conÿdante. Source Two said he solidiÿed trust by using his influence to get Durazo’s wife, Silvia, through U.S. Customs with gold elephant statues and $300,000 cash.

By late 1983, Durazo still had not been charged with a crime in Mexico, and there was no o“cial U.S. e’ ort to track him down.

But early the next year, an urgent bulletin was sent from the Los Angeles FBI o“ce to then-bureau Director William Webster: “THREAT TO KILL MEXICAN PRESIDENT MIGUEL DE LA MADRID ... THIS COMMUNICATION IS CLASSIFIED IN ITS ENTIRETY. LEGAT (legal attache for the FBI), MEXICO CITY, HAS DISSEMI-

NATED INFORMATION REGARDING THE ALLEGED THREAT BY DURAZO TO HAVE THE PRESIDENT OF MEXICO KILLED … MUCH CONCERN HAS BEEN GENERATED OVER THIS THREAT INASMUCH AS THE DEPUTY MEXICO FEDERAL ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS ADVISED THAT DURAZO MAY HAVE AS MUCH AS ONE BILLION DOLLARS AT HIS DISPOSAL.” According to the FBI, Durazo hoped that by eliminating Mexico’s new leader, he could avoid prosecution.

The alert described how the chief of Mexico’s Federal Security Directorate, José Antonio Zorrilla Peréz, had asked U.S. authorities if American agents could secretly capture Durazo in the U.S. — without a warrant or extradition — and haul him back to Mexico as a “forcible escorted deportation.”

Zorrilla, who claimed his government allowed U.S. agents to take similar actions in Mexico, was informed such a plan would be kidnapping — unacceptable and illegal.

The Mexican o“cial tried another tack, asking “WHAT WOULD BE THE RESULT IF SOMEONE WAS MERELY SENT TO KILL DURAZO?” The American legal attache answered that it would be “intolerable.”

The attache eventually suggested an alternate plan: American agents could launch a sting in hopes of drawing Durazo into a murder plot while inside the U.S. — a violation of the Neutrality Act. How would such an operation be carried out?

The attache explained: “BY HAVING U.S. SPECIAL AGENTS OF THE FBI POSE AS MERCENARIES CONTRACTED BY DURAZO TO ACCOMPLISH THE ASSASSINATION OF THE (Mexican) PRESIDENT, THUS CATCHING DURAZO IN AN OVERT ACT.” That same day, the FBI communique says, Mexico’s deputy attorney general conferred with U.S. Ambassador John Gavin and asked for a meeting with U.S. Attorney General William French Smith to request an “urgent, direct investigation by the FBI to resolve this threat.”

Federal agents learned of the Mexican assassination plot from informers in California.

The ÿrst, identiÿed in records only as “Source One,” was interviewed by FBI agents on Dec. 14, 1983. He claimed to be a close friend of the Durazo family and reported that a relative of El Negro told him, “They are going to kill the president” of Mexico.

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view with Source Two, who told U.S. agents he’d known El Negro for years and helped him relocate to Los Angeles.

According to Source Two, another of Durazo’s relatives was soliciting assistance for a presidential murder.

A week later, Source Two had a follow-up conversation with the Durazo relative about who might ÿnance the assassination, the FBI report says. Source Two said he was told El Negro would pay.

In o“cial reports, some FBI agents questioned Source Two’s trustworthiness. They wrote that several years earlier, he failed a polygraph test and was “discontinued with prejudice” as an operative.

Nevertheless, a key FBI memo concluded Source Two was “very reliable,” and he might be the crucial go-between in an undercover operation.

During interviews with The Republic, Source Two denied failing any polygraph test or possessing stolen property. He said he earned a reputation for integrity.

According to FBI records, Durazo lived a “playboy lifestyle,” theoretically making him easy to locate.

He frequented the ritzy Westwood Marquis Hotel in Los Angeles. He bought a condo in nearby tower where the top ‘oor cost $11 million, including helipad.

Perhaps more importantly, as a former police chief, El Negro had vast resources. Agents believed he was getting intelligence from law-enforcement ÿgures in the U.S. and Mexico. Because of that, FBI bulletins were top secret — not even entered into a national crime computer.

Durazo’s crony network included prominent American politicians, judges, police chiefs and federal agents, as well as o“cials overseas.

In March 1984 , assassination fears peaked as President De La Madrid scheduled a spring visit to Washington, D.C. The U.S. Secret Service was warned with a teletype that stressed, “THIS MATTER IS BEING GIVEN THE HIGHEST PRIORITY.” On March 6 of that year, the FBI Terrorism Section in Los Angeles asked bureau headquarters for permission to launch a sting.

A decision from headquarters arrived March 23: “THE POSSIBLE RESULTS THAT COULD BE OBTAINED BY THIS UCO (undercover operation) WOULD NOT JUSTIFY THE RISKS AND EXPENSES … APPROVAL TO CONDUCT

UCO IS NOT BEING GRANTED AT THIS TIME.”

By June 1984 , the threat of a De la Madrid assassination was prompting executive-level communications. A teletype to FBI headquarters noted: “The President of Mexico, MIGUEL DE LA MADRID, has personally conveyed this sense of urgency to the President of the United States, RONALD REAGAN, Attorney General WILLIAM FRENCH SMITH, and FBI Director WILLIAM WEBSTER.” That month, Mexican courts ÿnally charged Durazo with extortion, illegal arms possession and tax violations.

The search continued for weeks with dead-end leads. Then, in late June, FBI agents got a tip: Durazo would be arriving by plane at the airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to meet family members.

A federal greeting party was dispatched. Shortly after the ‘ight landed, news shot across the FBI teletype: “SAN JUAN DIVISION ARRESTED CAPTIONED SUBJECT, ARTURO DURAZO, ON 6-29-84 WITHOUT INCIDENT ...

SUICIDAL TENDENCIES.” El Negro was ‘o wn to Los Angeles. In court, a defense attorney told the judge Durazo would not survive extradition because he held too many secrets about powerful people. “You can’t return this man to Mexico,” the lawyer said. “He’ll be executed somewhere along the line.”

The prediction proved wrong. Durazo was convicted in Mexico and sentenced to 25 years. He was paroled after serving just seven, and died of natural causes in 2000.

But for Rothmiller, a riddle continued to nag — not just about El Negro or the CIA, but about why someone had tried to gun him down more than three decades ago.

It was not until 2013, when former DEA agents Berrellez and Jordan went public with allegations about a CIA role in Camarena’s death, that Rothmiller ÿled a swarm of records requests under the Freedom of Information Act. Sorting through the ÿles, the former detective no longer wonders how Durazo’s cocaine indictment vanished, or who protected him: “I’m convinced it was the CIA because of the Contra thing,” he says. “The weapons running.”

In his book, Rothmiller contends El Negro was “an integral player in this top-secret operation.”

Rothmiller admits there’s no smoking-gun proof. But, at least for an ex-cop who worked intelligence, circumstantial evidence ÿts like pieces cut with a jigsaw.

“If you had a puzzle of Abe Lincoln, and you had everything but his eyes, you’d say, ‘Oh, that’s Lincoln,’ ” he says.

“It kind of completes the circle.”

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