PHOENIX (AP) — A lawyer for an Arizona elected official charged in three states with facilitating an illegal international adoption scheme said Tuesday prosecutors have miscast his client as a human smuggler. Attorney Matt Long said Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen cares deeply for the mothers from the Marshall Islands […]
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas judge ruled Friday that the court will decide individual outcomes to 19 statewide adoption cases against an Arizona elected official accused of human trafficking. Paul Petersen, a Republican county assessor in Arizona, was arrested Tuesday for running what authorities call a human smuggling scheme. […]
PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona elected official facing human smuggling charges over an adoption scheme is in federal custody. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in Phoenix said Friday that County Assessor Paul Petersen was no longer in their jail. It was not immediately known where he was transferred. Petersen is […]
PHOENIX (AP) — The Latest on an Arizona county official accused of human smuggling in an adoption fraud scheme (all times local): 1:38 p.m. Officials in three states say they will not try to undo or interfere with dozens of adoptions done as part of a human smuggling scheme that […]
