Sonora

But, you know, now that I'm older and basically my days of flying for hire over with, I'm done having my weekends and holidays ruined and all that, kind of been there, done that.

You know, when I fly, I do get to look out the window more depending on what's going on, but To live where we live and see it from there, I feel bad for a lot of people who live in Arizona and can see it from there because, first of all, you know, it's been said that driving from Phoenix to Flagstaff is the same as driving from Sonora, Mexico, to British Columbia in terms of geographic and climatic changes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Been there, seen that.

Yeah, but, yeah, you drop down in, and, you know, I...

Flagstaff's a beautiful place, but we grew up in the Sonora Desert, and I miss it.

It was just neat to be down there and see the saguaros and everything else.

We have here a 30-year-old Prescott, Arizona man that was killed in a violent confrontation with law enforcement south of the border, according to the police.

Sonora State prosecutors announced Monday that Ernesto Rascón, a U.S. citizen with an American criminal history background, was killed Saturday during a raid in Agua Prieta, which is right over the border from Douglas, Arizona.

Investigators had identified the Arizona resident as a prime suspect in an October 15th execution-style slaying of a dentist in Mexico named Ahmed de Jesus Preciado Hernandez.

All right, so this Arizona man murdered a dentist for what reason? Driving over the border into Mexico to murder a Mexican dentist? According to the Sonora State Attorney General's office, the deadly chain of events began when the Arizona man arrived at the dental clinic in a very angry state, demanding immediate treatment for an issue tied to a previous dental procedure.

When the dentist explained that he was unable to attend to him at that moment, They say Rascón, the Arizona man, waited outside the practice, stalked the dentist all the way to his pickup truck, and shot him multiple times.

What? Because you couldn't get an appointment? Now, I've known toothaches to be pretty bad, and they'll drive you crazy if they linger over time.

We had gallon water jugs made of black plastic so they wouldn't reflect the sunlight, backpacks with the bare essentials, and camouflage clothing or clothes in colors similar to the earth.

They left us in an area of the altar desert in Sonora, already very close to the border, but at a spot where the terrain was nothing but loose soil, thorny bushes, and hot rocks.

It was five in the morning, and the heat already felt sticky, even though the sun was only just beginning to rise.

We started walking.

Ruh.

Clack.

If anyone is in Sonora, around the Pinnacate area, and sees a child alone for the sake of everything you hold dear, don't stop.

Don't give him water.

She did have a temper and she was stubborn, but she was an amazing person.

Anna was born in Grand Junction, Colorado, but she moved back and forth between the city and her mother's home of Agua Prieta in Sonora, Mexico.

When she first came from Mexico, I remember she hardly knew any English.

And she learned it.

So we turn to the drug use, and then our emotional and our financial pressures, they mount, they grow.

And then we then turn to the drugs again, and then we fall into this loop that becomes really difficult to find our way out of.

Eventually, on Friday, March 5th, Ana and her mother arranged that Ana would drive down to Sonora, Mexico to collect her children that weekend.

Come Sunday, I get a call from my mom, and she was like, hey, have you heard from Ana? Nobody's heard from her.