Crime log: Pima strike team’s work leads to arrest in Arivaca

A teenager was arrested Wednesday morning in connection with an Oct. 27 residential burglary in Arivaca, and officials say he may be linked with other recent burglaries.

Dustin William Tracy, 18, of Arivaca, was arrested on one count of second-degree burglary and booked into the Pima County Adult Detention Center.

At a town meeting last week attended by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department’s Burglary Unit and the U.S. Border Patrol, officers announced that they had been trying to locate Tracy, who was a suspect in at least one of the 22 burglaries that, over the past three months, have created fear and uneasiness in the small community.

A media release from the Pima County Sheriff’s department said that their Fugitive Investigative Strike Team developed information leading them to an address in the 2800 block of South Cottonwood Lane in Arivaca, where Tracy was apprehended.

A 36-year-old Nogales woman was killed Saturday morning in an accident on Interstate 19 near Kilometer 8.

Claudia Gutierrez drifted off the roadway and hit an embankment at 3:30 a.m., a spokesperson for the Arizona Department of Public Safety said Saturday.