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Police seek acceptance of $100,850 Operation Stone Garden grant; chief cites interdiction results
Summary
Sierra Vista Police Department requested council approval to accept $100,850 in Operation Stone Garden funding for overtime and mileage. The police chief provided deployment statistics — including 298 deployments for Feb. 2024 and several seizures — to illustrate the program's local impact.
The Sierra Vista Police Department asked the council to accept $100,850 in Operation Stone Garden grant funds for overtime and mileage reimbursement.
"This one is in the amount of $100,850 for overtime and mileage reimbursement," the Police Chief said, describing a long-running participation in the program dating to 2005. The chief said Stone Garden deployments operate south of town in areas such as Hereford and Palominas and that immigration-related matters encountered in the course of operations are turned over to U.S. Border Patrol.
To illustrate the grant's local impact, the chief provided statistics for the Stone Garden deployments for February 2024: 298 deployments, 680 traffic stops resulting in 393 citations or warnings, 37 subjects turned over to the Border Patrol, 12 human-smuggling cases, 11 criminal prosecutions (misdemeanor and felony), 33 vehicle seizures, two firearm seizures, $3,909 in currency seized and 15 drug seizures including fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine.
Council members thanked the chief and police officers and said the deployments explain why Sierra Vista officers operate in nearby communities. No formal vote on acceptance of the grant appears in the transcript.
