Last weekend, several neighbors living in the Eagles Point Estates on Tucson’s west side agreed it was quiet for the first Sunday in months. Pima County Sheriff’s Department shared it’s efforts to strictly enforce trespassing in a popular off-roading area starting August 23rd.
Pima County Sheriff’s Department Facebook Amber Villareal and Jeremy Raymond both reached out to KGUN 9 following the weekend of August 18th. They recalled this was the second consecutive weekend they’d heard gunfire coming from the desert area.
Both started recording what they heard, and Amber even took her personal drone to get a look for herself.
Amber Villareal “I was fed up at this point. And being able to show people that through video or audio is the only way people can wrap their heads around what’s happening enough to do something about it,” she said.
She described what looked like hundreds of off-roading vehicles in the desert area behind her neighborhood. Before this, she said she had been hearing the racing and seeing the dust every Sunday before moving in.