Do you own property in a neighborhood threatened by criminals and drug dealers?  Do you want to be a good neighbor and help make your neighborhood safer for everyone?  Certain crimes occurring on rental property constitute grounds for you to evict tenants in an expedited fashion under Arizona’s Landlord-Tenant statutes.
The Pima County Attorney's Office is committed to crime free neighborhoods, and we have a resource to help neighborhoods that suffer from criminal activity.  We have a prosecutor assigned to work on neighborhood protection issues.  Our neighborhood protection prosecutor can provide you with the information you need to conduct expedited evictions based on criminal activity occurring on rental property.   
Our neighborhood protection prosecutor can give you a copy of the specific eviction statutes that allow you to remove tenants who break the law and that describe the required procedures for conducting the eviction.  The prosecutor can also tell you how to contact the law enforcement agency that investigated the criminal activity so that you can contact the agency and obtain reports and witnesses for the eviction process. 
We are asking you to make use of these statutes and procedures to evict criminals from your property. 
The neighborhood protection prosecutor is Brad Holland, Deputy County Attorney.  He can be contacted best via email at Brad.Holland@pcao.pima.gov.  In your email please provide your name and current contact information, the address of your property, describe the criminal activity occurring at the property, and provide the name of any law enforcement agency or specific officer you may have been in contact with.  Brad Holland’s phone number is (520) 740-5526. 

Here's what you can do:

• First, landlords can pre-screen tenants.  Landlords have the right to ask prospective renters to approve public records searches before prospective renters are accepted as tenants.  Landlords can find out if a prospective renter has had criminal involvement which might affect their being a law abiding tenant.  One resource for screening prospective renters is the following website: Black Book Online.
  
  
• Second, landlords can copy our CRIME FREE LEASE ADDENDUM (PDF) and include it in every lease with every tenant, whether there is a written lease or verbal agreement, and whether the rental period is month to month or a longer term.  The addendum makes it clear to tenants where the landlord stands regarding criminal activity occurring on the property and the consequences if criminal activity takes place.
  
  
• Third, landlords can follow through and evict tenants who fail to abide by the law, especially when the landlord learns that illegal drugs or weapons are being housed on the property.  Our neighborhood protection prosecutor is available to provide landlords with a copy of the eviction statutes and to put landlords in contact with the appropriate law enforcement agency so they can obtain reports and witnesses.

Criminal activity in neighborhoods makes good people feel unsafe and afraid for themselves, their children and their families.  Criminal activity on rented property is a problem that can be solved when everyone does his/her part to make it stop. 

Please work with us to combat crime in all our neighborhoods and make our community a safer place to live.  Call the neighborhood protection prosecutor for further information.  You can also visit the other sections of this website for additional information about our other crime prevention and public safety programs.  We must all work together to increase public safety and reduce crime.