I'm gonna have to go check the other links, because this sounds unusual given the little I know about Apache Junction....it's an outlying suburb of Mesa, which in turn is a suburb of Phoenix - my impression of a few days there is that it's a pretty much Whitebread, retiree, "trailer people" kind of burg.
The demographics as I know 'em make the story a little confusing to me...
The Valley is over-run now with Mexicans, Ern. You wouldn't recognize it at all.
If you can, pull up the Arizona message board from 'My Locale' to see all that's being said about this incident.