Sixto O. Molina Jr.’s prominent career in Tucson-area law enforcement got its unofficial start when he was in elementary school.
David Leighton For the Arizona Daily Star Sixto O. Molina Jr.’s prominent career in Tucson-area law enforcement began while he was a student at C.E. Rose Elementary School.
From Rose Elementary, Molina went on to Wakefield Junior High and then, in 1965, to Pueblo High School. In March 1972, after graduating from Pueblo and continuing to work at Saccani’s, Molina got hired by the South Tucson Police Department as the police and fire dispatcher and jailer. He typed up the booking sheet for the prisoners incarcerated in one of the two cells.
The team was created because the relationship between police and west-side residents was strained. Residents had been complaining that when they called for help it took too long for officers to show up, he recalls, and this was during a period when heroine deaths, particularly among youths, was a serious issue.
While in this unit, he noticed a pattern of assaults that were indicative of big city street gangs, which weren’t really known in Tucson until this point. It became apparent to the task force members that the sudden rise in street gang numbers and in violence was due, at least in part, to the film Boulevards Nights that had come out the year before.By October 1986, Molina was transferred to homicide detail, this time as a sergeant, with a team of four detectives under his watch. He and his team responded to all homicides, suicides and deaths that were suspicious in nature. They also handled missing persons’ cases, which numbered in the hundreds.
In 1997 he was hired as chief of police for the city of South Tucson. His main duty was crime control, with the principal issues he confronted at the onset being narcotics and prostitution.
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