DPS remembered one of the states fallen Troopers Wednesday. 41-year old Sgt. Michael Crowe was killed on July 4-th, 1995. Crowe was shot to death, along with Yuma Police Department Lt. Dan Elkins, after they arrived at the Southwest Border Alliance headquarters building near the Yuma International Airport. The two were members of the SBA task force and had agreed to meet at the building to discuss missing items from the SBA property room. Upon entering the building, they interrupted a burglary in progress and were shot by the intruder. Yuma police arrested Jack Ray Hudson, a Yuma County Sheriff’s Office Deputy, as a suspect in the double murder. The deputy was a fellow member of the same narcotics task force and was later convicted of the homicides; he was sentenced to life in prison.
