"We will be out there watching traffic, requesting assistance from DPS, Cochise County to help out with traffic enforcement and officer backup," Talvy said.

Talvy added that the department will also be out patrolling for smugglers as well as drug dealers during the Founders Day weekend.

Recently, a routine Border Patrol checkpoint stop led to the arrest of a man smuggling illegal immigrants who was under the influence of alcohol and in possession of methamphetamines.

Though he has stated his hard stance on drugs in the past, Talvy had said he does not consider alcohol to be a cause for concern in the city. The Border Patrol incident, as well as two DUI arrests earlier in the month, has changed that.

"Alcohol is becoming a big issue now," Talvy said, "And now we are aggressively working the road for DUI drivers."

Although the methods for discovering drivers who are under the influence will not change, Talvy said he and his deputies will be more attentive to finding them during their normal patrols and daily duties.

Talvy said he's not overly concerned about normal Founders Day activities. "What I am worried about is when (visistors) get into cars."

With potentially 20,000 visitors in the city and up to seven bars in the city within walking distance, Talvy said he hopes people use proper judgment. He said festival-goers should have a designated driver available and, if absolutely necessary, he will make one of his deputies available to drive an intoxicated individual to their place of residence.

According to recent statistics released by the governor's office, drunken driving is not only rising in Tombstone, but across Arizona as well. In 2009 there were 3,500 more arrests than in 2008. The majority of the arrests came between Thanksgiving and New Year's with authorities netting 4,500 drunk drivers.

In 2008, Alcoholalert.com, a national webpage with driving impairment statistics, rated Arizona 16th in the nation with 329 alcohol related fatalities. Texas had the most with 1,463 motorists losing their lives while the District of Columbia was last with only 39 deaths.

With DUI on the rise, another potential issue that has Talvy's attention is the city's drug related activity. Despite only six misdemeanor arrests in Tombstone for the year, Arizona, between Cochise, Graham, Santa Cruz and Pima counties, has seized approximately 18,000 pounds of marijuana in 2010, Talvy said.

Marijuana has been a predominant drug of concern for the marshal.

Talvy worries that the drug usage will rise in the wake of a large marijuana harvest in Mexico, prompting him to use funds from Operation Stonegarden to conduct special details.

Talvy said that the department will do its best to have an evolving and unpredictable pattern to search for illegal immigrants and drugs in the coming months. He points to the presence of scouts, a sort of lookout for drug runners, present throughout the city, which have been difficult to account for.

"There are scouts out here every day," Talvy said. "(They're) watching where officers make stops, watching...Border Patrol, Cochise County Sheriff's Department, our department, Sierra Vista [police department]. They are placed everywhere...so they can see what kind of activity is going on."

Talvy said the scouts' abundant presence in the city is the biggest issue with trafficking, forcing the department to employ special details to curtail the problem.

The special details Talvy is looking to implement include additional patrols that can push the hours of deputy marshals to "an average of another shift."

While allocating more hours to deputies for patrols, Talvy said he is a little worried about fatigue setting in. To require the deputies to work a normal shift and then send them into the field for special details might lead to more than normal wear and tear.

Talvy said the move is necessary.

"So we're going to take a hard stance on all these druggies," Talvy said. "They have to know I am not going to play around anymore."

Talvy believes methamphetamine use is growing, but only two meth-related arrests have been made this year.

He also is concerned about what he perceives as increased drug use at the high school.

Talvy said prescription drug abuse happens on the 360-student campus. Talvy describes these drugs as gateway drugs. Vicadin, Xanex and Tylenol are among the most popular drugs found on campus.

"Now prescription abuse is going to lead to another type of drug," said Talvy. "That's what's leading to marijuana."

Principal Robert Devere said that the drugs in his high school are like those in any other public high school.

"We work more aggressively than any other school to prevent them and eradicate them," he said. "We bring in drug dogs and search on a reasonable suspicion."

Devere said he has not seen a rising or falling trend of usage in the classroom, which he credits to the school's preparedness.

"We've gotten better at recognizing it, finding it and preventing it as well as catching it," he said.

Yet with the recent events involving alcohol and Founders Day on the coming horizon, Talvy still is concerned about the safety of his city.

"I am going to take a hard stance," he said.