Archive for May, 2008
May 28th, 2008, 4:19 pm by Katie McDevitt
A fast food drive-thru clerk was held at gunpoint early Wednesday and nearly robbed.
Despite the gunman’s quick getaway and blue bandannas covering his face and license plate, police caught up with a suspect and arrested him.
Miguel Hernandez, 20, of Mesa was taken into custody on suspicion of attempted armed robbery.
Shortly after the incident, the suspect drove off in a white Honda Civic and police officers noticed a vehicle matching that description pull into a gas station at Val Vista Drive and Main Street.
When the driver noticed police in the area, he quickly reversed and left speeding away. Police pulled the man over in a traffic stop, even though the clerk had not yet called 911 due to customers in his store. While talking with Hernandez, the robbery call came out over the police radio and he was arrested.
Police said the clerk identified the vehicle and driver in the robbery.
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May 28th, 2008, 3:07 pm by davidbiscobing
A pair of suspected drug dealers in the Johnson Ranch area was arrested Friday after a month-long investigation by Pinal County authorities. Genaro Maduena, 35, and Reyna Encinas-Montijo, 41, were apprehended at a grocery store near Hunt Highway and Bella Vista Drive by the Pinal County Narcotics Task Force, which bought drugs from the two several times during recent weeks, sheriff’s officials said.Authorities found methamphetamine and cocaine on the suspects that were packaged for sale. They also had their children present during many of the drug buys, sheriff’s officials said. Maduena and Encinas-Montijo were booked on several drug and child abuse charges.
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May 28th, 2008, 3:06 pm by davidbiscobing
Police arrested a 26-year-old man Tuesday night who’s accused of kidnapping a Gilbert woman and demanding ransom. Alex Madrid, of Mesa, was arrested just before 7:30 p.m. at a Chandler Wal-Mart after fleeing officers, police said. The victim, whose name hasn’t been released, was involved in a year-long relationship with Madrid and left voluntarily with him last Thursday. But at 11 a.m. Tuesday, the victim contacted her parents and told them that Madrid was holding her against her will and demanding money, police said. Madrid also may have assaulted the woman. But she did not suffer major injuries, police said.
Madrid was booked on suspicion of kidnapping.
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May 27th, 2008, 8:56 pm by Eddi Trevizo
Fire officials from Rural Metro were battling flames from a hay fire at a barn nearGermann and Ellsworth Roads in Queen Creek Tuesday.
The flames , which began around 6 p.m. at a dairy farm engulfed a barn and a nearby building but were under control and had not spread further Tuesday night, according to fire officials.
There were no reported injuries or livestock injuries though officials expect the flames to smoke and smolder for at least another day after the flames are put out.
According to Rural Metro officials the cause of the fire is still unknown, although they estimate that approximately 600 bales of hay went up in flames.
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May 27th, 2008, 2:38 pm by Patti Epler
By Ming Wen
Mesa police on Saturday arrested a man who had been wanted for months in connection with an assault case.
Orvil Gabriel Senday was arrested at his mother’s home, 562 W. 8th St., after briefly barricading himself inside the house.
Police said Senday had been wanted since December after punching a woman who had approached him about her missing cell phone. In that incident, Senday allegedly hit the woman in the face and then knocked her down and ran from the apartment where they had been talking. She was taken to the hospital where she needed six stitches.
Police found Senday at his mother’s home late Saturday night. He was booked on suspicion of aggravated assault. He also had two felony warrants outstanding.
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May 27th, 2008, 11:26 am by Gary Grado
A Tempe man facing a SWAT team surrounding his apartment surrendered peacefully Sunday.
According to Tempe police, a resident at a townhome community at 1216 E. Vista Del Cerro Drive reported that Dustin McCornack, 24, had threatened him with a rifle about 4:45 a.m.
McCornack spoke with officers as he stood on his balcony, telling them there was a misunderstanding and he didn’t point a rifle at anyone.
He went inside and refused to come out, so a SWAT team responded.
Investigators found two rifles and a shotgun.
He was booked on one count of aggravated assault with a firearm.
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May 27th, 2008, 10:56 am by Gary Grado
The body of a Chandler man who had been missing since March 22 was found Friday by a hiker.
James Martinson, 37, was found about a mile from Interstate 17 near the Stoneman Lake Road exit, which is an area where rescuers searched extensively when he disappeared.
Martinson, who commuted between Flagstaff, where he lived and worked during the week, and Chandler, where he shared a home with his wife, left behind his cell phone, computer, and wallet in his car, which was left unlocked at the Stoneman Lake exit.
Dwight D’Evelyn, Yavapai County sheriff’s spokesman, said recently that it appeared his disappearance was voluntary and no foul play was involved.
In a press release Friday, the sheriff’s office said it appears Martinson committed suicide.
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May 27th, 2008, 10:56 am by Gary Grado
Gilbert police arrested a 39-year-old man Monday on suspicion of exposing himself in public.
Police said Javier Sanchez exposed himself in front of a home in the 1600 block of East Indigo Street and police later stopped him while he was riding his bicycle around the neighborhood.
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May 27th, 2008, 10:55 am by Gary Grado
A dog bit a Gilbert cop Saturday as he tried to help a driver involved a car crash.
According to Gilbert police, the 38-year-old driver suffered an apparent seizure as he drove his car north on Higley Road near Ocotillo Road, where he left the road and into a construction site and eventually a field.
The car got stuck in the mud and the officer saw the driver continuing to have a seizure, so he broke out the window and reached in to put the car into park.
The dog, which had been in the back seat, bit the officer’s hand.
Police say pepper spray was used on the animal to gain control of it.
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May 26th, 2008, 7:51 pm by Katie McDevitt
Two young men ended up in jail Saturday in connection with stealing dozens of rafts from Mesa’s Golfland Sunsplash.
According to court records, Joe Black and Andrew Holstein, both 21 and of Mesa, were involved in the crime.
Police suspect Holstein broke into the amusement park before 2 a.m. and grabbed the boxes and threw them over the fence, while Black loaded them into the bed of a truck.
Black told police the pair had left a party and that he didn’t know what they were “getting” from Golfland Sunsplash,, but that he knew the boxes contained some type of items. Holstein invoked his right not to incriminate himself and didn’t talk about the crime with police, records show.
The two men were booked into Mesa City Jail. Black is suspected of first degree burglary and Holstein is suspected of burglary and possession of burglary tools.
Court records show a witness at a local business alerted police to the burglary while it was occurring.
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