Cop Shop

A fist fight in a Mesa grocery store ended in the arrest of one man Friday.

Court records show Roderick Grant, 21, of Mesa was arrested about 4 p.m. on suspicion of disorderly conduct, disorderly conduct with a weapon and aggravated DUI. He was booked into Mesa City Jail.

Records show the suspect got into a fight at Food City, 822 S. Alma School Road, and that witnesses thought they saw him waving a gun.

Police later found a handgun under the front seat of his car.

Grant did not admit to using the gun at the scene. He had bloodshot, watery eyes, slurred speech and smelled like alcohol when police arrested him, court records show. Also, he had his baby daughter in the car.

Police are searching for more information in a Mesa graduation party fight Saturday where a man was hit in the head with a gun and a woman had a gun pointed at her face. Police said the aggravated assault occurred in the 600 block of N. Elm about 11:45 p.m. A police helicopter flew over the scene and spotted people running away, but when officers arrived they were told there was no one with a gun.

Later on, some of the party-goers told another officer about the aggravated assaults and said they occurred after five unknown men had showed up at the party uninvited.

Police said they couldn’t locate the man who was hit with the gun and were given very little information about the suspects.

Police are calling a Mesa fire ’suspicious’ after fire crews arrived to find smoke billowing out a first story motel room at the Colonade Motel Suites on Saturday.

The motel, located near the intersection of Main Street and Higley Road, reported the blaze at 1:58 a.m., according to Mesa fire spokesman Rick Apple. Fire crews arrived five minutes later and had the flames extinguished within 15 minutes.

The cause of the fire is still unknown and is being investigated by police, Apple said.

No one was injured and no other rooms were affected. Apple estimated the damage to be around $50,000.

A 28-year-old man was sentenced Friday to 15½ years in prison for shooting and killing a Mesa woman July 18.
A jury convicted Renato Colorodo-Molina March 31 on a count of manslaughter for the death of Candice Plumb, 22.
Colorado told police he accidently shot her in an apartment at 1809 E. Broadway Road.
When police arrived at the apartment, Plumb was seriously wounded. She died later at a hospital.