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A 4-year-old girl was pulled from a pool Sunday, but was alert and breathing when paramedics arrived.

Tempe fire officials said the girl somehow ended up face down in a backyard swimming pool, located near Guadalupe and Kyrene roads, about 11:45 a.m. She was discovered quickly after her family couldn’t find her in the home.

The child’s grandfather pulled her out of the pool and began CPR until paramedics arrived.

She was taken to a local hospital as a precaution.

Officials said there was a gate around the pool, but the child somehow still gained access.

Tempe police are searching for a man who crashed into three vehicles Sunday and ran away before police could catch him.

Tempe police spokesman Sgt. Scott Smith said a young man driving northbound on McClintock Drive near Rio Salado Parkway rear-ended a vehicle, then tried to head north to Loop 202 but veered left of center and sideswiped  the vehicle of a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Deputy, who was driving to work. After the second collision, the man overcorrected and struck a third vehicle, Smith said.

The driver then ran south on McClintock Drive and hasn’t been located.

Police arrested the passenger of the vehicle, who was a 20-year-old man under the influence of alcohol. It’s unknown if alcohol was a factor in the crash.

An investigation is ongoing.

An undercover Mesa police officer was threatened by a nunchuck-wielding suspected crack cocaine dealer Tuesday, according to court records.

Court records show the police officer had just met two women at the Village Motel, 2130 W. Main St., about 11 p.m. to purchase crack cocaine in an undercover drug buy, but was prevented from leaving.

The two women kept the officer in the hotel room because they wanted him to smoke crack, and then one threatened him with nunchucks and tried to grab him.

The undercover officer identified himself and took both women into custody with the help of other officers who were backing him up, court records say.

Ebony Wilson, 22, and Vanessa Williams, 39, both homeless, were arrested on suspicion of sale of a narcotic drug, possession of a narcotic drug, aggravated assault and possession of drug paraphernalia, court records say.

Wilson is pregnant and has previous convictions for shoplifting, criminal damage and prostitution, and Williams has previous convictions for prostitution, possession of drug paraphernalia and assault, court records say.

Two police officers who accidentally discharged their weapons on July 18 have been disciplined, according to memos the Chandler police department released Thursday.

Detective Ron Kelley was given a letter of reprimand for violating a policy involving handling a firearm in a careless or reckless manner and officer Marc Olivier was suspended for one day without pay for a similar policy violation.

The memo shows Olivier received a harsher penalty because the accidental discharge was the second sustained violation in the past year. Olivier will also be placed on a 90-day re-evaluation.

The memo said Olivier accidentally discharged his rifle while attempting to “clear the weapon after returning from a Special Assignment Unit call out.”

No one was injured in either shooting.

Neither memo explains how the incidents occurred and what caused the officers to accidentally shoot their guns. Police wouldn’t release any additional information.

The Chandler police department didn’t comply with a public records request asking for the internal affairs investigation and only released memos.