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A police dog caught a suspect in the stick-up of a Mesa convenience store early Thursday.
The unidentified juvenile suffered puncture wounds to his upper right thigh when K-9 Jake bit him, police said. After treatment at Banner Baywood Medical Center, the suspect was arrested and booked.
According to police, around 1:30 a.m. a white male carrying a black backpack and wearing a grey hooded zip-up sweatshirt and a black bandana entered the Shell station at 6806 E. Brown Road. He displayed a handgun, took money and cigarettes, and then ran north on Power Road.
Responding police saw the suspect running through the parking lot of a church in the 1400 block of North Power Road. Soon after, police found the backpack, which contained the money, cigarettes and a pellet handgun.
While searching the east side of 67th street between Princess Drive and McLellan Road, an officer and Jake flushed the suspect from his hiding location.
The suspect ran west to 1508 N. 67th St., where he attempted to hide in a child’s tree house. Jake again found the suspect and made the capture.

Two Mesa plain clothes police officers in an unmarked vehicle working a special crime detail believe they may have been shot at Monday night. 

The incident occurred at around 11:15 p.m. in the 2000 block of West  Southern Avenue. Police saw two men they believe were acting suspiciously get into a car and leave a parking lot. Officers observed that the car didn’t have a rear license plate. They followed the vehicle and requested a marked patrol car to their location to make a stop on the vehicle.

While following the vehicle, its driver turned onto West Eighth Avenue from Dobson Road traveling westbound. As officers followed the vehicle in the area of South El Dorado, they heard what sounded like a gunshot behind them. They observed a vehicle approach them from the rear quickly and heard another gunshot and saw the flash of a gun. The officers put out a request for assistance and continued west into Tempe on East Balboa. The vehicle the shots were fired from fled from the scene as well as the original vehicle they were following. The officers stopped at the dead end of East Balboa at South George Drive.  While waiting for marked units, the original vehicle police followed returned on East Balboa and was stopped by uniformed officers.

The individuals from the vehicle were detained for the investigation.  No one was injured and no arrests have been made.

At about 4 p.m. Sunday, loss prevention workers at Mervyns, 1240 E. Main St. in Mesa, saw several people taking merchandise without paying. According to a police report, a Mervyns employee assisted the individuals in the theft.

On more than one occasion, the individuals brought items to a register, but paid only a few dollars for the merchandise, according to the report.  A 16 year-old clerk charged $15 to $25 for each transaction. In one case, the clerk took no money.

Three adults and three juveniles could be charged with commercial theft. Police recovered more than $5,000 worth of merchandise. They are looking for two other people, along with approximately $2,300 in merchandise.

A Mesa gas station fell prey to robbers early Tuesday.
Police said the Mobil station at 1210 S. Higley Road was hit shortly before 4 a.m. Two men entered the station’s convenience store and demanded money from the register.
After taking money and cigarettes, the suspects fled in a red Pontiac Grand Am, heading west on Southern Avenue.
The suspects were described as two black males in their early 20s.

A Mesa woman suffering from mental illnesses has been missing for a week.
Georgia Marie Andrews, 43, was last seen the morning of Oct. 16 at her residence near Broadway Road and Greenfield Road.
Andrews has no vehicle, but she may take the bus. She should have only a cell phone and keys with her, police said.
Andrews has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and takes prescribed medication for these conditions. However, she does not have the drugs with her.
Andrews has made no suicide threats, but about a year go she tried to kill herself through a drug overdose.
Andrews is described as a black woman, 5-feet-6-inches in height and weighing 125 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with information on Andrews’ whereabouts is encouraged to call Mesa police at (480) 644-2211 or contact their local law enforcement agency.

Police are seeking a man who recently robbed a Mesa pharmacy of prescription drugs.
The man used a note and a hoax bomb in a paper bag to take Oxycontin and Oxycodone from a CVS Pharmacy, 2809 S. Sossaman Road, on Oct. 16.
No one was injured in the incident.
The suspect is described as a white male appearing to be 6 feet tall, approximately 200 pounds with a slim build and brown hair. He was seen wearing a dark bandana, sunglasses and a black jacket with skulls.
Anyone with information is urged to call Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS (946-6377).

Mesa police are searching for three men suspected in a home invasion robbery.
One victim sustained minor injuries during Wednesday evening’s incident at an apartment in the 1000 block of South Stewart Street, north of Fiesta Mall. Also, a laptop computer was stolen.
According to police, around 6:40 p.m. a man known by the name “Meteo” arrived at victims’ apartment looking for an ex-roommate of theirs. Meteo said the ex-roommate owed him money for drugs.
After a few minutes, Meteo unlocked the apartment’s front door, pulled out a black handgun and demanded money. That’s when the two other suspects entered.
The three men assaulted the two occupants before fleeing, with Meteo grabbing the laptop on the way out.
Police describe Meteo as a white male in his 30s, 6 feet tall with a skinny build and short brown hail. He was wearing khaki shorts.
The second suspect is a white male in his late 20s, 6 feet tall and 200 pounds, with his shaggy brown hair in a ponytail. He was wearing a large blue T-shirt and jeans.
The third man is Hispanic, also in his late 20s, standing 5-feet-10-inches tall and weighing 180 pounds. He wore a white tank top and silver basketball shorts, and had tattoos on his face near both eyes.