Police investigate locked gate near canal in Mesa, Mesa AZ
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Suspicious ActivityAccording to the dispatch call, police are investigating suspicious activity near a canal and locked gate in Mesa, Arizona. Officers are working to access the area using bolt cutters and are discussing the use of pepperball and potential weapons found in a vehicle.
Audio|Heard on: Mesa Police Department Central Patrol District
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06:0
Transcript:
00:00
Are you able to direct a vehicle directly to the contact team?
00:10
Acknowledged.
00:19
Whoever's responding come Coast 3-11.
00:26
Some of the contact team set up here on top, we could get one more body, that'd be good.
00:36
I'm getting more units from Super.
00:44
The access point on the horn has a gate that's blocking it.
00:48
I don't see how I can get to a car on the small canal otherwise.
00:57
When someone takes my spot at near East June, I can get my motorcycle up there for PA.
01:05
We get 22 to Falcon.
01:06
The access I'm looking at is off of McKellips.
01:09
If they come off McKellips and drive south, they can come to us, not on the canal, the little side street.
01:17
Okay, yeah, I've got a unit.
01:18
It looks like turning in there now.
01:21
So the units are yeah, turn sharp right, follow that.
01:28
Baker 41 on 2.
01:33
To Baker 41 and to Baker 51, start for this canal just west of State Leon in the Coups.
01:43
It's awesome for the Lincoln unit.
01:45
It looks like there's a key there, too.
01:47
They're seeing if they have a keycard.
01:53
Baker 16, I'm coming back on the scene, where do you need me?
02:01
If we could get somebody with bolt cutters up to this gate on the north side to open this gate.
02:08
It's right, that's for the key.
02:09
I don't have it.
02:14
I might have a set in my car.
02:16
I'm running too.
02:19
We have bolt cutters with the contact team on the top if somebody wants to meet us.
02:28
There's a set of bolt cutters here with the IA team.
02:36
Hey, LT, are they in your car?
02:39
Can I get them? I think your car's unlocked.
02:42
Just unlocked them should be in the back.
02:48
23 can I get pepperball to buy okay?
02:56
Two Baker 51 or two acre 41 do you have pepperball?
03:01
No.
03:04
You can't make a 41 negative.
03:10
Copy Sam Baker 23 so far I can't find pepperball.
03:15
Baker 23, can you check Red Mountain, one of the surrounding districts for pepperball?
03:20
Yeah, I checked with them.
03:22
They don't have it.
03:25
Copy.
03:26
McClure, it's your throne.
03:27
You guys are going to be the catch team.
03:29
If we get another body, we'll send it over to you.
03:32
Right now, our team's going to set as well.
03:37
If it's not in the back, it will not be in the bag there.
03:40
Winging 22, I do not have a set, so whoever has one bring bolt cutters.
03:50
If there's six of us on the top, we'll run the bolt cutters to you.
03:59
I'm making my way to you right now.
04:03
Yeah, we have somebody running them down to you in the middle.
04:11
22, where is fire stage staff?
04:14
Horne and McKellips.
04:17
Copy, thank you.
04:22
If we need fire,
04:25
have them, if you can direct them to the canal path directly west of the canal, that's where we'll meet them if we have an injury.
04:35
Copy.
04:41
Can you grab a Mark 9 at my backseat and bring it up to me?
04:47
Yeah, acknowledged.
04:53
Goethe, we're still working on that lock.
04:59
Copy.
05:03
I'll talk for that unit on the actual canal bank, or you're not trying to get those pull-cutters to the team, are you?
05:10
Negative. I'm just covering the south of the canal in case you run south.
05:15
Okay, copy.
05:20
I'm a third of Gapert.
05:22
Aguilar thinks he can drive a taco around this fence.
05:27
Ah,
05:31
so you think he can do it.
05:34
Hey, Bigger 23.
05:36
I can get a vehicle in from Horn, I know, the entryway.
05:44
Like to Aguilar, I'll come in from Horn.
05:51
Anybody recover anything inside the vehicle indicating that he's possibly armed at all? Thank you.
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Location mentioned:
E McKellips Rd & N Horne, Mesa, AZ 85203
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