Man taken into custody after search in Tucson wash area, Tucson AZ
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Missing PersonAccording to the dispatch call, officers conducted a search near a hotel and Valencia area in Tucson using aerial thermal imaging. They found a tent and encountered animals in the wash area. Using pepperball rounds, officers took a male subject matching the photos into custody and escorted him to a motel nearby.
Audio|Heard on: Tucson Police South Division
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07:35
Transcript:
00:00
important air, do you have us just west of the hotel?
00:09
Air 1, I guess back in the desert area.
00:15
We're just west of the hotel, close to Valencia.
00:23
There are some tunnels that go under Valencia to the south.
00:27
There's no sign indication before that.
00:34
That somebody got in there, but this is right around where he was last seen.
00:36
It goes south all the way across the Valencia, but we're back at this wash area.
00:43
Do you have any indication or any hotspots we need to check?
00:47
Just west of the hotel in the wash.
00:53
Everyone, 10-4[1].
00:55
Uh,
00:56
yeah, actually, uh,
00:57
maybe about 50, 75 feet just north of you guys down that wash.
01:03
I have a pretty strong heat source right there.
01:10
Okay, we're gonna work that way.
01:15
Am9 to air.
01:17
Do you have us in your view on the camera? And if so,
01:21
can you give us a picture so we can reference it? It's super thick in there.
01:28
Yeah, that's info.
01:33
Let me know when you're in that picture.
01:38
Erwin error.
01:39
Okay,
01:42
I got it.
01:45
So the cross areas on the screen is your heat source?
01:51
Yeah, 10-4[1].
01:53
Quite a lot of brush there in between the two of you.
02:01
Did you see that heat source before?
02:04
We located a tent roughly in that area.
02:09
Negative. I don't remember seeing it before.
02:13
Copy that, we'll get in there and check it out.
02:16
And if it's the tent, we'll make contact with it.
02:21
Copy and it looks like just east of you.
02:23
Okay, you guys are moving in.
02:25
Pretty good.
02:28
Copy that.
02:30
Can you try to let us know when we're getting pretty close to it?
02:34
It might be crawl in.
02:36
You guys are just west of it now.
02:38
If you just look east, it might be in that brushy area.
02:45
I'm not sure if it's an animal or a person.
02:54
Probably.
03:00
Come back,
03:01
just look east, just look itself, yeah.
03:06
How far east is going to be?
03:09
You guys are probably about 10, 50 feet away from it.
03:17
There, this is a second animal you walked up on.
03:20
He's a little bit more pissed off.
03:21
We got growling in the bushes.
03:22
We're gonna start moving out.
03:27
Copy, yeah, pretty strong heat stores.
03:30
Yeah, but I can't really tell from here if it's a, some of the electronic roll or an actual animal.
03:36
Pretty hell. Take brush.
03:41
4.10.39.
04:06
Before we have eyes on them, no movement directly east of us, no response to commands.
04:15
We're down in the rush.
04:36
B.
04:39
BOR. BOR.
04:41
BOR.
04:44
BOR. BOR.
04:46
BOR.
04:47
BOR.
04:49
BOR.
04:54
B. B.
04:56
B.
05:03
I don't know.
05:30
I don't know.
05:59
To go on,
06:07
if you're a speaker-client, for moving up.
06:19
Before he's in custody matches.
06:21
Except 4.19, all is deployed.
06:23
We're just in the wash west of the hotel.
06:30
You clear the air.
06:32
I come here one to stay in the air clear.
06:34
One today.
06:39
And there are one.
06:40
I copy one for two on animals tonight.
06:46
Timber there, nice, nice spot.
06:50
Matches the photo.
06:56
Alright, copy.
06:57
Did we sort of have that page on, too?
07:03
Let me double check, I don't believe so, but seven.
07:09
Okay.
07:12
This is 10-4[1]-19.
07:13
I think you clear that clear quads.
07:15
He's going to have Units 45 at the motel.
07:20
49 to Sanford.
07:21
Would you guys get him with the pepperball or is just area saturation?
07:27
He's a pepperball.
07:30
He matches the photos.
07:31
We're going to walk him over to the motel.
07:32
We're right next, dude.
07:34
You can clear quads if you want.
Police codes explained
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment or affirmative—message received, understood, or OK.
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Location mentioned:
E Valencia Rd, Tucson, AZ 85756
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