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Police Find Alleged Kidnapping Wife Victim in Phoenix

DNA Evidence Helps Put to Rest a 20 Year Old Murder Case

Police Arrest Man Who Allegedly Was Involved in Kidnapping His Wife

 

Police say that a wife has reportedly been kidnapped by her husband with a gun in the Phoenix area. The authorities have found the wife and she was luckily unharmed and now the man has been arrested.

 

Police say that some witnesses told them that a man had fired some shots from a car before he forced the woman into the vehicle on Monday. The witnesses also said that the woman had even jumped out of the car, however the man had forced her back inside of the vehicle. The car then drove away and the police were worried about the woman’s safety.

 

Kidnapping Victim Found

 

The thirty-four year old wife was found safe on Tuesday. Her name has not been released at this time. The man in the case, was thirty-four year old, Alejandro Valenzuela.

 

Alejandro told the police that his reasoning for kidnapping his was is that she told him after sixteen years of marriage that she wanted to leave him. The couple has two children.

 

Gabrielle Rogers, Neighbor Witness Statement:

I glanced out the window, saw the car, and was like, ‘that’s it’ and I called (police).

 

The neighbor couple has two girls of their own so they were pretty worried and not pleased to hear the gunshots outside of their home.

 

Chris Rogers Statement:

He was over there shooting in the air or shooting at her, nobody’s really sure. She’s yelling and screaming for help, everybody that was out here at the time didn’t know what to do, because obviously he was armed.It was a domestic violence incident that basically turned into a known-person kidnapping.

 

Thank goodness the Rogers family called the police about the possible kidnapping and the wife was safe when authorities found her.

 

 

Source: https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/west-phoenix/police-phoenix-kidnapping-victim-found-safe

 

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Man in Custody After Standoff in Phoenix

Man in Detention Officer Accused of Coordinating a Gang Attack on InmateAfter Standoff in Phoenix

Man Arrested After Stand Off in Phoenix

 

On Sunday a night a thirty-five year old man was arrested after a standoff in South Phoenix. The Phoenix police responded to the call on 24th Street and Baseline Road. The call came at six,forty-five in the evening. The call was reported as a man standing at a corner and was holding a machine gun.

 

When the Phoenix Officers arrived to the scene they found the thirty-five year old man, Aristeo Saliz, in the front yard of a home. There was also a forty-year old female victim there as well. According to the police, Saliz ran into the home as soon as he saw the officers.

 

Police Talk to Standoff Victim

 

After the authorities talked to the female victim, they had determined that she had actually had an order of protection against the suspect. The suspect, Saliz actually had some felony warrants for his arrest.

 

The officers were able to surround the home. The police took some precautions and had some of the neighborhood residents evacuate. After a few hours of some tough negotiating the officers finally entered the home and were able to find Saliz, who was hiding in the attic.

 

Saliz was arrested and according to the police, it looked like he was having symptoms of having a seizure. The suspect was quickly treated at the scene and transported to a local hospital. Mr. Saliz was released from the hospital and then he was quickly booked into jail for violating the order of protection as well as his felony warrants and possessing a firearm.

 

It has not been said what caused this rampage or the condition of the female victim.

 

 

Source: https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/south-phoenix/pd-suspect-barricaded-in-phoenix-home-may-have-weapon

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Two Men Arrested For Kidnapping and Assaulting a Woman

Phoenix Domestic Abuse

Woman Kidnapped and Assaulted from Tempe Bar

 

Two men in the Buckeye area have now been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and violently assaulting a woman earlier in the month. The Buckeye Police Department says that the female victim had been out drinking at a local bar in Tempe on November 14th. She then claims she woke up in the desert near the Interstate 10 and Watson Road.

 

The woman said that she does not remember how she got out to the desert or even leaving the bar that night. However, her friends witnessed two men talking to her that night and her then getting into a white car. The friends tried to call the female victim but she would not answer her phone.

 

Buckeye Police Press Release Statement:

The victim was brutally attacked, both physically and sexually.

 

A tracking device that was on the victim’s phone was able to lead the police to a home in Buckeye. The police investigators got to the scene and was able to arrest twenty-four year old Damian Hernandez as well as twenty-two year old, Esai Leon on November 28th. They were booked into jail on charges of “sexual assault, kidnapping, aggravated assault, and tampering with evidence”.

 

Commander Mark Mann from the Buckeye Police Department Statement:

These guys are predators, they target women. They brutally and violent beat them and left them alone in the desert.

 

The police say that the suspects even admitted that they were in Tempe, however they “pointed the finger” at each other when it came to who assaulted the woman. The police also said that one of the suspects had thrown her boots and cell phone out the window of their car after they had assaulted her.

 

Neighbor to the Suspects, Dustin Scheas Statment:

I’m appalled. Coming from a man who has sisters, has a daughter. What he did was to someone’s daughter, and it’s disgusting. They have no respect for life clearly.

 

Police served search warrants to both of the suspects homes on Wednesday. They were hoping to find some evidence to link them to some similar cases around the area.

 

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Buckeye Police Department at 623-349-6400.

 

Source: https://www.abc15.com/news/region-west-valley/buckeye/police-damian-hernandez-esai-leon-arrested-accused-of-assaulting-woman-at-tempe-bar

 

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Officer Shot a Suspect in Phoenix Now Being Investigated

Homicide Cases Keeps Phoenix Busy

Police Investigate Phoenix Officer Who Shot a Suspect

 

An officer can some times be a scary thing. However, for the most part they just try to save lives and make the world a safer place. An officer shot a suspect recently in the North Phoenix area and now the authorities are investigating.

 

According to the report, the officer being shot incident happened around five, thirty in the evening. The shooting happened at an apartment complex which was in or near the 25th Avenue and Greenway Road.

 

Police Investigate Another Scene When Someone Got Shot

 

The Phoenix police say that the officer who was shot, was at the apartment complex on an unrelated call. That is when the officer had gotten report of a drug deal going down inside of a Cadillac Escalade which was nearby. The police say that when the officer had approached the Escalade that he had found two men inside.

 

Apparently there was a scuffle that broke out and one of the men who was in the car took off running towards a nearby apartment. The officer then confronted the suspect, the police officer felt threatened and then shot the man. Police investigators say that the suspect was pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting.

 

Luckily no one else was injured. Police did say that they have one other person detained for some questioning. However, it’s unclear if the person they have detained is the other person who was in the Escalade.  The officers also say that when they searched the vehicle that they had found marijuana and even a weapon inside of the vehicle.

 

The police have not identified the officer or his shooter suspect at this time. You can visit the ABC15 news site if you would like more updates on this story. Hopefully the officer

 

Source: https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/north-phoenix/phoenix-police-investigating-officer-involved-shooting-

 

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Inflatable Santa Stabbing Starts a Police Investigtion

Stabbed Santa Starts a Police Investigtion

Phoenix Police Investigate Inflatable Santa Stabbing

 

The Phoenix police are now investigating after someone has stabbed an inflatable Santa in front of a South Phoenix Home. Talk about cruel and unusual. Who would want to stab an inflatable Santa.

 

James Ahlgrim’s Statement about the Stabbing (Santa Owner)

What’s the little inflatable Santa hurting?

 

According to the report, you could see two men that were spotted on a surveillance camera. You could see them walking by the Ahlgrim’s home. The two men then looked to see if the coast was clear, however they did not realize the camera was catching their every move, the Ahlgrim’s home caught them on three different cameras.

 

Mr. Ahlgrim’s Statment:

There’s another camera right here that picks up all the way to the end of the street.

 

 

You could even see on the tape, that one of the guys slowly approached the inflatable Santa.

 

Ahlgrim’s Statment

He was making sure, looking around to see if anyone was coming out of the house and there he goes stabbing him.

 

 

You can then see the man actually stabbing the poor innocent, inflatable Santa three times. Talk about an over kill. The incident happened just after dusk the Sunday right before Thanksgiving.

 

Ahlgrim Worries About His Kids Safety

The part that bothers me is that it was early in the evening and any one of my kids could have been coming out. If they are going to stab a Santa, what else are they going to stab?

 

Jason Ahlgrim wants both of the people in the video to be arrested, which you can’t blame him. For one, that’s his property and second what kind of sick person does this? What if the children would have been outside?What if the creeps come back?

 

Police are asking that if you have any information on this to please call the Phoenix Police Department.

 

Source: https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/phoenix-police-looking-for-santa-stabber

 

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New Domestic Violence Shelter Gives Victims Hope

Two Shot During Domestic Dispute

Victims of Domestic Abuse Go to Shelter and Receive Hope

 

Domestic violence is often getting shoved under the rug. It seems like you can beat your spouse, go to jail for a week then just a probation period. Recently it’s becoming more popular for people in the public eye, such as football players or baseball players to be able to be accused of domestic violence and they just get a little slap on the wrist and everything is all good.  However, there are domestic violence advocates trying to bring awareness and trying to turn headlines about domestic violence into a different sight.

 

Maria Garay’s Statement about Domestic Violence

Historically we don’t want to talk about domestic violence. And I think for the first time the NFL. and the focus on them is allowing people to talk about domestic violence. I think that’s a very good think because we need to talk about it more as society. One in 4 women will be impacted by domestic violence.

 

Maria runs the “Sojourner Center” which is an “organizations that offers shelter to women and children who are victims of domestic violence”.  Since this is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Sojourner Center is concentrating on relaunching their efforts of awareness of domestic violence. The shelter center is also going to be reaching out to the community to help those victim families who have pets as well as doing more research to get insight of what causes domestic violence.

 

 Maria’s Statement about Plans for the Shelter

Pets, believe it or not are a big factor in domestic violence. Many women don’t want to leave because they have a pet and they don’t want to leave the animal behind.

 

The shelter center is also trying to research more about a new trend that they have been seeing amongst the domestic violence victims. They’ve noticed that a lot of the women are showing signs of head trauma and signs of a concussion.

 

Maria’s Statement

95% of women who have been impacted by domestic violence report that they have concussions or similar trauma brain injuries. That’s significant and we need to do and know more.

 

They are asking that if you know of anyone who has or is a victim of domestic abuse/violence to please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-7233.

 

Source: https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/sojourner-center-offers-help-resources-to-domestic-violence-victims

 

 

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