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Local Police Bring Presents to Two Stabbing Victims

Local Police Bring Presents to Two Stabbing Victims

Phoenix Police Officers Bring Gifts To Two Stabbing Victim Children

 

Christmas is the time of giving. Although most people forget about the giving and is pretty much more excited about the getting, that’s not true in every case. There are still some great people left in this world and some of them are Phoenix Police officers.

 

This week some of the most kind Phoenix Police Officers went out of their way to help bring some holiday cheer to two little children who had been attacked by their own mother!

 

According to a local news report, the mother, Brenda Begay had been arrested on Monday for stabbing both of her children. A twelve year old daughter and thirteen year old son. The children of course had to be hospitalized and cared for after their mother brutally turned on them. They are at the hospital recovering and making friends.

 

Kindness From Police Officer Bring Stabbing Victims Holiday Cheer

 

These kind police officers heard about these poor children and that they would be in the care of Child Protective Services as soon as they were released from the hospital. Not only did these poor kids get stabbed but they lost everything due to whatever set their mother off. The officers who were on the call Monday, decided to do something sweet for these children. They all purchased several gifts fro the children and even went to visit them in the hospital on Tuesday. How sweet is that? These officers wanted to give these children a proper Christmas.

 

 The Phoenix Police Department’s Facebook Read:

To say the Phoenix Police officers who responded to the home, to that horror, were profoundly affected by the plight of these children would be a huge understatement.Those officers spent time with the kids and did their best to let them know someone cared, and that they were special, and that they deserved Christmas.

 

If only everyone had these guys’ great attitude and kindness, the world would be a better place.

 

 

 

Source: https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/phoenix-officers-buy-gifts-for-young-stabbing-victims 

 

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Mother Facing Child Charges for Stabbing Her Children

Mother Facing Child Charges for Stabbing Her Children

 Mother Arrested for Stabbing Both of Her Children

 

According to the police, a Valley area mother is now going to face child abuse charges after stabbing both of her children. How could anyone do that?

 

The court documents showed that Brenda Begay had called 911 on Monday. She claimed that both of her kids were dying.  When the police got to the scene at 13th Avenue and Ironwood Drive, what they found was heart breaking. They found a twelve year old girl with a stab wound to her chest.

 

The Phoenix Police investigators say that the young girl woke up to her mother stabbing her. The little girl then told the officers that she ran to her older, (thirteen year old) brother’s room and found that he was lying on the floor. Police say that Begay’s son also had multiple stab wounds to the chest and on his wrist.

 

Neighbor, Jesus Gamez, Statement about the Stabbing

Why would a parent do that to their own child? I want to know what her state of mind was during that time.

 

I doubt you would really want to know what the heck someone was thinking when they murder or attempt to murder someone. Those poor children.

 

The court documents also show that Begay actually admitted to the police that she had wanted her kids to die. She was “trying to protect them” from getting raped. The documents also suggest that Begay might be in-stable.

 

This wasn’t Begay’s first run in with the Department of Child Safety. She has prior cases with them, she was convicted in 2005 in a child abuse case. During the trial, the courts questioned Begay’s mental state. They conducted an evaluation and gave her some medication.  Begay has severed six months in jail and fifteen years probation.

 

Source: https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/valley-mom-brenda-begay-accused-of-stabbing-two-kids

 

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Man Accused of Assaulting Police Officer Arrested

Arizona Drug Smuggle

Man Who Assaulted An Officer Finally Arrested

 

Today a man who reportedly assaulted a police officer during a traffic stop in November has finally been arrested in Phoenix.

 

Deputy U.S. Marshals and Phoenix police officers were able to bring in the suspect, Emeterio Zaragoza Jr. at 35th Avenue and Van Buren Street. According from the press release from the U.S. Marshals, Mr. Zaragoza had been stopped by two Phoenix Police officer for  a traffic violation last month on November 5th.

 

Police Officer Assaulted During Traffic Stop

 

During a “records” check on one of the passengers during the stop, the police had found out that the passenger had an outstanding arrest warrant. One of the officers had removed the passenger from the car so that the other officer could question Zaragoza. Mr. Zaragoza then became increasingly irritated then even tried to flee the scene as he was in the vehicle.

 

The officer then tried to remove Mr. Zaragoza from the vehicle, Zaragoza began to strike the officer with his fist. The officer was dragged a few feet before Zaragoza sped away from the scene. The officer who suffered from the assault, suffered from several of cuts.

 

Police say that at the time of the incident, Zaragoza was actually serving a term of probation for a weapons misconduct. Probably not the smartest decision to assault an officer then try to flee the scene then. Zaragoza has a criminal history though, which include: arrests for vehicle theft as well as resisting arrest.

 

After the incident, the Phoenix Police got some help from the U.S. Marshals to help in locating Zaragoza. Luckily on Friday they got the information that Zaragoza was at an apartment complex and the deputies were able to set up surveillance on Zaragoza’s vehicle.

 

After the vehicle left the apartment complex, the authorities followed the vehicle. He was later caught and booked into jail on charges for aggravated assault of a police officer, probation violation, unlawful flight from law enforcement, failure to appear, and two counts of driving on a suspended license.

 

Source: https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/west-phoenix/deputy-us-marshals-arrest-man-after-officer-assaulted

 

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Woman Dead and Baby Shot in Ahwatukee Area

Past Murder Case Being Re-Evaluated

Baby Wounded and Woman Dead After Being Shot

 

On Thursday evening, something truly heartbreaking happened. Police say that a young woman has died after being shot. A baby was found wounded from a gun shot wound with her as well in West Ahwatukee.

 

The authorities say that the woman was quite young, in her early twenties probably. She had been shot in the head and died later in the hospital that evening. The baby that was found suffered from a leg wound, the baby is in critical condition.

 

Authorities Find Dead Woman and Gun Shot Wounded Baby

 

Police aren’t sure if the baby was the woman’s child. Their identities have not been released at this time. It’s possible she could have been babysitting someone or perhaps the baby was indeed her own.

 

The authorities say that the two had been found on a foot path off 18th Avenue, north of Pecos Road. They were found around three o’clock on Thursday afternoon. What a tragic thing to happen upon. It’s hard to tell who killed them and why? Very sad.

 

A video of the area showed what looked like to be a few random items scattered along the dirt trail. Could this have been as simple as a robbery? Makes it so heartbreaking not knowing, and if it were for something as simple as a robbery. Who could be heartless enough to rob someone with a baby?

 

A resident in the area had hear the baby crying, they went to investigate and found the woman wound and the poor baby with gunshot wounds. They immediately called the police.

 

Authorities are searching for the shooter and hopefully witnesses. A motive for the shooting is not clear at this time.

 

Source: https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/ahwatukee/phoenix-police-woman-baby-shot-in-ahwatukee

 

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Teenage Girl Starts Attacking Police Officer

Teenage Girl Starts Attacking Police Officer

Teenage Girl Kicks and Punches Officer

 

Two witnesses came forth and backed the Mesa Police Officer about an account that a fifteen year old girl who was emotionally upset, kicked an officer and then punched the Officer before the officer finally returned the blows as she worked to handcuff the teen.

 

The teenage girl’s mother was the one to originally called the police for help. She told the police that the officer had punched her daughter without any provoking. A couple who recorded part of the incident aired the video to YouTube to show “police brutality”.

 

However, the 15 year old teenager admitted to the authorities that she had punched the officer and kicked her in the leg, and that she also refused the officer’s demands to stop. The hits by the officer only happened after the officer had grabbed the teenage girl’s wrist, trying to get her to stop.

 

Teenage Girl Admits She Provoked The Officer

 

At least the girl didn’t lie, she admitted in her statement that she was “resisting” the officer’s demands. She kicked the Officer because the Officer was “hurting her”. She even admitted to punching the officer as well as the officer punching her back two times. The teenage girl said that she sometimes gets upset due to her depression. When she gets mad she can’t control what she says or does, according to her.

 

In the Officer’s written statement, she reported that the girl had told her to “leave me alone” when she had tried to get the teenager to stop walking. The female officer said that the girl then kicked her in the thigh and that is when the officer grabbed her arm. The girl then punched the officer with her free arm in the temple, knocking off the officer’s glasses.

 

A Mesa Police Spokesman, Detective Steve Flores said that the incident will be investigated. The department wants to make sure that the officer’s level of force was justified. The officer did have a welt on her face from being punched by the teenage girl.

 

Source: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/mesa/2014/12/10/mesa-officer-punch-15-year-old-report-abrk/20187069/

 

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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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