State Glance
Tempe police: Woman fatally shot after shooting at officers
PHOENIX — Tempe say officers returned fire when a woman shot at them, killing her during a confrontation involving a stolen vehicle.
Detective Lily Duran says no officers were injured in the incident Thursday night.
Duran says the incident began at a hotel were police first confronted a couple who drove off in a stolen vehicle.
The shooting then occurred in Phoenix where Duran says the woman got out of the vehicle and fired at police, striking a police vehicle.
Duran says the man who was with the woman was taken into custody.
Suspect fleeing police survives jump from freeway
PHOENIX — A suspect trying to outrun police on a Phoenix freeway will recover after jumping from an overpass.
Phoenix police Sgt. Tommy Thompson says the incident occurred Friday morning after reports came in about a man with a knife hurling rocks at cars.
Officers confronted the suspect, who started running across traffic lanes.
Camera footage posted by KTVK-TV/KPHO-TV shows a man perched on the roof of a car surrounded by two officers.
The man then jumps off the vehicle and runs to the edge of the overpass and flips over a guard, falling below.
Man accused of fatally shooting neighbor at Tucson apartment
TUCSON — Authorities say a Tucson man is in custody after he allegedly shot and killed his neighbor at an apartment complex.
Tucson police announced Thursday that 56-year-old Gregory Walters has been booked into the Pima County Jail on suspicion of second-degree murder.
They say Walters called 911 around 5 p.m. Wednesday to say he’d shot his neighbor several times during an argument.
The neighbor was found dead inside Walters’ apartment. He’s been identified as 53-year-old Wade Lockwood.
Stolen DPS vehicle found, but weapons inside still missing
PHOENIX — A state police vehicle that was stolen in Glendale has been recovered in Phoenix but the firearms that were inside remain missing.
Glendale police say the unmarked Department of Public Safety car was found Thursday in central Phoenix.
Police spokeswoman Tiffany Smith says an AR-15 rifle and a 9mm handgun were not inside the Chevy Silverado pickup truck.
Smith says the unmarked vehicle had been parked overnight near a DPS officer’s home when it was taken Tuesday morning.
Arizona county’s jail revenue surges from housing immigrants
LAKE HAVASU CITY — A western Arizona county got a $1.1 million surge in jail revenue in the justended fiscal year for housing inmates from other jurisdictions, most of them immigrants in the country illegally.
La Paz County Sheriff Bill Risen says federal authorities are choosing to house those immigrants in Arizona because of California laws that limit and regulate how state and local law enforcement agencies cooperate with the federal government on immigration matters.
The Today’s News-Herald newspaper reports that La Paz County was housing nearly 150 federal inmates in late June and that the payments provided the county with a big payday over the $81,000 in jail revenue budgeted for the year.